1. Theme 5: Family Time

2. Selection 4: Thunder Cake
Author: Patricia Polacco

3. Author: Patricia Polacco

5. Realistic characters and events come to life in a fictional plot
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Realistic characters and events
come to life in a fictional plot

6. Plot The plot is the sequence of events in the story. This often
includes a problem and
resolution.

7. Comprehension Strategy:

8. Comprehension Skill:

9. Phonics and Spelling Focus: Words that End with –ed or –ing
Basic:
batted clapped hugging
stepped running sitting
stopped getting shopping
pinned
Challenge:
jogging
flipped

10. Silent Consonants –gh, k(n), b
Phonics Focus:
Silent Consonants –gh, k(n), b
light knit lamb
night knight limb
fight knob crumbs
sight knapsack dumb
thought knee numb
caught kneading

11. at the end of Longer Words
Phonics review:
The sound of –y
at the end of Longer Words
hurry softly
carefully buttery
everything finally
suddenly twenty

12. High-Frequency Words:
air
child
heavy
hour

13. early only half warm heard winter afraid minute High-Frequency Word
Review:
afraid minute
early only
half warm
heard winter

14. Key Vocabulary:
lightning- a flash of light in the sky
bolt- a flash or stroke of lightning
horizon- the line where sky and earth seem to meet

15. lightning
A flash of light in the sky

16. A flash or stroke of lightning
bolt
A flash or stroke of lightning

17. horizon
The line where sky and earth seem to meet

18. Key Vocabulary:
thunder- the rumbling sound that follows lightning
rumbled- made a deep rolling sound
weather- what it is like outside

19. that follows lightning
thunder
The rumbling sound
that follows lightning

20. rumbled
Made a deep rolling sound

21. weather
What it is like outside

22. Other Vocabulary:
damp - a little wet
clap - a loud, sudden sound
cooed - talked softly & fondly
crowed - talked happily

23. damp
a little wet

24. clap
a loud, sudden sound

25. cooed
talked softly and fondly

26. crowed
Talked happily

27. Other Vocabulary:
penned - wrote out
creased - marked with a fold
ingredients - things that
go into a mixture
scurried - moved in a hurry
gather - to bring together

28. penned
wrote out

29. creased
marked with a fold

30. ingredients
parts of a mixture,
or the stuff you put in

31. scurried
moved in a hurry, fast

32. gather
to bring together

33. Other Vocabulary:
peck - to hit with a beak
croaked - spoke in a rough, hoarse way
jagged - having sharp points sticking out
crept - moved slowly

34. peck
to hit with a beak

35. croaked
spoke in a rough, hoarse way

36. jagged
Having sharp points sticking out

37. crept
moved slowly

38. Other Vocabulary:
bellowed - made a deep roaring sound
churned - beat milk in a special container to make butter
batter - a mixture of wet and dry ingredients
faded - lost its brightness

39. made a deep roaring sound
bellowed
made a deep roaring sound

40. beat milk in a special container to make butter
churned
beat milk in a special container to make butter

41. batter
a mixture of dry and wet ingredients

42. faded
lost its brightness

43. glistening
shining

44. samovar A metal urn with a faucet at the base,
used to boil water for tea

45. Finding Words with Endings
Vocabulary Skills:
Dictionary
Finding Words with Endings
hugged counting
steaming rattled
cooed patting
Look for the base word.

46. Information & Study Skills:
Taking Notes

47. Verbs present to past is / was are / were
Grammar Skills:
Verbs present to past
is / was
are / were
He/she/it is… He/she/it was…
We/they are… We/they were…

48. Writing Skills: Dialogue
“It’s only the thunder you are hearing,” my grandma said.

49. Curriculum Link:
Drama
Readers’ Theater
“Sun and Ice”

50. I 􀁹 Reading Books: 53-58 Phonics Library: by Linda Dunlap
Eight Daughters
The Family Garden
by Linda Dunlap