Unit 6-Week 3 Day 1Theme Question: How are living things connected?• What roles do the parts of an ecosystem

play? (Wk 1)• Why do living things need each other? (Wk 2)• What happens when there are changes to an

ecosystem? (Wk 3)• How do people play a part in ecosystems? (Wk 4)

Theme Vocabulary

Theme vocabulary •plod• fragrant•hesitate

Reading

Preview and Predict•pp. 348-361

Purpose•What do you think you will learn?• Find answers to the Theme

Question.• Set your own purpose.

VCV or VCCV patternword VCV VCCVhollow

silver

capture

dinner

recent

broken

famous

diner

Unit 6-Week 3 Day 2Theme Question: How are living things connected?• What roles do the parts of an ecosystem

play? (Wk 1)• Why do living things need each other? (Wk 2)• What happens when there are changes to an

ecosystem? (Wk 3)• How do people play a part in ecosystems? (Wk 4)

Theme Vocabulary

•compete•affect•disappear

Making Connectionspage # To Self To Text To World

p. 354

pp. 348-361

Reading

Preview and Predict• (pp. 362-376): Balance in the Wild

Purpose• Find answers to the Theme

Question.• Set your own purpose.

VCV patternVCV pattern

(words that have two or more syllables)

VCCV pattern(words that have two or more

syllables)

diner dinner

Unit 6-Week 3, Day 3

What is the Theme Question?

Name the three theme vocabulary words and their meanings?

Determining Word Relationships

Page # word related words

p. 354 scampered Scamper, race, trot, stroll, stride

frigid

courteous

fractured

Compare and ContrastWe can compare and contrast ideas, differenct texts, and even new ideas with prior knowledge.

Page # Compare (alike) Contrast (different)

p. 348 canopy and understory

Layers are alike because they are both home to animals.

Layers are different because?

Balance or Wild vs. The Great Kapok Tree

Reading

Reread•Pp. 347-376

Purpose• Focus on how text features provide

important information about the text and help them answer the Theme Question.

Word Study REVIEWComparative and Superlative Adjectiveser-est-

1. Adjective ends in –er are comparative comparing two or more things or groups.

(see p. 329 larger)2. Adjective ends in –est are superlative

comparing three or more things or groups. (see p. 333 smallest)

Unit 6-Week 3, Day 4

What is the Theme Question?

•Name the three theme vocabulary words and their meanings.•What’s the first word that comes to

mind when you hear each word?

cause effect

water pollution

wildlife

destoys the habitat of many living thingslogging

harms the fish population

destroys the habitat of many living things

Word Study

word What it means

My sentence

Personal connection

fragrant

plod

hesitate

Make Connections

word To Self To text To World

fragrant

plod

hesitate

p. 352 AND

p. 354

Reading

Reread•pp. 348-354

Purpose• Find text evidence to answer the

Theme Question.

p.348

p.352

How are living things connected?

p.354

Word StudyComparative or Superlativeword Comparative Superlative

biggest

smallest

easier

harder

bigger

easiest