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Form Description:

Students will abound in their reading ability by reading poetry, short stories, and full-length novels. Students will practice retelling and summarizing stories, also as reading aloud in forepart of audiences. They will demonstrate comprehension through reading response questions. Vocabulary will be introduced from the literature and practiced for retentiveness.

Reading List (included for complimentary in the online lessons; no demand to buy separately):

Poetry by Walter de la Mare, James Riley, Christina Rossetti

Books: The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk and The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thorton W. Burgess; The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Guild, Hope

Brusk stories: Beatrice Potter stories, Fifty Famous Stories, and a variety of other curt stories

Lesson ane

Welcome to your first twenty-four hours of schoolhouse! I wanted to give you lot one important reminder earlier you begin. Many of your lessons below have an cyberspace link for you to click on. When y'all become to the different cyberspace pages for your lessons, please Practise NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell yous to. DO NOT click on whatsoever advertisements or games. DO NOT click on anything that takes yous to a different website. Only stay focused on your lesson so close that window and you should be right back here for the adjacent lesson. Okay?

  1. If yous didn't get hither through My EP Assignments, I advise you go there and create an business relationship. At that place is an offline version of this class if you lot are interested in a workbook. Roll up for the link.
  2. Listen to Horton Hatches an Egg past Dr. Seuss. Horton has to be very patient, but he is rewarded in the end. Learning takes a long time just like hatching an egg, but there is a great advantage for your patience in the end! (If the video disappears, hither's another.)
  3. While you are listening, you could draw a flick of the story.
  4. What did you call back of Horton?
  5. What did you call back of Maisy?
  6. What did you lot think of what came out of the egg?
  7. This is the end of your work for this grade for your first day. You are immune to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it's intended you consummate ane lesson a day.

Lesson 2

  1. Mind to some poems by Mother Goose.
  2. The get-go poem, "Curly locks, curly locks," is about a man request a woman (with curly hair) to marry him. He promises her that she won't have to work. What does he say that she'll exercise? (Reply)
  3. The next poem is nigh two sisters arguing. What are they arguing well-nigh? (Answer)
  4. The next verse form is a description of a pair of tongs. (Information technology's very brusque, just ii lines.)
  5. The last poem is the virtually famous. What happens? (Reply)

Lesson 3

  1. Listen to poems by Female parent Goose.
  2. What is the little boy doing in the commencement poem? (Answer)
  3. What is he supposed to be doing? (Respond)
  4. To be "single" means you are not married.
  5. What lesson does the last poem teach? (Answer)

Lesson 4

  1. Listen to poems by Female parent Goose.
  2. This offset verse form doesn't make any sense! What does information technology say he burned his oral fissure on? (Answer)
  3. What is happening in the second poem? (Answer)
  4. The last poem is not very nice, but the Bible does say that those who marry will accept troubles, both husbandsand wives.

Lesson five

  1. Listen to these two poems past Mother Goose.
  2. Draw a picture about one of these poems or tell someone nigh what happens in both of them.

Lesson 6

  1. Read poems 04, 05, and 06 by Walter de la Mare. You can picket Mr. Chiliad reading the poems and talking about them in this video.
  2. Why is Tim so tired? (Answers)
  3. What does he call up is and so ugly in "I can't Abear"? (Answers) (Hither is a picture of a butcher shop.)
  4. What do you retrieve it means that he can't "abear" the butcher shop? (Answers)
  5. What happened in "Some 1"? (Answers)

Lesson seven

  1. Read poems 08, 10, and 11 by Walter de la Mare. You tin watch Mr. G reading the poems and talking about them in this video.
  2. This is a flick of Banbury cakes in poem 08. Do you know what a cupboard is? (hint: What words do yous meet in cupboard?)
  3. What is "The Cupboard" almost? (Answers)
  4. What is "The Window" about? (Answers)
  5. The widow in number 11 may non take a lot of coin, merely why is she not really poor? (hint: second to last line) (Answers)
  6. There is a long list in this poem of dissimilar kinds of weeds. Usually you call back that weeds are for pulling and throwing away, but weeds can have a lot of uses and can even be eaten. Here are a few pictures of some of the things listed. Comfrey Hawksbit Clover
  7. Can you notice any of those where yous alive?

