First Semester Study Guide

forReading,

Spelling and Grammar

2018 -2019

First Nine Week PeriodReading Unit 1

August 6-10This is a Start Smart introduction week. We will be introducing and reviewing rules and procedures for the classroom. Start Smart work will be explained, completed and sent home this week.

Week 1 August 13-17

Reading Skill – Key details, visualizingVocabulary – actions, afraid, depend, nervously, peered, perfectly, rescue, secret

Vocabulary actions- something someone doesafraid – frightened or scareddepends – to trust or rely onnervously – worried or unsurepeered – to stare or look atperfectly – having no mistakesrescue – to save or set freesecret – hidden from most people, not known by everyone

Spelling - Short a,i (Thursday’s assessment will count as a daily grade. Words with an* will be assessed during Week 6 as a major Spelling test grade)1. has 8. fix 15. help *2. wag 9. him 16. actions *3. bad 10. if 17. peered4. six 11. can 18. secret *5. will * 12. hit 19. afraid6. sat 13. why * 20. depend7. had 14. for

Grammar Skill - SentencesA sentence is a group of words that tells a complete idea. The words are in an order that makes sense. A sentence begins with a capital letter. Sentences must have an ending mark. A statement is a sentence that tells something. It ends with a period. A question is a sentence that asks something. It ends with a

question mark.

Unit 1 Week 2 August 20-24Reading Skill – character, setting, eventsVocabulary – aside, culture, fair, invited, language, plead, scurries, share

Vocabularyaside – moved to one sideculture – sharing the same way of lifefair – treating everyone the sameinvited – asked to do something or go somewherelanguage – the way we speak, read, write, or signplead – to beg or argue to get what you wantscurries – to scamper or run quicklyshare – to give part of something you have to someone else

Spelling – short e, o, u1. went* 8. hut 15. see2. tell 9. tub 16. aside*3. pet 10. bun 17. fair4.job* 11. fix 18. plead5. fog 12. has* 19. share6. not 13. one 20. invited*7. tug 14. orGrammar Skill – commands and exclamationsA command is a sentence that tells someone to do something. It ends with a period (.). An exclamation is a sentence that shows surprise or strong feelings. It ends with an exclamation mark (!)

Unit 1 Week 3 August 27-31

Reading Skill – key details, character, setting, events: use illustrationsVocabulary – decide, different, friendship, glance, proper, relationship, stares, trade

Vocabularydecide – to make up your mind

different – not the samefriendship – being pals and helping one anotherglance – to look at quickly and then look awayproper – to act in a certain wayrelationship – when you have a connection with someonestares – to look at something for awhile with eyes wide opentrade – to give one thing away to get something else

Spelling – 2- letter blends (r,s,t,l) (two letters whose sounds are blended together)1. grass 8. plans* 15. she2. trips* 9. milk 16. here3. crack 10. belt 17. small4. still 11. fog 18. want5. west* 12. tub 19. were*6. mask 13. by 20. what*7. clap 14. he

Grammar Skill – Identify subjectsThe subject tells who or what the sentence is about.

Unit 1 Week 4 September 4-7Reading Skill – key details, using photosVocabulary – allowed, care, excited, needs, roam, safe, wandered, wild

Vocabularyallowed – to have permission to do somethingcare – when you care for something, you meet its needsexcited – all worked up about somethingneeds – things a person or animal must haveroam – to move freely from place to placesafe – free from harm or dangerwandered – to move with no direction on guidancewild – the wild is a place in nature where animals live

Spelling – short a, long a, (a_e)1. bag 8. cape 15. your *2. cap 9. made * 16. care3. ham 10. rake 17. move

4. bake 11. belt 18. now5. ate * 12. still 19. show*6.mad 13. into 20. year7. back * 14. done

Grammar Skill - Identify predicatesThe predicate tells what the subject of a sentence does or is.

Unit 1 Week 5 September 10-14Reading Skill – key details, ask and answer questionsVocabulary – choose, chores, cost, customers, jobs, spend, tools

Vocabularychoose – to decide on one thing rather than anotherchores – small jobs you can do around the housecost – how much you have to pay for somethingcustomers – people who buy something from a store or companyjobs – work that people do to earn moneyspend – when you use money to buy or pay for somethingtools – equipment used to make or repair things

Spelling – short i, long i, (i_e)1. did 8. five 15. says2. fin 9. side * 16. goes3. pick 10. hike 17. other4. line 11. cape 18. choose*5. pipe * 12. made 19. spend*6.tip 13. all 20. chores*7. mix 14. any

Grammar Skill – expanding and combining sentencesWhen you expand a sentence, you add more details to the subject or predicate. You can also combine sentences that have the same subject or predicate. When you combine sentences, you use the word and.

