Reading
Unit 1, Weeks 1-2

Test:  Tuesday, September 1

STORY: Big Red Lollipop

GENRE: Realistic Fiction (a made up story with characters that could be real)

COMPREHENSION STRATEGY: Visualize (form pictures in your mind about the characters, setting, and events in the story)

COMPREHENSION SKILL: Character (person or animal in the story); 

Setting (when and where a story takes place); 

 Events (what happens in the story; Plot (beginning, middle, & end)

VOCABULARY WORDS: 

• aside - on or to one side 

• culture - the way of life for a group of people 

• fair - equal and just for all sides 

• invited - asked to come 

• language - the speech of a group of people 

• scurries - moves quickly 

• plead - to beg or argue with someone 

• share -  to give or lend something to others 

VOCABULARY STRATEGY: Inflected Endings (to understand the meaning of a word you do not know, you can separate the root word from the ending)
--s and es added means plural
--ing added means happening now
--ed added means already happened

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS: could, find, funny, green, how, little, one, or, see, sounds, blue, even, yellow, help, put, for, ball, there, both, why 

HFW Oral Quiz: Thursday, September 3

PHONICS & SPELLING:  short vowels/CVCCVC words with closed syllables (video below has an explanation)

Test: 

**Skills practice pages can be found in phonics tab of student binder.**

**Students will be  tested on 12  words and a sentence that they are not given ahead of time.