This week’s Focus Stories will help us to answer the Essential Question: How do people get food from plants? Our first book falls under the genre of Informational Text. It is entitled Bread Comes to Life by George Levenson, photographed by Shmuel Thaler. This story will take us on a tour of how bread is made from scratch. A thresher, a grinder, and finally, a doughy combination of flour, water, yeast, and oil combine to make a freshly baked loaf of whole wheat bread.
Our second story will be Pie in the Sky, written by Lois Ehlert. This text is an example of RealisticFiction. We will join a father and child as they watch over their backyard cherry tree--and all the colorful living things surrounding it--throughout the seasons. At the end of the summer, they harvest the cherries together and make a delicious pie for the whole family to enjoy.
Our Target Skills this week are blending/segmenting/substituting phonemes, reading with expression, classifying and categorizing seasons, utilizing text and graphic features, identifying the sequence of events, and summarizing information. We will also by reviewing the following letters and their corresponding phonemes this week: Ee, Xx, Jj, Oo, Hh, and Kk. Letter/s: Review Ee, Xx, Jj, Oo, Hh, and Kk
High-Frequency Words: Review over, by, them, ate, her, there, give, could, when, make, say, she, some, play, new, all, away, said, was, he, must, good, then, no
Oral Vocabulary (Bread Comes to Life): crop, golden, grind, patch, sprout, sturdy
Selection Vocabulary (Pie in the Sky): buds, damp, feast, finally
Thank you to www.amazon.com for the cover images and summaries!
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