Unit 3, Week 5

Comprehension

Strategy: Ask & Answer Questions
- D5 Resource page: Ready Reference Guide, Parent Letter, Bookmark, Assessment
- Serravallo
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details

Spelling

Long u as u_e, u, ew, ue
Comparative Endings: -er, -est

Grammar

Combining & rearranging sentences: add a comma and and, but, or, or so
Sentence punctuation

Vocabulary

Prefixes: re-, ex-, dis-,
Antonyms

2.3.5 V2 Spelling

Spelling Lists Copy
ALL Spelling Lists pdf

Friday Seesaw Spelling Tests: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, ALL lists in one activity

ALL Unit 3 Spelling Test Answer Keys

Cursive practice pdf

Seesaw activity to introduce 8-word list

Copies for kids' notebooks

2.3.5 Spelling Word Sort

Google Slide Copy
Seesaw Activity

Spelling Boxes (all levels) pdf

Key Sentence Handwriting pdf

DIY Word Search - Digital or Print

Word Search Template for students to make their own, either printed out and filled in or constructed digitally then printed (a tad laboriously, perhaps 🤣)

🗣️ Gr. 2 Unit 3 Week 5 Chanting Chart

Mon: use, amuse, journey, due
Tue.: cute, music, few, fuel
Wed.: cube, unit, pew, cues
Thu.: fumes, menu, mule, hue
Fri.: The boy was amused by the mule. (15)
The girl wrote a cute song for music class. (19)

America, beautiful, began, climbed, come, country, didn't give, live, turned

Unit 3 Spelling Menu Board

Copy to share via Classroom

2.3.5 Spelling MiniBook to Print!

Google Slide 8-page Spelling Book to print
Share with students via Google Classroom
*Challenging*

Sight Word Work

Seesaw Activity

Seesaw Activity - self test

Seesaw Activity

Online Word Wall through ...onders Unit 1 through 3.5

Copy here

Unit 3 Spelling Menu Board

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Texts: Time for Kids

They've Got the Beat - Expository Text R/W pp. 246-249

Many Ways to Enjoy Music - Expository Text Anthology pp. 294-297

A Musical Museum - Expository Text Anthology pp. 298-299

Sidetrips:

The Teacher's Guide weekly handouts
Gr. 2 Interactive Science Notebooks pp. 50-51, 54-55: Energy; Sound
Gr. 3 Interactive Science Notebooks pp. 54-55: Sound
Chrome Music Lab 🎶
BrainPop Jr: Sound, Types of Sentences
Mystery Science: Properties of Light and Sound Unit How Do They Make Silly Sounds in Cartoons? (10 min + 20 min activity), Where Do Sounds Come From? (25 min digital book + 20 min activity), How Could You Send a Secret Message to Someone Far Away? (17 min exploration, 25 min hands-on activity, 3 min wrap-up), How Do Boats Find Their Way in the Fog? (25 min digital book, 20 min hands-on activity)
Epic Collections: Get the Message, Let's Drum
Alexander Graham Bell minibook and work pages: both digital and pdf (his mom was deaf, his dad worked with hearing impaired, he taught deaf students. His motivation was to find ways to make communication easier)
Thomas Edison minibook & work pages: both digital and pdf (he often got in trouble at school, so mom homeschooled him. "Decided" to become an inventor. Light bulb, one of first movie projectors, phonograph, portable battery. Many of his inventions were improvements on others' inventions.)

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

2.3.5 Anthology Texts

Copy

Seesaw Activity

Decodables Work

2.3.5 Decodable Passages

Copy PDF w/1 minute timing

Ryan's Seesaw Activity

Google Slide Interactive Decodable Reader #1

This is the Decodable Reader #1 activity in Seesaw. I have a video to show students how to complete each page. BIG plus over the Google Slides one is that you will be able to have kids record themselves reading each page!