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Genre: Humorous Fiction
Target Skill: Story Structure
Target Strategy: Summarize
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Essential Question: How is learning at school different from learning at home?
Vocabulary Words:
principal: the leader of a school
soared: flew upward
strolled: walked slowly
worried: uneasy or anxious
proud: pleased with yourself or someone else
announced: made known
fine: very nice
certainly: surely
Spelling Words:
Short vowels (a, e, i, o u)
crop plan thing smell shut sticky spent lunch pumpkin
clock gift class skip swing next hug hospital fantastic
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Schoolhouse Rock Video - Subjects and Predicates
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Genre: Fantasy
Target Skill: Drawing Conclusions
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Vocabulary Strategy: Dictionary/Glossary
Essential Question: Why are courts an important part of our government?
Vocabulary Words:
trial: a meeting in court to decide if someone has broken the law
jury: the group of people who make the decision in a trial
convinced: made someone believe or agree to something
guilty: having done something wrong
pointed: used a finger to show where something was
honest: truthful
murmur: the sound of people speaking very softly
stand: the place where a witness in a trial sits while being questioned
Spelling Words:
Vce Pattern and Long Vowel sounds
spoke mile save excuse cone invite cube price erase
ripe broke flame life rule these those surprise decide
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Genre: Realistic Fiction
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Target Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Vocabulary Strategy: Antonyms (opposites)
Essential Question: Why is volunteering good for a community and its people?
Vocabulary Words:
afford: to be able to pay
customers: people who buy something at a store
contacted: got in touch with someone
raise: to collect
earn: to get something by working
figure: to work out by thinking
block: the section of a street between two other streets
spreading: stretching something out
Spelling Words:
lay real trail sweet today dream seem tea treat
afraid leave bait screen speed paint please yesterday explain
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Genre: Historical fiction
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Vocabulary Strategy: Word Families
Essential Question: Why is everyone's role on a project important?
Vocabulary Words:
crew: a group of people doing work
tide: the rise and fall of the sea
cling: to hold tightly to something
balancing: keeping steady
foggy: filled with thick mist or low clouds
disappears: passes from sight
stretch: to spread out
excitement: the feeling of being stirred up
Spelling Words:
load open told yellow soak shadow foam follow glow
sold window coach almost throat cold most tomorrow sailboats
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Genre: Biography
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
Target Strategy: Visualize
Vocabulary Strategy: Intonation
Essential Question: What are the traits of a hero?
Vocabulary Words:
stands: seats at a stadium or ballpark
fans: great admirers
score: to make a point in a game
league: group of teams that compete against one another
slammed: hit with sudden force
polish: to make shine; to make something better
style: a way of doing something
pronounced: said clearly and correctly
Spelling Words:
slight mild sight pie mind tie pilot might lie
tight blind fight die midnight find night silent frightening
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