This document provides an overview of the lessons and activities for Day 4. It includes vocabulary, phonics, spelling, reading comprehension, fluency, grammar, writing, and speaking topics. The main focus is on consonant digraphs, revising narrative writing to add descriptive words and feelings, and giving and following spoken instructions clearly. Students will practice these skills through word studies, reading, writing, and speaking exercises.

1. Day 4

2. Today we will learn:
* Vocabulary: Amazing new words
* Phonics/Spelling: Consonant Digraphs
* Words: High-Frequency words
* Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
* Fluency: Accuracy and Appropriate Rate
* Conventions: Nouns
* Writing: Narrative Nonfiction: Revising Strategy
* Listening and Speaking: Give and Follow
Instructions

3. QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
Sing with Me Animations

4. Amazing Words....
courageous
hazard
rescue
avalanche
instinct
skittish
blustery
fast-paced

5. Phonics Review
Consonant Digraphs
What letters spell the
sound /sh/ in the word,
shape?
sh spells /sh/

6. Phonics Review
Consonant Digraphs
What letters spell the
sound /ch/ in the word,
catch?
tch spells /ch/

7. Phonics Review
Consonant Digraphs
ch/tch sh th wh

8. Phonics Review
Consonant Digraphs
children
shopping
stretch
thick
whale
rubbish
those
chipmunk
when
thorn

9. Phonics Review
Consonant Digraphs
ch/tch sh th wh
children shopping thick whale
stretch rubbish those when
chipmunk thorn

10. Fluent Word Reading

11. Read Words in Context

12. Guide Comprehension
Good readers look for
important ideas so they
can summarize. When
I’m done reading, I recall
the most important ideas.
summarize!

13. Conventions: Nouns

14. Conventions: Nouns
On Your Own:
Reader’s & Writer’s Notebook, p. 108
The students visit the
library to find books about
tigers.
Can you find the 4 nouns?

15. Writing- Narrative Nonfiction
Mini-Lesson:
Revising Strategy:
Adding Words

16. Writing- Narrative Nonfiction
Yesterday, we wrote a
narrative nonfiction
paragraph about rescue
workers.
Today we’ll revise....

17. Writing- Narrative Nonfiction
We can make our writing
more interesting by
adding words or phrases
that show how we feel.

18. Revising Tips:
* Use words that make your
feelings about the topic
clear.
* Show that you care about
the topic.

19. ROUTINE:
Quick Write for Fluency
Talk: add words or phrases to
express feelings....
I was __ and ___ when I heard
the police sirens.
I think police officers are ___
because they have __ job.

20. ROUTINE:
Quick Write for Fluency
Write: Write and tell about
how you feel about people
who help others.
Share!

21. Literacy and Speaking
Give and Follow Instructions
When good speakers give
instructions, they speak
clearly and say all of the steps
of the instructions in order.

22. Literacy and Speaking
Give and Follow Instructions
When good listeners follow
instructions, they listen
carefully. They restate all of
the steps in order to make sure
they understand the
instructions.

23. Wrap Up Your Day
Phonics:
Name words with ar, or,
ore, and oar.
What are the vowel
sounds?

24. Wrap Up Your Day
Fluency:
Many good stories are
about brave people helping
friends or animals.

25. Tomorrow....
Tomorrow, you’ll hear more
about helping the porpoises.

26. Thank you to
www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
and to Google Images for the
pictures on the slideshows.
Created by P. Volak