Week 3

Week 3, Monday March 30th, 2020

Speech Sound Lesson

Find your specific target sound below and read the paragraphs two times using correct sounds!

Link for the author who created the below activity: https://www.home-speech-home.com/l-words.html

L Sound

"The Blink Dance"

Able gave his sibling, Blake, a nosebleed. It was an accident.

They were playing marbles on the kitchen table. After Able lost a game he started mumbling. Blake jumped up on the table and started doing the blink dance. That was when the trouble began.

When Blake starting blinking his eyes, he became unstable and lost his balance. Able tried to grab him before he fell, but it was too late. Blake fell face first onto the black coffee table hitting his nose on it.

When their mom came home from Bible study, she was mad to see blood all over the carpet. She asked the two siblings what had happened. Blake got in a lot of trouble when his mom found out he had danced on the table.

TH Sound

"Teething Baby"

Look at that! I said to my mother. I pointed at my baby brother's mouth. It was red and I could see something tiny and white poking up.

"That is a tooth," my mother replied. "He is teething. Those are called his gums and that little white part is the top of his tooth. Poor guy. Babies don't feel good when they teethe."

My brother started crying. His nose was runny and it made it hard for him to breathe. His eyes were watery and not shiny blue like usual. I felt bad for him. I could tell that he did not feel well and those teeth coming up were worse than having a cold.

My mother and I worked together to help him feel better. We bathed him and clothed him. Then we wrapped him in his favorite blanket which he loved more than anything else. It seemed to soothe him for a little while, but then he started crying again. Poor guy.

"This is going to be a very long day!" sighed mother. "It will be so good when your father gets home!"

R Sound

"My Hero"

My buddy Randy is my hero. He has won many awards, ribbons, and trophies. But he doesn't care about all of that. He does what he does to help others. Here are a few things he has done that make him such a great guy.

First of all, he is married and is an awesome dad. He has been a teacher for 15 years and has won teacher of the year three times! He volunteers to read to students at after school programs and pick up garbage on the side of the road on the weekends.

He recycles paper, plastic, and glass which is good for the environment. He helps people with hearing aids get them for less money. He once saved a baby giraffe from drowning at the zoo. He is writing two books. One about ways to improve classroom education and another with fun short stories for kids.

There are hundreds of other examples I could share with you. Randy puts his heart and strength into everything he does. He is a real role model and I try to follow the example he sets.

Expressive and Receptive Language Lessons

Please read the four sentences below and using complete sentences, describe what the underlined words mean. For example: Pachyderm is ____________.

1. We saw a large, gray pachyderm with a long trunk at the zoo.

2. All of Fred’s brothers were successful, and it looked as if Fred would be prosperous, too.

3. After the cacophony during the party, Grandmother was happy for the peace and quiet when all my friends went home.

4. She has experienced many maladies over the last year, including the flu and pneumonia.

5. I have always been envious of Matt. Everyone likes him and wants to play with him!

Please answer each question using complete sentences!

Here is the link with the creator website:

https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/free-reading-worksheets/reading-comprehension-worksheets/inferences-worksheets/

Mr. Thomas sat on the front porch of his house in a bathrobe and bunny slippers with his head in his hands. He was holding the daily newspaper. The sun shined brightly in the sky. His neighbors were coming out of their houses and getting in their cars. Mr. Thomas sighed. His neighbor Mr. Rosencrantz stepped out on his porch and saw Mr. Thomas. "Did it again, huh?" said Mr. Rosencrantz. Mr. Thomas replied, "Yep." Mr. Rosencrantz chuckled and said, "Here, Mr. Thomas, you can use my cell phone. I could even keep a key over here if you wanted." Tom thankfully grabbed the cell phone and called his wife. "Honey, I did it again." Mr. Rosencrantz heard Mrs. Thomas yelling at Mr. Thomas in a distorted high-pitched squeal. "Yes, dear. I'm so sorry. I'll see you soon," Mr. Thomas returned the phone, sighed deeply, and ran his fingers through his hair.

