Cricket in Times Square

Spelling 1.Team’s 2.Player’s 3.Bird’s 4.Wolf’s 5.Horse’s 6.Class’s 7.Group’s 8.Girls’ 9.Students’ 10.Trees’

11.Parents’ 12.Owners’ 13.Cousins’ 14.Teachers’ 15.Aunts’ 16.Friend’s 17.Children’s 18.City’s 19.Classes’ 20.Country’s

Bonus Melodious Chirping Violinist Orchestra Musician

Read Aloud Cricket Why might a cricket try to get into your house in the fall? To escape the cold How do underground crickets differ from other crickets? Their wings are small and stumpy; they do not fly like other crickets Is this selection fiction or nonfiction? How can you tell? Nonfiction;

Vocabulary Wistfully Scrounging Acquaintance Excitable Eavesdropping Sympathetically Logical

Wistfully- Adverb Longingly; sadly remembering something nice Scrounging- Verb Looking for scraps of food or abandoned materials Acquaintance Knowing someone or something

Excitable Very emotional; easily excited Eavesdropping- Verb Listening secretly to a conversation Sympathetically In a way that shows concern for someone else’s feelings Logical Reasonable; to be expected

Mapping words Draw a word map for each vocabulary word. Word definitionsynonymsantonyms Part of speech