Unit 5 Week 3 Day 3: Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery
Great Ideas
High Frequency Words: among, another, instead, none
Comprehension: Compare and Contrast
Grammar: How sentences begin and end
Vocabulary : Amazing Words: explanation, riddle, wonder, rafters, darling, gorgeous, case, suspect
Selection Words: detectives, mystery, solve, hey, meadow, million, hurray
Reading
Reading Street Book #5
Comprehension: Story: Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery.
Main Idea
We are going to read a story about two mouse detectives who are trying to solve a
Story
mystery.
Vocabulary
Look at the pictures in the story Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery.
What do you think is going to happen in this story?
Story Vocabulary
detectives – Detectives are people who try to find out things.
What are detectives? Detectives are people who try to find out things.
mystery– A mystery is a puzzle about something.
What is a mystery? A mystery is a puzzle about something
solve - Solve means to find the answer to a mystery.
What does solve mean? Solve means to find the answer to a mystery.
hey – Hey is a cry used to get attention.
What is hey? Hey is a cry used to get attention.
meadow – A meadow is land covered in grass or hay.
What is a meadow? A meadow is land covered in grass or hay.
million – A million is one thousand thousands.
What is a million? A million is one thousand thousands.
hurray – Hurray is a shout of happiness.
What is hurray? hurray is a shout of happiness.
Compare and Contrast
Some things, like cats and dogs, are alike in some ways and different in some ways.
Compare means to find the things that are the same. Contrast means to find the things
that are different.
How are a dog and a cat the same?
How are a dog and a cat different?
While I read the story Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery, think about what
things are alike and how they are different.
(Read Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery aloud while the children follow
along.)
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Unit 5 Week 3 Day 3: Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery
Great Ideas
Story Comprehension
Why does Jabber say they need a mystery to solve? They are detectives and they have
nothing to do.
What is the mystery? Where did an acorn and a little oak tree come from?
Where do acorns come from? Acorns come from big oak trees.
What do Dot and Jabber discover? They discover that the big oak tree is a long way
away. The acorn had to travel across the meadow somehow.
How is an acorn like a maple seed? How is it different? Both come from trees and grow
into trees. The maple seeds have wings that twirl and ride the wind. The acorn is like a
nut.
What did Dot mean when she said that acorns have sneaky feet? Dot is wondering how
the acorn might have walked to where they found the little oak tree.
What did the squirrel do with the acorn? It stuffed the acorn in its mouth.
What do you think the squirrel will do with the acorn? It will eat it or bury it until later.
How do Dot and Jabber solve the mystery? They watch the squirrel carry the acorn
away and bury it.
What are the left over clues that Jabber wants to eat? Jabber wants to eat acorns.
Grammar:
How sentences
begin
A sentence is a group of words that tells a complete idea.
It begins with a capital letter.
A statement ends with a period. A question ends with a question mark.
(Write: This is an acorn)
Read this sentence. This is an acorn
Does it begin with a capital letter? yes
Is it telling or asking? telling
Should it end with a period or a question mark? period (Put the period at the end of
the sentence.)
(Write: How did it get here)
Read this sentence. How did it get here
Does it begin with a capital letter? yes
Is it asking or telling? asking
Should it end with a period or a question mark? question mark (Put the question mark
at the end of the sentence.)
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Unit 5 Week 3 Day 3: Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery
Great Ideas
(Write: can an acorn walk away)
Read this sentence. can an acorn walk away
Does it begin with a capital letter? no (Add a capital letter.)
Is it asking or telling? asking
Should it end with a period or a question mark? question mark (Put the question mark
at the end of the sentence.)
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