Lesson 8

  1. Read poems 16 and nineteen by Walter de la Mare. Yous tin can watch Mr. G reading the poems and talking nearly them in this video.
  2. What animals does he say can't run into him? (answer: mole, bat, barn owl)
  3. In fact moles can come across, they just meet very poorly. Bats can see, merely they can't come across well in the night, which is when they like to fly. Owls can come across past 24-hour interval, but they are usually asleep because they like to be out at night also. His science isn't the best in this poem!
  4. "Summer Evening" paints a word flick. Can you lot picture the scene? Describe the movie he describes in this poem.

Lesson nine

  1. Read poems twenty and 39 by Walter de la Mare. You tin listen to Mr. G reading and talking about these poems in this video.
  2. What is the oak's "dark-green crest"? (hint: What office of the oak tree is dark-green?)
  3. Where are the star'southward thrones set up? (hint: Where are the stars?)
  4. What words in this verse form rhyme? (Answers)
  5. In number 39, what sounds does the adult female hear now that she is sometime and at that place is no longer music and singing in her house? (Answers)

Lesson x

  1. 1. Choose one of these books to listen to:
    • Sophie'southward Masterpiece
    • Stellaluna
    • Harry the Muddy Dog
    • The Rainbow Fish
    • The Tooth
    • Guji Guji
    • Romeow and Drooliet
    • A Bad Example of Stripes

Lesson 11

  1. You are going to listen to a poem called "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin," by James Riley. Here'due south the text if you lot want to read along, but first read the notes below and look at the flick.
    • The line that is repeated in this verse form is, "When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the stupor."
    • Pumpkin is spelled punkin on purpose. Say it the way information technology is written. The poem is written with a sort of accent. That's how the farmer speaks.
    • Fodder is feed for animals. Here is grain in shocks. The grain has all been harvested, collected. It'southward ready to feed the animals.
    • What fourth dimension of year is it when the harvest is all collected and there is frost on the pumpkin? (answer: It'south the cease of fall.)
  2. How does the poet feel most the end of harvest? (Answers)
  3. What are some lines that show how he feels? (Answers)

Lesson 12

  1. Read poems 01 through 04 past Christina Rossetti. Yous can heed to Mr. G reading and talking about these poems.
  2. In the get-go two poems, what is she describing? (Answers)
  3. In poem 03, where are the 2 places she digs for flowers? (Answers)
  4. Where will the flowers grow and where volition flowers never grow? (Answers)
  5. Here is a pic of a linnet in poem 04.
  6. What story does the bird tell? (Answers)

Lesson 13

  1. Read poems 08, 09 and 10 past Christina Rossetti. You lot can listen to Mr. G reading and talking nigh these poems.
  2. The moving-picture show I showed yous on Lesson 12 is of a linnet on a bough, a tree co-operative. The poem talks near ii linnets, two birds. I is outside in a tree and one is in a cage. The poet asks which one is luckier. What is the poet's answer? (Answers)
  3. Poem 09 is virtually rainbows. When it says "bow," it is talking most a rainbow. What does information technology say you need in gild to accept a rainbow? (Answers)
  4. Poem 10 talks about violets. Here is a picture of violets. Turf ways the ground or grass. The poet smells something sugariness. The wind blows the smell her manner. At the finish of the poem she says that violets make the turf sweet. What does that mean? (Answers)

Lesson xiv

  1. Read poems 16, 17 and eighteen past Christina Rossetti. You can listen to Mr. M reading and talking about the poems.
  2. In poem 16 she describes how a flint rock but looks like a rock, but it really has a special purpose.
  3. Here is a moving picture of what happens when you strike flint rock. What words in the verse form describe this picture show? (Answers)
  4. In that location are many things and people in this world that look ordinary, simply serve a special purpose.
  5. In poem 17, information technology says that even the coldest May brings what? (Answers)
  6. When information technology is summer in the U.s.a., information technology is winter in Australia. The The states is in the n, what we telephone call the northern hemisphere, and Australia is in the due south or southern hemisphere. Also, y'all know that the sun rises and sets at different times everyday.
  7. In the summer in the USA the days are long, the sun gets up early and goes downward belatedly, so the nights are shorter. At the aforementioned time in Australia the opposite is happening. Then when the days are long, the nights are short; and when the days are short, the nights are long. Right?
  8. The lark is known for singing in the morning, and then when the sun is up early, the lark tin can sing for hours and hours.
  9. The nightingale is known for singing at night. The poem says that fifty-fifty though the nights are long, they seem brusque because of the nightingale'southward singing. Does that hateful she likes or doesn't similar the nightingale's vocal? (Answers)
  10. Here is a singing lark and a singing nightingale.

