Unit 1 Reading Skills
Week 1: Iris and Walter
Phonics: Words with short vowels: ea/e/
Vocabulary: ladder, amazing, rollerskate, meadow; Similes, and Rhyming Words
High Frequency Words: someone, somewhere, friend, country, beautiful, an, front
Comprehension: Character and Setting and Predict
Week 2: Exploring Space With an Astronaut
Phonics: Words with a consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e pattern (EX. cage)
Vocabulary: astronaut, shuttle, experiment, telescope, gravity and position words
High-Frequency Words: everywhere, live, work, woman, machines, move, world
Comprehension: Main Idea and Details and Text Structure
Week 3: Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night
Phonics: Consonant Blends (EX. trust)
Vocabulary: shivered, drooled, lanterns, snuggled and synonyms
High-Frequency Words: couldn't, love, build, mother, bear, father, straight
Comprehension: Character and Setting and Monitor and Fix Up
Week 4: A Walk in the Desert
Phonics: Words with inflected endings -s, -ed, -ing
Vocabulary: cactus, climate, coyote, harsh, desert and descriptive words
High-Frequency Words: water, eyes, early animals, full, warm
Comprehension: Main Idea and Details and Text Structure
Week 5: The Strongest One
Phonics: Words with consonant digraphs -ch, -tch, and -sh
Vocabulary: narrator, relatives, dangerous, gnaws and synonyms
High-Frequency Words: together, very, learn, often, though, gone, pieces
Comprehension: Realism and Fantasy and Monitor and Fix Up
Week 6: REVIEW WEEK/UNIT TESTING
