1. Unit: 5 Week: 2 Theme: Smart Thinking Ta-Na-E-Ka

2. Genre Realistic Fiction
-Tells an invented story that could have happened in real life.

3. Strategy Monitor Comprehension
-Good readers pause to make sure they understand developments in the narrative by using self –correction techniques and deciding what they need to do to understand what they have read.

4. Skill Compare and Contrast
-Good readers identify similarities and differences between characters and story events as they read. Comparing and contrasting helps readers organize and remember story events and other important details.

5. Participate To take part in an activity with others.
My teacher asked me to participate in the class discussion about the upcoming election.

6. Ordeals Very difficult tests or painful experiences.
Auditioning for the two ballet companies made for two very exhausting ordeals.

7. Nourishing Promoting health and growth.
So that I could grow up to be healthy and strong, my mother made me eat many nourishing foods.

8. Encounter Any kind of meeting between friends, enemies, or colleagues.
My grandfather told me about the violent encounter when he was wounded in the war.

9. Grimaced To twist the face to show disgust, pain, or displeasure.
The carpenter grimaced when he stepped on a nail.

10. Anticipated Expected or looked forward to.
All day we anticipated getting our test scores from our teacher.

11. Dejectedly Showing disheartened, downcast, or low spirits.
I dejectedly kicked the ball against the wall after we lost the soccer game.

12. Victorious Having won a contest or conflict.
The victorious team was given a parade when they returned home.

13. Story Words
Goose bumps- bumps that rise on the skin in response to cold or fear.