Journeys
Current Story:
3rd Story: Destiny's Gift
Essential Question: Why is volunteering a good thing for the community and its people?
Target Vocabulary
afford - to be able to pay for it
customers - people who buy things
contacted - to get in touch with
raise - to collect money for a special event or cause
earn - to receive money, praise, or respect from others because of your actions or efforts
figure - to decide or solve something
block - a section of street between two other streets
spreading - stretching out or expanding
Target skill - Understanding Characters & Character Traits
Character Motivations
Story message
2nd Story : The Trial of Cardigan Jones
Essential Question: Why are courts an important part of our government?
Target Skill: Inferencing/Drawing Conclusions
Target Vocabulary
convinced - made someone believe or agree to something
guilty - having done something wrong
pointed - used a finger to show where something was
honest - truthful
trial - a meeting in court to decide if someone has broken the law
murmur - the sound of people speaking very softly
jury - the group of people who make the decision in a trial
stand - the place where a witness in a trial sits while being questioned
First Story: A Fine, Fine School
Essential Question
How is learning at school different from learning at home?
Target Vocabulary
principal - the leader of a school
soared - flew upward
strolled - walked slowly
worried - thinking about something bad that may happen
proud - pleased with yourself or someone else
announced - made known
fine - very nice
certainly - surely
Target Skill: Story Structure
Characters: the people and animals in the story
Setting: when and where the story takes place
Plot: the order of story events
Problem: usually introduced at the beginning
Events tell how characters try to solve the problem.
Solution: the way a story's problem is solved usually at the end of the story
Aero and Officer Mike
Essential Question: What are some benefits of dogs interacting with people?
Target Vocabulary
lying - resting in a flat position
loyal - faithful
partners - two people who work together
shift - the period of time a worker does his or her job
quiver- to shake or tremble
patrol -walk through an area to watch or guard it
ability -skill
snap - to bite quickly
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Authors have a reason or reasons for writing. This is called the author's purpose. The author's purpose for writing something is not always stated but students can determine the author's purpose by thinking about what the author wants readers to know.
Target Skill: Point of View
One way to figure out an author's point of view is to think about the words and phrases he or she uses. When authors say good things about a subject, that usually means they have a positive point of view about the subject. If they say poor things, that usually means that they have a negative point of view.
A Young Thomas Edison
Essential Question:
What important traits must an inventor have?
Vocabulary
invention - an original device, system, or process
experiment - a test to find out or prove something
laboratory - a place where scientists work and do experiments
genius - extraordinary intellectual power, especially seen in creative ability
gadget - a small, useful machine or device
electric - powered by electricity, a form of energy caused by the motion of electrons and protons
signal - a sound, motion, or other sign that sends a message
occasional - happening from time to time
Target Skill: Main Ideas and Details
The most important ideas in a text are the main ideas. Authors use main ideas to organize the information in a text. Authors use details to support the main ideas. In a biography, the details will add more information about a person's life.
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
A sequence is the order in which events take place. In a biography, an author will often sequence a person's life from birth on through his or her life, telling events that happen to the person as he or she moves from childhood to adulthood.
Kamishibai Man
Target Vocabulary
familiar - something that is know because it is experiences often
applause - clapping
vacant - empty
rickety - shaky or likely to fall apart
blurry - unclear or smeared
jerky - moving in sudden, uneven, or awkward ways
Target Skills
Cause and Effect
Analyze Illustrations
The Harvest Birds
Essential Question: What do traditional tales tell readers about life?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
harvest - the crop that is gathered during one growing season
separate - divide a group of objects into smaller groups or categories
ashamed - feeling embarrassed or guilty about something that you did or didn't do
borders - the dividing lines between two pieces of land
advice - an idea or suggestion about how to solve a problem
borrow - to get something from someone else with their permission and plan to return it later
patch -a small area of land where certain plants or crops grow
serious - not joking or fooling
Target Skill – Drawing Conclusions
Authors don't always tell readers everything about the characters and events in a story. Instead readers should look for details, such as what a character says or does, to draw conclusions, or figure out the details the author didn't include.
Target Skill - Literal and Nonliteral Meanings
An author can use words in different ways to tell a story. One way is to use a word's literal meaning, or its exact meaning.
Another way is to use a word's nonliteral meaning, or a symbolic or figurative meaning of a word.
Target Strategy – Infer/Predict
You can use story details to infer, or figure out, the message the author is trying to give readers. You can also use the conclusions you draw to help you make inferences about the story's characters, events and message.
As you read, you should predict what is going to happen or the message the author wants to give readers through the story.
