Unit 2 Week 1

Literary Lessons

Genre: Folktale • Stories based on the traditions and beliefs of a people. • Usually teach a lesson and often include animal characters.

Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions

• Ask questions when there are parts of a story you do not understand. • Questions can be about why a character acts a certain way or why an event occurs.

Comprehension Skill: Theme

• The theme is the central message or lesson of a story.

Vocabulary Strategy: Root Words • The root word is the simplest form of a word.

Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns • A common noun names any person, place, or thing: boy, street, lake • A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing: John, Main Street, Cross Lake

Spelling Words Prefixes

1. unblock

2. unborn

3. unchain

4. unload

5. unlock

6. recall

7. relearn

8. resell

9. rewash

10. rewind

11. imperfect

12. indirect

13. incorrect

14. illegal

15. overact

16. overheat

17. subway

18. premix

19. preplan

20. supersize

Vocabulary Words

1. attracted- Attracted means drew the attention of.

2. dazzling- Something dazzling is so bright that it's almost blinding.

3. fabric- Fabric is a material that is woven or knitted, such as cloth.

4. greed- Greed is a very great and selfish desire to have or get something.

5. honest- An honest person is truthful, fair, and trustworthy.

6. requested- Something requested is asked for.

7. soared- If something soared it flew very high in the air.

8. trudged- If you trudged you walked steadily and slowly.

Essential Question: What are some messages

in animal stories?

Unit 2 Week 1

Literary Lessons

Stories: "The Fisherman and the Kaha Bird" The Secret Message "The Fox and the Goat"

Genre: Folktale • Stories based on the traditions and beliefs of a people. • Usually teach a lesson and often include animal characters.

Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions • Ask questions when there are parts of a story you do not understand. • Questions can be about why a character acts a certain way or why an event occurs.

Comprehension Skill: Theme • The theme is the central message or lesson of a story.

Vocabulary Strategy: Root Words • The root word is the simplest form of a word.

Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns • A common noun names any person, place, or thing: boy, street, lake • A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing: John, Main Street, Cross Lake

Spelling Words Prefixes

1. unblock

2. unborn

3. unchain

4. unload

5. unlock

6. recall

7. relearn

8. resell

9. rewash

10. rewind

11. imperfect

12. indirect

13. incorrect

14. illegal

15. overact

16. overheat

17. subway

18. premix

19. preplan

20. supersize

Vocabulary Words

1. attracted- Attracted means drew the attention of.

2. dazzling- Something dazzling is so bright that it's almost blinding.

3. fabric- Fabric is a material that is woven or knitted, such as cloth.

4. greed- Greed is a very great and selfish desire to have or get something.

5. honest- An honest person is truthful, fair, and trustworthy.

6. requested- Something requested is asked for.

7. soared- If something soared it flew very high in the air.

8. trudged- If you trudged you walked steadily and slowly.

Essential Question: What are some messages

in animal stories?

Unit 2 Week 2

Animals in Fiction

Genre: Drama • Has a list of characters and is written in dialogue • Is divided into parts called acts or scenes • Includes the setting and stage directions

Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions • Ask questions when there are parts of a story you do not understand. • Questions can be about why a character acts a certain way or why an event occurs.

Comprehension Skill: Theme • The theme is the central message or lesson of a story.

Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues: Antonyms • Use context clues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word. Sometimes the author

uses an antonym, another word or phrase that means the opposite as the unfamiliar word.

Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns • A singular noun names one person, place, or thing. • A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing.

Spelling Words Digraphs

1. thirty

2. width

3. northern

4. fifth

5. choose

6. touch

7. chef

8. chance

9. pitcher

10. kitchen

11. sketched

12. ketchup

13. snatch

14. stretching

15. rush

16. whine

17. whirl

18. bring

19. graph

20. photo

Vocabulary Words

1. annoyed- To be annoyed means to feel bothered or irritated.

2. attitude- An attitude is a way of thinking, acting, or feeling.

3. commotion- A commotion is a noisy disturbance.

4. cranky- A cranky person is grouchy or in a bad mood.

5. familiar- Something familiar is well-known because it was heard or seen before.

6. frustrated- To be frustrated means to feel disappointed by being kept from doing something.

7. selfish- Selfish people care only about themselves.

8. specialty- A specialty is something that someone does really well or gives extra attention to.

Essential Question: How do animal characters change familiar stories?

Unit 2 Week 2

Animals in Fiction

Stories: "The Ant and the Grasshopper" Ranita, The Frog Princess "The Moonlight Concert Mystery"

Genre: Drama • Has a list of characters and is written in dialogue • Is divided into parts called acts or scenes. Includes the setting and stage directions

Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions • Ask questions when there are parts of a story you do not understand.

Comprehension Skill: Theme • The theme is the central message or lesson of a story.

Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues: Antonyms • Use context clues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word. Sometimes the author

uses an antonym, another word or phrase that means the opposite as the unfamiliar word.

Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns • A singular noun names one person, place, or thing. • A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing.

Spelling Words Digraphs

1. thirty

2. width

3. northern

4. fifth

5. choose

6. touch

7. chef

8. chance

9. pitcher

10. kitchen

11. sketched

12. ketchup

13. snatch

14. stretching

15. rush

16. whine

17. whirl

18. bring

19. graph

20. photo

Vocabulary Words

1. annoyed- To be annoyed means to feel bothered or irritated.

2. attitude- An attitude is a way of thinking, acting, or feeling.

3. commotion- A commotion is a noisy disturbance.

4. cranky- A cranky person is grouchy or in a bad mood.

5. familiar- Something familiar is well-known because it was heard or seen before.

6. frustrated- To be frustrated means to feel disappointed by being kept from doing something.

7. selfish- Selfish people care only about themselves.

8. specialty- A specialty is something that someone does really well or gives extra attention to.

Essential Question: How do animal characters change familiar stories?

Unit 2 Week 3

Natural Connections

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction • Tells a story that includes facts about a topic. • May include text features such as headings, photos and captions, charts, and graphs.

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize • Retell the most important details of a text or section of text in your own words.

Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details • The main idea is the most important idea that the author presents in a text or section of

text. • Key details give important information to support the main idea.

Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues • Context clues are words or phrases near an unfamiliar word that can help you understand

its meaning

Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns • An irregular plural noun that become plural by changing it's spelling other than adding s or es

Spelling Words Three-Letter Blends

1. shred

2. shriek

3. shrimp

4. shrink

5. script

6. screw

7. screech

8. straighten

9. scraps

10. strand

11. sprout

12. sprawl

13. sprang

14. splashing

15. splotch

16. thrill

17. throb

18. throat

19. thrift

20. through

Vocabulary Words

1. crumbled- If something crumbled, then it broke into small pieces.

2. drought- Droughts are long periods of dry weather without rainfall.

3. ecosystem- An ecosystem is all the living and nonliving things in an area.

4. extinct- Something that is extinct no longer exists.

5. flourished- Something that flourished thrived or grew strongly.

6. fragile- Something that is fragile is delicate and tends to break easily.

7. imbalance- An imbalance in something means that its parts are not in an equal, steady, or

secure position.

8. ripples- Something that ripples forms small waves.

Essential Question: How are all living things

connected?

Unit 2 Week 3

Natural Connections

Stories: "Rescuing Our Reefs" The Buffalo Are Back "Energy in the Ecosystem"

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction • Tells a story that includes facts about a topic. • May include text features such as headings, photos and captions, charts, and graphs.

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize • Retell the most important details of a text or section of text in your own words.

Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details • The main idea is the most important idea presented in a text or section of text. • Key details give important information to support the main idea.

Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues • Context clues are words or phrases near an unfamiliar word that can help you understand

its meaning

Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns • An irregular plural noun that become plural by changing it's spelling other than adding s or es

Spelling Words Three-Letter Blends

1. shred

2. shriek

3. shrimp

4. shrink

5. script

6. screw

7. screech

8. straighten

9. scraps

10. strand

11. sprout

12. sprawl

13. sprang

14. splashing

15. splotch

16. thrill

17. throb

18. throat

19. thrift

20. through

Vocabulary Words

1. crumbled- If something crumbled, then it broke into small pieces.

2. drought- Droughts are long periods of dry weather without rainfall.

3. ecosystem- An ecosystem is all the living and nonliving things in an area.

4. extinct- Something that is extinct no longer exists.

5. flourished- Something that flourished thrived or grew strongly.

6. fragile- Something that is fragile is delicate and tends to break easily.

7. imbalance- An imbalance in something means that its parts are not in an equal, steady, or

secure position.

8. ripples- Something that ripples forms small waves.

Essential Question: How are all living things

connected?

Unit 2 Week 4 Adaptations

Genre: Expository Text • Gives facts and information about a topic • Include text features such as headings, photos and captions, diagrams, maps, and time

lines.

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize • Retell the most important details of a text or section of text in your own words.

Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details • The main idea is the most important idea that the author presents in a text or section of

text. • Key details give important information to support the main idea.

Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes • A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning.

Grammar: Possessive Nouns • A possessive noun shows ownership.

Spelling Words r-Controlled Vowels

/ar/ and /or/

1. dart

2. guard

3. award

4. backyard

5. argue

6. spark

7. target

8. smart

9. charge

10. carpet

11. warp

12. door

13. fort

14. morning

15. stork

16. cord

17. worn

18. stormy

19. core

20. bore

Vocabulary Words

1. camouflaged- Something camouflaged is hidden by looking like its surroundings.

2. dribble- To dribble is to flow or let flow in small drops.

