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Destiny's Gift
by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Genre - realistic fiction
Paired Text - Kids Making a Difference
Genre - informational text
Essential Question:
Why is volunteering good for a community and its people?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - understanding characters, story message
Target Strategy - analyze/evaluate
Fluency - reading rate
Phonics
common vowel pairs
ai, ay, ee, ea
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Language Goals
Spelling - long a and long e spellings
lay real trail sweet today
dream seem tea treat
afraid leave bait screen
speed paint please
yesterday explain
Vocabulary
Strategy - antonyms
afford - to be able to pay for or spare
customers - a person who buys goods or services
contacted - to get in touch with
raise - to gather together; collect
earn - to gain by working or by supplying service
figure - to work out by thinking
block - a part of a street marked off by the two nearest cross streets
spreading - to open up wide or wider
Skill Links
Grammar
compound sentences
Skill Links
Grammar Snap Video: Compound Sentences
Video: Compound Sentences Song
Writing
Focus Trait - voice
Writing Type - narrative (personal paragraph)
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