Bat Loves the Night
Essential Question: What makes bats interesting and useful?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
twitch - to move suddenly
detail - one small part of a whole
swoops - drops suddenly
slithers - slides down, on, or through something
squeak - a short high sound
dozes - sleeps lightly or naps
echoes - repeating sounds when sound waves bounce off a surface
snuggles - lies close together with another thing
Reading Target Skill – Sequence of Events
♦ Sequencing - Placing events in the order that they happened
Reading Target Skill – Domain-Specific Vocabulary
♦ Vocabulary related to a specific topic.
Reading Target Strategy – Question
♦ Ask yourself questions about a selection as you read.
Look for text evidence to help you answer the questions.
Reading Target Strategy – Fluency
♦ Good readers read at a rate that is appropriate to the type of text they are reading. You can read at a faster rate when you are reading fiction, but you should read at a slower rate when you are reading nonfiction. This allows you to gain a better understanding from your reading experience.
English Skill – Verbs - Action Verbs and "Being" Verbs
Roberto Clemente
Essential Question
What are the traits of a hero?
Target Vocabulary
pronounced - said the sound of
stands - seats at a stadium or ballpark
fans - great admirers
league - group of people or teams
score - make a point or points in a game
polish - to make shine; to make something better
style - a way of doing something
slammed - hit with sudden force
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
4th Story: Pop's Bridge
Essential Question: Why is everyone's role on a project important?
Target Vocabulary:
foggy - filled with thick mist or low clouds
stretch - to spread out
crew - a group of people doing work
balancing - keeping steady
tide - the rise and fall of the sea
cling - to hold tightly to something
excitement - the feeling of being stirred up
disappears - passes from sight
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
When you compare and contrast, you find the ways that things are similar and different. When you compare things, you say what is the same about them. When you contrast, you say what is different.
When you read, look for compare and contrast signal words such as like, unlike, same, different, and, but, too, also, and both.
Technology Wins the Game
Essential Question: How do inventions help athletes?
Target Skill: Sequence of Events/Text Features
Target Vocabulary
contribute -
athletes -
improve -
power -
process -
flexible -
fraction -
complete -
A Young Thomas Edison
Essential Question:
What important traits must an inventor have?
Vocabulary
invention - an original device, system, or process
experiment - a test to find out or prove something
laboratory - a place where scientists work and do experiments
genius - extraordinary intellectual power, especially seen in creative ability
gadget - a small, useful machine or device
electric - powered by electricity, a form of energy caused by the motion of electrons and protons
signal - a sound, motion, or other sign that sends a message
occasional - happening from time to time
Target Skill: Main Ideas and Details
The most important ideas in a text are the main ideas. Authors use main ideas to organize the information in a text. Authors use details to support the main ideas. In a biography, the details will add more information about a person's life.
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
A sequence is the order in which events take place. In a biography, an author will often sequence a person's life from birth on through his or her life, telling events that happen to the person as he or she moves from childhood to adulthood.
Roberto Clemente
Essential Question
What are the traits of a hero?
Target Vocabulary
pronounced - said the sound of
stands - seats at a stadium or ballpark
fans - great admirers
league - group of people or teams
score - make a point or points in a game
polish - to make shine; to make something better
style - a way of doing something
slammed - hit with sudden force
What Do Illustrators Do?
Essential Question: How do pictures help to tell a story?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
imagine - to see a picture in your mind
tools - things people use to help them do a job
illustrate - to make pictures that show something
scribbles - drawings or doodles, drawn in a quick or careless way
sketches - quick, simple drawing
tracing - copying the outline or shape of something
research -to search for and study information about a topic
Reading Target Skill – Text Features
Two Bear Cubs
Essential Question: How do members of a community help each other?
Reading Skill: Theme
3.RL.1.2
Reading Target Skill – Central Message
♦I can determine the central message, lesson, or moral in stories from diverse cultures.
Goal: Students will be able to recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral, and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text
Target Vocabulary Words
The Albertosaurus Mystery
Essential Question: How do fossils help tell us about the past?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
buried - covered up
location - place where something is
remains - what is left
clues - things that help solve a mystery or problem
skeletons - frameworks of bones inside or outside of bodies
evidence - Facts that lead to a conclusion or help people find out what is true
fossils - very old traces or remains of plants or animals
prove - to show by using facts
fierce - very wild and dangerous
uncovering - opening to view
Reading Target Skill – Drawing Conclusions
♦ Drawing Conclusions – to use clues or text evidence along with your prior knowledge and own ideas to make smart guesses about the topic.
Reading Target Strategy – Visualize
♦ Visualize– note create mental pictures of what the author is describing
English Skill – Adjectives that Compare
♦ Adjectives – describe how people, places, or things are alike or different
♦ Add –er to most adjectives to compare two people, places or things
♦ Add - est to adjectives to compare more than two people, places, or things
Current Story:
3rd Story: Destiny's Gift
Essential Question: Why is volunteering a good thing for the community and its people?
