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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
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.