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Unit 1 • Let’s Explore
Mysteries
The Mystery of the
Missing Lunch
Adapting to Survive
A Walk in the Desert
Our National Parks
Animals Come Home to
Our National Parks
Astronauts
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The Astronaut and
the Onion
Wildlife Watchers
The Raft
Unit 1 Vocabulary Review
Contents
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Comprehension: Problem and Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Comprehension: Problem and Solution Chart. . . . . . . . . . 3
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Text Feature: Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Vocabulary Strategy: Unfamiliar Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Phonics: Short Vowels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Comprehension: Main Idea and Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Comprehension: Main Idea Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Literary Elements: Assonance and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . 12
Vocabulary Strategy: Surrounding Words . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Phonics: Long a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Comprehension: Main Idea and Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Comprehension: Main Idea Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Study Skill: Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Vocabulary Strategy: Compound Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Phonics: Long e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Comprehension: Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Comprehension: Character Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Text Feature: Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Vocabulary Strategy: Using a Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Phonics: Long i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Comprehension: Character, Setting, Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Comprehension: Setting Flow Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Text Feature: Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Vocabulary Strategy: Paragraph Clues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Phonics: Long o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36, 37
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Unit 2 • Take a Stand
Mighty Jackie
New Places, New
Faces
My Diary from Here
to There
Focus on China
Stealing Beauty
Bright Ideas
How Ben Franklin Stole
the Lightning
Snakes
Dear Mr. Winston
Unit 2 Vocabulary Review
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Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Text Feature: Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Vocabulary Strategy: Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Phonics: Words with ch, and tch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Comprehension: Make Inferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Comprehension: Inferences Word Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Text Feature: Primary Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Vocabulary Strategy: Word Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Phonics: Words with th, sh, wh, and ph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Comprehension: Fact and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Comprehension: Fact and Opinion Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Study Skill: Parts of a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Vocabulary Strategy: Plural Endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Phonics: Complex Consonant Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Comprehension: Problem and Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Comprehension: Problem and Solution Chart. . . . . . . . . 61
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Literary Elements: Figurative Language and Alliteration. 63
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Phonics: Words with /ôr/ and /är/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Comprehension: Make Inferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Comprehension: Inferences Word Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Text Feature: Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Vocabulary Strategy: Base Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Phonics: Words with /âr/ and /îr/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 74
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Baseball
Unit 3 • Making a Difference
Friend or Foe?
Roadrunner’s Dance
People Who Made
a Difference
My Brother Martin
Kids Get it Done
Kid Reporters at Work
Great Plains Indians
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Mystic Horse
Precipitation
Snowflake Bentley
Unit 3 Vocabulary Review
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Literary Elements: Foreshadowing and Symbolism . . . . 79
Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Phonics: Words with /ûr/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Text Feature: Salutation and Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes un- and re- . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Phonics: Silent Letters kn, mb, and wr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Comprehension: Compare and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Comprehension: Venn Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Study Skill: Use the Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Vocabulary Strategy: Inflected Verb Endings . . . . . . . . . 94
Phonics: Soft c and g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Comprehension: Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Comprehension: Sequence Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Text Feature: Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Phonics: Plural Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Comprehension: Summarize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Comprehension: Main Idea Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Literary Elements: Imagery and Figurative Language . 107
Vocabulary Strategy: Multiple-Meaning Words . . . . . . . 108
Phonics: Compound Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110, 111
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Unit 4 • Viewpoints
Dear Mrs. LaRue
Creative Solutions
The Blind Hunter
Energy: Power Sources
The Power of Oil
Whales
Adelina’s Whales
The Sea
At Home in the Coral
Reef
Unit 4 Vocabulary Review
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Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comprehension: Draw Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comprehension: Conclusions Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Text Feature: Line Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Phonics: Inflected Endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Comprehension: Draw Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Comprehension: Conclusions Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Text Feature: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Vocabulary Strategy: Word Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Phonics: Changing y to i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Comprehension: Persuasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Comprehension: Inference/Opinion Web . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Study Skill: Media Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Vocabulary Strategy: Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Phonics: /ü/, /u¯ /, and /u˙ / Sounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Comprehension: Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Comprehension: Sequence Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Literary Elements: Meter and Rhyme Scheme . . . . . . . 137
