Unit 1 Amazing Words and Story Words



First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 3.1: A Place to Play (Genre: Realistic Fiction) |

|Big Question: How do places change? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|boy – male child |by |

|art – painting, drawing, or sculpture |handy |

|tower – a tall building or part of a building |lucky |

|grew – got bigger |my |

|now – at this time |try |

|sunset – last time of the day when the sun is seen |fly |

| |silly |

|Amazing Words: |sunny |

|growth – getting bigger |cry |

|public – for all people |10. puppy |

|teeter – wobbles a bit; moves unsteadily | |

|makeshift – a substitute for what you don’t have when you need it |High Frequency Words: |

|population – the number of people who live in a place |always |

|shuffle – to walk slowly and drag your feet |everything |

|crooked – bent, curved, or twisted |things |

|spindly – very long and thin |become |

| |nothing |

|Comprehension: Sequence, Summarize |day |

|Fluency: Accuracy and Appropriate Rate |stays |

|Writing: Organization, Realistic Story | |

|Grammar: Action Verbs | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Rhyming Words, Add Initial Phonemes | |

|Phonics: Syllable Pattern CV | |

|Spelling: Vowel Sounds of y | |

|Listening and Speaking: Relate an Experience in Sequence | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 3.2: Ruby in Her Own Time (Genre: Animal Fantasy) |

|Big Question: What do we learn as we grow and change? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. beautiful – very pretty to see or hear |bring |

|2. father – man who has a child or children |bank |

|3. feather – one of the light, soft things that cover a bird’s body |rink |

|4. flew – took off and moved in the air |sunk |

|5. mother – woman who has a child or children |trunk |

|6. precious – having great value |sang |

|7. howling – making a loud, whining sound |blank |

|8. night – the time between sunset and sunrise |pink |

| |wing |

|Amazing Words: |10. rang |

|1. attempt – try to do something | |

|2. event – something that happens |High Frequency Words: |

|3. time line – the order you follow to succeed at something |any |

|4. famous – well-known |every |

|5. flatter – say something very nice about someone that may not be true |were |

|6. correct – to change something to make it right |enough |

|7. common - |own |

|8. lovely – very pretty |ever |

| |sure |

|Comprehension: Compare and Contrast | |

|Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing | |

|Writing: Voice, Comments About a Story | |

|Grammar: Verbs That Add -s | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Add Phonemes, Segment and Blend Syllable | |

|Phonics: Compound Words | |

|Spelling: Consonant Patterns ng, nk | |

|Listening and Speaking: Share Information and Ideas | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 3.3: The Class Pet (Genre: Expository Text) |

|Big Question: What do we learn about animals as they grow and change? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. mouse – a small, furry animal with a pointed snout and a thin, bare tail |fix |

|2. fur – the hair that covers the bodies of some animals |classes |

|3. brown – the color of soil or chocolate |kiss |

|4. teaches – gives information or explains how to do something |buses |

| |fixes |

|Amazing Words: |wish |

|1. features – parts or details that stand out |kisses |

|2. natural – grow on its own in nature and is not made by people |class |

|3. tumble – to fall helplessly |wishes |

|4. nibble – eat with small bites or in small pieces |10. bus |

|5. wriggle – twist and move back and forth | |

|6. mature – grow older and become adults |High Frequency Words: |

|7. swoop – to come down fast on something |away |

|8. crumple – bend out of shape and wrinkle it |house |

|9. nudges – to touch or push gently |very |

| |car |

|Comprehension: Fact and Opinion |our |

|Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing |friends |

|Writing: Conventions |school |

|Grammar: Verbs That Do Not Add -s | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Segment and Blend Syllables, Add Phonemes | |

|Phonics: r-Controlled or, ore | |

|Spelling: Endings –es, Plural -es | |

|Listening and Speaking: Give Descriptions | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 3.4: Frog and Toad Together: The Garden (Genre: Animal Fantasy) |

