Week 1 Story: The Twin Club
Spelling words: rock, list, desk, job, sad, chop, sack, tag, rib, mess, dust, drum
Reading Focus Skill: Character and Setting, Monitor and Clarify
High Frequency Words: beautiful, country, friend, someone, front, somewhere
Selection Vocabulary and definitions:
cousins - sons or daughters of your uncles and aunts
promise - to give your word that you will do something
parents - father and mother
meadow - piece of grassy land
Language skill - alphabetize, sentences
Week 2 Story : Exploring Space
Spelling words: page, nose, space, size, fine, mice, late, huge, blaze, race, rice, vote
Reading Focus Skill: Main Ideas and Details, text structure
High Frequency Words: everywhere, live, machines, move, woman, work, world
Selection Vocabulary and definitions:
astronaut - a person who goes into space
shuttle - vehicle that carries astronauts into space
experiment - test to find out something
telescope - an instrument that makes things far away appear to be close
gravity - the natural force that makes everyting on Earth move toward it
Language skill - word choice, subjects of sentences
Week 3 Story: Henry and Mudge
Spelling words: stop, strap, nest, hand, brave, ask, clip, stream, mask, twin, breeze, state
Reading Focus skill: Character and Setting, story structure
High Frequency words: bear, couldn't, father, love, mother, straight, build
Selection Vocabulary and definitions:
shivered - shook with fear
drooled - let saliva run from the mouth
lanterns - lights inside containers that can be carried
snuggled - cuddled together
Language Skill - word choice, predicates in sentences
Week 4 Story: A Walk in the Desert
Spelling words: dropped, dropping, excited, exciting, lifted, lifting, hugged, hugging, smiled, smiling, talked, talking
Readin Focu Skill: Mian Idea nand Details, important ideas
High Frequency words: animals, early, eyes, full, warm, water
Selection Vocabulary and definitions:
desert - a part of land that is sandy and without much water
harsh - very rough
climate - the kinds of weather a place has
cactus - a plant with spines instead of leaves that grows in hot, dry places
coyote - a small animal like a wolf
Language skill: conventions, statements and questions
Week 5 Story: The Strongest One
Spelling words: that, wish, patch, when, what, math, them, shape, whale, itch, chase, bunch
Reading Focus Skill: Facts and Details, Predict, Set purpose
High Frequency words: gone, learn, often, pieces, though, together, very
Selection Vocabulary and definitions:
narrator - a person who tells a story
relatives - people in the same family
dangerous - not safe
gnaws - bites at and wears away
Language Skill: sentences; commands and exclamations