Unit 3, Week 1 "A Place to Play"
Unit 3, Week 2 "Ruby in Her Own Time"
Unit 3, Week 3 "The Class Pet"
Unit 3, Week 4 "Frog and Toad Together"
- SPELLING: by, handy, lucky, my, try, fly, silly, sunny, cry, puppy
- HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: *always, everything, *things, become, nothing, day, stays (words with * are on the spelling test)
- PHONICS: Syllable pattern CV; vowel sounds of /y/; segment and blend phonemes, rhyming words, add initial phonemes
- GRAMMAR: action verbs
- TEXT BASED COMPREHENSION: sequence and summarize
- AMAZING WORDS: (these words are not tested, but students should demonstrate understanding) growth, public, teeter, makeshift, population, shuffle, crooked, spindly
Unit 3, Week 2 "Ruby in Her Own Time"
- SPELLING: bring, bank, rink, sunk, trunk, sang, blank, pink, wing, rang
- HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: any, every, were, enough, own, ever, sure
- PHONICS: compound words, consonant patterns ng, nk; segment and blend phonemes, add phonemes, segment and blend syllables
- GRAMMAR: verbs that add -s
- TEXT BASED COMPREHENSION: Compare and Contrast, Inferring
- AMAZING WORDS: attempt, time line, flatter, lovely, event, famous, correct, common
Unit 3, Week 3 "The Class Pet"
- SPELLING: fix, fixes, class, classes, wish, wishes, kiss, kisses, bus, busses
- HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: away, car, friends, house, our, school, very
- PHONICS: ending -es; plural -es, r-controlled or, ore; segment and blend phonemes
- GRAMMAR: verbs that do not add -s
- TEXT BASED COMPREHENSION: Fact and Opinion, Monitor and Clarify
- AMAZING WORDS: features, natural, tumble, nibble, wriggle, mature, swoop, crumple, nudges
Unit 3, Week 4 "Frog and Toad Together"
- SPELLING: plan, planned, help, helped, drop, dropped, call, called, ask, asked
- HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: afraid, how, again, read, few, soon
- PHONICS: r-controlled ar, isolate final phonemes, segment and blend phonemes, add phonemes
- GRAMMAR: verbs for past and for future
- TEXT BASED COMPREHENSION: Author's Purpose, VIsualize
- AMAZING WORDS: gardener, sprout, shade, destroy, nature, dim, sprinkling, humongous