• READING:  The new story's vocabulary words are listed below.  Each student will bring home a Vocabulary Chart with definitions, sentences, and other activities using the words.  

     **Students need to use the RIDE Strategy when answering open-ended Questions:
     
    RIDE Strategy
     Restate the important words from the question
    Include a main idea/opinion
    Detail your main idea and use support from the text
    Ending sentence and edit/check your answer 
     
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     Classroom main story:  First Day Jitters 
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ downstairs, nervous, fumbled, chuckled, nonsense, trudged
    Reading Skill ~ Analyze story structure:  character, setting, plot- Beginning, Middle (problem), End (solution)
    Grammar~ wk 1 The 4 types of sentences:Statements, Questions, Commands, Exclamations.  Wk 2 Sentence Subjects
    Vocabulary ~ compound words 
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     Classroom main story:  Dear Juno
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ crackle, announced, soared, starry, envelope, photograph
    Reading Skill ~ Analyze story structure:  identify character traits, setting, plot
    Vocabulary ~ Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition/meaning, poetry elements, prefixes
    Grammar Skill ~ Sentence Subjects; Sentence Predicates 
     
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    Classroom main story:  Penguin Chick 
    Vocabulary Words~ whips, fierce, echoes huddle, shuffles, down, junior
    Reading Skill~ Analyze nonfiction: identify main ideas & supporting details; answer questions about nonfiction supported
    by evidence & detail; poetry elements
    Vocabulary~ use context clues to self-correct word meaning, prefixes & suffixes, homographs
    Grammar Skills~ Compound Sentences, Common/Proper Nouns
     
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    Classroom main story: The Perfect Pet 
      
    Vocabulary Words~ perfect, challenge, healthy, satisfy, manage, scratch, appetite
    Reading Skill~ Analyze story for problem and solution; identify & write dialogue
    Vocabulary~ use context clues to self-correct word meaning, suffixes
    Grammar Skills~ Common/Proper Nouns, Singular/Plural Nouns
      
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    Classroom main story:  The Strongest One
     
    Vocabulary Words~ decorated, symbol, darkened, gnaws, securing, weakest
    Reading Skill~ Summarizing, describing characters and how actions contribute to the sequence of events; identify a fable
    Vocabulary~ use context clues to self-correct word meaning, suffixes: -able, -ible
    Grammar Skills~ irregular plural nouns; possessive nouns
     
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     Classroom main story: Wolf!
     
    Vocabulary Words~ passion, admire, concentrate, splendid, bothering, dangerous, ached
    Reading Skill~ Analyze story elements to identify as fantasy or Reality; distinguish reader's point of view from the narrator & characters
    Vocabulary~ use context clues to self-correct word meaning
    Grammar Skills~ possessive nouns
     
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                                                                            Classroom main story:   Author A True Story
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ excitement, single, useful, talented, acceptance, proper
    Reading Skill ~ Author's Purpose
    Grammar Skill ~ Combining sentences with nouns; Action verbs
    Vocabulary ~ Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition/meaning, poetry elements
     
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    Classroom main story:  Saving the Sand Dunes
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ preserve, restore, suffered, rainfall
    Reading Skill ~ Cause and Effect 
    Grammar Skill ~ Action verbs; Present Tense Verbs
    Vocabulary ~ suffixes  
     
     
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    Classroom main story:  Stone Soup

    Vocabulary Words~ guests, banquet, agreeable, curiosity, gaze, untrusting
    Reading Skill~  Make Inferences 
    Grammar Skill ~ Past tense verbs; future-tense verbs
    Vocabulary ~  synonyms 

     
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    Classroom main story:   What Do Illustrators Do?
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ instance, illustrate, style, textures, sketches, suggestions
    Reading Skill ~ Sequence
    Grammar Skill ~ Future-tense verbs; Sentence combining w/ verbs
    Vocabulary ~ Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition/meaning, sentence clues
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    Classroom main story:   Cook-A-Doodle-Doo 
     
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ magnificent, masterpiece, ingredient, recipes, tasty, "lost your marbles" (idiom)
    Reading Skill ~ compare and contrast, idioms, use text features to aide comprehension, author's purpose
    Grammar Skill ~ Linking Verbs: Be, So, Have (present and past tenses)
    Vocabulary ~ idioms, use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition/meaning, sentence clues
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    Classroom main story:   My Very Own Room 
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ separate, determination, storage, crate, exact, ruined, luckiest
    Reading Skill ~ make and confirm predictions
    Grammar Skill ~ Pronouns; Subject & Object Pronouns
    Vocabulary ~ use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition/meaning, sentence clues
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    Classroom main story:   Animal Homes  
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ hives, architects, structures, contain, retreats, shallow, shelter
    Reading Skill ~ summarize nonfiction, description (descriptive titles & paragraphs)
    Grammar Skill ~ Object & Subject Pronouns; Possessive Pronouns
    Vocabulary ~ analogy sentences, use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition/meaning, sort words w/ long & short vowels
     
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     Classroom main story:   A Castle on Viola Street 
    Vocabulary Words ~ downtown, appliances, owners, construction, equipment, leaky
    Reading Skill ~ use story clues to describe the story's theme (message, moral)
    Grammar Skill ~ Pronoun-verb agreement, pronoun-verb contractions
    Vocabulary ~ homophones, idioms- figurative vs literal language (review), use paragraph clues- context in the surrounding text to confirm or self-
    correct word recognition/meaning, author's purpose (review), cause & effect (review)
     
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     Classroom main story:   Mother to Tigers 
     
    Vocabulary Words ~ strolled, pitiful, sleepy, crouch, official, sleek, grace
    Reading Skill ~ evaluate author's purpose using story/article clues, make predictions (review)
    Grammar Skill ~ (wk 1) Pronoun-verb contractions, (wk 2) Adjectives and articles
    Vocabulary ~ identify word parts, like suffixes, to help decode word meanings, use words with suffixes
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