Unit 5: Challenges Weekly Theme: Animal Architects Selection 5: Title: Animal Homes Author: Ann O. Squire

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Unit 5 Challenges Weekly Theme Animal
ArchitectsSelection 5Title Animal
HomesAuthor Ann O. Squire
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• Genre
• Informational Nonfiction a detailed explanation
  of real things using facts.
• Comprehension Strategy
• Summarize
• Comprehension Skill
• Relevant Facts and Details

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• Phonics
• Decode Words with the V/CV and VC/V Patterns
• Spelling Focus
• pilot, diner, tiger, favor, lemon, planet,
  model, shady, robot, tiny, label, cozy, silent,
  spider, frozen
• Review Words follow, basket, Sunday
• Challenge Words melon, stomach

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• Key Vocabulary
• hives boxes or houses that bees live in
• architects people who design buildings
• structures things that are built
• contain to hold inside
• retreats goes back
• shallow not deep
• shelter something that covers or protects

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• Vocabulary Skills
• Analogies
• Two pairs of words that have the same
  relationship.
• Example big is to little as deep is to shallow

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• Word Work
• Grammar Skills
• Pronoun-Verb Contractions
• A contraction is a shortened form of two words.
• An apostrophe replaces letters that are left out
  in a pronoun-verb contraction.

hes he is theyre they are
shes she is Ive I have
its it is youve you have