Week 1:

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:

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

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