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Reading Unit 2

Unit II Stories & Resources

Fly Traps! Plants That Bite Back

Vocabulary

collect - gather together

hinge - a joint on which a cover or lid moves back and forth

insects - small animals without backbones with bodies divided into three parts

pitcher - a container for holding liquids

plants - living things that can make their own food

trap - a thing or means for catching animals

bladderwort - any of a family of insect eating marsh or water plants

carnivorous - meat-eating

chemicals - substance used in chemistry

dissolve - to make into a liquid

flytrap - any of several plants that trap insects

Learn More About Fly Traps

Build the Background
Carnivorous plants

Skills

Main Idea / Classroom Practice
Main Idea Practice 1
Main Idea Practice 1.2
Main Idea Practice 2
Compound Words I

Compound Words II

Compound Words III
Grammar - Name It - Nouns
Grammar - Nouns

Power Proofreading
Long /i/ Practice

Long /o/ Practice


Guys From Space

Vocabulary
breathe - to draw air into the lungs and force it out
dream - something like a dream; daydream; wish
planet - one of the heavenly bodies that moves around the sun
scary - causing fright or alarm
space - unlimited room or emptiness extending in all directions
spaceship - a vehicle used for flight in outer space

heroes - persons admired for bravery, great deeds, or noble qualities
plastic - made of plastic
switches - devices for making or breaking a connection

Learn More About Space

Space

Stargazers
Space - Learn More About the Planets

Skills

Grammar – Nouns
Grammar Blast I
Grammar Blast II
Sequencing

Sequencing II
Sequencing III

Sequencing IV

Vowel Digraph I /oo/
Vowel Digraph II /oo/ & /ow/

Vowel Digraph II /oo/
Alphabetizing to the Third Letter

Alphabetizing II
Alphabetizing III
Antonyms I


Tornado Alert

Vocabulary

destroy - to spoil; ruin; do away with
noise - a sound that is not pleasant or musical
powerful - having great power or force; mighty; strong
storms
- strong winds, usually with heavy rain, snow, or hail and
sometimes with thunder and lightning

warnings - notices given in advance
wrecked - destroyed; ruined
damage - to harm or injure so as to lessen value or usefulness
detect - discover
funnel
- a thing that is narrow at the bottom with a cone and a wide
mouth at the top

satellites - artificial objects shot by a rocket into an orbit around Earth

tornado - a very violent and destructive whirlwind

Learn More About Tornadoes

Tornado Stories
Natural Disasters
Tornado Myths


Skills
Synonyms Practice 2
Synonyms Practice 1
Plurals
Plural Play

Singular & Plural Noun Practice

Grammar – Singular and Plural Nouns
Singular and Plural Noun Practice
Phonics /ou/ and /ow/

Homophones II

More Homophones

Homophones / Classroom practice
Prof reading / Classroom Activity

Four Block Writing Activity/ Classroom Activity

Danger Iceberg

Vocabulary

alert - watchful

breaks - comes apart

melt - turns from a solid into a liquid by heating
ocean - a great body of salt water that covers almost three-fourths of Earth's surface
thousands - ten hundreds
glacier - a large mass of ice formed from snow on high ground
iceberg - a large mass of ice floating in the sea
ice pack - a large area of ice floating in the sea
lifeboats - strong open boats with oars, specially built for saving lives at sea
Titanic - large ship thought to be unsinkable that sank on its maiden voyage
when it struck an iceberg

Learn More About Icebergs and the Titanic
Time For Kids – Inside the Titanic

On Board the Titanic
All About Glaciers

Science of Snow

Skills

Fact or Opinion
Fact or Opinion II

Fact or Opinion Game

Power Proofreading
Classroom Review
Homograph Jeopardy

Nouns - Plural Girls

Nouns - Plural Practice

Night of the Pufflings

Vocabulary
burrows
- holes dug in the ground by animals for shelter or protection
cardboard - stiff material made of layers of paper pressed together
cliff - a very steep slope of rock or clay
hatch - to come out from the egg
searching - examining carefully
island - a body of land
underground - beneath the surface of the ground
confused - to be unable to tell apart
puffin - a sea bird of northern waters, having a thick body, large head, and bill of several colors
puffling - offspring of a puffin
rescue - to save from danger or harm

Learn More About Iceland and the Puffins

Iceland
Meet the author and visit Iceland
Baby Puffins
Project Puffins

Skills

Main Idea / Classroom Presentation I
Main Idea / Classroom Presention II

Grammar-Types of Nouns/Class Presentation

Common / Proper Nouns - Noun Dunk
Power Proofreading

Phonics Jeopardy
Phonics Jeopardy II

Main Idea Practice

Possessive Noun practice 1

Possessive Noun Practice 2

Possessive Noun Practice 3Possessive Noun Practice 4


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