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Week 2

The Lost Lake

brand-new        darted              muttered        

mug          talker               compass

 

Week 3

Amelia’s Road

labored             shortcut           occasions

rhythms            accidental        shutters

 

Week 4

Sarah, Plain and Tall

overalls            eerie                huddled

squall               reins         pesky

 

Week 5

Seal Journey

nursery            squealed          assured

horizon             jagged            mature

 

Week 6

Open Wide, Don’t Bite

fangs                patients           reptiles

broad               skills         healthy

 

Week 7

Unit 1Test

 

Week 8

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

guilt          resounded        festival

lingered            pranced          inspecting

 

Week 9

Just a Dream

haze         shrieking  foul

crumpled        bulging            waddled

 

Week 10

Fall Break and Parent Teacher Conferences

 

Week 11

Leah’s Pony

sturdy               glistened        overflowing

county              clustered        bidding

 

Week 12

Baseball Saved Us

glinting             ditches            mound

inning               crate                endless

 

 

 

 

Week 13

Will Her Native Language Disappear?

communicate        extinct             native

backgrounds        generations        century

 

Skills:

Cause and Effect

Conduct an Interview

Form Generalizations

Compound Words

Context Clues

 

Week 14

Unit 2 Review and Test

Ants

 

Week 15

The Hatmaker’s Sign

Vocabulary:

admitted           brisk         displaying

elegantly        strolling            wharf

 

Skills:

Make Judgments and Decisions

Read Signs

Summarize

Suffixes

 

 

Week 16

Pat Cummings: My Story

Vocabulary:

exist         image              inspire

loft           reference        sketch

 

Skills:

Fact and Opinion

Read a Flow Chart

Summarize

Suffixes

 

 

Week 17

Grass Sandals

Vocab.:

chanted            nipped            pouch

restless            scribbled        stitching

 

Skills:

Author’s Purpose Point of View

Read a map

Make judgments and decisions

Context Clues

 

 

 

Week 18

A Placed Called Freedom

Vocabulary:

sunrise             gourd              weary

fretted              plantation        settlement

 

Skills:

Fact and Opinion

Read a Line Graph

Summarize

Context Clues

 

 

Week 19

Share Christmas Stories—Students may bring in their favorite children’s stories to share.

 

Week 20

Twisted Trails

Vocabulary:

combine           challenge        contained

mazes              entertaining        requires

 

Skills:

Make Judgments and Decisions

Read a Diagram

Author’s Purpose and Point of View

Context Clues

Suffixes

 

Week 21

Unit 3 Review and Test

 

Week 22

Scruffy

Vocabulary:

affection          climate             clinging

methods           threat               injury

 

Skills:

Compare and Contrast

Read a Graph

Draw Conclusions

Prefixes

 

Week 23

Gluskabe and the Snowbird

Vocabulary:

confusion        freeze              hilltop

lodge                messenger        praised

 

Skills:

Fact and Nonfact

Read a Table

Compare and Contrast

Root words

 

Week 24

Meet an Underwater Explorer

Vocabulary:

connected        endangered        overcome

poisonous        sponge            haul

 

Skills:

Draw Conclusions

Read a Time Line

Fact and Nonfact

Root words

 

Week 25

On the Bus with Joanna Cole

Vocabulary:

abandon          available        research

traditional        absorb             original

 

Skills:

Steps in a Process

Follow Directions

Fact and Nonfact

Prefixes

 

Week 26

Earth’s First Creatures

ancestors        snout               spikes

disaster            weird              microscope

 

Skills:

Compare and Contrast

Read a Chart

Steps in a Process

Prefixes

Root words

 

Week 27

Unit Review and Test

 

Week 28

The Fox and the Guinea Pig

Vocabulary:

amazement        destroyed        eldest

fowl          stake              strewn

 

Skills:

Sequence of Events

Read Advertisements

Make Inferences

Context clues

 

Week 29

Mom’s Best Friend

Vocabulary:

clippers            errands           instinct

memorizing        relieved          sirens

Skills:

Important and unimportant information

Use a Newspaper

Make Inferences

Figurative Language

 

Week 30

The Rajah’s Rice

Vocabulary:

attendants        awkwardly        celebration

knowledge        released          spice

 

Skills:

Make Predictions

Use Recipes

Make Inferences

Context Clues

 

 

 Week 31

Yeh-Shen

Vocabulary:

beloved            heaved            marveled

bid            desire              permit     

 

Skills:

Sequence of Events

Read E-mail

Make Predictions

Figurative Language

 

Week 32

Can We Rescue the Reefs?

Vocabulary:

loosened          damage          percent

coral         reefs                ton

 

 

Skills:

Important and Unimportant Information

Use a Telephone Directory

Make Predictions

Figurative Language

Context Clues

 

Week 33

Unit 5 Review and Test

 

Week 34

Teammates

Vocabulary:

extraordinary           circulated        organizations

launched          teammate        opponents

 

Skills:

Cause and Effect

Use the Card Catalog: Subject Card

Make Judgments and Decisions

 

Week 35

 The Malachite Palace

 

Vocabulary:

cultured            feeble              fragrance

mingled            resembled        scampered

 

Skills:

Problem and Solution

Use the Card Catalog: Author and Title Cards

Cause and Effect

Synonyms and Antonyms

 

Week 36

We will be at Bradford Woods

 

Week 37

The Toothpaste Millionaire

 

Vocabulary:

brilliant             successful        gallon

expensive        ingredient        commercials

 

Skills:

Make Judgments and Decisions

Use an Online Library Catalog

Problem and Solution

Synonyms and Antonyms

 

Week 38

Whales

 

Vocabulary:

mammals        preserve         related

marine              identify            pods

 

Skills:

Compare and Contrast

Use an Encyclopedia Index

Make Judgments and Decisions

Context Clues

 

Week 39

Saving the Everglades

 

Vocabulary:

Soggy              compares        importance

Lurk         wildlife             instance

 

Skills:

Cause and Effect

Use the Internet

Compare and Contrast

Context Clues

Synonyms and Antonyms

 

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