Lesson 11: Technology Wins the Game
Genre: Informational Text
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Target Strategy: Question
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes- less, ful, ous
Essential Question: How do inventions help athletes?
Vocabulary Words:
contribute: to help or add to
athletes: people who do physical exercise or play sports
improve: to get better
power: strength
process: the steps taken to complete a task
flexible: able to bend
fraction: a part of a whole unit
compete: to try to do something better that others
Spelling Words:
joy point voice join oil coin noise spoil toy
joint boy soil choice boil come are poison destroy
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Target Strategy: Question
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes- less, ful, ous
Essential Question: How do inventions help athletes?
Vocabulary Words:
contribute: to help or add to
athletes: people who do physical exercise or play sports
improve: to get better
power: strength
process: the steps taken to complete a task
flexible: able to bend
fraction: a part of a whole unit
compete: to try to do something better that others
Spelling Words:
joy point voice join oil coin noise spoil toy
joint boy soil choice boil come are poison destroy
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Lesson 12: Tops and Bottoms
Genre: Trickster Tale
Target Skill: Theme
Target Strategy: Visualize
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms
Essential Question: Why is it important to grow food crops?
Vocabulary Words:
risky: dangerous
grunted: made a short, low sound in the back of the throat
profit: the amount of money left after the costs of doing business is subtracted from the amount of money earned
crops: plants that a grown, especially those grown for food
plucked: pulled off or out quickly
scowled: made an angry facial expression
tugged: pulled strongly
hollered: yelled
Spelling Words: Homonyms
hole whole its it's hear here won one out
hour their there fur fir road rode peace piece
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Target Skill: Theme
Target Strategy: Visualize
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms
Essential Question: Why is it important to grow food crops?
Vocabulary Words:
risky: dangerous
grunted: made a short, low sound in the back of the throat
profit: the amount of money left after the costs of doing business is subtracted from the amount of money earned
crops: plants that a grown, especially those grown for food
plucked: pulled off or out quickly
scowled: made an angry facial expression
tugged: pulled strongly
hollered: yelled
Spelling Words: Homonyms
hole whole its it's hear here won one out
hour their there fur fir road rode peace piece
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Lesson 13: Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend
Genre: Legend
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones and Homographs
Essential Question: Why are stories from different cultures important?
Vocabulary Words:
examined: looked at closely
peak: the top of a mountain or hill
fondly: in a loving or caring way
steep: having a sharp slope
rugged: rough and uneven
mist: a fine spray or light fog
pausing: stopping briefly
pleaded: begged or requested urgently
Spelling Words:
I'd he's haven't doesn't let's there's wouldn't what's she's
aren't hasn't couldn't he'd they're can't isn't we're weren't
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones and Homographs
Essential Question: Why are stories from different cultures important?
Vocabulary Words:
examined: looked at closely
peak: the top of a mountain or hill
fondly: in a loving or caring way
steep: having a sharp slope
rugged: rough and uneven
mist: a fine spray or light fog
pausing: stopping briefly
pleaded: begged or requested urgently
Spelling Words:
I'd he's haven't doesn't let's there's wouldn't what's she's
aren't hasn't couldn't he'd they're can't isn't we're weren't
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Lesson 14: Aero and Officer Mike, police partners
Genre: Informational text
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: Summarize
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes in, im
Essential Question: What are some benefits of dogs interacting with people?
Vocabulary Words:
lying: resting in a flat position
loyal: faithful
partners: two people who work together
shift: the period of time a worker dow his or her job
quiver: to shake or tremble
patrol: walk through an area to watch or guard it
ability: skill
snap: to bite quickly
Spelling Words:
horse mark storm market acorn artist March north barking
stork thorn forest chore restore dark story partner fortune
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Target Strategy: Summarize
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes in, im
Essential Question: What are some benefits of dogs interacting with people?
Vocabulary Words:
lying: resting in a flat position
loyal: faithful
partners: two people who work together
shift: the period of time a worker dow his or her job
quiver: to shake or tremble
patrol: walk through an area to watch or guard it
ability: skill
snap: to bite quickly
Spelling Words:
horse mark storm market acorn artist March north barking
stork thorn forest chore restore dark story partner fortune
Learning Links:
Spelling City
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Lesson 15: Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby, Age 8- Extra Good Sunday
Genre: Humorous fiction
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Vocabulary Strategy: Using a Thesaurus
Essential Question: Why are safety rules important?
Vocabulary Words:
festive: merry
ingredients: parts of a mixture
degrees: units used to measure temperature
recommended: suggested
anxiously: with worry or eagerness
cross: angry
remarked: said
tense: edgy or stressed
Spelling Words:
nurse work shirt hurt first word serve curly dirt
third worry turn stir firm her girl perfect hamburger
Learning Links:
Spelling City
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Vocabulary Strategy: Using a Thesaurus
Essential Question: Why are safety rules important?
Vocabulary Words:
festive: merry
ingredients: parts of a mixture
degrees: units used to measure temperature
recommended: suggested
anxiously: with worry or eagerness
cross: angry
remarked: said
tense: edgy or stressed
Spelling Words:
nurse work shirt hurt first word serve curly dirt
third worry turn stir firm her girl perfect hamburger
Learning Links:
Spelling City