READING:

Unit 1, Weeks 1-2
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 Reading Quiz: Thursday, 9/3
Reading Test: Tuesday, 9/1

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