Target Vocabulary
afford - to be able to pay for it
customers - people who buy things
contacted - to get in touch with
raise - to collect money for a special event or cause
earn - to receive money, praise, or respect from others because of your actions or efforts
figure - to decide or solve something
block - a section of street between two other streets
spreading - stretching out or expanding
Target skill - Understanding Characters & Character Traits
Character Motivations
Story message
2nd Story : The Trial of Cardigan Jones
Essential Question: Why are courts an important part of our government?
Target Skill: Inferencing/Drawing Conclusions
Target Vocabulary
convinced - made someone believe or agree to something
guilty - having done something wrong
pointed - used a finger to show where something was
honest - truthful
trial - a meeting in court to decide if someone has broken the law
murmur - the sound of people speaking very softly
jury - the group of people who make the decision in a trial
stand - the place where a witness in a trial sits while being questioned
First Story: A Fine, Fine School
Essential Question
How is learning at school different from learning at home?
Target Vocabulary
principal - the leader of a school
soared - flew upward
strolled - walked slowly
worried - thinking about something bad that may happen
proud - pleased with yourself or someone else
announced - made known
fine - very nice
certainly - surely
Target Skill: Story Structure
Characters: the people and animals in the story
Setting: when and where the story takes place
Plot: the order of story events
Problem: usually introduced at the beginning
Events tell how characters try to solve the problem.
Solution: the way a story's problem is solved usually at the end of the story
Aero and Officer Mike
Essential Question: What are some benefits of dogs interacting with people?
Target Vocabulary
lying - resting in a flat position
loyal - faithful
partners - two people who work together
shift - the period of time a worker does his or her job
quiver- to shake or tremble
patrol -walk through an area to watch or guard it
ability -skill
snap - to bite quickly
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Authors have a reason or reasons for writing. This is called the author's purpose. The author's purpose for writing something is not always stated but students can determine the author's purpose by thinking about what the author wants readers to know.
Target Skill: Point of View
One way to figure out an author's point of view is to think about the words and phrases he or she uses. When authors say good things about a subject, that usually means they have a positive point of view about the subject. If they say poor things, that usually means that they have a negative point of view.
A Young Thomas Edison
Essential Question:
What important traits must an inventor have?
Vocabulary
invention - an original device, system, or process
experiment - a test to find out or prove something
laboratory - a place where scientists work and do experiments
genius - extraordinary intellectual power, especially seen in creative ability
gadget - a small, useful machine or device
electric - powered by electricity, a form of energy caused by the motion of electrons and protons
signal - a sound, motion, or other sign that sends a message
occasional - happening from time to time
Target Skill: Main Ideas and Details
The most important ideas in a text are the main ideas. Authors use main ideas to organize the information in a text. Authors use details to support the main ideas. In a biography, the details will add more information about a person's life.
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
A sequence is the order in which events take place. In a biography, an author will often sequence a person's life from birth on through his or her life, telling events that happen to the person as he or she moves from childhood to adulthood.
Kamishibai Man
Target Vocabulary
familiar - something that is know because it is experiences often
applause - clapping
vacant - empty
rickety - shaky or likely to fall apart
blurry - unclear or smeared
jerky - moving in sudden, uneven, or awkward ways
Target Skills
Cause and Effect
Analyze Illustrations
The Harvest Birds
Essential Question: What do traditional tales tell readers about life?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
harvest - the crop that is gathered during one growing season
separate - divide a group of objects into smaller groups or categories
ashamed - feeling embarrassed or guilty about something that you did or didn't do
borders - the dividing lines between two pieces of land
advice - an idea or suggestion about how to solve a problem
borrow - to get something from someone else with their permission and plan to return it later
patch -a small area of land where certain plants or crops grow
serious - not joking or fooling
Target Skill – Drawing Conclusions
Authors don't always tell readers everything about the characters and events in a story. Instead readers should look for details, such as what a character says or does, to draw conclusions, or figure out the details the author didn't include.
Target Skill - Literal and Nonliteral Meanings
An author can use words in different ways to tell a story. One way is to use a word's literal meaning, or its exact meaning.
Another way is to use a word's nonliteral meaning, or a symbolic or figurative meaning of a word.
Target Strategy – Infer/Predict
You can use story details to infer, or figure out, the message the author is trying to give readers. You can also use the conclusions you draw to help you make inferences about the story's characters, events and message.
As you read, you should predict what is going to happen or the message the author wants to give readers through the story.