Unit 1 Week Review and Unit Test, September 17-21Reading

Character, setting, and events Using illustrations Key details Text evidence – finding and using Root words Context clues: sentence clues Inflectional endings: -es, -s, -ed, -ing Main topic or main idea Comparing texts

Grammar Letter punctuation Statements and questions Commands and exclamations Expanding and combining sentences Subjects and predicates Commas after sequence words Quotations with dialogue

Spelling Long and short vowels Two-letter blends

Spelling Test Words List(major test grade)

1. will 14. were2. help 15. what3. actions 16. ate4. secret 17. back5. why 18. made6. went 19. your7. job 20. show8. has 21. goes9. aside 22. other

10. invited 23. choose 11. trips 24. spend 12. west 25. chores 13. plans

Reading Unit 2

Unit 2, Week 1 September 24-28Reading Skill –character, setting, plotVocabulary – adapt, climate, eager, freedom, fresh, sense, shadows, silenceVocabularyadapt – to adjust or to get used to somethingclimate – the weather that a place usually haseager – how you act when you want to do something very muchfreedom – free to do what you want and go where you want, ease of movementfresh – new or not spoiledsense – a feeling you have about somethingshadows – dark shapes that are made when something is in front of a lightsilence – when it is still and quiet

Spelling – long or short o1. box 8. nose 15. took2. fox 9. poke 16. climate*3. dog 10. rope 17. fresh4. lock* 11. side 18. sense5. pot 12. line 19. shadows*6. cone 13. have 20. silence*7. home 14. off*

Grammar Skill – Identify NounsA noun names a person, place, animal or thing.

Unit 2, Week 2 October 1-4“The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, “Wolf! Wolf!”Reading Skill –character, setting, plotVocabulary – believe, delicious, feast, fond, lessons, remarkable, snatch, stories

Vocabularybelieve – to think something is truedelicious – tastes very goodfond – to like something a lot, to care about somethinglessons – things you learn from ideas or rules, learning experiencessnatch – to grab something quicklyfeast – a large or fancy mealremarkable – wonderful or outstandingstories – made-up tales

Spelling – long or short u1. mule 8. hum 15. their2. fuse 9. must 16. feast*3. plum 10. fun 17. fond4. huge* 11. rope 18. lessons5. use 12. nose 19. snatch*6. dug 13. look 20. stories *7. cub 14. yes*

Grammar Skill – Identify Singular and Plural NounsA noun names a person, place, animal or thing. A singular noun names one person, place, or thing. A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing.

Unit 2 Week 3 October 8-12“A Prairie Guard Dog”, “Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!”Reading Skill –main topic and detailsVocabulary – buried, escape, habitat, journey, nature, peeks, restless, spiesVocabularyburied – covered up or hiddenescape – when you get out of or away from somethinghabitat – the place where an animal or plant usually lives or growsjourney – a tripnature – all the things outdoors not made by people

peeks – take a quick lookrestless – if you cannot stay still or quietspies – when a person watches for something and sees it

Spelling – soft c and g1. place 8. range 15. saw2. barge 9. mice 16. escape*3. trace* 10. cage 17. nature4. ice 11. mule 18. restless5. bulge* 12. huge 19. habitat*6. badge 13. out 20. journey *7. space 14. wash

Grammar Skill – Kinds of nouns – common, properA noun names a person, place, animal or thing. A common noun names any person, place, or thing. It begins with a lower case letter. (boy, state, dog) A proper noun names a particular person, place, or thing. IT begins with a capital letter. (Jack, Alabama, Sadie)

Unit 2 Week 4 October 15-19“Eagles and Eaglets”, “Baby Bears”Reading Skill –main topic and key detailsVocabulary – adult, alive, covered, fur, giant, groom, mammal, offspring

Vocabularyadult – a person or animal that is fully grownalive - livingcovered – has something over itfur – thick animal hairgiant – very largegroom – to clean each othermammal – any warm-blooded animal that feeds milk to its babiesoffspring – the children or young of people or animals

Spelling – consonant digraphs ch, tch, sh, ph, th, ng, wh

1. chop 8. thin 15. early2. catch 9. bring 16. adult*3. shape* 10. while 17. giant4. trash 11. place 18. mammal5. phone* 12. badge 19. offspring*6. that 13. seven 20. covered *7. sting 14. isn’t

Grammar Skill – Plural nouns A noun names a person, place, animal or thing. A singular noun names one person, place, or thing. A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing.

