Anchor Text
by Janet Stevens
Genre - Trickster Tale
Paired Text - Goodness Grows in Gardens
Genre - Informational Text
Essential Question:
Why is it important to grow food crops?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - theme, point of view
Target Strategy - visualize
Fluency - stress
Phonics
homophones
words ending in -er, -er, and -le
Skill Links
Homophone game
Homophone Game
Language Goals
Spelling - homophones
hole whole its it's
hear here won one
our hour their there
fur fir road rode
peace piece
Vocabulary
Strategy - idioms
risky - having a chance of danger
grunted - to make a short, deep sound with one's voice
profits - the money made from selling something
crops - a farm product grown to be harvested, often for food
plucked - to remove by pulling quickly
scowled - to wrinkle the forehead in anger
tugged - to pull at with force
hollered - to shout, yell
Skill Links
Grammar
writing quotations
Skill Links
Writing
Focus Trait - Word Choice
Writing Type - Narrative (compare/contrast paragraph)
Skill Links