Skills at a Glance:
Reading Skill: Main Idea & Details
 Main Idea – What the story is about Details – Supports and tells more
Phonics Skill: Long Vowels; CVCe Patterns in Longer Words
Fluency: Reading Rate
Grammar/Writing Skills: Commands and Exclamations
 Commands – tell someone to do something Exclamations – show excitement
High-Frequency Vocabulary Words: children – more than one child different – not the same as the others ears – body part used for listening finally – took a long time to happen hundred – ten groups of ten short – not tall
Robust Vocabulary Words:
blockades – prevents (keeps) you from getting some place
soaked – completely wet
deny – to not give someone what they have asked for
consider – to think very carefully about something
misplaced – when something is in the wrong place
principles – the things you believe about what is right or wrong
opinionated – when you have strong ideas about something
bulk – the size and weight of a large object