Theme 1: Off to Adventure!
Unit Stories (click on the story title for ALL KINDS OF STUFF connected to that story):
Cliff Hanger The Battle of Mulan The Lost and Found
Unit Objectives:
Reading Strategies:
- Summarize
- monitor/classify
- predict/infer, phonics/decoding
Comprehension:
- Sequence of events - this link will take you to a game page…scroll down and click on any one of the sequencing activities to practice putting events in order.
- making inferences
- cause and effect
Decoding Longer Words:
- base words
- syllabication
- inflected endings: -ed, and -ing
- short vowels
- vowel-consonant-e pattern
Vocabulary:
- dictionary
- ABC order
- multiple meaning words
- parts of a dictionary
Spelling: click on the Spelling City link to practice your weeks’ spelling words 
- short vowels a, e, i, o, u
- vowel-consonant-e pattern
Grammar:
- identifying complete sentences
- correcting sentence fragments
- kinds of sentences
- capitalizing and punctuating sentences
- subjects and predicates
- sentence combining
Writing:
- friendly letter
- using commas in dates and places
- response journal entry
- capitalizing days and months
- paragraph that explains
- transforming questions into statements
- process writing: personal narrative
Information and Study Skills:
- parts of a book
- using the dictionary
- using a K-W-L chart
