Unit 2 Story Words and Skills
Unit 2 Story Words and Skills
Unit 2 Story Words and Skills
1 What Jo Did
Vocabulary Words:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Spelling:
Adding s and es
Grammar:
Common and Proper Nouns
Writing Trait of the Week:
Word Choice
Vocabulary Strategy:
Word Structure Prefixes & Suffixes
Comprehension Skill:
Cause and Effect
Comprehension Strategy:
Prior Knowledge
Social Studies Content:
U.S. History
Spelling Words:
1. monkeys
2. friends
3. plays
4. supplies
5. taxes
6. holidays
7. months
8. companies
9. costumes
10. sandwiches
11. hobbies
12. daisies
13. delays
14. scratches
15. counties
16. teammates
17. memories
18. bunches
19. batteries
20. donkeys
21. eyelashes
22. ambulances
23. trophies
24. secretaries
25. inventories
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Genre: Play
Vocabulary Words:
Spelling Words:
1. aboard on board; in or on a ship, train, bus, airplane, etc.
1. morning
2. atlas - book of maps
2. forest
3. awkward not graceful or skillful in movement or shape; not easily managed
3. garbage
4. capable having fitness, power, or ability; able; efficient; competent
4. form
5. chant to call over and over again
5. alarm
6. mechanical like a machine; automatic; without expression
6. corner
7. miracle a wonderful happening that is contrary to, or independent of, the known
7. story
laws of nature
8. reseats sits again
8. argue
9. vehicle device for carrying people or things, such as a car, bus, airplane, etc.
9. backyard
More Words to Know:
10. start
1. contraption device or gadget
11. partner
2. pantomime to express by gestures
12. storm
3. excursion a short trip taken for interest or pleasure
13. Florida
4. invention something made for the first time
14. apartment
5. research hunting for facts or truth
15. sport
Spelling:
16. force
Words with ar, or
Comprehension Skill:
17. forward
Grammar:
Draw Conclusions
18. sharp
Irregular Plural Nouns
19. garden
Comprehension Strategy:
20. Arkansas
Writing Trait of the Week:
Answer Questions
21. departure
Organization/Paragraphs
22. margarine
Social Studies Content:
23. informative
Vocabulary Strategy:
Literature
24. snorkel
Word Structure- Prefixes
Geography
25. carnation
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Genre: Biography
Vocabulary Words:
Spelling Words:
1. cord measure of quantity for cut wood, equal to 128 cubic feet. A pile of wood 4
1. Thanksgiving
feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long is a cord.
2. among
2. dismay sudden helpless fear of what is about to happen or what has happened
3. think
3. grizzly (bear) a large, gray or brownish bear of western North America
4. blank
4. immense very large; huge; vast
5. graph
5. payroll list of persons to be paid and the amount that each one is to receive
6. young
More Words to Know:
7. wheel
1. lumberjack - person whose work is cutting down trees and sending the logs to
8. nephew
the sawmill; woodsman; logger
2. silhouettes dark images outlined against a lighter background
9. belong
3. business a place that makes or sells goods and services
10. whiskers
4. resourceful - good at thinking of ways to do things; quick-witted
11. whisper
5. team people working or acting together
12. elephant
6. trustworthy able to be depended on
13. white
Spelling:
Comprehension Skill:
14. shrink
Consonant Pairs ng, nk, ph, wh
Fact and Opinion
15. wharf
16. trunk
Grammar:
Comprehension Strategy:
17. strong
Singular Possessive Nouns
Monitor and Fix
18. blink
19. chunk
Writing Trait of the Week:
Social Studies Content:
20. skunk
Focus/Ideas
U.S. Geography
21. strengthen
Citizenship
22. bankrupt
Vocabulary Strategy:
U.S. History
23. phantom
Dictionary/Glossary
24. whimsical
25. whatever
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