Unit 2 Week 5 October 22-26Poetry - “Cats and Kittens’, “Desert Camels”, “A Bat is Not a Bird” “Beetles,” “ The Little Turtle”Reading Skill –key detailsVocabulary – behave, express, feathers, flapping, poem, rhyme, rhythm, word choiceVocabularybehave – act in a way that is good or correctexpress – when you tell how or show how you feel about somethingfeathers – the soft things that cover a bird’s bodyflapping – when something is moving up and downpoem – a form of writing that expresses imagination or feelingrhyme – when two words have the same ending soundsrhythm - the repeating accents, or beats, in a poemword choice – the use of rich, colorful, exact words

Spelling – three letter blends1. scratch 8. split 15. shrub2. scrape 9. catch 16. express*3. throne* 10. sting 17. flapping4. stripe 11. far 18. feathers5. strange* 12. flower 19. behave*

6. shred 13. until 20. poem *7. splash 14. spring

Grammar Skill – Kinds of nouns – possessive nounsA noun names a person, place, animal or thing. A possessive noun is a noun that shows who or what owns something. A singular possessive noun ends with an apostrophe and –s. Add an apostrophe after the final s to make a plural noun possessive.

Unit 2 Week 6 Review and Unit Test, October 29 – November 2Reading

Character, setting, and plot/text evidence, problem and solution

Using illustrations Main topic and Key details Text evidence – finding and using Text features :charts and captions Prefixes: dis-, un- Suffixes:-ly, -less, -ful Multiple meaning words Literary elements: rhythm, rhyme Comparing texts

Grammar Nouns Singular and plural nouns Possessive nouns Irregular plural nouns

Spelling Long vowels Soft g Consonant digraphs Three letter blends

Spelling Test Words List(major test grade)

1. lock 14. journey2. off 15. habitat3. climate 16. shape4. shadows 17. phone5. silence 18. adult6. huge 19. offspring7. yes 20. covered8. feast 21. throne9. snatch 22. strange

10. stories 23. express 11. trace 24. behave 12. bulge 25. poem 13. escape

Unit 3 Week 1 November 5-9“Magnets Work, “I Fall Down”Reading Skill –author’s purposeVocabulary – amazing, force, measure, objects, proved, speed, true, weightVocabularyamazing – something is very surprising or makes you feel wonderforce – a push or pull that can change how something movesmeasure – to find the size or amount of somethingobjects – things you can see or touchproved – when you show that something is truespeed – how fast something movestrue - correctweight – how heavy something is

Spelling – long a spelled a, ai, ay, es, ei, eigh, ey1. nail 8.weigh 15. two2. train 9. sleigh 16. force*3. main 10. prey 17. amazing*4. hay 11. scrape 18. speed*5. stay 12. strange 19. objects*6. break 13. good 20. true *7. steak 14. often

Grammar Skill – verbsA verb is a word that shows action. It tells what a person, animal,

or thing does.

Unit 3 Week 2 November 12-16“Starry Night” “Mr. Putter and Tabby See the Stars”Reading Skill –character, setting, plot, sequenceVocabulary – adventure, delighted, dreamed, enjoyed, grumbled, moonlight, neighbor, nighttime Vocabularyadventure – exciting or unusual things to dodelighted – to feel very pleased about somethingdreamed – when you imagine something happeningenjoyed – like doing something very muchgrumbled – made a low rumbling soundmoonlight – the moon’s glow you often see at nightnighttime – the dark part of the day

Spelling – long i spelled i, y, igh, ie1. light 8.dry 15. apart2. sight* 9. try 16. dreamed*3. mind 10. lie* 17. enjoyed4. cry 11. hay 18. moonlight5. tie 12. steak 19. delighted*6. high* 13. begin 20. adventure7. wild 14. those

Grammar Skill – verbsA verb is a word that shows action. It tells what a person, animal, or thing does. A present-tense verb tells about something happening now.

