Our Focus Stories this week will help us to answer the question: How do animals and people communicate? Both stories fall into the genre of realistic fiction. Our first text this week will be Amelia's Show-and-Tell Fiesta, written by Mimi Chapra and illustrated by Martha Aviles. At her very first show-and-tell, Amelia may have made a big mistake! Seeing a basket filled with all sorts of small objects makes Amelia worry that she has brought the wrong item to share with her new classmates. The most precious thing of all from her island home may not be the right thing in her new American school.
Next, we will read Mice Squeak, We Speak, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. Three children describe a menagerie of animals and the sounds they make. They bear the message that every living thing has something to utter, but only humans talk.
Our Focus Skills this week will be blending and segmenting onsets and rimes, reading with expression, understanding characters and author's choice, as well as analyzing and evaluating a text. We will also be focusing on the letter Tt and its corresponding phoneme, /t/. High-Frequency Word: we (Please continue to practice all of our Sight Words at home!)
Letter: Tt
Oral Vocabulary (Amelia's Show-and-Tell Fiesta): foolish, frowns, ruffled, special, treasures, tropical
Selection Vocabulary (Mice Squeak, We Speak): chatter, coo, snore, squawk
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