2. Theme 5: Family Time

3. Author: Pat Cummings Selection 3: Carousel

4. Genre: Realistic Fiction Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot

5. Comprehension Strategy: Predict/Infer to use what we have read and what we know (schema) to learn more than the author tells us.

6. Comprehension Skill: Making Judgments We use facts from the story, and our beliefs, to make and confirm opinions about the characters or situations.

7. Comprehension Skill Review: Information & Study Skills: Reference Sources: Electronic Media

8. Spelling Focus: The Final Sound in puppy Basic: puppy baby lucky Happy very lady funny silly many only cookie Review: Challenge: me furry be angry

9. Phonics review: The –le Ending in Two-Syllable Words puddle beetle giggle battle simple riddle little bottle noodle doodle

10. Key Vocabulary: angry- to feel very upset about something fussed- talked in an unhappy way; complained groaned- made a deep moaning sound

11. angry

12. fussed

13. groaned

14. grumbled- talked in an angry way about Something that is not pleasing grumpily- in a grouchy way promised- said he or she would do something Other Vocabulary :

15. grumbled

16. grumpily

17. promised

18. Other Vocabulary: pearly-like a pearl, especially in having a shiny surface definitely- without a doubt; surely Sighed -let out a long, loud breath, usually as a sign of being tired

19. pearly

20. Sighed

21. Other Vocabulary : frills- something added mostly for decoration mumbled- spoke so that the words were not clear enough to be understood

22. frills

23. mumbled

24. tutu- a short skirt worn by a ballerina scurried- moved fast sharply- in an angry way hissed- made a long sound to show dislike delicate- easily broken or harmed Other Vocabulary

25. tutu

26. scurried

27. sharply

28. hissed

29. delicate

30. twisted- turned something around and around wobbly- moving from side to side in a shaky manner deserted- left alone by itself stretching- changing shape by growing larger or longer Other Vocabulary

31. twisted

32. wobbly

33. deserted

34. stretching

35. tiptoed- walked on the ends of the toes mane- long heavy hair growing from the neck or shoulders of an animal trot- to run at a medium- fast pace Other Vocabulary

36. tiptoed

37. mane

38. trot

39. Vocabulary Skills: Homophones (words that sound alike but do not have the same spelling or the same meaning) hair hare tale tail

40. High-Frequency Words: aunt pair million

41. High-Frequency Review: ago believe between even field lion told

42. Grammar Skills: Verbs That Tell About the Past liked opened

43. Writing: An Information Paragraph

44. I Reading Books: 50- 51 Phonics Library: Aunt Lizzie Finds Her Cake My Brother by Patty Moynahan