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Nbr. 85, May 2008

A Famous Leader.

READING COMPREHENSION - Poem

A rainy day.

READING COMPREHENSION/DEVELOPING VOCABULARY

An animal crossword.

ACQUIRING VOCABULARY

An animal name game: read each riddle to play the game. Then circle the answer, the animal's name!

Animals can help: helper dogs can carry things. They can pick up things and open doors too. Some helper dogs help people walk around safely. What other animals help people?

SCIENCE

Any time is reading time: summer is a good time for reading. You can read all kinds of books. You might even find a favorite!(LANGUAGE ARTS)

August 2008.

USING A CALENDAR

Bats!(Poem)

Be a super summer-safe kid!(READING AND ACQUIRING VOCABULARY) (Poem)

Big bear, little cub.

READING COMPREHENSION

Buddy'S[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Storms - Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

School rules - Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Buddy's[TM] citizenship.

Brief article

Celebrate! February is Black History month.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Check a chart.

USING A CHART

Chinese New Year ABCs.

IDENTIFYING ABC ORDER

Circle the long vowel.

IDENTIFYING LONG VOWELS - Brief article

Cute cub! Polar bears live in places with lots of snow and ice. A baby polar bear is called a cub.

SCIENCE

Dear educator.

Dental health secret code.

RECOGNIZING BEGINNING SOUNDS

Dogs are great helpers.

USING A DIAGRAM

Dragon dance math!(DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION)

Explore national parks.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES

Find the rhymes.

DEVELOPING PHONEMIC AWARENESS

Find the root!(RECOGNIZING)

Firefighters are ready!(Poem)

Firefighters teach us to stay safe.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION - Brief article

Four regions of the United States.

IDENTIFYING REGIONS - Brief article

Frogs.

SCIENCE

Getting directions.

RECOGNISING A COMPASS ROSE - Brief article

Giving thanks: giving thanks long ago and today.

SOCIAL STUDIES - Poem

Great women: March is National Women's History Month. What can we learn from great women?

SOCIAL STUDIES

Happy Chinese New Year.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Happy holidays: holidays for all!(Poem)

Harvest time! People pick fruits in the fall. Apples and pumpkins are fruits.

Poem

Hello, new friends!(SOCIAL STUDIES) (childhood friendship) (Brief article)

Holiday cookie count.

USING A GRAPH - Brief article

How are they exercising?

USING A PICTURE M&P - Brief article

How do we use money?

USING A CHART - Table

How does a butterfly grow?

READING COMPREHENSION

How long are whales?

USING A TABLE

Hurricanes!(SCIENCE) (teaching students about hurricanes) (Poem)

It's time to go! Where are you going, butterfly?

SCIENCE - Monarch butterflies - Poem - Brief article

July 2008.

USING A CALENDAR

June 2008.

USING A PICTURE GRAPH

Keep your heart healthy!

Lee acerca de un arbol.

USING A DIAGRAM

Let's move!(Poem)

Listening activity.

READING COMPREHENSION/DEVELOPING VOCABULARY

Listening activity.

Listening activity.

Listening activity.

Listening activity.

READING COMPREHENSION/DEVELOPMENT VOCABULARY - Brief article

Listening activity.

Brief article

Listening activity.

Brief article

Locate your state.

USING A MAP - Brief article

Look at a bat's body.

USING A DIAGRAM - Brief article

Look at the parts of a book.

USING A DIAGRAM

Look at the rain.

SCIENCE

Look at the world: let's travel the world and see special things. Towers and walls and homes built by kings.

Look at Tim's teeth.

USING A DIAGRAM

Look at two fruits.

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING - Brief article

Look closely at a frog!(USING A DIAGRAM)

Match the consonant digraphs.

IDENTIFYING BEGINNING CONSONANT DIAGRAPHS

Monarch math.

ADDING - Monarch butterflies and addition skills - Brief article

More or less?

Brief article

Native Americans today.

SOCIAL STUDIES - Poem - Photograph

New quarters are here.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Our country has 50 states.

