The Dot
Big Question: What treasures can we
create?
Author:
Peter H. Reynolds
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
SMALL GROUP
Timer
BIG QUESTION
WHAT TREASURES CAN WE CREATE?
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
The Dot
Day 1
Daily Fix-it
1. they went to the see.
2. Would you please eet your peas.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
Daily Fix-it
1. they went to the see.
They went to the sea.
2. Would you please eet your peas.
Would you please eat your peas?
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
Morning Warm-up
Some people enjoy drawing.
I like to paint.
What would you like to do?
What treasures can we create?
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
Oral Vocabulary
Doodle Art
My good imagination
Helps me when I create.
I can turn a doodle
Into something great.
First I make a squiggle.
Then I add a line.
And now I’ve made a picture
That is truly mine.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
Amazing Words
• create –
When you create something you make
something new.
• doodle –
A doodle is a scribble.
• imagination –
If you have a good imagination, you can
see things in your mind that aren’t there or
you can think of unusual ideas.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
Long e: ea
she
sheep
seat
s ea t
Blend Words
• h ea t
• s ea
• p ea k
• m ea n
• t ea se
• f ea st
• wh ea t
• st ea m
neat
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
beach
-each
peach
teach
bleach
b -each
-eam
beam
gleam
steam
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
-ean
bean
clean
glean
Word Reading - Long e: ea
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leave
heap
these
peach
we
leash
cream
free
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Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
Pete
sneak
leaf
eve
meat
cheek
beast
Created Treasures
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
1. Reading WB page 73
2. Spelling WB page 77
3. Journal – Write how you would turn a
line and a squiggle into a picture.
4. Centers
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 1
Daily Journal Writing
Day 1
Write how you would
turn a line and a
squiggle into a
picture.
The Dot
Day 2
Daily Fix-it
3. Each teem will play won game.
4. We played at the beech by the see.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
Daily Fix-it
3. Each teem will play won game.
Each team will play one game.
4. We played at the beech by the see.
We played at the beach by the sea.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
Morning Warm-up
Today we will read about what a girl
and her mother find along the beach.
Each object that the girl finds turns out
to be just what she wanted. What do
you dream about finding along a
beach?
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
Amazing
Words
carveCarve means “to
make by cutting”.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
Inflected Endings
jogged
happy
hopping
happier
spy
muddy
cry
sleepy
worry
happiest
spied
muddier
cries
sleepiest
worried
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
Word Work
Blend Words
Sort Words
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bumpier
studies
copied
luckiest
foggier
dried
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
fried
messiest
dries
walked
sillier
biggest
skipping
hurries
Word Reading – Inflected Endings
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dirtiest
stepped
stickier
tried
sloppiest
fixes
funnier
hugging
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jolliest
studied
cried
spies
worries
tapped
called
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
Adjectives for Colors and Shapes
1. Reading WB pages 74, 75, 76
2. Spelling WB page 78
3. Journal – Write about treasures that
might come out of the ocean.
4. Centers
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 2
Daily Journal Writing
Day 2
Write about ocean
treasures.
The Dot
Day 3
Daily Fix-it
5. please treet the boy nicely.
6. Thay will clean up the beech.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Daily Fix-it
5. please treet the boy nicely.
Please treat the boy nicely.
6. Thay will clean up the beech.
They will clean up the beach.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Morning Warm-up
Today we will read about Vashti and
her art class. Each dot Vashti draws
becomes a treasure. What treasures
have you created in art class?
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Amazing Words
• carve –
Carve means
to make by
cutting.
Long e: ea and Inflected Endings
• heat
• dried
• dries
• sillier
• silliest
dream
tries
speak
muddiest
cried
beast
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Word Reading
New Art
An artist named Dean
tried a new thing
That shows he is really
quite smart.
He carries home things
others don’t want,
And recycles them to
make art.
He has pennies,
And clean, worn-out jeans,
And trophies too.
