Unit 6 Week 2 Day 2

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Unit 6Week 2Day 2
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Reinforce the Theme

• What are some life cycle stages you recall from
  Living and Growing? Which animals go through
  those stages?
• Which animals look like their parents when they
  are born or hatch? Which ones dont?
• Theme Question How do living things grow and
  change?
• Activate Prior Knowledge
• What do birds need to know as they grow?
• What do bears need to know?

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Reinforce Theme Vocabulary
Theme Vocabulary Theme Vocabulary
form to grow or develop
protect to keep from getting hurt
problems things that are hard to do
Think about puppies and dogs. Use the theme
vocabulary words to tell what you know about
these animals.
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Comprehension Strategy Summarize

• Summarizing is telling or writing important
  information or events.
• Page 17 of Living and Growing. I start to
  summarize by picking out the important ideas. I
  think the frogs changes are the ideas to
  remember.

Eggs are in water.
Tadpoles form legs and lungs.
Frogs can live on land.
Frogs have three stages in their life cycles.
They begin as eggs, change into tadpoles, and
then into adult frogs.
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Summarize

• Practice by choosing a life cycle from page 20 or
  21.
• What are important ideas to remember?
• How does the animal begin its life? What is its
  first change? (beetle 4 stages, albatross 3)
• How will you write a summary?

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Prepare to Read

• Young wild animals must eventually live on their
  own, away from their mothers.
• What would a young wild animal have to do for
  itself?
• What problems might it have?
• Read pages 22-29
• What are the young animals learning to do?
• How are these animals learning?
• Can you summarize in one or two sentences what
• these wild animals learned?

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Word Study Suffixes -er, -est
Adding the Suffixes er, -est to Compare Adding the Suffixes er, -est to Compare Adding the Suffixes er, -est to Compare
Base Word Compare Two Compare More Than Two
small smaller smallest
slow slower slowest
Note Spelling Changes Note Spelling Changes Note Spelling Changes
hot hotter hottest
sleepy sleepier sleepiest
nice nicer nicest
Complete the chart and use the words to describe things in the room Complete the chart and use the words to describe things in the room Complete the chart and use the words to describe things in the room
high higher highest
flat
bright
close
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• High-Frequency Words
• answer, people
• Decodable Reader 21
• The Cruise Street Parade
• Fluency Go Garden (article)
• Practice Companion p. 88
  

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Grammar- Adjectives Articles

• Adjectives are words that tell about nouns.
• Some tell the size, shape color, or number
  (two) of the noun they describe.
• The words a, and, and the are also adjectives.
• The words a and an refer to any pencil.
• The refers to a specific pencil.
• Use a before nouns that begin with a consonant (a
  bat).
• Use an before nouns that begin with a vowel (an
  owl).

shape,
Bring me a pencil. Bring me the pencil.
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Write Directions Draft

• Writing Models Chart page 41, read Grow
  Your Own Pumpkins.
• Draft

Hop Your Way to Hopscotch What You Need
chalk pebble 1. Draw a hopscotch board on
the blacktop. See diagram. 2. To begin, toss
the pebble onto the board. 3. Hop on one foot in
all the boxes, without landing in the box with
the pebble in it. 4. Then, standing on one foot,
pick up your pebble from the box where it
landed. 5. You are out if your other foot or a
hand touches the ground. You are also out if you
land in the square where the pebble is. Keep
taking turns until only one person remains.
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