Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 3: Lesson 11 Anchor Text: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type - Humorous Fiction Talk About Smart Animals - Informational Text Essential Question: How can people and animals help each other? Phonics: Base Words and Endings -s, -es Fluency: Expression Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Conclusions Author’s Word Choice Infer/Predict Vocabulary Strategies: Prefixes pre- and mis- Grammar: Compound Sentences Writing: Opinion Writing: Persuasive Letter Focus Trait: Purpose High-Frequency Words another kind far light grow more hard some heard to Spelling:Base Words and Endings -s, -es hens eggs Review ducks jets bikes frogs boxes wishes Challenge dresses stitches names fences bells stamps dishes grapes Target Vocabulary problem: something that needs to be solved or fixed impossible: cannot be done believe: to think that something is true or real understand: to know something impatient: not wanting to wait; wanting to do something right now furious: very angry gathered: picked or scooped something up demand: to insist on

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 3: Lesson 12 Anchor Text: Ah, Musick! - Informational Text There’s a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea - Song Essential Question: What are different ways to enjoy music? Phonics: Vowel Digraphs ai, ay Fluency: Rate: Adjust Rate to Purpose Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Text and Graphic Features Fact and Opinion Questions Vocabulary Strategies: Figurative Language/ Idioms Grammar: Expanding/Rearranging Compound Sentences Writing: Opinion Writing: Opinion Paragraph Focus Trait: Organization High-Frequency Words against hold along morning bird night different part girl someone Spelling:Vowel Digraphs ai, ay pay wait Review paint stay train day pail clay Challenge tray raisin plain birthday stain hay gray away Target Vocabulary vibration: a movement made my sound tune: a melody volume: how loud or quiet a sound is expression: showing of feelings creative: original performance: something done for an audience concentrate: pay attention relieved: freed from worry

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 3: Lesson 13 Anchor Text: Schools Around the World - Informational Text An American School - Informational Text Essential Question: How are some schools different from each other? Phonics: Vowel Digraphs ee, ea Fluency: Accuracy: Self Correct Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Main Idea and Details Text and Graphic Features Analyze/Evaluate Vocabulary Strategies: Using a Dictionary Grammar: Quotation Marks Writing: Opinion Writing: Persuasive Paragraph Focus Trait: Elaboration High-Frequency Words about everything first her of slowly store story two world Spelling:Vowel Digraphs ee, ea free teach Review teeth eat please read beach wheel Challenge team between speak reason sneeze sheep meaning weave Target Vocabulary transportation: ways of getting from place to place community: all the people living in one town or place lesson: something that is taught subjects: different things to study in school culture: clothes, celebrations, and food shared by a group of people language: what people speak special: not like every day wear: to be dressed in a type of clothes

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 3: Lesson 14 Anchor Text: Helen Keller - Biography Talking Tools - Informational Text Essential Question: How can you communicate in different ways? Phonics: Long o (o, oa, ow) Fluency: Natural Pauses Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Author’s Purpose Biography Summarize Vocabulary Strategies: Suffix -ly Grammar: Using Proper Nouns Writing: Opinion Writing: Persuasive Essay Focus Trait: Purpose High-Frequency Words all food front hair never party sky started stories warm Spelling:Long o (o, oa, ow) own most Review soap so float grow both know Challenge loan swallow goat ocean flow loaf throw coach Target Vocabulary behavior: they way someone or something acts; what they do curious: waiting to know something imitated: copied or did the same thing as someone else motion: moving around illness: being sick or not feeling well silence: totally quiet, no noise darkness: no light knowledge: information or facts

Our Focus for the Week in ELA Unit 3: Lesson 15 Anchor Text: Officer Buckle and Gloria - Humorous Fiction Safety at Home - Readers’ Theater Essential Question: How can you communicate in different ways? Phonics: Compound Words The Schwa Vowel Sound Fluency: Accuracy: Connected Text Comprehension Skills & Strategies: Cause and Effect Humor Monitor/Clarify Vocabulary Strategies: Root Words Grammar: Abbreviations Writing: Opinion Writing: Persuasive Essay Focus Trait: Organization High-Frequency Words after book care ever live new off over small though Spelling:Compound Words cannot pancake Review maybe into baseball inside playground someone Challenge myself nobody classroom everywhere sunshine outside upon nothing Target Vocabulary attention: focus, notice speech: a talk that you give to a group of people safety: ways to keep from getting hurt obeys: does what someone says buddy: friend or partner enormous: really big or huge shocked: surprised. upset station: workplace, office space, base