UNIT 1

READING/WRITING
COMPANION
READING/WRITING
COMPANION
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 Unit 1 Getting to Know Us
Start Smart
We Are All Readers.............................................................................8
We Are All Writers............................................................................10
Respond to the Read Alouds ....................................................... 12

The Big Idea

What makes you special? ........................................................... 18

Week 1 • At School
Talk About It.......................................................................................20
Shared Read “Jack Can” ...........................................................22
Realistic Fiction...................................................................................32
Key Details .............................................................................................34
Anchor Text Nat and Sam
Writing Respond to Reading ...................................................36
Analyze the Text ................................................................................38
Paired Selection “Rules at School”
Analyze the Text .................................................................................41
Research and Inquiry ..................................................................... 44
Make Connections ........................................................................... 46

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Week 2 • Where I Live TU
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Talk About It...................................................................................... 48
Shared Read “Six Kids” ..............................................................50
Fantasy.....................................................................................................60
Key Details .............................................................................................62
Anchor Text Go, Pip!
Writing Respond to Reading .................................................. 64
Analyze the Text ................................................................................66
Paired Selection “A Surprise in the City”
Analyze the Text ................................................................................69
Research and Inquiry ......................................................................72
Make Connections ........................................................................... 74

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 Week 3 • Our Pets
Talk About It.......................................................................................76
Shared Read “A Pig for Cliff” .................................................78
Fantasy.....................................................................................................88
Key Details .............................................................................................90
Anchor Text Flip
Writing Respond to Reading ...................................................92
Analyze the Text ............................................................................... 94
Paired Selection “What Pets Need”
Analyze the Text ................................................................................97
Research and Inquiry ....................................................................100
Make Connections .......................................................................... 102

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Week 4 • Let’s Be Friends
Talk About It.....................................................................................104
Shared Read “Toss! Kick! Hop!”........................................... 106
Nonfiction ..............................................................................................116
Key Details .............................................................................................118
Anchor Text Friends
Writing Respond to Reading ................................................. 120
Analyze the Text ...............................................................................122
Paired Selection “There Are Days and There Are Days”
Analyze the Text .............................................................................. 125
Research and Inquiry .................................................................... 128
Make Connections .......................................................................... 130

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 Week 5 • Let’s Move!
Talk About It......................................................................................132
Shared Read “Move and Grin!” ........................................... 134
Nonfiction ............................................................................................144
Key Details ...........................................................................................146
Anchor Text Move It!
Writing Respond to Reading .................................................148
Analyze the Text .............................................................................. 150
Paired Selection “My Family Hike”
Analyze the Text .............................................................................. 152
Research and Inquiry ....................................................................154
Make Connections .......................................................................... 156
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Writing and Grammar
Personal Narrative

Analyze the Student Model ...................................................... 158

Plan .......................................................................................................... 160
Draft ........................................................................................................ 162
Revise and Edit .................................................................................164
Share and Evaluate/Publish ...................................................... 166

Wrap Up the Unit

Show What You Learned

Fantasy: “Sad Fran, Glad Fran” ............................................. 168

Nonfiction: “Move at School” ...................................................171
Extend Your Learning
Focus on Fables ................................................................................ 174
Respond to the Read Aloud ...................................................... 176
Expand Vocabulary: Position Words.................................... 178 ENCE
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Connect to Content........................................................................ 180
Writing Personal Narrative..................................................... 182
Choose Your Own Book ...............................................................184
Track Your Progress
What Did You Learn? ................................................................... 185

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 Unit 1 Week 1 At School Unit 1 Week 1 Essential Question
Talk About It
Essential Question What do
you do at your school?

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Talk about what these girls are doing
in school.

Write or draw two things that you do

at school.

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At School 21
 Read
Essential Question
Shared Read What do you do at
Find Text Evidence your school?

Read to find out

what Jack can do.

Point to each word

in the title as you
read it.

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Ja c k
Jac Realistic Fiction

Cann
Ca

At School 23
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle and read

aloud each word
with short a as in
cat.

Talk about what

Max and Jack
can do.

Max can.
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 Realistic Fiction

Can Jack? Jack can.

At School 25
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Underline and
read aloud the
word not.

Talk about page

27. Picture in your
mind how Jack’s
face might look.

Max can. Can Jack?

26 Unit 1 • Week 1
 Realistic Fiction

Jack can not.

