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Unit 3
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Big Idea:
Unit 3, Week 1: "What Time is it?"
- Essential Question: How do we measure time?
- Comprehension Focus: Make and Confirm Predictions; Character, Setting, Plot
- Word Work: Long a (a_e as in cake), Contractions with not
- Grammar: Verbs
- Spelling Words:
- make
- take
- came
- game
- gate
- late
- chin
- graph
- some
- today
- High Frequency Words:
- away
- now
- some
- today
- way
- why
Unit 3, Week 2: "Watch it Grow"
- Essential Question: How do plants change as they grow?
- Comprehension Focus: Make and Confirm Predictions; Plot: Sequence
- Word Work: Long i (i_e as in time); plurals
- Grammar: Present-tense verbs
- Spelling Words:
- like
- spike
- ride
- hide
- bike
- mine
- make
- came
- water
- should
- High Frequency Words:
- green
- grow
- pretty
- should
- together
- water
Unit 3, Week 3: "Tales Over Time"
- Essential Question: What is a folktale?
- Comprehension Focus: Make and Confirm Predictions; Plot: Cause and Effect
- Word Work: Soft c, g, dge; inflectional endings -ed and -ing
- Grammar: Past and Future-tense Verbs
- Spelling Words:
- rice
- nice
- page
- age
- wedge
- ledge
- like
- ride
- from
- once
- High Frequency Words:
- any
- from
- happy
- once
- so
- upon
Unit 3, Week 4: "Now and Then"
- Essential Question: How is life different than it was long ago?
- Comprehension Focus: Reread; Compare and Contrast
- Word Work: Long o: o_e; Long e: e_e; Long u: u_e; CVCe Patterns
- Grammar: Is and Are
- Spelling Words:
- hope
- nose
- note
- rope
- cute
- cube
- nice
- ledge
- ago
- people
- High Frequency Words:
- ago
- boy
- girl
- how
- old
- people
Unit 3, Week 5: "From Farm to Table"
- Essential Question: How do we get our food?
- Comprehension Focus: Connections within text: Sequence; reread
- Word Work: oo, u as in book and put; Inflectional endings -ed, -ing
- Grammar: Contractions with not
- Spelling Words:
- book
- look
- cook
- took
- hood
- wood
- nose
- cute
- buy
- done
- High Frequency Words:
- after
- buy
- done
- every
- soon
- work
Unit 3, Week 6: "Unit 3 Review"
- Essential Question: What we are learning!
- Please look back to the previous weeks for skills
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