Lewis & Clark & Me

• a historical fiction story that tells of the Corps of Discovery and the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.

Skills: author's purpose and questioning.

Vocab: docks, migrating, scan, scent, wharf, yearned

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Spelling: Long a & i - sigh, right, weigh, eight, detail, height, spray, braid, bait, grain, slight, thigh, tight, raisin, trait, highway, frighten, dismay, freight, sleigh

On the Banks of Plum Creek

• a historical fiction story written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. 

Skills: characters, setting, and plot

Vocab: ruffled, badger, bristled, patched, bank, rushes, jointed

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Spelling: Long e and o - sweet, each, three, least, freedom, below, throat, float, foam, flown, greet, season, croak, shallow, eagle, indeed, rainbow, grown, seaweed, hollow

• The Horned Toad Prince

• a trickster tale that tells about an animal who outsmarts the bigger and stronger characters in the story

Skills: author's purpose

Vocab: prairie, lassoed, riverbed, bargain, favor, offended, shrieked

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Spelling: Long e - prairie, calorie, honey, valley, money, finally, movie, country, empty, city, rookie, hockey, collie, breezy, jury, balcony, steady, alley, trolley, misty

• Letters Home from Yosemite

• an expository text that uses titles, headings, guide words, photographs, and captions to help the reader gain insight about Yosemite National Park

Skills: main idea

Vocab: glacier, impressive, naturalist, preserve, species, slopes, wilderness

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Spelling: Long u: usual, huge, flute, mood, smooth, threw, afternoon, scooter, juice, cruise, truth, bruise, cruel, excuse, pupil, groove, confuse, humor, duty, curfew

• What Jo Did

• a fictional text about a child who has a special talent.

Skills: cause and effect

Vocab: fouled, hoop, jersey, marveled, rim, speechless, swatted, unbelievable

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Spelling: Adding -s and -es: monkeys, friends, plays, supplies, taxes, holidays, months, companies, costumes, sandwiches, hobbies, daisies, delays, scratches, counties, teammates, memories, bunches, batteries, donkeys

• Scene Two

• a drama about a group of kids writing a play about their town's history. 

Skills: drawing conclusions

Vocab: advice, argument, arrangements, descendants, dishonest, script, snag

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Spelling: ar/or words - 

morning, forest, garbage, form, alarm, corner, story, argue, backyard, start, partner, storm, Florida, apartment, sport, force, forward, sharp, garden, Arkansas

• So You Want to Be President?

• an expository text 

Skills: main idea and details

Vocab:  Constitution, howling, humble, politics, responsibility, solemnly, vain

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Spelling: ear, ir, our,  ur words - 

return, courage surface, purpose, first, turkey, heard, early, turtle, birthday, journal, courtesy, nourish, purse, furniture, search, curtain, burrow, hamburger, survey

• The Man Who Named the Clouds

• a biography about a man named Luke Howard who makes discoveries about clouds

Skills: graphic sources

Vocab: apprentice, atmosphere, chemical, club, essay, manufacturing, pressure, scales

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Spelling: Add -ed, -ing

watched, watching, danced, dancing, studied, studying, stopped, stopping, dried, drying, happened, happening, noticed, noticing, robbed, robbing, slipped, slipping, hurried, hurrying

• Adelina's Whales

• an expository text about the migration of whales

Skills: fact and opinion

Vocab: biologist, bluff, lagoon, massive, rumbling, tropical

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Spelling: Homophones

two, to, too, piece, peace, break, brake, there, their, they're, threw, through, by, bye, beat, beet, thrown, throne, aloud, allowed

• How the Night Came from the Sea

• a myth about how night came to be

Skills: generalization

Vocab: brilliant, chorus, coward, gleamed, shimmering

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Spelling: ou and ow sounds

however, mountain, mound, scout, shout, couch, towel, ounce, coward, outdoors, flowerpot, scowl, browse, announce, hound, trout, drowsy, grouch, eyebrow, boundary

• Eye of the Storm

• an expository text  about the life of storm chasers

Skills: cause and effect

Vocab: destruction, expected, forecasts, inland, shatter, surge

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Spelling: compound words

watermelon, homemade, understand, sometimes, shoelace, highway, upstairs, thunderstorm, shortcut, doorbell, jellyfish, touchdown, campfire, skateboard, anyway, fireworks, haircut, loudspeaker, laptop, flashlight

• Paul Bunyan

• a tall tale that many of you may be familiar with

Skills: generalization

Vocab: announcement, feature, harness, lumberjacks, requirements, thaw, unnatural, untamed

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Spelling: possessives

its, ours, mine, yours, family's, families', man's, men's, girl's, girls', hers, theirs, brother's, brothers', teacher's, teachers', aunt's, aunts', boy's, boys'

Ch. 1 - 4 

Vocab: separate, measly, advantages, vanish, resist, account, impressed, motioned, booster, client, pollution, imitate

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Ch. 5 - 10

Vocab: supervise, demonstrate, considered, examining, rearrange, surrounded, committee, congestion, monorail, installing, decision, condition, concentrated, omelet, beamed, concoction, babbled, gloomy

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• The Case of the Gasping Garbage

• a realistic fiction about 2 fifth grade scientists who try to solve a case

Skills: compare/contrast

Vocab: analysis, beakers, hollow, identity, lecture, microscope, precise, relentless

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Spelling: Contractions

don't, won't, wouldn't, there's, we're, you're, doesn't, I've, here's, wasn't, shouldn't, couldn't, where's, hadn't, aren't, they're, it's, we've, when's, haven't

• Encantado

• an expository text that tells about a species of dolphin commonly known as the pink dolphin

Skills: compare/contrast

Vocab: aquarium, dolphins, enchanted, flexible, glimpses, pulses, surface

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Spelling: Final Syllable Patterns

chicken, eleven, brother, jungle, natural, together, calendar, needle, several, summer, threaten, caterpillar, paddle, animal, pitcher, shelter, oval, frighten, mumble, deliver 

• Navajo Code Talkers

• an expository text 

Skills: sequence

Vocab: advance, developed, exhausting, headquarters, impossible, intense, messages, reveal

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Spelling: Consonant Digraph /sh/

nation, special, lotion, mansion, precious, creation, vacation, tension, especially, motion, tradition, gracious, extension, addition, caution, official, solution, suspension, politician, portion