1. What is the thing that Mr. Thomas "did again"? _________________________________________

2. Why will Mr. Thomas see Mrs. Thomas soon? ________________________________________

Mr. Ericson was a manager at a small insurance company in Minnesota. One cold winter day, April McKenzie, one of his employees, approached him about some time off from work. "This job is very important to me, Mr. Ericson, but I've been called into jury duty. When my government asks for my help, I have to answer the call." Mr. Ericson rubbed his forehead. "We really need you here, April, but the government needs you more. Take the time. We'll be alright." Mr. Ericson had thought that they needed her there at the office, but they managed fine without her. When April returned a week later, Mr. Ericson noticed that most of her skin was bright shade of red except for around her eyes. Pale white circles ran from the top of her eyebrows to the bottom of her cheeks. These pale circles were surrounded by sunburned flesh. That's when Mr. Ericson knew. "April, step into my office. There are some things we need to discuss," Mr. Ericson said ominously.

3. Where was April? ________________________________________________________________

4. What does Mr. Ericson want to talk about with April? ____________________________________

5. Why does April have white circles around her eyes? ______________________________________

Social Language Lesson

Please complete the following activity from "Looks-Like-Language". See "Looks-Like-Language" on Teachers Pay Teachers for this full resource.

Week 3, Wednesday April 1, 2020

Expressive and Receptive Language Lesson

Grammar/Sentence Structure (Combine the following sentences into one sentence using one of the conjunctions below:

and, or, but

EXAMPLE:

Karla does not play basketball. Karla does play softball.

(Karla does not play basketball but she does play softbal).

1. Henry likes pepperoni on his pizza. Henry does not like mushrooms on his pizza.

2. The boys want to play outside. The boys want to go swimming in the pool.

3. Do you want to go to the zoo? Do you want to go to Cedar Point? I

4. She went shopping. She went to see a movie with her friends.

5. I really want to play video games. I have a lot of homework to do.

Compare/Contrast-Explain why the two words pairs below are alike and different using complete sentences:

Example: Summer/Winter: Summer and winter are alike because they are both seasons. They are different because it is warm in the summer and cold in the winter.

1. Basketball/Football

2. Hurricanes/Tornados

3. Earth/Mars

4. Spring/Fall

5. cell phone/computer

Listening Comprehension

Please click on the following link OR see below for an article from "Read Works" called "The Meadowlands." Then, answer the following questions.

https://www.readworks.org/article/The-Meadowlands/f74dea11-4ecd-4a8c-a6a7-e86643382f4c#!questionsetsSection:882/vocabularySection:recover/articleTab:content/

"The Meadowlands"

When they described the swamp at the end of Schuyler Avenue, the adults in Sarah’s life seemed confused. Whenever she asked about it, Sarah’s dad would chuckle.

“You’d better stay away from the Meadowlands,” her father said.

Sarah’s sixth grade teacher, Mr. Morrison, said only parts of the Meadowlands are swamps. He explained to the class that the Meadowlands are precious wetlands, one of the last places near New York City where birds migrating from Florida could stop and rest.

“The Meadowlands once had a lot of garbage dumps, which polluted the water pretty badly,” Mr. Morrison said. “But most of the dumps are closed now. And the habitat for wild birds is recovering.”

From her yard in the winter, the Meadowlands was as her dad described: brown, dead-looking weeds with Doritos bags lying at the water’s edge. By springtime, however, the reeds turned green and flowers grew along the shoreline.

So which one is it, Sarah wondered. Is the Meadowlands a big, ugly, dangerous swamp? Or is it a beautiful oasis of birds and flowers? Despite her dad’s warnings to stay away, Sarah wanted to see for herself. She went under the porch and dragged out her dad’s old fiberglass canoe. She threw the paddle and an old pink life jacket into the boat and dragged it across the yard, down Schuyler Avenue to the edge of the swamp.

