UNIT 4
Timeless Stories
                   
 

Half- Chicken

Vocabulary  Vocabulary Jumbled Words
farewells - good-byes
flung - to throw
suggested - proposed
tangled - confused, twisted
uniforms - clothes worn by members of a group who are on duty
vain - conceited
    Comprehension Skill:  Paraphrasing
Spelling Unit 16  Meet Alma Ada Scholastic - Folk Tale Writing Half-Chicken Super Synonyms Synonym Match-Up
Enchanted Learning   Back Yard Chickens  Info. about Chickens
Chicken Stuff

Blame it on the Wolf
Vocabulary:       character - person or animal in a book, play, film, story or poem
      courtroom - room in which a court of law meets
      evidence - facts or proof
      guilty - having done wrong
      rescued - saved

Scott Foresman Workshop
Comprehension Skill: Compare/Contrast
 Compare/Contrast Tips

Spelling Unit 17 -
Quia Practice Fun		  Vocabulary Quia
Wrap it Up Activities:   The Three Little Pigs
 Scholastic - Wolves  Tales with a Twist Interview Sheet

 

Lou Gehrig - The Luckiest Man

Vocabulary: CONVINCED, GRADUALLY, COURAGEOUS, IMMIGRANTS, ENGINEER
Comprehension Skill: Text Structure

 SF Internet Workshop

Unit 18  Spelling Quia Quia for Vocabulary A Copy of Lou Gehrig's Speech  Go on an Internet Field Trip
 Research  Women's Hall of Fame Baseball Almanac National Baseball Hall of Fame
Make a time line of a famous baseball player's life.  Pick five events for your timeline.  Time Line Maker Teachers First Baseball Activites

The Disguise
Vocabulary: DANGEROUS, CHANTING, CAUTIOUS,
SUSPECTED, SQUATTED, RECITE, PRINCIPAL, DISGUISE 
Comprehension Skill: Summarizing
 SF Workshop

 Quia Vocabulary Practice Spelling Unit 19 Quia
 Write your name in Chinese  Listen to a chant 
 Virtual Journey of Korea  Korea for Kids
 Korea Information and Pictures  Where in the world is Korea? Maps
6 Rules of SUMMARIZING
1. Delete unimportant information
2. Delete repeated information
3. Substitute easy terms for lists of terms
4. Add a series of events with an action term
5. Select a topic sentence
6. Invent a topic sentence if there is not one 		 Summarizing Practice:
Story Pyramids
Post-it-note reviews
Sentence Squeeze

 Tips on Summarizing
 Significant and Minor Details
 

  Keepers
Vocabulary: CONSIDERING, DEFINITELY, TAUNTED, 
GROUNDERS, REMINDER, STROKE, DIAMOND 
    Comprehension Skill: Plot

 Quia for Vocabulary  Spelling Unit 20 Quia
 Folk Tale Writing  Plot Quiz
BE A KEEPER:
Write down a story or recipe passed down from someone in your family; maybe from a grandparent, aunt, or uncle. 		 Use MS word to type the story and MS paint to illustrate. Print it out for our class "Keeper" book.

 
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