3. extraordinary- Something extraordinary is very unusual or remarkable.

4. poisonous- Something poisonous harms or kills by chemical action.

5. pounce- To pounce is to leap or spring suddenly in attack.

6. predator- A predator is an animal that lives by hunting other animals for food.

7. prey- An animal that is hunted by another animal is its prey.

8. vibrations- Vibrations are rapid motions back and forth or up and down.

Essential Question: What helps an animal

survive?

Unit 2 Week 4 Adaptations

Stories: "Animal Adaptations" Spiders "Anansi and the Birds"

Genre: Expository Text • Gives facts and information about a topic • Include text features such as headings, photos and captions, diagrams, maps, and time

lines.

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize • Retell the most important details of a text or section of text in your own words.

Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details • The main idea is the most important idea presented in a text or section of text. • Key details give important information to support the main idea.

Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes • A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning.

Grammar: Possessive Nouns • A possessive noun shows ownership.

Spelling Words r-Controlled Vowels

/ar/ and /or/

1. dart

2. guard

3. award

4. backyard

5. argue

6. spark

7. target

8. smart

9. charge

10. carpet

11. warp

12. door

13. fort

14. morning

15. stork

16. cord

17. worn

18. stormy

19. core

20. bore

Vocabulary Words

1. camouflaged- Something camouflaged is hidden by looking like its surroundings.

2. dribble- To dribble is to flow or let flow in small drops.

3. extraordinary- Something extraordinary is very unusual or remarkable.

4. poisonous- Something poisonous harms or kills by chemical action.

5. pounce- To pounce is to leap or spring suddenly in attack.

6. predator- A predator is an animal that lives by hunting other animals for food.

7. prey- An animal that is hunted by another animal is its prey.

8. vibrations- Vibrations are rapid motions back and forth or up and down.

Essential Question: What helps an animal

survive?

Unit 2 Week 5

Animals All Around

Genre: Poetry • Lyric Poetry

• Expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet • Often has end rhymes and a consistent meter

• Haiku • Uses three short lines to describe a scene or a moment • Has a first and last line of five syllables and a second line of seven syllables (5-7-5).

Literary Elements: Meter and Rhyme

Comprehension Skill: Point of View

• The speaker's point of view is how the speaker thinks or feels.

Vocabulary Strategy: Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor Grammar: Combining Sentences

Spelling Words Suffixes

1. sickly

2. hardly

3. quickly

4. slowly

5. carefully

6. wonderful

7. beautiful

8. graceful

9. spoonful

10. darkness

11. shapeless

12. ageless

13. illness

14. goodness

15. spotless

16. painless

17. weakness

18. darkest

19. clearest

20. thoughtful

Vocabulary Words

1. brittle- If something is brittle it is easily broken.

2. creative- Creative people show the ability to do something in a new way.

3. descriptive- Descriptive things describe or tell about something.

4. outstretched- Outstretched means extended to full length.

5. metaphor- A metaphor compares two things without like or as. The grass was a green carpet.

6. simile- A simile compares two things using like or as. The stick is straight as an arrow.

7. rhyme- Words rhyme when their endings sound the same.

8. meter- Meter is the pattern of syllables in a line of poetry.

Essential Question: How are writers inspired

by animals?

Poetry Terms

Unit 2 Week 5

Animals All Around

Poems: "Dog," "The Eagle," Chimpanzee," "Rat" "The Sandpiper," "Bat," "The Grasshopper Springs," "Fireflies at Dusk" "Fog," "White Cat Winter"

Genre: Poetry • Lyric Poetry

• Expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet • Often has end rhymes and a consistent meter

• Haiku • Uses three short lines to describe a scene or a moment • Has a first and last line of five syllables and a second line of seven syllables (5-7-5).

Literary Elements: Meter and Rhyme

Comprehension Skill: Point of View • The speaker's point of view is how the speaker thinks or feels.

Vocabulary Strategy: Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor Grammar: Combining Sentences

Spelling Words Suffixes

1. sickly

2. hardly

3. quickly

4. slowly

5. carefully

6. wonderful

7. beautiful

8. graceful

9. spoonful

10. darkness

11. shapeless

12. ageless

13. illness

14. goodness

15. spotless

16. painless

17. weakness

18. darkest

19. clearest

20. thoughtful

Vocabulary Words

1. brittle- If something is brittle it is easily broken.

2. creative- Creative people show the ability to do something in a new way.

3. descriptive- Descriptive things describe or tell about something.

4. outstretched- Outstretched means extended to full length.

5. metaphor- A metaphor compares two things without like or as. The grass was a green carpet.

6. simile- A simile compares two things using like or as. The stick is straight as an arrow.

7. rhyme- Words rhyme when their endings sound the same.

8. meter- Meter is the pattern of syllables in a line of poetry.

Essential Question: How are writers inspired

by animals?

Poetry Terms