Our texts this week will help us to understand and answer the question: Why do people use wheels? Our first Focus Story is a Realistic Fiction piece entitled Good Morning, Digger by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Melanie Hope Greenberg. In this book, boy watches in fascination as construction workers and their tremendous trucks transform a vacant lot into a wonderful new neighborhood center. This story shows the different stages of a building’s construction, from deep hole to its tallest girders—and all the trucks that help along the way!Our second Focus Story will be What Do Wheels Do All Day? by April Jones Prince, illustrated by Giles Laroche. This story falls into the genre of Informational Text. The author uses 29 different action verbs, along with cut-paper illustrations, to describe the purpose that wheels serve.
Our Target Skills this week will be: blending phonemes, reading rate, synonyms, the relationship between text and graphic features, drawing conclusions, questioning, and numbers as adjectives. We will also be working to identify the letter 'Pp', as well as its corresponding phoneme, /p/. Letter: Pp
High-Frequency Word: to (Please continue to practice all of our High-Frequency Words at home!)
Oral Vocabulary (Good Morning, Digger): cement, community, early, vacant, weeds, welding
Selection Vocabulary (What Do Wheels Do All Day?): patrol, sputter, travelers, twirl
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