Frog and Toad Together Big Question: What changes happen in a garden? Author: Arnold Lobel Genre: Animal Fantasy

Frog and Toad Together Day 1

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Word Reading – ed, -ing hummed asked fixes getting yelled wishes zipped tapping sipped jogging running pinned flipped ringing clapping

Grandpa’s Garden Grandpa was digging Far back in the yard, Planting a garden, And working real hard. He stopped when it got dark And plopped down to wait For someone to tell him The garden looked great. We all started clapping. We patted his arm. Now Grandpa is planning To start a small farm.

Frog and Toad Together Day 2

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Word Reading r-Controlled ar jar sort cat yard more cart dark scarf ham hard porch harm sharp start bark

Poem Grandpa was digging Far back in the yard, Planting a garden, And working real hard. He stopped when it got dark And plopped down to wait For someone to tell him The garden looked great. We all started clapping. We patted his arm. Now Grandpa is planning To start a small farm.

Frog and Toad Together Day 3

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Sometimes people try different things to keep the plants in their garden growing. Toad is a character in the story we are about to read. His garden is not growing the way he thinks it should. We’ll find out what advice Frog gives Toad and if anything ever grows in the garden.

Vocabulary rain ground head shouted shouting

High-Frequency Words work very again grow few day were how read afraid soon home together

Amazing Words gardener A gardener is someone who grows plants. nature Nature is everything in the world that is not made by people. sprout Sprout means “to begin to grow.”

Amazing Words dim Dim means “not bright.” shade Shade is a place that is darker than the area around it because light has been blocked from the sun.

Amazing Words blossom – A blossom is the flower of a plant. When a plant blossoms it has flowers.

Amazing Words humongous – If something is humongous, it is very, very big. destroy – When you destroy something, you ruin it.

Frog and Toad Together Day 4

Word Reading shore school horns old fixes sorts our porches Ford their people house store drums friends school old sorts porches their Mort very other some away

Words in Context Ford fixes and sorts the horns and drums. Their very old house has two porches. Our friends shopped at the school store. Mort went away to the shore with some other people.

soon afraid read again few how _________ lots of books about Frog and Toad. Read many, not a _________. Read them over and over __________. Each time will seem brand new! Don’t be __________ to plant a seed. __________ will it grow? You know. Rain, sun, and time, and __________ a plant Will start to grow and grow!