Week 15What Do Illustrators Do? pages 384a-417v
Oral language The Art of Illustrating
Listening, speaking, viewing build background
Word Study
Vocabulary instance, illustrate, style, textures, sketches, suggestions
Context Clues: Sentence Clues
Phonics/Decoding words with /oi/
Reading
Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Text Structure
Skill: Sequence
Fluency Repeated reading:
Tempo and Punctuation
Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
Approaching Drawing Animals
On Level Drawing Faces
Beyond Drawing Landscapes
ELL How to Draw Faces
Language Arts
Writing Play
Grammar Sentence Combining with Verbs
Spelling words with /oi/
Day 1
Theme Project: Build Background
Oral language Listening, speaking, viewing
Focus question Illustrations can tell a story without words. What are
some things you have illustrated?
Build background, 384
Read Aloud, “Before you came this way,” 385
Word Study
Vocabulary instance, illustrate, style, textures, sketches, suggestions 386
Phonics/Decoding Practice book O-103
Context clues/Sentence clues 387
Reading
Comprehension Read “Draw!” 386-387
Comprehension 387a-387b
Strategy: Text Structure
Skill: Sequence
Practice Book O-104
Fluency Partner reading: 3841
Model Fluency, 385
Language Arts
Writing Daily Writing Prompt: Write a paragraph about your favorite
illustration, explaining why you like it and where you saw it.
Scene 416-417b
Grammar Daily Language Activities, 417l
Sentence combining with verbs 417l
Grammar practice book, 89
Spelling pretest: 417g
Spelling practice book 89-90
Informal/Formal Vocabulary 386
Comprehension 387b
Day 2
Oral language Listening, speaking, viewing
Focus question How do illustrators decide what art to create for a book?
Word Study
Vocabulary review vocabulary, 388
Phonics/Decoding Practice book O- 109
Decode words with /oi/ 417e
Reading
Comprehension Read What do illustrators do? 388-409
Comprehension 388-411
Strategy: Text Structure
Skill: Sequence
Practice Book O-105
Fluency Choral reading: 391
Partner reading 384l
Language Arts
Writing Daily Writing Prompt: Write a paragraph telling how
an illustration and photograph are alike and how they are different.
Scene 416-417b
Grammar Daily Language Activities, 417l
Sentence combining with verbs 417l
Grammar practice book, 90
Spelling words with /oi/ 417g
Spelling practice book 91
Informal/Formal Comprehension 401, 409
Phonics 417e
Day 3
Oral language Listening, speaking, viewing
Focus question Read “Draw!” on pages 386-387. How is the way it is
Written similar to What do illustrators do? How are the two stories
different?
Summarize 411
Word Study
Vocabulary Review Words in context, 417c
Strategy: Context clues/sentence clues 417d
Phonics/Decoding Practice book O- 108
Decode multisyllabic words 417e
Reading
Comprehension Read What do illustrators do? 356-377
Comprehension check 411
Make inferences 411b
Fluency Repeated reading: 411a
Partner reading 384l
Practice book O-106
Language Arts
Writing Daily Writing Prompt: Write a letter to your principal,
describing a mural, or illustration, you would like to see
on a wall at school.
Mood 417a
Scene 416-417b
Grammar Daily Language Activities, 417l
Mechanics and usage commas 417j
Grammar practice book, 91
Spelling words with /oi/ 417h
Spelling practice book 92
Informal/Formal Fluency 411a
Day 4
Oral language Listening, speaking, viewing
Focus question What are the possible reasons why the number of frogs
is dropping? What can be done to protect them?
Expand vocabulary: How to help ecosystems 351f
Word Study
Vocabulary Homographs 351f
Apply vocabulary to writing 351f
Phonics/Decoding rhyme time 351e
Reading
Comprehension Read “Frog Frenzy!” 348-349
Test Strategy: Think and Search
Using the Library 347b
Practice book O 93
Fluency
Partner reading 340l
Language Arts
Writing Daily Writing Prompt: Write an advertisement asking
for people’s old Christmas trees for the sand dunes.
Report 351a-351b
Grammar Daily Language Activities, 351l
Past tense verbs 351j
Grammar practice book, 80
Spelling words with /ur/ 351h
Spelling practice book 81
Informal/Formal Vocabulary 351d
Day 5
Oral language Listening, speaking, viewing
Focus question How do people impact the environment in your
Community? Think of ways to lessen or reverse the impact.
Speaking and Listening Strategies 351a
Word Study
Vocabulary Spiral Review: Vocabulary Game, 351f
Reading
Comprehension Read Self-Selected Reading 340l-340j
Cause and effect
Fluency
Partner reading 340l
Language Arts
Writing Daily Writing Prompt: At night, a frog jumps onto your
Bed and wakes you up. In your journal write about
telling your friends and family and what they had to say.
Report 351a-351b
Grammar Daily Language Activities, 351l
Past tense verbs 351j
Grammar practice book, 81-82
Spelling posttest 351h
Spelling practice book 82
Assessment
Informal/Formal weekly assessment 157-164