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Cricket in Times Square

Spelling

1. Team’s2. Player’s3. Bird’s4. Wolf’s5. Horse’s6. Class’s7. Group’s8. Girls’9. Students’10.Trees’

11.Parents’12.Owners’13.Cousins’14.Teachers’15.Aunts’16.Friend’s17.Children’s18.City’s19.Classes’20.Country’s

Bonus

• Melodious

• Chirping

• Violinist

• Orchestra

• Musician

Read Aloud Cricket

• Why might a cricket try to get into your house in the fall?

• To escape the cold• How do underground crickets differ from other

crickets?• Their wings are small and stumpy; they do not

fly like other crickets• Is this selection fiction or nonfiction? How can

you tell?• Nonfiction;

Vocabulary

• Wistfully

• Scrounging

• Acquaintance

• Excitable

• Eavesdropping

• Sympathetically

• Logical

• Wistfully- Adverb

• Longingly; sadly remembering something nice

• Scrounging- Verb

• Looking for scraps of food or abandoned materials

• Acquaintance

• Knowing someone or something

• Excitable• Very emotional; easily excited• Eavesdropping- Verb• Listening secretly to a conversation• Sympathetically• In a way that shows concern for someone else’s

feelings• Logical • Reasonable; to be expected

Mapping words

• Draw a word map for each vocabulary word.

Word

definition synonyms antonyms Part of speech