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

2. Frog and Toad Together Day 1

3. Inflected endings ing and ed letting planned
Ending –ing letting jumping landing hugging
Ending -ed planned rested tripped thanked

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

5. 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.

7. Frog and Toad Together Day 2

8. r-controlled ar
cat
had
hard
far
card
barn
smart
march

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

10. 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.

12. Frog and Toad Together Day 3

13. Inflected endings r-controlled ar
clapping
thanked
smart
flipping
large
panned
park
marching

14. 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.

15. Vocabulary
rain
ground
head
shouted
shouting

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

17. 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.”

18. 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.

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

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

21. Frog and Toad Together Day 4

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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!