Monday Warm-Up
• What does the latin root “ped” mean?
Consider these words:
– Pedal
– Biped
– Pedestrian,
– Pedestal
– Pedicure
Monday, September 30
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Warm Up/Housekeeping/Attendance
Read and discuss pages 49-51
Vocab-O-Gram Group Activity
Listen to An American Childhood (pages
52-58) Track 16 and 17
• Groups discuss questions on page 58
Tuesday Warm-Up
• The Greek root word “phon” means
sound. Make a list of words that you
can think of that contain “phon” as a
root word.
Tuesday, October 1
•WarmUp/Housekeeping/Attendance
•Brain Pop: context clues
•Review: first person and third person
(Author’s Point of View)
•Complete Workbook pages 23-24 (with
your team)
•Read Chapter 2 of novel: My Life in Dog
Years by Gary Paulsen
Wednesday Warm-Up
• Vision, revise, visible, and visit all contain the
Latin root “vis”. What does it mean? Can you
think of other words that use that root?
Wednesday, October 2
• Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance
• Discuss use of “dialect” and How good readers
make connections with text (text-self, textworld, text-text)
• Read The Luckiest Time of All pages 63-67.
Use graphic organizer to record 3 connections
to the text.
Thursday Warm-Up
The Greek root “mono” means “one”.
Make a list of words that you can think of
that contain that root
Thursday, October 3
• Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance
• Review “Authors Point of View” and “Context
Clues”.
• Complete worksheet pages 27-28
• Read Chapter 3 of My Life in Dog Years
• Go to library to check out, renew, and return
books
Friday Warm-Up
• The Greek root “therm” means “heat”. List
word you can think of that contain that word.
Friday, October 4
• Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance
• Two Station Rotations
Station 1
Using context clues test
practice (pages 70-71
• Folktale: Taily-Po
Station 2
Complete ISO for
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