Mrs.
Wollenweber's Class
Reading
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A Quality Response to Reading
means using your Brain-Book-Brain
Theme 1 "You Can Do It"
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"The Gardner" |
"Donavan's Word Jar" |
"My Name is Maria Isabel" |
"Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man" |
"On the Banks of Plum Creek" |
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anxious adore sprucing recognizing vacant retire |
leisure perseverance compromise disappointment uneasy chortle
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attentively rehearsals pageant restless tropical troublesome |
immigrants modest appreciation tremendous salary valuable courageous sportsmanship |
stagger scoured bustled earnestly blizzard frantically |
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Focus Skill: Narrative Elements |
Focus Skill: Character's Feelings and Actions |
Focus Skill: Prefixes and Suffixes |
Focus Skill: Word Identification Strategies |
Focus Skill: Point of View |
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Objective: To use setting, characters, and plot to gain meaning. |
Objective: To understand the relationship between character's feelings and actions. |
Objective: To use prefixes and suffixes to decode words and understand their meaning. |
Objective: To decode words using several strategies. |
Objective: To identify point of view. |
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Theme 2 Vocabulary "Side By Side" |
| "The Seven Children" | "The Garden of Happiness" | "Nights of the Puffling" | "Charolette's Web" | "How to Babysit an Orangutan" |
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anticipation unfamiliar thicket clearing unity
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lavender haze inhaled mural skidded
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uninhabited burrows venture stranded nestles instinctively
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narrator offstage acrobat encourage fragile exhausting sustenance conspiracy
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displeasure jealous endangered smuggled facial manageable coordination
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| Focus: Predict Outcomes | Focus: Figurative Language | Focus: Cause and Effect | Focus: Theme | Focus: Note Taking and Outlining |
| Objective: To use story clues and what you already know to predict outcomes. | Objective: To recognize language and interpret its meaning | Objective: To understand cause-and-effect relationships. | Objective: To identify the author's message. | Objective: To develop effective note-taking techniques. |
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Theme 3 "Make Yourself at Home" |
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"Sarah, Plain and Tall
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"Stealing Home" |
"A Cricket in Time Square" |
"Look to the North" |
"Saguaro Cactus" |
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alarmed windbreak conch paddock rustle |
pastimes tutor impose glumly irritably disposition bicker grudge |
scrounging eavesdropping wistfully excitable logical sympathetically acquaintance |
tundra surrender abundant piteously bonding |
brush spiny teeming habitat topple decomposes |
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Focus Skill: Draw Conclusions |
Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast |
Focus Skill: Sequence |
Focus Skill: Study strategies & Test-Taking Strategies |
Focus Skill: Elements of Nonfiction |
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Objective: To use story information and real-life experiences to draw conclusions. |
Objective: To determine likenesses and differences |
Objective: To understand that time-order words signal a sequence of events in stories. |
Objective: To understand and apply study strategies. To learn strategies to use for taking test. |
Objective: To recognize the elements and organization of expository nonfiction. |
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Test Tutor
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Reading
Skills Rocket
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Theme 4 "Creative Minds"
| The Kids' Invention Book |
The Case of Pablo's Nose |
In the Days of King Adobe |
Red Writing Hood |
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale |
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Vocabulary:
document circular prosthetic scholarship device modify disabilities
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Vocabulary:
muttered straightaway strengthening retorted sculptor alibi
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Vocabulary:
thrifty generous roguish rascally fascinated
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Vocabulary:
script repentant triumphantly acceptable desperately discards injustice circumstances
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Vocabulary:
decreed famine implored trickle plentifully |
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Skill:
Main Idea and Details
The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. The details are pieces of information that support and explain the main idea. They answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how. |
Skill:
Sequencing
Sequence is the order in which events happen. The author may use signal words such as first, next, then, finally, afternoon, or tomorrow to show sequence. |
Skill:
Main Idea and Details
The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. The details are pieces of information that support and explain the main idea. They answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how.
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Skill:
Sequencing
Sequence is the order in which events happen. The author may use signal words such as first, next, then, finally, afternoon, or tomorrow to show sequence.
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Skill:
Compare and Contrast
When you compare tales of different cultures, you tell how characters, settings, and plots are alike. When you contrast tales of different cultures, you tell how characters, settings, and plots are different. |
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Following Written Directions
Written directions list all the steps that need to be followed to make or do something. The steps are listed in the order they must be done. First, read all the steps. Next, list everything you need. Finally, follow all the steps in the correct order. |
Following Written Directions
Written directions list all the steps that need to be followed to make or do something. The steps are listed in the order they must be done. First, read all the steps. Next, list everything you need. Finally, follow all the steps in the correct order. Sequencing: Test Tutor |
Following Written Directions
Written directions list all the steps that need to be followed to make or do something. The steps are listed in the order they must be done. First, read all the steps. Next, list everything you need. Finally, follow all the steps in the correct order. Main Idea and Details: Test Tutor |
Sequencing: Test Tutor |
Compare and Contrast:
Test Tutor
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Theme 5
Theme 6
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
Fly Traps! Plants That Bite Back
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