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Unit6- "American Adventures"

 THEME #6 WEEK #1

    Reading Selection:   "Across the Wide Dark Sea"

    Focus Skill:    Connotation/Denotation

    Focus Strategy:    Create Mental Images

   Grammar Skill:   Perfect Tenses

    Spelling Skill:    VV Words

 

THEME #6 WEEK #2

  Reading Selection:   "Name This American"

    Focus Skill:    Cause and Effect

    Focus Strategy:    Make and Confirm Predictions

    Grammar Skill:   Contractions and Negatives

    Spelling Skill:    Contractions

 

THEME #6 WEEK #3

  Reading Selection:   "What's the Big Idea Ben Franklin"

    Focus Skill:    Connotation/Denotation

    Focus Strategy:    Reread to Clarify

    Grammar Skill:   Adverbs

    Spelling Skill:    Related Words

 

THEME #6 WEEK #4

  Reading Selection:   "Lewis and Clark"

    Focus Skill:    Cause and Effect

    Focus Strategy:    Use Decoding/Phonics

    Grammar Skill:   Comparing with Adverbs

    Spelling Skill:    Words with Three Syllables

 

THEME #6 WEEK #5

   Reading Selection:   "Black Frontiers"

    Focus Skill:   Summarize and Paraphrase

    Focus Strategy:    Use Context to Confirm Meaning

   Grammar Skill:   Prepositional Phrases

    Spelling Skill:    Words from Spanish

 

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