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Theme 5: Family Time
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Selection 4: Thunder Cake
Author: Patricia Polacco
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Author: Patricia Polacco
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Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot
Genre: Realistic Fiction Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot
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Plot The plot is the sequence of events in the story. This often
includes a problem and resolution.
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Comprehension Strategy:
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Comprehension Skill:
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Phonics and Spelling Focus: Words that End with –ed or –ing
Basic: batted clapped hugging stepped running sitting stopped getting shopping pinned Challenge: jogging flipped
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Silent Consonants –gh, k(n), b
Phonics Focus: Silent Consonants –gh, k(n), b light knit lamb night knight limb fight knob crumbs sight knapsack dumb thought knee numb caught kneading
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at the end of Longer Words
Phonics review: The sound of –y at the end of Longer Words hurry softly carefully buttery everything finally suddenly twenty
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High-Frequency Words:
air child heavy hour
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early only half warm heard winter afraid minute High-Frequency Word
Review: afraid minute early only half warm heard winter
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Key Vocabulary: lightning- a flash of light in the sky bolt- a flash or stroke of lightning horizon- the line where sky and earth seem to meet
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lightning A flash of light in the sky
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A flash or stroke of lightning
bolt A flash or stroke of lightning
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horizon The line where sky and earth seem to meet
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Key Vocabulary: thunder- the rumbling sound that follows lightning rumbled- made a deep rolling sound weather- what it is like outside
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that follows lightning
thunder The rumbling sound that follows lightning
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rumbled Made a deep rolling sound
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weather What it is like outside
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Other Vocabulary: damp - a little wet clap - a loud, sudden sound cooed - talked softly & fondly crowed - talked happily
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damp a little wet
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clap a loud, sudden sound
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cooed talked softly and fondly
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crowed Talked happily
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Other Vocabulary: penned - wrote out creased - marked with a fold ingredients - things that go into a mixture scurried - moved in a hurry gather - to bring together
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penned wrote out
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creased marked with a fold
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ingredients parts of a mixture, or the stuff you put in
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scurried moved in a hurry, fast
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gather to bring together
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Other Vocabulary: peck - to hit with a beak croaked - spoke in a rough, hoarse way jagged - having sharp points sticking out crept - moved slowly
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peck to hit with a beak
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croaked spoke in a rough, hoarse way
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jagged Having sharp points sticking out
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crept moved slowly
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Other Vocabulary: bellowed - made a deep roaring sound churned - beat milk in a special container to make butter batter - a mixture of wet and dry ingredients faded - lost its brightness
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made a deep roaring sound
bellowed made a deep roaring sound
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beat milk in a special container to make butter
churned beat milk in a special container to make butter
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batter a mixture of dry and wet ingredients
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faded lost its brightness
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glistening shining
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samovar A metal urn with a faucet at the base,
used to boil water for tea
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Finding Words with Endings
Vocabulary Skills: Dictionary Finding Words with Endings hugged counting steaming rattled cooed patting Look for the base word.
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Information & Study Skills:
Taking Notes
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Verbs present to past is / was are / were
Grammar Skills: Verbs present to past is / was are / were He/she/it is… He/she/it was… We/they are… We/they were…
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Writing Skills: Dialogue
“It’s only the thunder you are hearing,” my grandma said.
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Curriculum Link: Drama Readers’ Theater “Sun and Ice”
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I Reading Books: 53-58 Phonics Library: by Linda Dunlap
Eight Daughters The Family Garden by Linda Dunlap
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