ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
BIG IDEA: Nature deserves our respect.Essential Question: What are the most important ideas about cougars?
FOCUS WALLComprehension:• Target Skill: Main Idea and Details(PB 109, 110)• Target Strategy: Monitor, ClarifySpelling: Final Schwa + /r/ sounds (PB 112, 113, 114)
Fluency: Stress
Grammar: Quotations (PB 115, 116, 117, 119)
Writing: Write to RespondFocus Trait: Sentence Fluency (PB 120)
Decoding: Recognizing schwa + /r/ sounds
Vocabulary Strategies: Analogies (PB 111)
TARGET VOCABULARY
• Unobserved• Available• Detecting• Mature• Ferocious• Resemble• Particular• Vary• Contentment• Keen
MONDAY
• Spelling Pre-test• Grammar Poster• Vocabulary in Context• Target Skill• Practice Book page or Comprehension Projectable• Background• First Read
TUESDAY - CENTERS
• Mrs. Humphreys (Guided Reading or story discussion)• Guided Reading• I can read fluently and with expression.• I can use details from the text and my prior knowledge to draw
conclusions.1) Copy the organizer on the last page into your reading notebook.
You will fill this out after reading the story.2) Read the story aloud. Pause at punctuation and use expression.3) Discuss and complete the organizer.
• Story Discussion• I can use the text to answer question.• I can use details from the text and my prior knowledge to draw
conclusions.
TUESDAY - CENTERS
• Computer – Math video (Fraction Basics)• I can identify the numerator and denominator in a
fraction. • I can explain what the numerator and denominator
represent.• I can apply my knowledge of fractions to word problems.
TUESDAY - CENTERS
• Character sketch• I can draw conclusions about a character from the story.• I can represent the character and conclusion with a
picture.1) Use details from the text and your prior knowledge to
draw a conclusion about a character from the text.2) Represent that character with a picture (I should be
able to determine you conclusion through your illustration).
TUESDAY CENTERS
Computer – Math video (Fraction Basics)I can identify the numerator and denominator in a fraction. I can explain what the numerator and denominator represent.I can apply my knowledge of fractions to word problems.
• Character sketch• I can draw conclusions about a character
from the story.• I can represent the character and
conclusion with a picture.1) Use details from the text and your prior
knowledge to draw a conclusion about a character from the text.
2) Represent that character with a picture (I should be able to determine you conclusion through your illustration).
THURSDAY
• Finish reading story together• Assessment• Grade
Homework: Writing Trait in Practice Book