At School 27
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle and read

aloud each word
with short a as in
cat.

 nderline and
U
read aloud the
words what
and does.

Jack is sad.
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 Realistic Fiction

What does Nan do?

At School 29
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Picture Jack’s
face when Nan
helps. Talk about
what you picture.

 etell the story

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using the pictures.

Nan helps Jack!

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 Realistic Fiction

Jack likes school.

At School 31
 Reread Shared Read
Realistic fiction is a genre. Realistic fiction
stories are made up. They have characters
that do things that could happen in real life.

 eread to find out what makes this story

R
realistic fiction.

Share how you know it is realistic fiction.

Write the names of two characters.

Then write something they each do
that could happen in real life.

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Realistic Fiction

At School 33
 Reread Shared Read
Key details are the most important details
in a story. Words and pictures in a story
give you the key details.

Reread “Jack Can.”

 alk about key details in the story.

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Use the words and pictures.
Write the key details.

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Realistic Fiction

At School 35
 Unit 1 Week 2 Where I Live
Unit 1 Week 1 Essential Question
Talk About It
Essential Question What is
it like where you live?

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Talk and ask questions about what this TU
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boy sees outside his window.

 hare something you see outside where

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you live. Write or draw what you see.

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Where I Live 49
 Read
Essential Question
Shared Read What is it like where
Find Text Evidence you live?

Read to find out

what an animal
family does where
they live.

Point to each word

in the title as you
read it.

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Si x Fantasy

K id s

Where I Live 51
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

 nderline and
U
read aloud the
words out and up.

Think about what

the family is going
to do. Tell what
you picture.

Six kids go out.

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 Fantasy

Six kids go up a hill.

Where I Live 53
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

 nderline and
U
read aloud the
word down.

Circle and read

aloud each word
with short i as in
pig.

Six kids dig, dig, dig.

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 Fantasy

Six kids go down.

Where I Live 55
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Talk about why

the kids are very
blue.

Circle and read

aloud the words
with short i as
in pig.

Six kids pick, pick, pick.

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 Fantasy

Six kids are very blue.

Where I Live 57
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

 icture the
P
chicks before and
after they swim.
How are they
different?

Retell the story

using the words
and pictures.

Six kids dip, dip, dip.

That will fix it.
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 Fantasy

Six kids like it here!

Where I Live 59
 Reread Shared Read
Fantasy is a genre. A fantasy is a made-up
story. It has characters, a setting, or events
that could not happen in real life.

Reread to find out what makes this

a fantasy.

Share how you know it is a fantasy.

 rite two events from the story

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that show it is a fantasy.

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 Fantasy

Where I Live 61
 Reread Shared Read
Remember, key details are the most important
details in a story. Key details happen in order,
or in sequence.

Reread “Six Kids.”

Talk about the sequence of the

key details.

 rite key details about what the six

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kids do. Write the details in order.

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 Fantasy

Where I Live 63
 Read
Essential Question
Shared Read What makes a pet
Find Text Evidence special?

Read to find out

what makes Cliff
Cat’s pet special.

Point to each
word in the title as
you read it aloud.

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 Fantasy

A Pig
for
Cliff

Our Pets 79
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle and read

aloud the words
that have the same
beginning sounds
as click.

Talk about why

Slim is a funny
name for the pig.

Cliff Cat is glad.

Cliff Cat has a new pet.
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 Fantasy

It is Slim.
Slim is a big black pig.
Our Pets 81
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Underline and
read aloud the
word come.

 alk about how

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you picture Slim’s
face on these
pages. Tell why.

Slim can not fit in!

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 Fantasy

Come out, Slim!

Our Pets 83
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

 ircle and read

C
aloud the words
that have the same
beginning sounds
as slick.

 alk about why

T
Slim cannot sit
with Cliff Cat.

Slam!
Cliff Cat can not sit in it with Slim.
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 Fantasy

Cliff Cat and Slim slip.

Our Pets 85
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Underline and
read aloud the
words pull, be,
and good.

Retell the story

using the words
and pictures.

Slim can go up a hill.

Cliff Cat can not.
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 Fantasy

Slim can pull Cliff Cat.

Slim will be a good pet!
Our Pets 87
 Reread Shared Read
Remember, a fantasy is a made-up story.
It has characters that could not come
from real life.

Reread to find out about the characters.

Talk about why the characters could

not be real.

 rite how the characters show the

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story is a fantasy.

