Story+Town

=These are the weekly stories that we will read and discuss as a class along with resources that match each weekly skill. =

Week 1: Arthur's Reading Race
 * High frequency words: already, prove, eight, sign, police
 * Reading focus skill: characters
 * Grammar focus: [|sentences]

Week 2: Frog and Toad
 * High frequency words: covered, through, everything, woods, guess
 * Reading focus skill: characters
 * Grammar focus: [|Command] and [|Exclamation]

Week 3: Henry and Mudge Week 4: Dogs Week 5: Neighborhood News  Week 6: Winners Never Quit
 * High frequency words: children, finally, ears, hundred, short, finally
 * Reading focus skill: main idea
 * Grammar focus:
 * High frequency words: bicycle, exercise, sugar, sometimes, special
 * Reading focus skill: main idea
 * Grammar focus:
 * Review of all previous high frequency words: already, prove, eight, sign, police, covered, through, everything, woods, guess, children, finally, ears, hundred, short, finally, bicycle, exercise, sugar, sometimes, special.
 * Review of reading focus skills: characters and main ideas
 * Grammar review
 * High frequency words: straight, cheer, brother, learn, lose, caught
 * Reading focus skill: make predictions
 * Grammar focus:

Week 7: Gus and Grandpa
 * High frequency words: coming, curve, idea, knee, laughed, million, world
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading focus skill: make predictions
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar focus:

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 8: The Great Ball Game
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">High frequency words: accept, ago, clear, fair, half, though
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading focus skill: plot (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar focus:

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 9: Click, Clack, Moo
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">High frequency words: believe, brought, early, enough, impossible, quite, understand
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading focus skill: plot (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar focus: [|Proper Nouns]

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 10: A Trip to the Fire Station