1. Lead 21 Unit 6 Week 1 Day 3
Growing Up

2. Reinforce the Theme
Theme Question: How do living things grow and change?
What do living things need to grow?
Compare young animals with their parent:
Animal
Young Animal
Changes
elephant
Small, light, follows parent
Gets larger and heavier, leads other animals
Giraffe
bear

3. Vocabulary Strategy: Determine Word Relationships
Colors have shades.
Dark blue is different from light blue
Words have shades too. They can have shades of meaning. Two words can mean almost the same thing, but have slightly different meanings.
Big >
Huge >
gigantic
Tiny >
small >
little

4. Comprehension Skill: Sequence Events
Sequence is the order in which events take place.
Look for clue words like first, next, then, and last to help you know when events occur.
What happens first, next, and last during the school day?
Page 12 Living and Growing
First the seed grows and breaks open. Next, roots reach down into the soil. Then a stem grows up to the light and air.

5. Sequence Events (cont.)
Put the following steps in order:
The plant’s stem grows leaves.
The leaves take energy from sunlight.
The leaves use energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make food.
Order of events: 1. 2. 3.

6. Prepare to Read: Text Features: Subheads
Authors use subheads to organize text into sections.
Subheads may state the main idea of a section of text.
A subhead can also ask a question that the reader will find the answer to in the text.
Page 7 Living and Growing
What question will the text answer in this section?
Page 8 Living and Growing
What will the reader learn about on this page

7. Read Together Reread pages 6-15 in Living and Growing
What word could the author have used on
page 8 instead of snaps? Why is snaps a
better choice?
Why do scientists classify living things?
What is the cycle of how plants grow?

8. Word Work: Phonics /air/ spelled are, air, ear What shape do you see?
What sound do the letters a-r-e stand for?
We can also spell the /air/ sound: a-i-r and e-a-r
S-t-air
What sounds do the letters stand for?
Blend the sounds together.
Add the letters b,p,t,w to –ear. What words did you make?

9. Word Study
High Frequency words: answer and people Reread Decodable Reader 21 The Cruise Street Parade Fluency: Practice Companion page 74 “Five Clues” Spelling: Remember, this week’s spelling words end in -er.

10. Grammar Adjectives that describe
Adjectives are words that describe people, places, and things.
Adjectives can describe something’s color, number, size, or shape.
Find the adjectives:
Jill ate two big, red, square pieces of melon.
Juan ate three round, juicy, purple plums for lunch.
The narrow street had four blue cars parked on one side.

11. Write Directions
Writing Models Chart page 40 -Why does the author explain that goldfish need a place to hide? -What other useful details does the author include to make the directions clear? -How do you think the author decided which details to use? -How can you check that the author’s steps are correct?

12. Write a First Draft Start by writing a Title
“How to Play Hide-and-Seek”
Directions
How to Play Hide-and-Seek
What you need: 4 or more players, home base
Pick a home base
Pick someone to be “it”
“It” closes his or her eyes and counts to 10. Other players run and hide.
“It” tries to find and tag the other players.
Players try to run for home base without getting tagged.
If “It” tags someone, that player is “it” next.

13. First Draft (cont.) Details
What other details could we add to make the hide and seek directions more clear and helpful?
Directions cannot be too complicated, but they must include all the basic information readers need to follow them. Using specific and clear details can help readers understand how to do each step correctly or explain why a particular step is important.