Theme 6: Talent Show
Selection 1: Title: The Art Lesson Author: Tomie dePaola
Genre: Realistic Fiction realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot
Comprehension Strategy: Evaluate to decide if what we are reading is entertaining, informative, or useful for us.
Comprehension Skill: Author’s Viewpoint Sometimes an author lets the reader know how they feel about something by things their story characters do or say
Comprehension Skill Review: Information Skills: A Newspaper
Phonics: Vowel pairs oo, ew, ue, ou zoo tooth hook moon book soon took good room foot you who Challenge Words Review: hoof school too hoof
Phonics review: Base Words and Endings –ed, -ing
Key Vocabulary: crayons- pieces of colored wax used to draw chalk- a tool for drawing and writing that is made mostly from tiny bits of seashells powders- a lot of tiny pieces of something
crayons- pieces of colored wax used to draw
chalk- a tool for drawing and writing
powders- a lot of tiny pieces of something
smock- a kind of shirt that is worn over clothes to protect them ruin- to hurt or spoil practice- to do something many times so that you can do it well Other Vocabulary:
smock- a kind of shirt that is worn over clothes.
ruin- to hurt or spoil
practice- to do something many times so that you can do it well
Other Vocabulary: barber- a person who gives haircuts violet- a purple color turquoise- a greenish blue color copper- a reddish brown color property- something that belongs to someone monitor- a person who has a special duty to do
barber- a person who gives haircuts
violet- a purple color
turquoise- a greenish blue color
copper- a reddish brown color
property- something that belongs to someone
monitor- a person who has a special duty to do
Vocabulary Skills: Word Families Base word -ed-ing-er-ful paint learn play work
High-Frequency Words: fair gold woman
High-Frequency Review: aunt color hair lady learn pair trouble uncle
Grammar Skills: Other Irregular Verbs
Writing: A Paragraph That Explains An explanation should begin with a topic sentence that states what is going to be explained. The other sentences that follow should give facts that support the topic sentence.
Improving Your Writing : Is It a Sentence?
I Reading Books: Phonics Library: Our Classroom Zoo Book by Linda Dunlap Jade’s Drumming by Melissa Blackwell Burke