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Learning Strategies:  learning new words through sounds, sentence sense and picture clues

Theme One:  "All Together Now"
 

Skills:

• Literature: evaluates pictures, stories, notes other details, makes inferences
• Decoding:  review initial consonants,                                            phonograms -an, -et, -it, -ot, -un
• Write: a description

Theme Two: "Surprise"
solving problems, things students have learned to do

Skills:

• Comprehension:  identify problems, solutions, compare/contrast problems
• Decoding: final consonants, digraphs (n, t, m, f, ck, x, ss); phonograms -at, -ake, -in, -ill, -ike
• Study skills: follows directions
• Write: a description

Theme Three: "Let's Look Around"
 

Skills:

• Comprehension: categorize information, make comparisons

• Decoding: initial/final digraphs (th, sh, ch)                     phonograms -ut, og, -en, -id, -ide

• Study skills: use references

• Write: sentences

Theme Four: "Family and Friends"
friends

Skills:

• Comprehension: make inferences, identify character traits

• Decoding: beginning and ending clusters with l, r, s;         compound words, phongrams -eed, -ell, -est, -am, -ame, -oke

• Study skills: use maps

• Write: sentences, paragraph or story

Theme Five: "Home Sweet Home"
focus on Poetry

Skills:

• Comprehension: sequence, make inference

• Decoding: short/long a

• Write: story with logical sequence

Theme Six: "Animal Adventures"
things that are special to authors and their characters

Skills:

• Comprehension: identifies characters traits, infers feelings, relates character's experiences to own

• Decoding: short/long i

• Write: sentences, paragraph -  focus on special feelings

Theme Seven: "We Can Work It Out"
Learning strategies: preview, predict
Skills:

• Comprehension: sequence, predict

• Decoding: short/long o

• Study skills: ABC order in glossary; follow directions

• Write: group story with surprise ending

Theme Eight: "Our Earth"
Learning strategies: stop and think
Skills:

• Comprehension: cause/effect

• Decoding: short/long u

• Study skills: read signs

• Write: a description

Theme Nine: "Special Friends"
Learning strategies: summarize

Skills:

• Comprehension: note details, compare, contrast

• Decoding: short/long e, base words (CVCe) with endings

• Write: description

Theme Ten: "We Can Do It"

authors, illustrators

Learning strategies: preview, predict

Skills:

• Comprehension: develop meaning from prior knowledge, text and illustrations; identify character traits

• Decoding: vowel pairs (ai, ay, ea, ee, oa)

• Study skills: ABC order in glossary

• Write: letter

Page last Updated on: December 28, 2005

©Patricia Hannahan and Jane Concannon, 2002
Mariemont City Schools