2012- 2013
Book 3, Unit 3
Story
“Sarah, Plain and Tall”
Vocabulary/ Challenge
describe, religion, vacuole, sentence
fragment, windbreak, rustle, alarmed,
paddock, conch
boiled annoyed choices poison employer joining
spoiled voices destroyed pointing avoided
enjoying employee voyage appointed poisonous
foil loyal noisy disappointed
explain, supply, demand, energy
pyramid, pastimes, tutor, disposition,
glumly, irritably, bicker, impose,
grudge
shelves sheep teeth elves mice calves
spacecraft jeans feet women men geese
salmon series scissors halves oxen crises
knives thieves
November 5-9
“Stealing Home”
November 12-16
Review – NO new story
Spelling
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November 19 – 20
“The Cricket in Times
Square”
November 26-30
“Two Lands, One Heart”
December 3-7
“Look to the North”
December 10-14
No new story
December 17, 18 and 19
summarize, American Revolution,
herbivore, omnivore, wistfully,
scrounging, acquaintance, excitable,
eavesdropping, logical,
sympathetically
compare, colony, behavioral
adaptation, topic sentence,
equivalent, interpreter, irrigation,
occasionally, appetizing, overwhelm,
hysterically
contrast, taxes, ecosystem,
computation, cell membrane,
ceases, tundra, abundant,
bonding, piteously, surrender
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team’s player’s bird’s wolf’s horse’s class’s
group’s girls’ students’ trees’ parents’ owners’
cousins’ teachers’ aunts’ friends’ children’s
city’s classes’ country’s
Abbreviations
Mt. (mount) Dr. (doctor) Jan. (January)
Rte. (Route) Rd. (Road) St. (street) Fri. (Friday)
Lb. (pound) Ave. (Avenue) Dec. (December)
Tsp. (teaspoon) Sat. (Saturday) Mon. (Monday)
Wed. (Wednesday) Gov. (Governor)
Pres. (President) Hwy. (highway)
Sept. (September) Pkwy(Parkway)
Sun. (Sunday)
weighs ceiling field reindeer freight eighteen
neighbor receive weird chief believe seize
either fierce relief windshield pierce thief
achieve eighth
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