1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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