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Big Question: What makes your community special?
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Nonfiction What Do You Love About Your City?
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Reading Strategy Using Background Knowledge Fiction Old Friends, New Friends
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Reading Strategy Using Background Knowledge
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Key Words 1: community, special, town, together, market, suburb, downtown, countryside Key Words 2: ancient, modern, amazing, narrow, huge, delicious, perfect Key Words 3: port, ferry, crowd, cable car
Could/couldn’t for Ability with when When I was younger, I couldn’t rollerblade. When I was six, I could ride a bike.
Key Words 4: hungry, serious, cry, enormous, hide, excited, laugh, explore, angry, afraid
Tense Review I have some important news. The potatoes are rotting. We arrived in the city of New York.
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2 Big Question: What is food for?
Fiction Jan’s Birthday Surprise
Nonfiction Animal Survival in Extreme Habitats Reading Strategy Identifying the Main Idea Fiction The Day They Didn’t Come Reading Strategy Using Background Knowledge
Vocabulary
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Key Words 1: rainforest, habitat, orangutan, endangered, extinct, honeybee, grasslands, pollution Key Words 2: survive, desert, fur, adapt, seal, ice, world Key Words 3: melting, rising, temperature, climate Key Words 4: branch, worried, warn, storm, blow, flood, yell, shine, mud, destroy
Past Progressive The camels were walking slowly. Interrupted Past While Luisa was brushing her teeth, she heard a loud crash.
Big Question: What is art?
Reading Nonfiction Unusual Art Reading Strategy Comparing and Contrasting Reading Strategy Predicting from Pictures
Vocabulary
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Key Words 1: painting, photography, architecture, mural, shiny, colorful, ugly, calm Key Words 2: artist, pattern, build, sandcastle, work of art, ceramics, gallery Key Words 3: temporary, ordinary, release, famous Key Words 4: nest, hummingbird, plastic, bottle cap, peacock, sketch, creation, metal, portrait, feather
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives It’s taller than a house. Australia has the best beaches. Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Aunt Ruth talked more excitedly than usual. Peacocks were the birds Aunt Ruth liked best.
Big Question: Why do we travel?
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Fiction The Portrait
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Should/shouldn’t, must/mustn’t You shouldn’t be sad. People must stay indoors.
Big Question: Why do we need to take care of nature?
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Present Progressive with Future Meaning I’m having chilaquiles for breakfast this weekend.
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Key Words 1: energy, balanced diet, fat, nutritious, tasty, protein, unhealthy, mealtimes Key Words 2: syrup, soup, butter, lemon, strawberry, popcorn, pumpkin Key Words 3: carbohydrates, grilled, chopsticks, digest Key Words 4: fry, sausage, potato, ingredients, fork, roast, honey, cupboard, frosting, pot
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Reading Strategy Monitoring Comprehension Reading Strategy Monitoring Comprehension
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Nonfiction Breakfast Around the World
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Nonfiction Being a Responsible Traveler
Key Words 1: tourist, culture, camping, cabin, campfire, hiking, souvenir, castle Key Words 2: damage, coast, sightseeing, rescue, canoe, waterfall, tour guide Key Words 3: unspoiled, creature, respect, sanctuary Key Words 4: album, village, slope, jungle, ruin, wall, trail, archaeologist, construction, guest
Comparatives Volunteering is not as relaxing as sightseeing. The beach is less interesting than the city.
Reading Strategy Identifying Author’s Purpose Fiction The Top of the World Reading Strategy Comparing and Contrasting
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Gerunds as Subjects and Objects Walking in these mountains is the best thing in the world. I loved learning languages.