Get Ready to Read

10 minutes (2 of 3)

Get Ready to Read

10 minutes (1 of 3)

Week 1Day 1

How can we help protect those we love?

•What does it mean to protect someone or something?

•When have you protected a person or an animal? How did it make you feel?

Get Ready to Read

Protecting Loved Ones

Parents Dogs Workers

10 minutes (3 of 3)

How is the woman protecting the little girl? What is the guide dog’s role in this photo?What are the people in the large photo doing?How can we help protect those we love?

Getting Ready to Read

Amazing WordsRescue: In “Munchkin”, we learn that rescue is something that even the peskiest dogs do. Does the author include an context clues that help you determine the meaning of this word?What did Munchkin do to rescue the narrator?How did the narrator respond to Munchkin’s rescue?Saved: rescued or protected from harm or dangerThe girl saved her cat when she distracted the growling dog.What are some ways someone’s actions have saved someone or something?Hero: a person admired for bravery, great deeds or noble qualitiesThe firefighter was called a hero for carrying people out of the burning building. What situation can produce a hero?

10 minutes

Getting Ready to Read

10 minutes

Read and Comprehend

SettingTime and Place in which a story occurs

How can the setting influence a character’s behavior and determine

what kinds of events happen?

5 minutes

Read and Comprehend

PlotPattern of events in a story

Conflict, rising action, climax, resolution

5 minutes

Read and Comprehend

10 minutes

Read and Comprehend

speckled

nub

romping

lunging

slung

rowdy

10 minutes

Spotted, dotted, freckled

Sliced, sliver, bit

Frolicking, running, cavorting

Walking, inching, leaping

Hurled, flung tossed

Calm, loud, polite

Read and Comprehend

AnalogiesWhat is the relationship between the words below?Rescued is to saved as spotted is to speckledHeroic is to timid as quiet is to rowdyBowling ball is to rolled as softball is to slung

Language Arts

How can we help protect those we love?

How do animals help people?

10 minutes

How do animals that protect people behave?What kinds of training do they receive?

What can animals do to protect people from danger?

Language Arts

Spelling Pre-testanswered magnifyinganswering patrolledtraveled patrollingtraveling skiedchopped skiingchoppingqualifiedqualifyingpanickedpanickinginterferedinterferingomittedomittingmagnified

mimickedmimickingdignifieddignifyingstaggeredstaggering

20 minutes

Language Arts

15 minutes

Grammar Transparency 1

Language Arts

Personal NarrativeIn Old Yeller, Travis tells a story about his younger brother, Arliss. Think about something important, funny or exciting that happened to you when you were younger. Now write a personal narrative about that experience.

15 minutes

Key FeaturesFocuses on a real event from the writer’s life

Written in the first person, or the writer’s point of viewUses sensory details, showing, rather than telling about the writer’s experience

Personal Narrative launch

Language Arts