Tier II
Lesson 6 Day 1
Phonics and Spelling
• Read the spelling words from p. 22 in your
packet.
• clubhouse
club/house
• Compound words are made up of at least
two smaller words. club
house
clubhouse
• What does the word clubhouse mean?
• A house for a club
Phonics and Spelling Continued
• Practice: Write a sentence for three
spelling words, but leave a blank for the
spelling word.
• Trade papers with your friend and fill in the
blanks in each other’s papers.
Vocabulary
• Shabby: things that look old and worn out
• Embarrass: when you fcleel uncomfortable or
ashamed
• Midst: in the middle of something
• Elevated: lifted up off the ground
• Dazed: confused; cannot think properly
• Collapses: falls
• Look at p. 60 in your Climbing Higher book.
Read the story, then complete the sentences on
p. 61.
Fact and Opinion
• Fact: Something that is true; it can be seen or proven
• Opinion: what someone thinks; key words are think,
believe, feel
• Please tell me if each of the following sentences is a fact
or an opinion.
• 1. We are at school.
• Fact
• 2. Our class is the best!
• Opinion
• 3. I think our school is very cool.
• Opinion
• 4. The principal of our school is Mrs. Arnold.
• Fact
Vocabulary
• Contribution
Initiative
• Say these words with me.
• A contribution is something someone gives in order to
help others. My contribution to our holiday party was to
clean the kitchen.
• Initiative is the first step in doing something, often on
your own without being told to do something. Our class
showed initiative when we wrote a letter to the local
newspaper.
• Which sentence describes contribution? Which sentence
describes initiative?
• 1. The vet set up a free pet clinic to help stray animals.
• initiative
• 2. The vet’s gift of her free time was greatly appreciated.
• contribution
Grammar/Writing
• We saw many people swimming in the lake.
• We saw many people at the lake, and they were
swimming.
• The first sentence tells a complete thought.
Remember that compound words are two words
joined together. The second sentence is a
compound sentence, which is made up of two
sentences joined together. Compound
sentences are joined with the words and, or, or
but. In compound sentences a comma is used
before the joining words.
Grammar/Writing Practice
• 1. Our team won the game. 2. We left the field,
and we went to Tony’s for pizza.
• Is the first sentence a compound sentence? How
can you tell?
• No; it does not have a comma or the words and,
or, but.
• Is the second sentence a compound sentence?
How can you tell?
• Yes; it has two simple sentences, the joining
word and, and a comma.
Fluency
• Look at page 23 in your packet.
• Listen as I read the words in the first column.
You may repeat the words after me.
• Work with your partner to read the words in the
first column to each other.
• Let’s do the same thing with the second and
third columns.
• I want you to practice reading all the words to
your partner.