Redwood City School District
Houghton Mifflin Pacing Guide
First Grade
Theme 6: Animal Adventures
Anthology Selection #1: The Sleeping Pig
Read Aloud: Fox, Alligator, and Rabbit
Theme Concept: Real and imaginary animals have all kinds of adventures.
Comprehension Skill
Key
Grammar
Phonics
Vocabulary
Target
PB pg. 60
Forms/Grammar
Vocabulary
Story Structure
began
Naming
Blending Long
PB pgs. 61, 62
celebrate
Words for
o Words (CV
coyote
People and
and CVCe) and
cricket
Animals
Long u Words
howl
PB pg. 67
(CVCe)
•Prepositions (in, out) tail
PB pgs. 53-56
•Conjunctions
rabbit
•Past tense verbs
watermelon
Alphabetical
Final Clusters
Order
ft, lk, nt
PB pg. 65
PB pg. 57
Author: Carmen Tafolla and Jan Epton Seale
Illustrator: Rosario Valderamma
Genre: Fantasy
Spelling
PB pgs. 63, 68, 307
go
so
nose
bone
no
home
Fry’s High
Frequency
Words
by
out
so
no
Word Pattern
Board
TE pgs. T28, T40,
T68
“-oke” words
poke
broke
joke…
Writing Assessment Prompt for the end of Theme 6:
Expository
Tell me about the rainforest.
Reading Strategy: Summarize
Focus Standard: 3.1 Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting,
and character(s) in a story, as well as the story’s beginning, middle, and
ending.
Focused Approach Sentence Frames:
see Ed Services folder, in HM file, in Pacing Guides, under 1st Grade
Suggested Resources for Comprehension, Grammar
and Scaffolded Instruction:
Grammar - Workbook Plus and Reteaching Workbook
ELL Handbook pgs. 178-187
Summary ELL 6-2
Extra Support Handbook pgs. 174-183
ES 6-2