Week of 8/22-9/2

Text Genre: Informational Text

Text Structure: Chronology

Reading Skill: Author's Purpose

Vocabulary Skill: Compound Words

Text Features: Heading & Maps

Strategy: Ask & Answer Questions

Reading Selections

• Room to Grow

• Gary the Dreamer

Wordly Wise: Lesson 1 (Week of 8/22-9/2)

Essential Question: How do people from different cultures contribute to a community?

Q1. How do people use their culture to contribute to their communities?

Q2. Part A. What can the reader infer about the effect of Kiku and her family’s contribution on their community?

Part B. Select words from the passage to support the inference.

Vocabulary

scared: afraid of something

admires: likes

classmate: someone who is in your class at school

community: a place where people live, work, and play together

contribute: give money or help

practicing: doing something again and again to get better

pronounce: say the sounds correctly

tumbled: fell