Because of Winn-Dixie

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Target Skill: Story Structure

Target Strategy: Summarizing

Vocabulary: Comfort, mention, mood, properly, intends, consisted, positive, advanced, peculiar, talent

Vocabulary Strategies: Prefixes re- un- dis-

Spelling

Spelling Principal: Short a and Long a

Spelling Words: blade, gray, past, afraid, magic, delay, amaze, drain, maybe, break, sale, hang, stain, glass, raft, jail, crayon, fact, stale, steak

Review Words: skate, plan, chain, today, erase

Challenge Words: fraction, trait, champion, activity, graceful

Grammar/Writing

Grammar Skill: What is a sentence?

Writing Mode: Narrative Writing

Writing Form: Descriptive Paragraph

Online Practice Resources

Spelling Practice (Practice your Spelling words at Spelling City)

Sentence or Fragment?

Spot the Sentence

Forming Sentences

Kinds of Sentences - Subjects & Predicates

Rags to Riches - Prefixes

Prefixes re-, pre-, and un-