Unit 4: Meet the Challenge
Unit 4 Week 1: Choices
Essential Question: What choices are good for us?
Vocabulary: aroma, expect, flavorful, graceful, healthful, interrupted, luscious, variety
Comprehension Strategy: Ask & Answer Questions
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Folktale
Word Study: Prefixes, Suffixes, Root Words
Essential Question: What choices are good for us?
Vocabulary: aroma, expect, flavorful, graceful, healthful, interrupted, luscious, variety
Comprehension Strategy: Ask & Answer Questions
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Folktale
Word Study: Prefixes, Suffixes, Root Words
Unit 4 Week 2: Skills and Talents
Essential Question: How can you use what you know to help others?
Vocabulary: achievement, apologized, attention, audience, confidence, embarrassed, realized, talents
Idioms
Comprehension Strategy: Ask & Answer Questions
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Unit 4 Week 4: Flight
Essential Question: How are people able to fly?
Vocabulary: controlled, direction, flight, impossible, launched, motion, passenger, popularContext Clues
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Skill: Text Structure: Compare and Contrast
Genre: Expository Text
Word Study: Homophones
Essential Question: How are people able to fly?
Vocabulary: controlled, direction, flight, impossible, launched, motion, passenger, popularContext Clues
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Skill: Text Structure: Compare and Contrast
Genre: Expository Text
Word Study: Homophones
Unit 4 Week 5: Value the Past
Essential Question: How can others inspire us?
Vocabulary: adventurous, courageous, extremely, weird
Metaphor
Skill: Theme
Genre: Narrative and Free-Verse
Literary Elements: Repetition and Rhyme
Essential Standards & Vocabulary
3.2.R.1: Main Idea & Details: Students will locate the main idea and key supporting details of a text or section of a text.
3.3.R.3: Literary Elements: Students will find textual evidence when provided with examples of literary elements and organization:
setting, plot, characters, characterization, and theme. Vocabulary: character characterization element example literary organization plot setting textual evidence theme 3.3.R.1: Author's Purpose: Students will determine the author’s stated and implied purpose.
Vocabulary: author determine implied purpose stated |
3.4.R.3: Context Clues: Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words.
Vocabulary: clue context determine distinguish meaning multiple-meaning use |