Unit 3 Week 1: Be Unique
What makes different animals unique?
Skills
Comprehension Strategy
Visualize - form pictures in your mind while reading.
Comprehension Skill
Problem and Solution – Students should identify the problem and solution in the story.
Genre
Folktale – Short story passed from parents to children in a culture; Teaches a lesson
Vocabulary/Grammar
Synonyms - Words that have the same meaning
Action Verbs - Words that show action
Writing
Sentence Fluency – Students will write a Narrative using different kinds of sentences in the story
Prompts:
Other Skills
Contractions
Visualize - form pictures in your mind while reading.
Comprehension Skill
Problem and Solution – Students should identify the problem and solution in the story.
Genre
Folktale – Short story passed from parents to children in a culture; Teaches a lesson
Vocabulary/Grammar
Synonyms - Words that have the same meaning
Action Verbs - Words that show action
Writing
Sentence Fluency – Students will write a Narrative using different kinds of sentences in the story
Prompts:
- Write a story about your favorite animal. Describe what makes it different from other animals. Use different kinds of sentences to tell your story.
- Write a story about your least favorite animal. Give reasons why you do not like this animal. Use different kinds of sentences in your story.
Other Skills
Contractions
Vocabulary
Strategy: synonyms
Dismay – To feel shock and surprise
Fabulous - Amazing
Features – Things that are noticeable about something
Offered – You are presented with something you can accept or turn down
Splendid - Very beautiful or magnificent
Unique – The only one of its kind
Watchful – Watching carefully
Fabulous - Amazing
Features – Things that are noticeable about something
Offered – You are presented with something you can accept or turn down
Splendid - Very beautiful or magnificent
Unique – The only one of its kind
Watchful – Watching carefully
Spelling: r-controlled vowels
whirl
third girls firm fern herds stern hurt nurse |
turns
learn pearl word world stretch thick whales perfect Thursday |
Literature
Textbooks: (NOT AR)
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach - Folktale "Get a Backbone!" - Expository Text "Inchworm's Tale" - Folktale |
Leveled Readers:
Orange- The Ballgame Between the Birds and the Animals 3.2 AR# 913478 Blue – King of the Birds 3.4 AR# 913502 Green- Sheep and Pig Set Up Housekeeping 4.0 AR# 913449 Purple- King of the Birds 2.9 AR# 913532 |
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
Deedy, Carmen Agra
AR Quiz No. 116505 EN Fiction
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
AR Quiz Types: RP
In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors to decide whom to marry.
Deedy, Carmen Agra
AR Quiz No. 116505 EN Fiction
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
AR Quiz Types: RP
In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors to decide whom to marry.