Unit 2 Week 1
Literary Lessons
Essential Question:
What are some messages
in animal stories?
Genre: Folktale
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Stories based on the traditions and beliefs of a people.
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Usually teach a lesson and often include animal characters.
Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Spelling Words
Prefixes
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Ask questions when there are parts of a story you do not understand.
1.
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Questions can be about why a character acts a certain way or why an event occurs.
2. unborn
3. unchain
Comprehension Skill: Theme
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The theme is the central message or lesson of a story.
4. unload
5. unlock
Vocabulary Strategy: Root Words
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unblock
The root word is the simplest form of a word.
Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns
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A common noun names any person, place, or thing: boy, street, lake
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A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing: John, Main Street, Cross Lake
6. recall
7. relearn
8. resell
9. rewash
Vocabulary Words
1.
attracted- Attracted means drew the attention of.
2. dazzling- Something dazzling is so bright that it's almost blinding.
3. fabric- Fabric is a material that is woven or knitted, such as cloth.
4. greed- Greed is a very great and selfish desire to have or get something.
5. honest- An honest person is truthful, fair, and trustworthy.
6. requested- Something requested is asked for.
10. rewind
11.
imperfect
12. indirect
13. incorrect
14. illegal
15. overact
16. overheat
17. subway
18. premix
7. soared- If something soared it flew very high in the air.
19. preplan
8. trudged- If you trudged you walked steadily and slowly.
20. supersize
Unit 2 Week 2
Animals in Fiction
Essential Question:
How do animal characters
change familiar stories?
Genre: Drama
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Has a list of characters and is written in dialogue
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Is divided into parts called acts or scenes
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Includes the setting and stage directions
Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
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Ask questions when there are parts of a story you do not understand.
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Questions can be about why a character acts a certain way or why an event occurs.
The theme is the central message or lesson of a story.
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues: Antonyms
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Use context clues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word. Sometimes the author
uses an antonym, another word or phrase that means the opposite as the unfamiliar word.
1.
thirty
2. width
4. fifth
5. choose
6. touch
7. chef
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
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A singular noun names one person, place, or thing.
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A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing.
Vocabulary Words
1.
Digraphs
3. northern
Comprehension Skill: Theme
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Spelling Words
annoyed- To be annoyed means to feel bothered or irritated.
8. chance
9. pitcher
10. kitchen
11.
sketched
12. ketchup
2. attitude- An attitude is a way of thinking, acting, or feeling.
13. snatch
3. commotion- A commotion is a noisy disturbance.
14. stretching
4. cranky- A cranky person is grouchy or in a bad mood.
15. rush
5. familiar- Something familiar is well-known because it was heard or seen before.
6. frustrated- To be frustrated means to feel disappointed by being kept from doing something.
7. selfish- Selfish people care only about themselves.
8. specialty- A specialty is something that someone does really well or gives extra attention to.
16. whine
17. whirl
18. bring
19. graph
20. photo
Unit 2 Week 3
Natural Connections
Essential Question:
How are all living things
connected?
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
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Tells a story that includes facts about a topic.
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May include text features such as headings, photos and captions, charts, and graphs.
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
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Retell the most important details of a text or section of text in your own words.
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
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The main idea is the most important idea that the author presents in a text or section of
text.
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Key details give important information to support the main idea.
Context clues are words or phrases near an unfamiliar word that can help you understand
its meaning
1.
shred
2. shriek
3. shrimp
4. shrink
6. screw
7. screech
Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns
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Three-Letter Blends
5. script
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
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Spelling Words
An irregular plural noun that become plural by changing it's spelling other than adding s or es
8. straighten
9. scraps
Vocabulary Words
1.
crumbled- If something crumbled, then it broke into small pieces.
2. drought- Droughts are long periods of dry weather without rainfall.
3. ecosystem- An ecosystem is all the living and nonliving things in an area.
10. strand
11.
sprout
12. sprawl
13. sprang
14. splashing
4. extinct- Something that is extinct no longer exists.
15. splotch
5. flourished- Something that flourished thrived or grew strongly.
16. thrill
6. fragile- Something that is fragile is delicate and tends to break easily.
17. throb
7. imbalance- An imbalance in something means that its parts are not in an equal, steady, or
secure position.
8. ripples- Something that ripples forms small waves.
18. throat
19. thrift
20. through
Unit 2 Week 4
Adaptations
Essential Question:
What helps an animal
survive?
Genre: Expository Text
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Gives facts and information about a topic
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Include text features such as headings, photos and captions, diagrams, maps, and time
lines.
Retell the most important details of a text or section of text in your own words.
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
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The main idea is the most important idea that the author presents in a text or section of
text.
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Key details give important information to support the main idea.
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes
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A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning.
Grammar: Possessive Nouns
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A possessive noun shows ownership.
Vocabulary Words
1.
r-Controlled Vowels
/ar/ and /or/
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
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Spelling Words
camouflaged- Something camouflaged is hidden by looking like its surroundings.
2. dribble- To dribble is to flow or let flow in small drops.
3. extraordinary- Something extraordinary is very unusual or remarkable.
4. poisonous- Something poisonous harms or kills by chemical action.
1.
dart
2.
guard
3.
award
4.
backyard
5.
argue
6.
spark
7.
target
8.
smart
9.
charge
10. carpet
11.
warp
12.
door
13. fort
14. morning
15.
stork
5. pounce- To pounce is to leap or spring suddenly in attack.
16.
cord
6. predator- A predator is an animal that lives by hunting other animals for food.
17.
worn
7. prey- An animal that is hunted by another animal is its prey.
18.
stormy
19.
core
8. vibrations- Vibrations are rapid motions back and forth or up and down.
20. bore
Unit 2 Week 5
Animals All Around
Essential Question:
How are writers inspired
by animals?
Genre: Poetry
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Lyric Poetry
• Expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet
Spelling Words
Suffixes
• Often has end rhymes and a consistent meter
• Haiku
• Uses three short lines to describe a scene or a moment
• Has a first and last line of five syllables and a second line of seven syllables (5-7-5).
sickly
2. hardly
3. quickly
Literary Elements: Meter and Rhyme
4. slowly
Comprehension Skill: Point of View
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1.
The speaker's point of view is how the speaker thinks or feels.
Vocabulary Strategy: Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor
Grammar: Combining Sentences
5. carefully
6. wonderful
7. beautiful
8. graceful
9. spoonful
Vocabulary Words
1.
brittle- If something is brittle it is easily broken.
2. creative- Creative people show the ability to do something in a new way.
10. darkness
11.
shapeless
12. ageless
13. illness
3. descriptive- Descriptive things describe or tell about something.
14. goodness
4. outstretched- Outstretched means extended to full length.
15. spotless
Poetry Terms
16. painless
5. metaphor- A metaphor compares two things without like or as. The grass was a green carpet.
17. weakness
6. simile- A simile compares two things using like or as. The stick is straight as an arrow .
18. darkest
7. rhyme- Words rhyme when their endings sound the same.
19. clearest
8. meter- Meter is the pattern of syllables in a line of poetry.
20. thoughtful