Unit 5: Challenges Weekly Theme: Making a Difference Selection 2: Title: Beatrice’s Goat Author: Page McBrier

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction – a story that gives facts about actual people or situations Comprehension Strategy: Make Inferences and Analyze Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect

Genre:

Narrative Nonfiction – a story that gives facts about actual people or situations

Comprehension Strategy:

Make Inferences and

Analyze

Comprehension Skill:

Cause and Effect

Phonics: decode words with inflected endings Spelling Focus: names, named, naming, hopes, hoped, hoping, dances, danced, dancing, drops, dropped, dropping, wraps, wrapped, wrapping Review Words: airplane, someone, newspaper Challenge Words: driving, traded

Phonics:

decode words with inflected endings

Spelling Focus:

names, named, naming, hopes, hoped, hoping, dances, danced, dancing, drops, dropped, dropping, wraps, wrapped, wrapping

Review Words: airplane, someone, newspaper

Challenge Words: driving, traded

Key Vocabulary: gift – something that is given to someone, such as a present yearned – wanted very much to have or do tend – to look after or take care of produce – to make or create sturdy – strong or solid schoolhouse – a building used as a school kindhearted – having a caring nature; helpful

Key Vocabulary:

gift – something that is given to someone, such as a present

yearned – wanted very much to have or do

tend – to look after or take care of

produce – to make or create

sturdy – strong or solid

schoolhouse – a building used as a school

kindhearted – having a caring nature; helpful

Vocabulary Skills: Word Families **A group of related words all containing the same base word. Examples: kindhearted, kindly, unkind schoolhouse, schooling homework, homemade

Vocabulary Skills:

Word Families

**A group of related words all containing the same base word.

Examples: kindhearted, kindly, unkind

schoolhouse, schooling

homework, homemade

Word Work: Grammar Skills: Subject and Object Pronouns A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns. A subject pronoun is used as the subject of the sentence. An object pronoun can take the place of an object noun.

Word Work:

Grammar Skills:

Subject and Object Pronouns

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns.

A subject pronoun is used as the subject of the sentence.

An object pronoun can take the place of an object noun.