Journey's Weekly Lesson


Fluency: Accuracy: Rate

When good readers read aloud, their rate should be appropriate for the text--that is, not too fast or too slow.

Games

Story Structure- Cinderella

Inference Battleship

What Can You Infer? 

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS

also, fly, gone, have, horse, look, river, said, saw, something

High-Frequency Speed PowerPoint 

PHONICS/SPELLING

Phonics: Base Words with Endings -ed and -ing

When a word has one vowel followed by a single consonant, we usually double the final consonant before adding -ed or -ing.

VOCABULARY

Target Strategy: Homographs

Words that have the same spelling but different meanings.

Main Selection: Jellies: The Life of the Jellyfish

Essential Question: How do you know if something is a fact or an opinion?  

Target Skill: Fact and Opinion

Target Strategy: Monitor/Clarify

Fluency: Stress

 

Good readers read use tone in voice depending on punctuation

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS

 

because, better, go, me, old, really, right, they, was, you

PHONICS/SPELLING

Phonics: Contractions

 

  Spelling Words:
1.  I'm      7.  I've
2.  don't    8. didn't
3.  isn't     9. you're
4.  can't    10.  that's 
5.  we'll    11. wasn't
6. it's        12.  you've


     Challenge Words:

     1.  couldn't      7.  he'd
     2.  weren't       8.  haven't
     3.  won't          9.  hadn't
     4.  doesn't       10.  where's
     5.  aren't          11.  who's
     6.  there's        12.  she'll

VOCABULARY

Target Vocabulary:

 

millions – you have more than one million

choices - are things you have to pick from

drift– you move slowly, without a set direction

simple- it is easy and does not have many parts

weaker –you have less strength than before

wrapped-around, twisted, or covering something

disgusting- it makes you feel sick

decide– you choose what to do or to think

VOCABULARY 

 Focus:  SBase Words and Suffixes -er, -est

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/trampolini.html

http://www.what2learn.com/games/play/82226/

LANGUAGE

Grammar Focus:  Verbs Present, Past, and Future

Verb Balloon Gam/Soft Schools.com


Main Selection: Jellies: The Life of the Jellyfish

Essential Question: How do you know if something is a fact or an opinion?  

Target Skill: Fact and Opinion

Target Strategy: Monitor/Clarify

Fluency: Stress

 

Good readers read use tone in voice depending on punctuation

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS

 

because, better, go, me, old, really, right, they, was, you

PHONICS/SPELLING

Phonics: Contractions

 

  Spelling Words:
1.  I'm      7.  I've
2.  don't    8. didn't
3.  isn't     9. you're
4.  can't    10.  that's 
5.  we'll    11. wasn't
6. it's        12.  you've


     Challenge Words:

     1.  couldn't      7.  he'd
     2.  weren't       8.  haven't
     3.  won't          9.  hadn't
     4.  doesn't       10.  where's
     5.  aren't          11.  who's
     6.  there's        12.  she'll

VOCABULARY

Target Vocabulary:

 

millions – you have more than one million

choices - are things you have to pick from

drift– you move slowly, without a set direction

simple- it is easy and does not have many parts

weaker –you have less strength than before

wrapped-around, twisted, or covering something

disgusting- it makes you feel sick

decide– you choose what to do or to think

VOCABULARY 

 Focus:  SBase Words and Suffixes -er, -est

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/trampolini.html

http://www.what2learn.com/games/play/82226/

LANGUAGE

Grammar Focus:  Verbs Present, Past, and Future

Verb Balloon Gam/Soft Schools.com