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1 Grandma & the Great Gourd

Genre: Traditional Tales A Bengali Folktale

Essential Question: How do people travel in different environments?

Spelling Words Spelling/Phonics Reading Focus

• Analyze Plot
1. basket Syllable pattern
and Setting
2. subject VC/CV
3. lesson • Use Text
4. traffic Writing Workshop Evidence
5. mustard Narrator, Setting, Writing Focus
6. compact Sequence of Events,
Personal Narrative
7. absent Purpose & Brainstorm

8. cosmic
9. disgust
Grammar & Conventions
10. fantastic Simple Sentences
11. table Subject/Verb
12. north Author’s Craft: Simile
Other Skills:
Related Words

Vocabulary Words
fierce - wild or dangerous
baring - showing
flexing - curling
crouching - bending down
swipe - hit
competition - The act of trying to win
something
solve - To find the answer to a problem
custom -  Something that people have
done for a long time
occasion - A special time or event  
organization - The process of putting
things in order

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 1.2 Why the Sky is Far Away
Genre: FolkTale A Nigerian Folktale

Essential Question: How do cultures relate to their environments?

Spelling Words Spelling/Phonics Reading Focus

Inflectional endings • Ask & Answer
1. inches Plural nouns Questions
2. pitches -ies, -es • Infer Theme
3. dishes
Writing Workshop
4. glasses Writing Focus
Ideas, Narrator,
5. spies
Setting, Problem, Personal Narrative
6. fries
Resolution
7. pennies
8. cities Grammar & Conventions
9. families
10. faxes Subjects & Predicates
11. story Author’s Craft: Illustrations
12. draw Other Skills:
Synonyms & Antonyms

Vocabulary Words
preparations - activities to get
ready for something
magnificent - very wonderful or
beautiful
brooded - worried or fretted
rejoicing - actions and feelings of
great happiness
satisfied - happy or pleased
competition - The act of trying to win
something
solve - To find the answer to a problem
custom -  Something that people have
done for a long time
occasion - A special time or event  
organization - The process of putting
things in order
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 1.3 Cocoliso
Genre: Realistic Fiction

Essential Question: How can an environment affect lives

and relationships?

Spelling Words Spelling/Phonics Reading Focus

• Analyze Characters
1. moving Base words and endings
2. beginning -ing, -ed, -er, -est • Make Inferences
3. carried
4. easier Writing Workshop Writing Focus
Compose an introduction
5. begged
& conclusion, event Personal Narrative
6. noisier sequencing, dialogue
7. using
8. angriest
9. dragging
Grammar & Conventions
10. emptied Compound Sentences
11. notice Author’s Craft: Imagery
12. slowly Other Skills:
Context Clues

Vocabulary Words
dream - has a desired goal or
purpose
amazing - causing great wonder or
surprise
bored - not interested in something
discovery - something found for the
first time
proud - feeling good about oneself or
something
competition - The act of trying to win
something
solve - To find the answer to a problem
custom -  Something that people have
done for a long time
occasion - A special time or event  
organization - The process of putting
things in order

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 1.4 Living in Deserts
Genre: Informational Text

Essential Question: What creative solutions do people come up with

to survive in their environment?

Spelling Words Spelling/Phonics Reading Focus

Vowel Digraphs • Analyze Text Features
1. owner -ee, -ea, -ai, -ay
• Use Text Evidence
2. peaches
3. asleep
Writing Workshop Writing Focus
4. display
Conjunctions, Adjectives,
5. shadow Pronouns, Adverbs, Personal Narrative
6. dream Subject/Verb Agreement
7. braided
8. charcoal Grammar & Conventions
9. agree
Compound Subjects & Predicates
10. maintain
Author’s Craft: Graphic Features
11. voice Other Skills:
12. south Figurative Language

Vocabulary Words
shield - protect by covering
lack - the state of not having
something
exposure - the condition of being
unprotected from
severe weather suchas extreme heat
nomadic - moving around a lot
landscape - the natural features seen
in a particular area
competition - The act of trying
to win something
solve - To find the answer to a problem
custom -  Something that people have
done for a long time
occasion - A special time or event  
organization - The process of
putting things in order

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 1.5 The Golden Flower
Genre: Myth A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico

Essential Question: Why should we appreciate our environment ?

Spelling Words Spelling/Phonics Reading Focus

• Analyze Descriptive
1. thousand Dipthongs
Language
-ou, -ow, -oi, -oy
2. enjoy • Visual Details
3. shower
4. power Writing Workshop Writing Focus
5. bounce
6. avoid Editing and Publishing Personal Narrative
7. appoint
8. annoy
9. proud Grammar & Conventions
10. fountain Common and Proper Nouns
11. unit Author’s Craft:
Descriptive Language
12. figure
Other Skills:
Parts of Speech

Vocabulary Words
pouch - a small bag that closes with a
piece of string
globe - an object shaped like a ball
murmuring - a soft, continuous sound
mountainside - the sloping side of a
mountain
footpath - a narrow walking path for
people
competition - The act of trying
to win something
solve - To find the answer to a problem
custom -  Something that people have
done for a long time
occasion - A special time or event  
organization - The process of putting
things in order

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