Unit 3 Week 4 Day 5: Frog and Toad Together

Unit 3 Week 4 Day 5: Frog and Toad Together

Changes

High Frequency: afraid, again, few, how, read, soon

Comprehension: Plot

Grammar: Verbs for Now and Past

Vocabulary (Amazing Words): gardener, nature, sprout, dim, shade, blossom, destroy, humongous

(Selection Words): rain, ground, head, shouted, shouting

Oral
Vocabulary
Review and Practice
(Amazing Words: shade, blossom, destroy, humongous) / Yesterday we made sentences with some of the Amazing Words we learned this week. We need to make sentences with the rest of our new Amazing Words.
The first word is shade.
Shade is a cool place that is blocked from the sun.
Let’s make a sentence using the word, shade
I’ll go first. “The tree gave a lot of shade.”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“A ___ gives shade.”
Another word is blossom.
A blossom is the flower part of a plant.
Let’s make a sentence using the word, blossom.
I’ll go first. “The rose blossom was beautiful.”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“The blossom looks _____.”
Another word is destroy.
Destroy means to ruin something.
Let’s make a sentence using the word, destroy.
I’ll go first. “Don’t destroy nature.”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“Don’t destroy _____.”
Another word is humongous.
Humongous means very, very big.
Let’s make a sentence using the word, humongous.
I’ll go first. “That bug was humongous!”
(Children each say a sentence with the word. Give a sentence started if needed.)
“A ___ is humongous.”
ELL Reader / ELL Reader 1.3.4 Dog and Cat and the Garden
ELL Readers Teaching Guide Page 31-32
Review
Yesterday we read about a Dog and a Cat who grow a garden.
Do you remember what things Dog and Cat want to plant in their garden? (Encourage children to look through the pictures in the book to remember what happened in the story.)
Read the Book- Read the story with the children. Have children take turns reading each page, or have the children echo read. (The teacher reads one sentence and children repeat what was read while following the words with their fingers.)
ELL Readers Teaching Guide p. 32
Copy page 32 for each child.
Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story.
Write a sentence about it.
Give a sentence starter if needed. “I liked ______.”
(Encourage children to read their sentences to each other.)

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