Weave a bead in,
And look, he made
Something that’s new.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Build Words
base word
hurry
try
cry
study
-ed
-es
base word
easy
sunny
creamy
happy
-er
-est
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Illustrators all have their
own style of drawing.
Some use paper
collages to create their
art. Others use the
computer. Some use
paint. Others use
pencil. All illustrators use
their imagination. In The
Dot, Vashti learns to use
her imagination and
create art using just
dots.
Vocabulary
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artist
experimenting
splashed
straight
squiggle
stared
gold
High – Frequency Words
• colors
• paper
• drew
• blue
• over
• there
• sign
• now
• draw
• few
• great
• school
• show
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Title
Characters
1.
First
2.
Next
3.
Then
4.
Setting
Paint a blue dot on the paper.
Mix the blue and yellow dots to get a green
dot.
Paint a yellow dot on top of the blue dot.
Paint a picture.
Put the picture in a frame.
Hang the picture on the wall.
Sign your name on the picture.
1. Reading WB page 77
2. Spelling WB page 79
3. Journal – Write about something that
you created.
4. Centers
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 3
Daily Journal Writing
Day 3
Write about
something you’ve
created.
The Dot
Day 4
Daily Fix-it
7. We will eet lunch soon
8. I dreem of being a artist.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
Daily Fix-it
7. We will eet lunch soon
We will eat lunch soon.
8. I dreem of being a artist.
I dream of being an artist.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
Morning Warm-up
Today we will read about a great
artist. He used tiny, round dots to
make his art. What other shapes
might artists use?
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
Amazing Words
• hobby A hobby is something people do for fun
in their spare time.
• inspiration –
An inspiration is a sudden, bright idea.
• masterpiece –
A masterpiece is a great piece of work.
• sculptor –
A sculptor is an artist who makes or
carves things out of stone, wood, metal, or
another material.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
Long a: ai, ay and Possessives
train
Greg’s train
Long a
birds’ nest
Not Long a
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
Word Reading
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about
May
king’s
girls’
artist
tale
gives
surprise
would
friends
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Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
Jane’s
garden
visit
worry
rain
very
cape
surprised
soon
enjoy
Read Words in Context
Our friends were very surprised to see
Jane’s garden.
When they visit, Dad reads a tale about
the king’s cape.
The girls’ worry is that the rain will come
too soon.
Would May enjoy the surprise gift the
artist gives her?
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
1. Reading WB pages 78, 79
2. Spelling WB page 80
3. Journal – Write what the people at
the school art show might say about
Vashti’s dot pictures.
4. Centers
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 4
Daily Journal Writing
Day 4
Write what the people
at the school art show
might say about
Vashti’s dot pictures.
The Dot
Day 5
Daily Fix-it
9. Do not leen against that
10. The sine on the door said to keep
out?
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 5
Daily Fix-it
9. Do not leen against that
Do not lean against that.
10.The sine on the door said to keep out?
The sign on the door said to keep out.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 5
Morning Warm-up
This week we read about surprising
treasures.
Vashti’s doodle was one masterpiece
that was a treasure.
What treasures can you create with your
imagination?
Unit 5 The Dot – Day 5
Long e and Inflected Endings
• That is the easiest peach to reach.
• Jean will speak for the team.
• The silliest seal tried to sneak onto the
beach.
• Dean hurries to clean the mud from his
jeans.
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 5
High - Frequency Words
• over
• drew
• sign
• colors
• draw
• great
• show
Know what I can ____________
On this __________, in this spot?
Well, I ___________ a long line
And one ___________ big dot!
Where is the art __________?
___________ there in the hall.
The ____________ look lovely.
They dress up the wall!
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 5
1. Reading WB page 80
2. Handwriting sheet
3. Journal – Choose your favorite
artwork from this week’s selections.
Write to tell why it is your favorite.
4. Centers
Unit 4 The Dot – Day 5
Daily Journal Writing
Day 5
Choose your favorite
artwork.