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Fantasy

Our Pets 89
 Reread Shared Read
Remember, key details are the most important
details in a story. Key details happen in
sequence, or in order.

Reread “A Pig for Cliff.”

Talk about the sequence of the

key details.

Write key details about what Cliff Cat

and Slim do. Write the details in order.

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Fantasy

Our Pets 91
 Read
Essential Question
Shared Read What do friends
Find Text Evidence do together?
Ask any questions
you may have
about the text.
Read to find the
answer.

Circle and read

aloud the words
with short o as in
fog.
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 Nonfiction

Toss!
Kick!
Ho p !
Let’s Be Friends 107
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Talk about what

the text and
pictures tell you
about how kids
play together.

Talk about what

it means to “zip,
zip, zip.”
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Kids play together.

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 Nonfiction

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Kids zip, zip, zip.

Let’s Be Friends 109

 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

 nderline and
U
read aloud the
word too.

Ask any questions

you may have
about the text.
Read to find the
answer.
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Kids toss, toss, toss.

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 Nonfiction

Kids kick, kick, kick, too!

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Let’s Be Friends 111
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle and read

aloud each word
with short o.

Underline and
read aloud the
word make.
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Kids make block houses.

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 Kids make dolls.

Let’s Be Friends
Nonfiction

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 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Talk about what

happens when a
kid flops.

Retell the text

using the pictures
and words from
the text.

Kids hop in sacks.

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Hop, hop, flop!

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 Nonfiction

They have fun!

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Let’s Be Friends 115
 Reread Shared Read
Nonfiction is a genre. A nonfiction text gives
facts about real people and what they do.
It may use photos.

Reread to find out what makes this a

nonfiction text.

Share how you know it is nonfiction.

Write facts from two pages in the text

using the words and photos.

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 Nonfiction

Let’s Be Friends 117

 Reread Shared Read
Key details tell important information about
the text. Photos can give key details.

Reread “Toss! Kick! Hop!”

Talk about key details in the text.

Use the words and photos.

Write key details about how friends

play together.

118 Unit 1 • Week 4

 Nonfiction

Let’s Be Friends 119

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Read

Unit 1 • Week 5
read it.
answer.
you may have
about the text.
Read to find the
Shared Read

in the title as you

Find Text Evidence

Ask any questions

Point to each word

move?
Essential Question
How does your body

 
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Mandv
Grin!
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Let’s Move!
Nonfiction

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 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

 nderline and
U
read aloud the
words jump and
move.

Ask any questions

you may have
about the text.
Read to find the
answer.
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Scott’s frog can hop and jump.

It can move its back legs.
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 Nonfiction

Robert Daly/OJO Images/Getty Images

Scott can hop and jump, too.
Scott can hop, hop, hop.
Let’s Move! 137
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle and read

aloud the words
with the beginning
sounds in frog.

 nderline and
U
read aloud the
word two.

Fran’s dog can swim a lot.

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It kicks its two front legs.

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 Nonfiction

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Fran can swim a lot, too.
Fran can swim, swim, swim.
Let’s Move! 139
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle and read

aloud the words
with the beginning
sounds in still.

 nderline and
U
read aloud the
word run.

Stan’s horse can trot and run.

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It trots on its big legs.

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 Nonfiction

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Stan can trot, too.
Stan can trot, trot, trot.
Let’s Move! 141
 Read

Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Ask any other

questions you
have. Reread to
find the answers.

Retell the text

using the photos.
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Skip’s crab can grab.

It can grab with its big claw.
Grab, grab, grab.
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 Nonfiction

Skip can grab, too.

Rubberball/Mark Anderson/Getty Images

Skip can grab, grab, grab.
What can Skip grab with?
Let’s Move! 143
 Reread Shared Read
Remember, a nonfiction text gives facts about
real people and things. Nonfiction can use
photos to give information.

Reread to find out what makes this a

nonfiction text.

Share how you know it is nonfiction.

 rite facts about Scott and his frog.

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Include one fact from the words and
one fact from the photos for each.

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Nonfiction

Let’s Move! 145

 Reread Shared Read
Remember, key details tell the most important
information about the text. Words and
photos can give you key details.

Reread “Move and Grin!”

Talk about key details in the text.

Use the words and photos.

Write key details about how each animal

and child can move.

146 Unit 1 • Week 5

Nonfiction

Let’s Move! 147

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