READING A MAP - Brief article

Our Freedom and Liberty.

A Poem to Share for Veterans Day - Poem

Our presidents.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Our world: seven continents.

IDENTIFYING CONTINENTS - Brief article

Painting walls of whales.

READING AND LEARNING

Poem mix-up!(SEQUENCING)

Poem to share.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Read a picture story.

SEQUENCING - Brief article

Read a picture story.

READING COMPREHENSION - Brief article

Read a poem.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION - Brief article

Read a story.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Read about a tornado.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Read about a tree.

USING A DIAGRAM

Read about rain.

READING COMPREHENSION/ANALYZING WORDS

Read Buddy bear's message.

COMPLETING A TABLE/ACQUIRING VOCABULARY - Brief article

Read the poem.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Read the riddle!(ACQUIRING VOCABULARY)

Read the story.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Read the story.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

School rules!(SOCIAL STUDIES) (Brief article)

Section 1: recognizing initial consonant blends.

Brief article

Section 1: recognizing initial consonant digraphs.

WR Test Yourself! Weekly Reader Lileracy Skills Assessment

Section 2: using consonant blend words in sentences.

Brief article

Section 2: using silent e words.

WR Test Yourself! Weekly Reader Lileracy Skills Assessment

Section 3: reading comprehension.

WR Test Yourself! Weekly Reader Lileracy Skills Assessment

Section 3: reading comprehension.

Brief article

Sentence scramble.

REINFORCING SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Sentences and pictures.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Summer safety word search.

Terrific teeth!(SCIENCE)

The letter f as in fire.

RECOGNIZING BEGINNING CONSONANT SOUNDS - Brief article

The United States of America.

REINFORCING LOCATION WORDS - Brief article

Trees clean the air.

USING A DIAGRAM

Trouble for turtles.

READING AND LEARNING

Use the silent E.

IDENTIFYING LONG VOWEL SOUND AND THE SILENT E

Use your senses.

WRITING A POEM

Volcano facts to know.

READING COMPREHENSION - Brief article

Watch a frog grow.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Watch a storm form!(USING A DIAGRAM) (all about storms) (Brief article)

We live on a planet: we live on Earth. Earth is a planet. Why might Earth be called the blue planet?

SCIENCE

We love trees!(SCIENCE)

We need rain.

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

We think of Martin Luther King Jr.

SOCIAL STUDIES

What are six weather words?

IDENTIFYING CONTENT WORDS - Brief article

What did you learn?

READING COMPREHENSION

What is a map key?

USING A MAP - Brief article

What is a volcano? A volcano is a hole in Earth. It might be on a mountain. A volcano can erupt.

SCIENCE - Poem

What is the sound?

Brief article

What is the word?

READING AND ANALYZING WORDS

What is the word?

ACQUIRING VOCABULARY/IDENTIFYING CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT WORDS - Brief article

What letters are at the end?

REINFORCING FINAL CONSONANT DIGRAPHS

What's at the end?

IDENTIFYING ENDING CONSONANTS - Brief article

What's the word?

READING COMPREHENSION

What's the word?

READING COMPREHENSIONd

Where are national parks?

Where is China?

USING A WORLD MAP

Which book is it?

ACQUIRING VOCABULARY

Which have the same sounds?

RECOGNIZING VOWEL PAIRS

Which president is it?

READING COMPREHENSION

Which way?

IDENTIFYING DIRECTION WORDS - Brief article

Which word?

ACQUIRING VOCABULARY - Brief article

Which words have silent letters?

RECONIZING SILENT LETTERS

Who is it?

DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION

Wild wind: wind is air that moves. You can feel and hear wind. How does wind sound? What can wind do?

SCIENCE

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Word power.

Wow, whales! This is a kind of toothed whale. Dive inside to learn more about whales.

SCIENCE

WR test yourself!

WR test yourself!(Weekly Reader's Literacy Skills Assessment )

Write an acrostic poem.

WRITING A POEM

Write the word.

USING A DIGRAM

Y can be a vowel!(PHONICS)