Unit 5, Week 2 - A Tiger Grows Up / Leo the Late Bloomer

     This week's Focus Stories will help us to answer the essential question: How do things change when someone is growing up? Our first story is an informational text entitled A Tiger Grows Up, written by Anastasia Suen.  Through this book, we will follow the development of a tiger from infancy to adulthood, as she grows up in India.
     Our second story this week will be a Fantasy--Leo the Late Bloomer--written by Robert Kraus and illustrated by Jose Aruego.  Leo the tiger isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he's ready.

      Our Target Skills this week will be blending and segmenting phonemes, substituting phonemes, reading rate, story structure, determining the sequence of events, analyzing and evaluating, and antonyms.  We will also work on isolating the the phonemes /x/ and /j/.

Phonemes: /x/ and /j/

High-Frequency Words: said, was, then, good, ate, could

Oral Vocabulary (A Tiger Grows Up): blend, cub, den, pounces, prey, and scraps

Selection Vocabulary (Leo the Late Bloomer): bloomer, patience, signs, and sloppy



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