Mrs. Price's Reading

Unit 1
Meeting Challenges

Frindle

Skill: Sequence

 

Selection Vocabulary
cafeteria	demonstration
diary	racket
triggered	switch
clamp	thrift shop
medium	muffle

Links Unit 1 QUIA

Thunder Rose

Skill: Character

 

Selection Vocabulary
alternating	anticipation
cemetery	darted
faith	retraced
scent	withdrew
crypt	obsessed
retrieved	tutor

Links Unit 2 QUIA

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Skill: Generailzing

 

Selection Vocabulary
awe	bitter
determined	horrified
panicked	select
suspicious	elderly
matron	orphanage
youngsters

Links Unit 3 QUIA

Satchel Paige

Skill: Cause and Effect

 

Selection Vocabulary
challenging	corridors
custodian	cut
valuable	center field
ground ball	imaginary
leagues	windup

Links Unit 4 QUIA

Shutting Out the Sky

Skill: Author's Purpose

 

Selection Vocabulary
applied	community
council	in-between
project	resident
choral	homey
household	low-rent

Links Unit 5 QUIA

Unit 2
Doing the Right Thing

Inside Out

Skill:Steps in A Process

 

Selection Vocabulary
communicate	cooperate
desperate	dolphins
doomed	hovered
injured	barb
embedded	shaft
instinctively	snagged

Links Unit 6 QUIA

Passage to Freedom

Skill: Graphic Sources

 

Selection Vocabulary
damage	ecology
hurricane	identify
mightiest	predict
pressure	recovered
ashore	condense
moisture	tropical

Links Unit 7 QUIA

 

The Ch'i-lin Purse

Skill: Fact and Opinion

 

Selection Vocabulary
advised	deliveries
donate	organized
unfortunate	discount
assembly line	mayonnaise
homeless	shelter

Links Unit 8 QUIA

 

Jane Goodall's 10 Ways to Help Save Wildlife

Skill:Author's Viewpoint

 

Selection Vocabulary
brim	miraculous
pondered	prospered
quantities	seeped
abundance	eroded
limestone	peninsula
poled	saw grass

Links Unit 9 QUIA

 

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Skill: Drawing Conclusions

 

Selection Vocabulary
counter	indicates
jewelry	sapphire
smudge	conspired
display case	magnifying glass
distraction	sprinklers

Links Unit 10 QUIA

 

Unit 3
Inventors and Artists

Wings for the King

Skill: Character

 

Selection Vocabulary
conversation	dribbling
gestured	interpreter
skied	volunteers
hearing aids	freak
meningitis	signed

Links Unit 11 QUIA

 

Leonardo's Horse

Skill: Graphic Sources

 

Selection Vocabulary
dispatched	downpour
heroic	locomotives
rescuers	rugged
schedules	extinguished
ordeal	ties
torrents

Links Unit 12 QUIA

 

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

Skill: Plot

 

Selection Vocabulary
championship	opponent
strengthen	swollen
trophy	agate
athletic	referee
shooter	targeted

Links Unit 13 QUIA

 

Mahalia Jackson

Skill: Text Structure

 

Selection Vocabulary
colony	condition
emerge	nectar
producers	react
storage	venom
extract	foragers
frames	hobbyists

Links Unit 14 QUIA

 

Special Effects in Film and Television

Skill: Summarizing

 

Selection Vocabulary
chaos	civil
confusion	instinct
raid	sensible
unexpected	ewe
fluke	piglet
politeness	rustlers

Links Unit 15 QUIA

 

Unit 4
Adapting

Weslandia

Skill: Compare and Contrast

 

Selection Vocabulary
dismayed	impression
insult	records
sprouts	winced
acquainted	disgracing
intestines	unclenched
viola

Links Unit 16 QUIA

 

Stretching Ourselves

Skill: Main Idea and Supporting Detail

 

Selection Vocabulary
announcer	cargo
delays	injuries
obstacles	overtakes
skids	wilderness
checkpoint	collision
musher	spectators

Links Unit 17 QUIA

 

Exploding Ants

Skill: Predicting

 

Selection Vocabulary
bruised	lodge
possession	pouch
reckless	chirring
despite	longhouse
pemmican	upright

Links Unit 18 QUIA

 

The Stormi Giovanni Club

Skill: Context Clues

 

Selection Vocabulary
ankle	athlete
confident	overcame
relay	responsible
sprint	anchor
blocks	sprain
straddle	track meet

Links Unit 19 QUIA

 

The Gymnast

Skill: Author's Purpose

 

Selection Vocabulary
recall	reel
sheath	souvenirs
squished	traditions
Alzheimer's disease	cross-stitch
bobbers	gutted
night crawlers

Links Unit 20 QUIA

 

Unit 5
Adventurers

The Three-Century Woman

Skill: Setting

 

Selection Vocabulary
banners	trolley
headlines	amendment
parlor	constitutional
pavement	rights
splattered	strike
stockings	suffragist

Links Unit 21 QUIA

 

The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic

Skill: Paraphrasing

 

Selection Vocabulary
liberty	vow
plantation	bandanna
quickened	bloodhounds
runaway	Quaker
slavery	underbrush
unconscious

Links Unit 22 QUIA

 

Talk with an Astronaut

Skill: Visualizing

 

Selection Vocabulary
clinging	giddy
excursions	jumbled
feelers	ruffled
gale	swooping
thrill	tilted

Links Unit 23 QUIA

 

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Skill: Context Clues

 

Selection Vocabulary
agreement	superiors
cable	translated
disobey	diplomat
issue	Nazi
permission	refugees
representatives	visas

Links Unit 24 QUIA

 

Ghost Towns of the American West

Skill: Paraphrasing

 

Selection Vocabulary
fate	steed
fearless	tread
glimmer	belfry
lingers	British
magnified	defiance
somber	grenadiers

Links Unit 25 QUIA

 

Unit 6
The Unexpected

At the Beach

Skill:Theme

 

Selection Vocabulary
fragrance	trial
inspects	ad lib
pastries	assent
pleasures	inhales
privilege	miser
scowling	stunned

Links Unit 26 QUIA

 

The Mystery of Saint Matthew Island

Skill:Steps in a Process

 

Selection Vocabulary
clenched	primitive
comparing	collapsed
cornmeal	entomologist
essay	larvae
flyer	protein
grease	queasy

Links Unit 27 QUIA

 

King Midas and the Golden Touch

Skill: Plot

 

Selection Vocabulary
fascinated	adobe
foolishness	midday
generous	roguish
rascals	thrifty
seldom	tortillas

Links Unit 28 QUIA

 

The Hindenburg

Skill: Making Judgments

 

Selection Vocabulary
career	shattered
critical	survey
efficient	constructive
maneuvered	critics
opinion	disdainfully
resolved	grimaced

Sweet Music in Harlem

Skill: Visualizing

 

Selection Vocabulary
artistic	viewer
deceive	ceramic
realistic	illusionists
represent	optical
sculpture	techniques
style	visual