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**Spelling City**
Reading/Spelling We have a wonderful tool for practicing spelling words called "Spelling City." I have divided the links by lessons and students can play games and even take a spelling test which grades itself! Don't miss out on this fabulous, FREE resource! Theme 1 "Finding a Way" [|Lesson 1 "Rope Burn"] Vocabulary: humiliation, expectations, fringes, hesitating, sincere, coaxed Genre Study: Realistic Fiction & Magazine articles Comprehension Focus: Plot: Conflict & Resolution; Use Story Structure [|Lesson 2 "Line Drive"] Vocabulary: maven, mortified, reigned, conceited, designated, smirk, exhilarated Genre Study: Autobiography & Poetry Comprehension Focus: same as Lesson 1

[|Lesson 3 "Chang and the Bamboo Flute"] Vocabulary: pried, desperately, sneered, indignantly, urgently, grudgingly Genre Study: Historical Fiction and Interviews Comprehension Focus: Characters' Motives and Monitoring Comprhension [|Lesson 4 "The Daring Nellie"] Vocabulary: relented, faze, eccentric, infuriated, disheartened, impassable, crusaded Genre Study: Biography and Personal Narrative Comprehension Focus: Same as Lesson 3 [|Lesson 5 "It Takes Talent!"] Vocabulary (Students will be introduced to the following words but do not have to know the meanings for Theme 1 Test): genial, prognostication, stricken, dramatically, restrain, protest, feverishly, overcom, flop, spectacular Genre Study: review of Theme 1 genres Comprehension Focus: review of Theme 1 strategies Theme 2: [|Lesson 6 - "The Night of San Juan]" Vocabulary: wistful, grateful, grim, raspy, swarmed, revelers, irresistable Genre Study: Realistic Fiction & Photo Essay Comprehension Focus: Finding the stories' theme and asking questions [|Lesson 7 - "When the Circus Came to Town"] Vocabulary: fret, assured, nudged, outlandish, ruckus, proclaimed Genre Study: Realistic Fiction & Poetry Comprehension Focus: Historical Fiction & Poetry [|Lesson 8 - "When Washington Crossed the Delaware"] Vocabulary: crucial, crisis, maneuvered, perserverance, encountered, persuading, appealed, destiny Genre Study: Narrative Nonfiction & Poetry Comprhension Focus: Text Structure (Understanding the Sequence of stories) and Using Graphic Organizers [|Lesson 9 - "Leonardo's Horse"] Vocabulary: scholars, specialized, gesture, envisioned, proportion, resisted Genre Study: Narrative Nonfiction and Myths Comprehension Focus: Same as Lesson 8 [|Lesson 10 - "The Secret Ingredient"] Vocabulary: (Students will be introduced to the following words but do not have to know the meanings for Theme 1 Test): eminent, charity, modest, disgruntled, inadequate, aghast, dismayed, amends, absentminded, concoction Genre Study: Fiction and Expository Nonfiction Comprehension Focus: All strategies from Theme 2 lessons Theme 3 [|Lesson 11 - "Sailing Home - A Story of a Childhood at Sea"] [|Lesson 12 - "Ultimate Field Trip 3 - Wading into Marine Biology"] [|Lesson 13 - "Stormalong"] [|Lesson 14 - "A Drop of Water"] [|Lesson 15 - "How Prarie Became Ocean"] Theme 4 [|Lesson 16 - "The School Story"] [|Lesson 17 - "Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street"] [|Lesson 18 - "Project Mulberry"] [|Lesson 19 - "Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison"] [|Lesson 20 - "The Invention Convention"] Theme 5 [|Lesson 21 - "Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles"] [|Lesson 22 - "The Power of W.O.W!"] [|Lesson 23 - "Any Small Goodness"] [|Lesson 24 - "Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride"] [|Lesson 25 - "The Compassion Campaign"] Theme 6 [|Lesson 26 - "Lewis and Clark"] [|Lesson 27 - "Klondike Kate!"] [|Lesson 28 - "The Top of the World - Climbing Mount Everest"] [|Lesson 29 - "The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon"] [|Lesson 30 - "Exploring the Gulf Coast"]