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Week 1- The Adventures of
Ali Baba Bernstein
This Week's Vocabulary
Vocabulary Words for Week 1
several, ranged, curious, policy, temporary, frequently,
abbreviation, delicatessen, combination, explorers
pgs. 42-59
Genre-Realistic Fiction
Week 2-Roadrunner's Race
pgs. 574-589
Genre-Folktale
Week 3-Train to Somewhere
Handout
Vocabulary Words for Week 2
interfere, convinced, awkward, proclaimed, agile, guardian,
elders, threatening, slender, pecked
Vocabulary Words for Week 3
adopt, misery, locomotive, tenements, platform, conductor,
atlas, agent, carriage, orphans
Vocabulary Words for Week 4
sores, loosened, mysterious, amazement, midst, responsibility
retreat, tepee (tipi), wandering, herd
Genre-Historical Fiction
Week 4-Mystic Horse
pgs. 230-249
Genre-Native American
Legend
Vocabulary Words for Week 5
chirp, subway, scrounging, furiously, traffic, sympathetically,
melody, venturing, occasion, eavesdropping
Vocabulary Words for Week 6
anticipation, enormous, encouraged, slender, released, glanced,
lumbered, ornery, scrambled, mettle
Week 5-The Cricket in Times
Square
pgs. 410-427
Genre-Classic Fantasy
Week 6-Ima and the Great
Texas Ostrich Race
pgs. 478-495
Genre-Historical Fiction
Week 7-How Ben Franklin
Stole the Lightning
Vocabulary Words for Week 7
hilarious, independence, came-in-handy, dizzy, nowadays,
mischief, constitution, inventions, academy, experiment
Vocabulary Words for Week 8
assembled, hoisting, shellac, applauded, assured, tuberculosis,
unstable, blustering, headlines, tinkering
Vocabulary Words for Week 9
border, involved, scene, future, laundry, constellations,
handkerchief, pier, inspired, memories
Vocabulary Words for Week 10
pgs. 778-798
Genre-Biography
Week 8-My Brothers' Flying
Machine
legendary, muttered, gaped, snickering, insult, flinched,
jeering, sneered, callused, blurred
Vocabulary Words for Week 11
mane, bridle, reins, gauchos, brand, herd, initials, vaccinate,
calves, corral
pgs. 508-525
Genre-Biography
Week 9-Family Pictures
Vocabulary Words for Week 12
reef, partnership, current, eventually, brittle, suburbs, lagoon,
tropical, coral, shallow
Handout
No words this week
Genre-Autobiography
Week 10-Mighty Jackie
pgs. 166-181
Genre-Biography
Week 11-On the Pampas
Vocabulary Words for Week 15
descendants, habitat, fragile, threatened, emerge, sanctuary,
predator, preserved, encounter, prohibited
Handout
Genre-Autobiography
Week 12-At Home in the
Coral Reef
Vocabulary Words for Week 18
neglected, appreciated, misunderstood, desperate, endured,
obdience, wander, journey, melodramatic, incident
pgs. 614-630
Genre-Expository NonFiction
Week 13-Practice
STAAR test
Vocabulary Words for Week 19
boars, varieties, guinea pig, fond, ancestors, rodents, gnawing,
conversations, sow, cavy
No words for the week
No Story
Week 14-Thanksgiving
Activities
No Story
Week 15-Wild Horses
Vocabulary Words for Week 21
sheepishly, sensitive, tempted, orchestra, apologetically,
mumbled, measures, instruments, audition, rehearsal
Vocabulary Words for Week 22
bellows, smarted, firebreak, engulfed, tufts, illuminated,
billows, cinders, crouched, charred
pgs. 204-218
Genre-Expository NonFiciton
Vocabulary Words for Week 23
sturdy, items clustered, bidding, overflowing, glistened,
auction, ridiculous, whinny, cultivate
Week 17-Christmas Activities Vocabulary Words for Week 24
unfair, segregation, confronted, ancestors, injustice, ministers,
numerous, bigotry, avoided, obedient
SECOND SEMESTER
Week 18-Dear Mrs. LaRue
Genre-Fantasy
Vocabulary Words for Week 25
selfish, cranky, commotion,exasperated, specialty, famished,
suspicious, tantrum, sullen, lectures
pgs. 296-317
Week 19-I Love Guinea Pig
Genre-Expository NonFiction (Purpose-Persuade)
Handout
Week 20-Practice STAAR
test
Vocabulary Words for Week 26
bound, purchased, calico, fortune, quarters, dowry, missions,
trudged, peddling, betrothed
Vocabulary Words for Week 27
blacksmith, depedable, contraptions, crank, tiller, telegraph,
forge, odometer, ravines, trestle
Week 21-Yingtao's New
Friend
Poetry Vocabulary-Haiku, Free Verse Poems, Narrative Poems,
Limericks, stanzas, line breaks, simile, Lyric Poems, meter,
rhyme,repetition, personification, rhyme scheme, imagery,
metaphor
Genre-Realistic Fiction
Week 30-No Words
Handout
Week 22-Addie in Charge
Genre-Historical Fiction
Handout
Week 23-Leah's Pony
Genre-Historical Fiction
Pgs. 679-695
Week 24-My Brother Martin
Genre-Biography
pgs. 140-152
Week 25-Ranita: The Frog
Princess
Genre-Play
pgs. 342-359
Week 26-A Peddler's Dream
Handout
Historical Fiction
Week 27-Amazing Alice
Handout
Biography
Week 28-29 Poetry Unit
No story
Week 30 Mock Math/Mock
Reading
No story
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