Week One: A Froggy Fable
Spelling Words: ankle, cable, bugle, giggle, title, purple, bundle, sparkle, apple, able, bubble, tickle
Reading Focus Skill: Draw Conclusions, Background Knowledge
High Frequency Words: warm, ago, father, family, mother
Selection Vocabulary: clearing, crashed, perfect, pond, spilling, splashing
Vocabulary Definitions:
clearing - piece of land that has no trees
crashed - fell with a loud smashing noise
perfect - as good as is possible
pond - water with land all aorund it; a small lake
spilling - scattering everywhere
splashing - making water scatter and fall in drops
Language Skill: multiple meaning words, adjectives
Week Two: Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Spelling words: cook, wood, push, book, stood, July, pull, hood, full, shook, brook, put
Reading Focus Skill: Sequence, Important Ideas
High Frequency Words: world, woman, machines, work, live, everywhere
Selection Vocabulary: bumpy, fruit, harvest, root, smooth, soil, vine
Vocabulary Definitions:
bumpy - covered with high spots or lumps
fruit - part of a plant that contains seeds
harvest - season when crops are gathered
root - part of a plant that takes in water and holds the plant in place
smooth - flat or even
soil - top layer of Earth's surface
vine - thin stem of some plants that creep along the ground or climb
Language Skill: Antonymns, adjectives
Week Three: Soil
Spelling words: around, sound, topy, moist, out, flower, noise, coil, gown, howl, royal, cow
Reading focus skill: Fact and Opinion, Questioning
High Frequency Words: build, straight, couldn't, father, love, mother, bear
Selection Vocabulary: grains, materials, particles, seeps, substances, texture
Vocabulary Definitions:
grains - tiny bits of sand, sugar, or salt
matherials - what things are made from or used for
particles - very little pieces of something
seeps - flows very slowly through something
subtnaces - materials that something is made of
texture - the feel that things have because of the way they are made
Language Skill: suffixes, comparative and superlative adjectives
Week Four: The Night the Moon Fell
Spellling: downstairs, houseboat, boyhood, roadway, football, railroad, oatmeal, outplay, cowboy, rainbow, soybean, daydream
Reading Focus Skill: Plot and Theme, Visualize
High Frequency Words: friend, move, love, pretty, school
Selection Vocabulary: balance, canyons, coral, rattle, livers, sway, whisper
Vocabulary Definitions:
balance - footing; even placement of weight that lets someone stand upright
canyons - deep valleys with steep sides
coral - an underwater stony substance made by marine life
rattle - make sharp knocking sounds as a result of being shaken
slivers - small, thin pieces of something that has been split off
sway - move back and forth or side to side
whisper - make a soft sound
Language Skill: multiple meaning words, adverbs
Week Five: The First Tortilla
Spelling Words: too, blue, suit, juice, new, true, spoon, drew, fruit, fool, clue, flew
Reading Focus Skill: Plot and Theme, Monitor and Clarify
High Fequency Words: enough, took around, many, though
Selection Vocabulary: awaken, cliffs, mountain, prize, rainbow, suffer, volcano
awaken - cause to stop sleeping
cliffs - steep rock faces, like those at the edge of the sea
mountain - a high, steep hill that is often rocky
prize - something given to someone as a reward
rainbow - a display of many colors
suffer - to experience something bad or unpleasant
volacano - a cone-shaped mountain with a hole in the top that sends out melted rock and gases
Language Skill: prefixes and adverbs