Unit 3, Lesson 3 - A Zebra's Word / What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

Our Focus Stories this week will help us to answer the question: How do animals use their different body parts?  Our first story is entitled A Zebra’s World, written by Caroline Arnold and falls under the genre of Informational Text.  With this text we will follow the development of a baby zebra to its maturity.

     Our second story this week is What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.  It is also an Informational Text.  In this story, we will explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails.

     Our Target Skills this week are blending phonemes, final sound recognition, reading rate, using context clues, identifying author’s purpose, utilizing text and graphic features, and recognizing capitalization and punctuation.  We will also be working to identify the letter Ff and its corresponding phoneme, /f/. 

Letter: Ff

High-Frequency Words: you, what (Please continue to practice all of our High-Frequency Words at home!)

Oral Vocabulary (A Zebra’s World):  daily, herd, muscles, pattern, several, and usually

Select Vocabulary (What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?): belongs, capture, nasty, and sensitive



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