Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 5: Lesson 21 Anchor Text: Penguin Chick - Narrative Nonfiction Emperor Penguins - Informational Text Essential Question: How do animals care for their young? Phonics: Words with er Words with ir, ur Fluency: Phrasing: Natural Pauses Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Main Idea and Details Cause and Effect Infer/Predict Vocabulary Strategies: Dictionary Entry Grammar: What is an Adjective? Writing: Informative Writing: Problem-Solution Paragraph Focus Trait: Elaboration High-Frequency Words across behind house how move nothing one out took voice Spelling:Words with er father over Review under fern herd ever water verb Challenge paper remember cracker feather offer cover germ master Target Vocabulary finally: after a long time otherwise: if things were different junior: younger or having a lower rank waterproof: something that doesn’t allow water through it slippery: difficult to hold onto webbed: having skin between the toes steer: to control the direction in which something is going whistle: a high musical sound

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 5: Lesson 22 Anchor Text: Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend - Realistic Fiction How to Make a Kite - Informational Text Essential Question: How do friends help each other? Phonics: Homophones; Base Words and Endings -er, -est Fluency: Accuracy: Self-Correct Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Understanding Characters Figurative Language Question Vocabulary Strategies: Idioms Grammar: Using Adjectives Writing: Informative Writing: Compare and Contrast Paragraph Focus Trait: Evidence High-Frequency Words boy does everyone field floor found into their toward what’s Spelling:Homophones meet meat Review week sea weak see mane main Challenge tail threw tale through be bee too two Target Vocabulary heavily: with a lot of power guessed: made a prediction about the answer of a question planning: thinking about or deciding on something copy: to do what someone else is doing seriously: in a way that is not joking answered: said something to someone as a reply knot: the place where two pieces of string have been tied together lonely: unhappy because you’re alone

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 5: Lesson 23 Anchor Text: The Goat in the Rug - Narrative Fiction Basket Weaving - Informational Text Essential Question: How is art connected to the past? Phonics: Suffixes -y, -ly, -ful Final Stable Syllables -tion, -ture Fluency: Rate: Adjust Rate to Purpose Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Conclusions Sequence of Events Summarize Vocabulary Strategies: Compound Words Grammar: Irregular Verbs Writing: Informative Writing: Informational Paragraph Focus Trait: Elaboration High-Frequency Words coming down four give great idea knew large enough write Spelling:Suffixes -ly, -ful helpful sadly Review hopeful jumped thankful saying slowly wishful Challenge kindly quickly useful wonderful safely painful mouthful weakly Target Vocabulary delicious: very good taste sharpening: making something have a sharper edge or point spinning: twisting together material to make yarn or thread weave: to make cloth by crossing material over one another strands: single pieces of thread yarn: thick thread made of cotton or wool dye: a substance used to change the color of something duplicated: to have made an exact copy of something else

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 5: Lesson 24 Anchor Text: Half-Chicken - Folktale The Lion and the Mouse - Traditional Tale Essential Question: Why are some stories told over and over again? Phonics: Prefixes re-, un-, over-, pre-, mis- Silent Consonants Fluency: Expression Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Cause and Effect Point of View Visualize Vocabulary Strategies: Antonyms Grammar: Irregular Action Verbs Writing: Informative Writing: Research Report Focus Trait: Evidence High-Frequency Words away began brothers brown earth here learning surprised there without Spelling:Prefixes re- and un- unhappy retell Review untangle read unkind happy repaint refill Challenge unlike rewrite remake overheard unpack reread unlock replay Target Vocabulary peacefully: calmly, not fighting blazed: burned or shined brightly empty: not full stream: flowing water, like a small river flung: threw hard swift: fast tumbling: falling and rolling suddenly tangled: twisted and mixed up

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 5: Lesson 25 Anchor Text: From Seed to Plant - Informational Text Super Soil - Informational Text Essential Question: How do plants grow and change? Phonics: Words with au, aw, al, o, a Fluency: Phrasing: Punctuation Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Text and Graphic Features Cause and Effect Monitor/Clarify Vocabulary Strategies: Using Context Grammar: More Irregular Action Verbs Writing: Informative Writing: Research Report Focus Trait: Elaboration High-Frequency Words ball done hear learn leaves only our through were young Spelling: Words with or, ore horn story Review fork for score more store corn Challenge morning report shore force short born tore forget Target Vocabulary grain: tiny particle, like a piece of sand pod: a soft shell that holds seeds soak: get very wet soften: to make soft root: part of a plant that is underground and soaks up water shoot: part of a young plant that grows straight up from a seed tasty: having flavor that tastes good nutrition: part of food that is good for your health, like vitamins