1. Theme 6: Talent Show

2. Selection 1: Title: The Art Lesson Author: Tomie dePaola

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

4. Comprehension Strategy: Evaluate to decide if what we are reading is entertaining, informative, or useful for us.

5. 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

6. Comprehension Skill Review: Information Skills: A Newspaper

7. 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

8. Phonics review: Base Words and Endings –ed, -ing

9. 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

10. crayons- pieces of colored wax used to draw

11. chalk- a tool for drawing and writing

12. powders- a lot of tiny pieces of something

13. 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:

14. smock- a kind of shirt that is worn over clothes.

15. ruin- to hurt or spoil

16. practice- to do something many times so that you can do it well

17. 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

18. barber- a person who gives haircuts

19. violet- a purple color

20. turquoise- a greenish blue color

21. copper- a reddish brown color

22. property- something that belongs to someone

23. monitor- a person who has a special duty to do

24. Vocabulary Skills: Word Families Base word -ed-ing-er-ful paint learn play work

25. High-Frequency Words: fair gold woman

26. High-Frequency Review: aunt color hair lady learn pair trouble uncle

27. Grammar Skills: Other Irregular Verbs

28. 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.

29. Improving Your Writing : Is It a Sentence?

30. I Reading Books: 59- 62 Phonics Library: Our Classroom Zoo Book by Linda Dunlap Jade’s Drumming by Melissa Blackwell Burke