Transcript Theme 1: Relationships Weekly Theme: School Days

Unit 3:
Discoveries
Weekly Theme:
Food Around the World
Selection 1:
Title: Stone Soup
Author: Jon J. Muth
Genre:
Folk Tale– a story based on the customs and traditions of a
people or region, handed down from one generation to the
next
Comprehension Strategy:
Visualize
Comprehension Skill:
Plot Development: Make Inferences
Phonics:
decode words with /ӓr/ and /ôr/
Spelling Focus:
words with /ӓr/ and /ôr/
bark, shorts, sharp, sore, hard, storms, yard,
sport, sharks, porch, pour, story, chore, wore,
carve
Review Words: knots, sign, wrong
Challenge Words: orchard, artist
Key Vocabulary:
guests – people who come to visit or eat
a meal
banquet – a large meal presented for an
important event or holiday
agreeable – nice or pleasant
curiosity – an interesting or strange thing
gaze – a steady look or stare
untrusting – having doubt about
something
Vocabulary Skills:
Synonyms
** Words that have the same or
almost the same meaning
To figure out the meaning that fits in
a sentence, look up the word in a
thesaurus and choose the meaning
that makes sense in context.
Word Work:
Grammar Skills:
Action Verbs
An action verb is a word that shows action.
An action verb shows what the subject of the
sentence does.
Examples:
Shannon stirs the soup.
Blake chopped the carrots.