Unit 3 Week 3 November 26-30“Lighting Lives”, “Biblioburro”Reading Skill –author’s purposeVocabulary – across, borrow, countryside, idea, insists, lonely,

solution, villages Vocabularyacross – to go from one side to the otherborrow – to take something and agree to return it latercountryside – the land that is away from cities or large townsidea – a thought or plan you have for somethinginsists – to say firmly that something must be donelonely – a lonely place is one that very few people visitsolution – a way to answer a problemvillages – very small towns in the country

Spelling – long o, spelled o, oa, ow, oe1. told* 8.show 15. who2. most 9. Joe 16. borrow*3. float* 10. toe 17. across4. coat 11. light 18. villages5. toast 12. mind 19. countryside*6. grow* 13. only 20. solution7. mow 14. our

Grammar Skill – past-tense verbs A verb is a word that shows action. It tells what a person, animal, or thing does. A present-tense verb tells about something happening now. Verbs that tell about the past or something that has already happened are “past-tense verbs”. Regular past-tense verbs have the ending –ed.

Unit 3 Week 4 December 3-7“Tornado!”, “Wild Weather”Reading Skill –main idea, key detailsVocabulary – damage, dangerous, destroy, event, harsh, prevent, warning, weatherVocabularydamage – injury or harm that happens to somethingdangerous- something that is not safe and could cause you harmdestroy – to break something so it cannot be used againevent – something that happens

harsh – something difficult, uncomfortable or hard to deal withprevent – to stop something from happeningwarning – something that lets people know that something dangerous may happenweather – what the air is like at a certain place and time

Spelling – long e spelled e, ee, ea, ie, y, ey, e-e1. we 8.keys 15. special2. bee* 9. pony 16. destroy*3. need 10. chief* 17. dangerous4. queen 11. every 18. prevent5. leaf 12. grow 19. weather*6. mean* 13. toe 20. damage7. thief 14. after

Grammar Skill – verb “have” A verb is a word that shows action. It tells what a person, animal, or thing does. The verb “have” has two forms in the present tense, “has” and “have”. “Has” is used when the subject is singular. “Have” is used when the subject is plural and with “I” and “you”.

Unit 3 Week 5 December 10-14“Why People Drum”, “Many Ways to Enjoy Music”Reading Skill –main idea and key detailsVocabulary - cheered, concert, instruments, movements, music, rhythm, sounds, understandVocabularycheered - shouted with happiness or praiseconcert - a musical performance played by a number of musiciansmovements – the ways of movingmusic – the pleasing sounds made by a singer or musical instrument, such as a piano or guitarrhythm – the repeating of sounds or movements to create a beatsounds – noises that can be heardunderstand - when you know what something means

Spelling – long u: u_e, ew, ue, u

1. cute 8. pew 15. give2. cube 9. fuel 16. concert*3. fumes* 10. cues 17. movements4. music 11. pony 18. sounds*5. unit 12. queen 19. rhythm6. menu* 13. began 20. understand *7. few 14. come

Grammar Skill – Combining and rearranging sentencesTwo simple sentences with similar ideas can be combined into one longer sentence. This can be done by connecting the two sentences with a comma and a word such as and, but, or, and so.

Unit 3 Week 6 Review and Spelling Test, December 17-21Reading

Main topic and Key details Text features :charts and captions Prefixes: un- Antonyms and synonyms Author’s purpose

Grammar Present tense verbs Action verbs Past tense and future-tense verbs Combining and rearranging sentences Verb: have

Spelling Long vowels

Spelling Test Words List(major test grade)

1. force 14. amazing2. speed 15. objects

3. true 16. sight4. high 17. lie5. dreamed 18. delighted6. float 19. grow7. told 20. borrow8. countryside 21. bee9. mean 22. chief10. destroy 23. weather11. fumes 24. menu12. concert 25. sounds13. understandUnit 4 Week 1 January 7-11“Where Do You Live?”, “Rain Forests”Reading Skill –compare and contrastVocabulary – eerie, growth, layers, lively, location, regions, seasons, temperateVocabularyeerie – strange in a way that makes you feel afraid or nervousgrowth – something that grows or has grownlayers – made up of different parts or levels sitting on top of one anotherlively – active and full of life and energylocation – a placeregion – a large part of the surface of the Earthseasons – the four parts of the year that each have their own kind of weathertemperate – a temperate place is a place that is never very hot or cold

Spelling – silent letters wr, kn, gn, mb, sc1. comb 8.know 15. very2. crumb* 9. wrist 16. growth*3. scene 10. writing 17. location4. scent* 11. cube 18. seasons5. gnat 12. music 19. eerie6. sign 13. don’t 20. lively*7. knife* 14. eat

Grammar Skill – linking verbsA linking verb connects the subject to the rest of the sentence.

It does not show action. The linking verb be has special forms in the present tense: is, are, and am.When the subject of the sentence is I, use the verb form am. When the subject of the sentence is singular, use the verb form is. When the subject of the sentence is plural, use the verb form are.