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Theme 1 Look Inside |
| "The
Hot and Cold Summer" by Johanna Hurwitz |
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Johanna
Hurwitz |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots |
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Test Tutor: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots |
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"Sees Behind Trees" by Michael Dorris |
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Sees Behind Trees: Building Background |
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Michael Dorris Biography |
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Sees
Behind Trees Book Talk |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Narrative Elements |
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Test Tutor: Narrative Elements |
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"Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family" by Lensey Namioka |
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Lensey Namioka's
Web Site |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots |
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Test Tutor: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots |
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"Dear Mrs. Parks" by Rosa Parks |
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Dear Mrs. Parks: Building Background |
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Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement |
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Time 100: Rosa Parks |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Making Judgments |
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"Elena" by Diane Stanley |
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Diane Stanley: Books
for Children |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Narrative Elements |
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Test Tutor: Narrative Elements |
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Grammar Practice |
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Sentence Sea Park |
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Subject Slide |
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Predicates in Space |
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Sentences |
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Subjects/Nouns |
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Predicates/Verbs |
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Quotation Marks and Colons |
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Writing Practice |
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Ideas for Personal Narratives |
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Personal Narrative Writing Detective |
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Spelling Practice |
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Words with Short
Vowels |
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Words with Long a,
e, and i |
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Long o and Long u |
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Vowels before r |
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Words with s, z,
and sh |
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Theme 2 Team Work |
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"We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente" by Trudie Engel |
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The Official
Roberto Clemente Web Site |
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National Baseball Hall of Fame: Roberto Clemente |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Drawing Conclusions |
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Test Tutor: Drawing Conclusions |
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"Folk Tales from Asia" |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Summarizing and Paraphrasing |
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Test Tutor: Summarizing and Paraphrasing |
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Test Tutor: Figurative Language |
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"Iditarod Dream" by Ted Wood |
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Junior Iditarod |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Drawing Conclusions |
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Test Tutor: Drawing Conclusions |
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"Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen |
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Woodsong: Building Background |
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Gary Paulsen |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Summarizing and Paraphrasing |
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Test Tutor: Summarizing and Paraphrasing |
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Test Tutor: Figurative Language |
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"Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins: Building Background |
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Scott O'Dell |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Narrative Elements |
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Test Tutor: Narrative Elements |
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Test Tutor: Figurative Language |
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Grammar Practice |
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Sentence Power |
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Spotlight on Clauses |
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Sentence Sort |
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Noun Dunk |
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Noun Explorer |
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Grammar Gorillas |
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Simple and Compound Sentences |
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More About Sentences |
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Commas |
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Phrases and Clauses |
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Complex Sentences |
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More About Nouns |
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Writing Practice |
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Ideas for How-To Essays |
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How-To Essay Writing Detective |
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Spelling Practice |
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Endings /zhәr/
and /chәr/ |
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Words Ending in
-ed and -ing |
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Unstressed Endings
/әn/ and /әr/ |
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Unstressed Ending
/әl/ |
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Plurals |
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Theme 3 A Changing Planet |
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"Everglades" by Jean Craighead George |
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Jean Craighead
George |
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Everglades
National Park |
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Reclaiming the Florida Everglades |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots |
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Test Tutor: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots |
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"Summer of Fire" by Janice Koch |
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Summer of Fire: Building Background |
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Yellowstone
National Park |
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Test Tutor: Sequence |
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"Oceans" by Seymour Simon |
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Seymour Simon |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Main Idea and Details |
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Test Tutor: Main Idea and Details |
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Test Tutor: Sequence |
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"Seeing Earth from Space" by Patricia Lauber |
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Meet the Author |
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Seeing Earth From Space: Building Background |
| "The
Case of the Flying Saucer" by Seymour Simon |
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Seymour Simon |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Main Ideas and Details |
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Test Tutor: Main Ideas and Details |
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Test Tutor: Sequence |
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Grammar Practice |
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Possessive Noun Desert |
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The Pronoun Clubhouse |
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Mixed-Up Pronouns |
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Exploring the Pronoun Reef |
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Possessive Nouns |
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Pronouns |
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More About Pronouns |
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Writing Practice |
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Ideas for Persuasive Essays |
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Persuasive Essay Writing Detective |
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Spelling Practice |
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Words with
"Silent' Letters |
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Compound Words |
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Troublesome Words
and Phrases |
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Words with -ant
and -ent |
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Suffixes -tion and
-ness |
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Theme 4 Express Yourself |
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"Hattie's Birthday Box" by Pam Conrad |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Word Relationships |
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Test Tutor: Word Relationships |
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"William Shakespeare and the Globe" by Aliki |
