Theme 5: Family Time

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Theme 5 Family Time
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Selection 4 Thunder Cake
Author Patricia Polacco
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Author Patricia Polacco
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Genre Realistic Fiction Realistic characters
and events come to life in a fictional plot

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Plot
The plot is the sequence of events in the story.
This often includes a problem and resolution.
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Comprehension Strategy
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Comprehension Skill
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Phonics and Spelling Focus Words that End with
ed or ing Basic batted clapped hugging step
ped running sitting stopped getting shopping pin
ned Challenge jogging
flipped
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Phonics Focus Silent Consonants gh, k(n),
b light knit lamb night knight limb fight k
nob crumbs sight knapsack dumb thought
knee numb caught kneading
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Phonics review The sound of y at the end of
Longer Words hurry softly carefully butte
ry everything finally suddenly twenty
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High-Frequency Words air child heavy hour
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High-Frequency Word Review afraid minute ea
rly only half warm heard winter
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Key Vocabulary lightning- a flash of light in
the sky bolt- a flash or stroke of
lightning horizon- the line where sky and earth
seem to meet
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lightning
A flash of light in the sky
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bolt
A flash or stroke of lightning
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horizon
The line where sky and earth seem to meet
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Key Vocabulary thunder- the rumbling sound that
follows lightning rumbled- made a deep rolling
sound weather- what it is like outside
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thunder
The rumbling sound that follows lightning
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rumbled
Made a deep rolling sound
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weather
What it is like outside
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Other Vocabulary
damp - a little wet clap - a loud, sudden
sound cooed - talked softly fondly crowed -
talked happily
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damp
a little wet
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clap
a loud, sudden sound
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cooed
talked softly and fondly
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crowed
Talked happily
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Other Vocabulary penned - wrote
out creased - marked with a fold ingredients -
things that go into a mixture scurried - moved in
a hurry gather - to bring together
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penned
wrote out
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creased
marked with a fold
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ingredients
parts of a mixture, or the stuff you put in
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scurried
moved in a hurry, fast
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gather
to bring together
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Other Vocabulary peck - to hit with a
beak croaked - spoke in a rough, hoarse
way jagged - having sharp points sticking
out crept - moved slowly
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peck
to hit with a beak
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croaked
spoke in a rough, hoarse way
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jagged
Having sharp points sticking out
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crept
moved slowly
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Other Vocabulary bellowed - made a deep
roaring sound churned - beat milk in a special
container to make butter batter - a mixture of
wet and dry ingredients faded - lost its
brightness
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bellowed
made a deep roaring sound
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churned
beat milk in a special container to make butter
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batter
a mixture of dry and wet ingredients
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faded
lost its brightness
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glistening
shining
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samovar
A metal urn with a faucet at the base, used to
boil water for tea
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Vocabulary Skills Dictionary Finding Words with
Endings
hugged counting steaming rattled cooed patting
Look for the base word.
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Information Study Skills Taking Notes
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Grammar Skills Verbs present to past is /
was are / were
He/she/it is He/she/it was We/they
are We/they were
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Writing Skills Dialogue Its only the
thunder you are hearing, my grandma said.
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Curriculum Link Drama Readers Theater Sun and
Ice
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I ?? Reading Books 53-58 Phonics Library
Eight Daughters The Family Garden by Linda Dunlap