Lesson 9: How Chipmunk Got His Stripes

Essential Question: What can you learn from the way a character acts?

Focus Wall

Target Skill

Understanding Characters

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/test_tutor/grade5/skill3/ henshaw.htm

Grammar

Verbs in the Present

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/g/verbtensepresentl3.cfm

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/verb/balloon_game/

Phonics

Base Words and Endings –ed and –ing

http://www.quia.com/mc/1072074.html

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/fishemup2_eng_launcher.html

Vocabulary Strategies

Synonyms

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=kderittesynonyms2

http://www.quia.com/mc/806624.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/synsam.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/code_game.shtml