Vocabulary Strategy: Homographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Phonics: Words with /oi/ and /ou/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Comprehension: Compare and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Comprehension: Venn Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Literary Elements: Protagonist and Hyperbole . . . . . . . 144
Vocabulary Strategy: Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Phonics: Words with /ô/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147, 148
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Unit 5 • Relationships
Going to the Library
Because of Winn-Dixie
Putting on a Play
Ranita, the Frog Princess
Explorations
Exploring the
Undersea Territory
Artists at Work
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Me and Uncle Romie
Wild Horses
Wild Horses
Unit 5 Vocabulary Review
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Comprehension: Summarize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Comprehension: Summarizing Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Literary Elements: Onomatopoeia and Simile . . . . . . . . 153
Vocabulary Strategy: Connotation/Denotation . . . . . . . 154
Phonics: The VC/CV Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Comprehension: Make Judgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Comprehension: Make Judgments Flow Chart . . . . . . . 158
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Text Feature: Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Vocabulary Strategy: Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Phonics: V/CV and VC/V Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Comprehension: Fact and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Comprehension: Fact and Opinion Chart . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Study Skill: Skim and Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Vocabulary Strategy: Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Phonics: Accented Syllables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Comprehension: Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Comprehension: Character Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Text Feature: Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Vocabulary Strategy: Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Phonics: Final /әr/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Comprehension: Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Comprehension: Cause and Effect Diagram. . . . . . . . . 179
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Literary Elements: Hyperbole and Figure of Speech . . 181
Vocabulary Strategy: Paragraph Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Phonics: Final /әl/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184, 185
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Unit 6 • Discovery
The Gold Rush Game
Wild Visitors
The Cricket in
Times Square
Discovering
Nature’s Secrets
Meet a Bone-ified
Explorer
Airplanes
My Brothers’
Flying Machine
Ants
The Life and Times
of the Ant
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Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Comprehension: Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Comprehension: Cause and Effect Diagram. . . . . . . . . 188
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Text Feature: Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Phonics: Final /әn/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Comprehension: Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Comprehension: Theme Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Text Feature: Advertisement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Vocabulary Strategy: Paragraph Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Phonics: Homophones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Comprehension: Make Generalizations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Comprehension: Generalizations Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Study Skill: Functional Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Vocabulary Strategy: Latin Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Phonics: Prefixes dis-, mis-, non-, un- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Comprehension: Author’s Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Comprehension: Author’s Perspective Map . . . . . . . . . 209
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Literary Elements: Repetition and Personification. . . . . 211
Vocabulary Strategy: Inflectional Endings . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Phonics: Suffixes y, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Comprehension: Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Comprehension: Description Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Literary Elements: Plot and Moral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek Roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Phonics: /ûr/ in Stressed Syllables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221, 222
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y might
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p
if you choose n and p, you
Beginning consonants: b, c, d, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, r, t, v, w
Ending consonants: b, ck, d, ff, g, ng, ll, m, n, p, r, s, t, w, y
1. Consonant pairs:
2. Consonant pairs:
3. Consonant pairs:
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4. Consonant pairs:
Now write a sentence that uses three of your short-vowel words.
5.
At Home: Play a game: Take turns saying two consonants,
such as m and p. Then put a vowel between them and say
the word.
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Main Idea and Details
Name
As you read A Walk in the Desert, fill in the Main Idea Chart.
Details
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Main Ideas
How does the information you wrote in the Main Idea Chart help you
to summarize A Walk in the Desert?
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Phonics:
Long a
Name
escape
waves
claim
state
waiting
whale
take
snakes
plains
caves
lakes
play
rain
Maine
days
Complete the story by filling in the blanks with words that have
the long a sound. You may use some words more than once.
The Best Place
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__a_e
that an eastern
, like _ai__
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to _ai__
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__a_es
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in the
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of winter are gone.
until the cold __ays
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. The temperature is often very hot, and
people __a_e
indoors to air conditioning when
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_a_es
and go hiking on the
__ai_s
. They watch out for
__a_es
water with them.
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A Walk in the Desert
Grade 4 /Unit 1
and _a_e
plenty of
At Home: Have the student write a paragraph using ten
words with the long a sound that are not on this list.
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or _ai_
Practice
Name
Vocabulary
Read the vocabulary words and the sentences that follow. On
the lines below rewrite each sentence, using a vocabulary word,
changing the sentence’s meaning.
journey
wildlife
natural
roamed
completed
1. We followed the directions and went directly to the restaurant.
2. My family has had a few dogs and cats for pets.
3. There were many artificial ingredients in the yogurt.
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4. My class went on an outing this afternoon to see an exhibit at
the museum.
5. Over the weekend I started reading the first book in that series.
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