Bat Loves the Night
Essential Question: What makes bats interesting and useful?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
twitch - to move suddenly
detail - one small part of a whole
swoops - drops suddenly
slithers - slides down, on, or through something
squeak - a short high sound
dozes - sleeps lightly or naps
echoes - repeating sounds when sound waves bounce off a surface
snuggles - lies close together with another thing
Reading Target Skill – Sequence of Events
♦ Sequencing - Placing events in the order that they happened
Reading Target Skill – Domain-Specific Vocabulary
♦ Vocabulary related to a specific topic.
Reading Target Strategy – Question
♦ Ask yourself questions about a selection as you read.
Look for text evidence to help you answer the questions.
Reading Target Strategy – Fluency
♦ Good readers read at a rate that is appropriate to the type of text they are reading. You can read at a faster rate when you are reading fiction, but you should read at a slower rate when you are reading nonfiction. This allows you to gain a better understanding from your reading experience.
English Skill – Verbs - Action Verbs and "Being" Verbs
Roberto Clemente
Essential Question
What are the traits of a hero?
Target Vocabulary
pronounced - said the sound of
stands - seats at a stadium or ballpark
fans - great admirers
league - group of people or teams
score - make a point or points in a game
polish - to make shine; to make something better
style - a way of doing something
slammed - hit with sudden force
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
4th Story: Pop's Bridge
Essential Question: Why is everyone's role on a project important?
Target Vocabulary:
foggy - filled with thick mist or low clouds
stretch - to spread out
crew - a group of people doing work
balancing - keeping steady
tide - the rise and fall of the sea
cling - to hold tightly to something
excitement - the feeling of being stirred up
disappears - passes from sight
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
When you compare and contrast, you find the ways that things are similar and different. When you compare things, you say what is the same about them. When you contrast, you say what is different.
When you read, look for compare and contrast signal words such as like, unlike, same, different, and, but, too, also, and both.
Technology Wins the Game
Essential Question: How do inventions help athletes?
Target Skill: Sequence of Events/Text Features
Target Vocabulary
contribute -
athletes -
improve -
power -
process -
flexible -
fraction -
complete -
A Young Thomas Edison
Essential Question:
What important traits must an inventor have?
Vocabulary
invention - an original device, system, or process
experiment - a test to find out or prove something
laboratory - a place where scientists work and do experiments
genius - extraordinary intellectual power, especially seen in creative ability
gadget - a small, useful machine or device
electric - powered by electricity, a form of energy caused by the motion of electrons and protons
signal - a sound, motion, or other sign that sends a message
occasional - happening from time to time
Target Skill: Main Ideas and Details
The most important ideas in a text are the main ideas. Authors use main ideas to organize the information in a text. Authors use details to support the main ideas. In a biography, the details will add more information about a person's life.
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
A sequence is the order in which events take place. In a biography, an author will often sequence a person's life from birth on through his or her life, telling events that happen to the person as he or she moves from childhood to adulthood.
Roberto Clemente
Essential Question
What are the traits of a hero?
Target Vocabulary
pronounced - said the sound of
stands - seats at a stadium or ballpark
fans - great admirers
league - group of people or teams
score - make a point or points in a game
polish - to make shine; to make something better
style - a way of doing something
slammed - hit with sudden force
What Do Illustrators Do?
Essential Question: How do pictures help to tell a story?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
imagine - to see a picture in your mind
tools - things people use to help them do a job
illustrate - to make pictures that show something
scribbles - drawings or doodles, drawn in a quick or careless way
sketches - quick, simple drawing
tracing - copying the outline or shape of something
research -to search for and study information about a topic
Reading Target Skill – Text Features
Two Bear Cubs
Essential Question: How do members of a community help each other?
Reading Skill: Theme
3.RL.1.2
Reading Target Skill – Central Message
♦I can determine the central message, lesson, or moral in stories from diverse cultures.
Goal: Students will be able to recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral, and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text
Target Vocabulary Words
- scolding
- greedily
- ignores
- hesitation
- burden
- glancing
- base
- console
- drowsy
- heroic
The Albertosaurus Mystery
Essential Question: How do fossils help tell us about the past?
Target Vocabulary Words - Meaning
buried - covered up
location - place where something is
remains - what is left
clues - things that help solve a mystery or problem
skeletons - frameworks of bones inside or outside of bodies
evidence - Facts that lead to a conclusion or help people find out what is true
fossils - very old traces or remains of plants or animals
prove - to show by using facts
fierce - very wild and dangerous
uncovering - opening to view
Reading Target Skill – Drawing Conclusions
♦ Drawing Conclusions – to use clues or text evidence along with your prior knowledge and own ideas to make smart guesses about the topic.
Reading Target Strategy – Visualize
♦ Visualize– note create mental pictures of what the author is describing
English Skill – Adjectives that Compare
♦ Adjectives – describe how people, places, or things are alike or different
♦ Add –er to most adjectives to compare two people, places or things
♦ Add - est to adjectives to compare more than two people, places, or things