Whatever it was, she saw now, the Meadowlands was big. Sarah always thought of it as the swamp at the end of her street. Now she realized that the wetlands actually stretched to the north and south, and she couldn’t see either end. Directly across the water, the skyscrapers of Manhattan seemed to line the opposite shore, even though they were actually twelve miles away.

Sarah could feel the fear in her throat. But she didn’t want to drag the canoe back up the hill. She zipped the life vest up to her neck, pushed the boat into the water and jumped in.

Past the reeds, she found herself paddling in a shallow pond surrounded by muddy islands. She saw ducks, swallows, yellow flowers, purple flowers, white egrets. A blue heron, disturbed by the splashes of Sarah’s paddle, jumped into the air, uncurled its long wings and flapped away.

“This is all so beautiful!” Sarah thought.

The canoe slowed down, as if caught by invisible hands. Sarah looked down and saw the boat was scraping along the muddy bottom. Clouds of brown mud rose to the surface with every paddle stroke, and inside each cloud little bubbles of gas burst when they hit the surface. It smelled like a combination of old paint and rotting food. Sarah nearly threw up.

Soon she was stuck. She tried paddling backward to free the canoe from the mud, but each stroke released an overwhelming gas smell. She started to cry.

Just then something heavy and dark crashed through the weeds in front of the canoe.

A hand pulled the reeds apart, and out poked the head of Sarah’s dad.

“Sarah! What are you doing out here?” he called.

Sarah tried to explain, but all she could do was cry.

“Well, it’s a good thing you dragged the canoe—you left a trail in the gravel a mile wide,” her dad said. “Here, take this rope.”

He threw a yellow plastic rope, and after a few tries, Sarah grabbed it. Her dad pulled, and the boat skidded over the mud to shore.

Sarah worried that her father would be furious. But when he offered his hand to help her out of the boat, he laughed.

“I did the same foolish thing when I was your age,” he said. “Did I ever show you the otter den?”

Sarah wiped tears from her cheek and shook her head no.

“Well, c’mon. I’ll show you,” her dad said. “The swamps can be pretty disgusting, but there’s some beautiful stuff in here. You just have to know where to look.”

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1. The adults in Sarah’s life seem confused about what?

1. New York City

2. garbage dumps

3. birds and wildlife

4. the Meadowlands

2. Sarah takes her dad’s canoe to explore the Meadowlands. What motivates Sarah’s actions?

1. She wants to know if the Meadowlands are an ugly swamp or a beautiful oasis.

2. She wants to prove that her dad is wrong about the danger of the Meadowlands.

3. She wants to study the Meadowlands to complete a class project.

4. She wants to show her dad that she is brave and adventurous by exploring on her own.

3. There are different, contrasting opinions about the Meadowlands. What evidence from the story best supports this statement?

1. Sarah doesn’t know what the Meadowlands are really like, so she decides to go and see for herself.

2. The Meadowlands used to be polluted by garbage dumps, but now the Meadowlands are recovering.

3. Some say the Meadowlands are a dangerous swamp; other say they are a precious habitat for birds.

4. Sarah’s father warns her not to go to the Meadowlands, but Sarah ignores his warnings and visits them anyway.

4. Based on the story, what can you conclude about the Meadowlands?

1. The Meadowlands are dangerous and should be left alone.

2. The Meadowlands can be both beautiful and disgusting.

3. The Meadowlands are always a beautiful and flowering oasis.

4. The Meadowlands are still too polluted for animals to live there.

5. What is this story mostly about?

1. Sarah goes to the Meadowlands, and her father gets mad at her.

2. Sarah discovers that the Meadowlands are dangerous and ugly.

3. Sarah asks her teacher about the history of the Meadowlands.

4. Sarah goes to the Meadowlands to learn more about them.

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