|Big Question: What changes happen in a garden? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. ground – soil or dirt on the surface of the Earth |plan |

|2. head – top part of your body or the front part of most animals’ bodies |planned |

|3. rain – water that falls in drops from the clouds |help |

|4. shouted – called out or yelled loudly |helped |

|5. shouting – calling or yelling |drop |

| |dropped |

|Amazing Words: |call |

|1. gardener – someone who grows plants |called |

|2. nature - everything in the world that is not made by people |ask |

|3. sprout – to begin to grow |10. asked |

|4. dim - not very bright | |

|5. shade – place that is darker than the area around it because light from the sun has been blocked |High Frequency Words: |

|6. sprinkling – a small amount of something, scatter around |afraid |

|7. destroy - ruin |again |

|8. humongous – very, very big |few |

| |how |

|Comprehension: Author’s Purpose |read |

|Fluency: Expression and Intonation |soon |

|Writing: Sentence, Lists | |

|Grammar: Verbs for Past and for Future | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Isolate Final Phonemes, Add Phonemes | |

|Phonics: r- Controlled ar | |

|Spelling: Add Endings | |

|Listening and Speaking: Poetry Presentation | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 3.5: I’m a Caterpillar (Genre: Literary Nonfiction) |

|Big Question: What changes can be seen in nature? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. caterpillar – insect that changes into a moth or butterfly |her |

|2. chrysalis – forms from the body of a caterpillar and has a hard shell that protects the caterpillar as it changes into a butterfly |first |

|3. crawl – move on your hands and knees or with your body close to the ground |bird |

|4. pupa – form of an insect while it is changing from a wormlike larva into an adult |girl |

|5. shiver – to shake |burn |

| |were |

|Amazing Words: |shirt |

|1. cycle – series of events that always happens in the same order |fur |

|2. develop – grow |hurt |

|3. insect – animal that has 6 legs and usually has wings |10. sir |

|4. rearrange – move things around | |

|5. flurries - |High Frequency Words: |

|6. emerge – to come into view |done |

|7. fragile – can be easily broken |know |

|8. vessel – thin tube inside your body |push |

| |visit |

|Comprehension: Fact and Opinion |wait |

|Fluency: Expression and Intonation | |

|Writing: Focus/Ideas, Captions and Pictures | |

|Grammar: Verbs Am, Is, Are, Was, Were | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Syllables, Isolate Medial and Final Phonemes, Add Phonemes, Rhyming Words | |

|Phonics: r- Controlled ar | |

|Spelling: Add Endings | |

|Listening and Speaking: Poetry Presentation | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 3.6: Where Are My Animal Friends? (Genre: Drama) |

|Big Question: What do animals do when the seasons change? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. goose – large bird with a long neck |faster |

|2. raccoon – small animal with thick fur whose markings look like rings on its tail and a black mask around its eyes |fastest |

|3. spring – season after winter when plants begin to grow |taller |

|4. warm – more hot than cold |tallest |

|5. butterfly – an insect with colored wings |shorter |

| |shortest |

|Amazing Words: |sadder |

|1. hibernate – to spend the winter sleeping |saddest |

|2. migrate – to move from one place to another |bigger |

|3. temperature – how cold or hot something is |10. biggest |

|4. autumn – one of the four seasons, also called fall | |

|5. freeze - turn into something hard because of the cold |High Frequency Words: |

|6. bitterly – showing sadness or pain |before |

|7. weary – very tired |does |

| |good-bye |

|Comprehension: Draw Conclusions, Background Knowledge |oh |

|Fluency: Expression and Intonation |right |

|Writing: Sentences, Play Scene |won’t |

|Grammar: Contractions with Not | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Words, Change and Add Phonemes | |

|Phonics: Consonant Pattern -dge | |

|Spelling: Comparative Endings –er, -est | |

|Listening and Speaking: Give Announcements | |

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