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William Shakespeare and the Globe: Building Background |
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Aliki |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Fact & Opinion |
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Test Tutor: Fact and Opinion |
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Test Tutor: Classify/Categorize |
| "The
World of William Joyce Scrapbook" by William Joyce |
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The World of William Joyce |
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The World of William Joyce Scrapbook: Building Background |
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William Joyce |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Word Relationships |
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Test Tutor: Word Relationships |
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Test Tutor: Classify/Categorize |
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"Satchmo's Blues" by Alan Schroeder |
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Satchmo's Blues: Building Background |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Fact and Opinion |
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Test Tutor: Fact and Opinion |
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"Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina" by Charnan Simon |
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Evelyn Cisneros: Building Background |
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Evelyn Cisneros |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Main Ideas and Details |
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Test Tutor: Main Ideas and Details |
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Test Tutor: Classify/Categorize |
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Grammar Practice |
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Exploring the Pronoun Reef |
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On the Trail of Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Verb and Contraction Forest |
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Grammar Gorillas |
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More About Pronouns |
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Adjectives and Adverbs |
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More About Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Main Verbs and Helping Verbs |
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Writing Practice |
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Ideas for Comparison/Contrast Essays |
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Comparison/Contrast Essay Writing Detective |
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Spelling Practice |
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Suffixes -able and
-less |
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Suffixes -eer, -ist,
-ian, -or, and -er |
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Prefixes non-,
in-, and un- |
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Prefixes re- and
inter- |
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Prefixes dis- and
de- |
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Theme 5 School Rules |
| "Off
and Running" by Gary Soto |
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Gary Soto |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Compare and Contrast |
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Test Tutor: Compare and Contrast |
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Test Tutor: Characterization |
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"Little by Little" by Jean Little |
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Jean Little |
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Little by Little: Building Background |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Author's Purpose and Perspective |
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Test Tutor: Author's Purpose and Perspective |
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"Dear Mr. Henshaw" by Beverly Cleary |
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The World of Beverly
Cleary |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Compare and Contrast |
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Test Tutor: Compare and Contrast |
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Test Tutor: Characterization |
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"Frindle" by Andrew Clements |
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Frindle: Building Background |
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Andrew Clements |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Author's Purpose and Perspective |
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Test Tutor: Author's Purpose and Perspective |
| "The
Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov |
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The Fun They Had: Building Background |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Drawing Conclusions |
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Test Tutor: Drawing Conclusions |
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Grammar Practice |
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Action Verb Tree House |
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Subject and Verb Mix-Up |
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Principal Parts Picnic |
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Batter Up with Verbs |
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Grammar Gorillas |
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The Wild World of Verbs |
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Action Verbs and Linking Verbs |
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The Simple Tenses |
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More About Verb Tenses |
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Irregular Verbs |
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More About Punctuation |
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Writing Practice |
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Ideas for Research Reports |
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Research Report Writing Detective |
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Spelling Practice |
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Prefixes pre- and
pro- |
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VCCV Words |
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More Words with
-ed or -ing |
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VCCCV Words |
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VCV Words |
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Theme 6 American Adventure |
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"Across the Wide Dark Sea" by
Jean Van Leeuwen |
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Jean Van Leeuwen
Official Web Site |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Connotation/Denotation |
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Test Tutor: Connotation/Denotation |
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Test Tutor: Locating Information |
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"Name This American" by Hannah Reinmuth |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Cause and Effect |
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Test Tutor: Cause and Effect |
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"What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?" by Jean Fritz |
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What's the Big Idea Ben Franklin: Building Background |
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The Electric Ben
Franklin |
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Jean
Fritz |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Connotation/Denotation |
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Test Tutor: Connotation/Denotation |
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"Lewis and Clark" by R. Conrad Stein |
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Go
West Across America with Lewis & Clark |
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The Lewis &
Clark Expedition |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Cause and Effect |
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Test Tutor: Cause and Effect |
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Test Tutor: Locating Information |
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"Black Frontiers" by Lillian Schlissel |
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Reading Skills Rocket: Summarizing and Paraphrasing |
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Test Tutor: Summarizing and Paraphrasing |
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Test Tutor: Locating Information |
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Grammar Practice |
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Perfect Verb Match |
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Puzzling Pathways |
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On the Trail of Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Canoe Comparison |
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Preposition State Fair |
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Grammar Gorillas |
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The Wild World of Verbs |
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The Perfect Tenses |
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Main Verbs and Helping Verbs |
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Usage Problems |
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Adjectives and Adverbs |
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More About Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Prepositions |
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Writing Practice |
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Ideas for Stories |
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Expressive Writing Detective |
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Spelling Practice |
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VV Words |
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Contractions |
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Related Words |
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Words with Three
Syllables |
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Words from Spanish |