Vocabulary

  1. Admire ways to recollect well of someone or something, to have a expert opinion of something, to respect someone.

Lesson fifteen

  1. Read poems 20, 21 and 22 by Christina Rossetti. You can listen to Mr. One thousand reading and talking about the poems.
  2. What is poem xx nearly? (Answers)
  3. Draw a film of the caterpillar in the poem.
  4. What is the poet feeling in the commencement stanza (department) of poem 21? (Answers)
    • A stanza is a section of a poem. There'due south a space betwixt each stanza.
  5. What is the poet feeling at the cease of the 2d stanza? (Answers)
  6. What words rhyme in poem 22? (Answers)

Lesson 16

  1. Read poems 24 and 25 by Christina Rossetti. Y'all can heed to Mr. Chiliad reading and talking nigh the poems.
  2. These poem teach. What is taught in poem 24? (Answers)
  3. What do you think is existence taught in poem 25? (hint: You would know if you lot lived in England.) (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Apply the verse form to try to figure out the answers. Which is worth the virtually – pound, shilling or pence? The least? (At the time the poem was written, these are what were used in England for money.)
    • What will you give me for my pound?
    • Full twenty shillings round.
    • What will you lot give me for my shilling?
    • Twelve pence to give I'm willing.
    • What will you lot give me for my penny?
    • Iv farthings, but then many.
  2. And so look at the money from other countries.
    • British pounds, shillings and pence
    • European Spousal relationship countries utilize Euros and Cents
    • Southward Africa uses Rand and Cents
    • Commonwealth of australia and Canada employ their own types of dollars.

Lesson 17* (Note that an asterisk * indicates that there is a worksheet on this lesson)

  1. Read poems 26, 27 and 28 by Christina Rossetti. You can mind to Mr. G reading and talking about the poems.
  2. How many cherries did their family eat? (reply: 1+1+ii+vi = 10)
  3. *Make a calendar page based on this verse form for whatever month information technology is correct now. Instance: It says that Feb is dripping wet, so you would write February at the meridian and draw pelting drops and puddles. Make sure to add in the appointment numbers in the right boxes.

Lesson 18

  1. Read poems 29 and 34 by Christina Rossetti. Yous can listen to Mr. 1000 reading and talking nearly the poems.
  2. Both of these poems are about dissimilar uses of words. For instance, the peacock has eyes but tin't encounter with them. Hither is a picture of peacock feathers that wait similar eyes.
  3. The poet is observant (pays attention to what'due south around her). I know yous don't understand everything she points out, merely find 1 affair she observes in each verse form and explain what it means to a parent or older sibling and then describe a picture of it. Example: The head of a pin is the superlative round office, but of course it doesn't have pilus. You could draw a man head on the pinnacle of a pokey pin.

Lesson 19

  1. Read poems 38, 39 and 40 past Christina Rossetti. You can heed to Mr. One thousand reading and talking virtually the poems.
  2. Poem twoscore: If you don't know what a ferry is, what clues are at that place in the poem to assistance you lot guess what it is? (answer: "across the water" and "boatman") What is a ferry? (Answers)
  3. How much does a ferry ride cost in this verse form? (Answers)
  4. Poem 39: What does it mean that the milk is coming when the cows come dwelling house? (Answers)
  5. Hither are pictures of drake, brake (thicket) and rushy lake. Look at the pictures and read the poem over again. At present tin you lot picture what information technology's talking about?
  6. Poem 38: What is happening in this poem? Beginning, what is a swallow? (look for clues in the poem like "fly abroad")
  7. When does the consume leave and fly away? (Answers)
  8. When does the consume come up domicile? (Answers)
  9. What is happening in this poem? (Answers)

Lesson twenty

  1. Read poems 45, 46 and 47 by Christina Rossetti. Y'all tin heed to Mr. One thousand reading and talking nearly these poems.
  2. What does the poet compare to a boat sailing? (Answers)
  3. What does the poet compare to a bridge? (If you don't know, utilize the clues. What bow looks similar a span from the world to the heaven?) (Answers)
  4. What is the message of poem 46? (Answers)
  5. What is the message of poem 47? (Answers)

Lesson 21*

  1. Read "The City Zoo." You can besides listen to it. It mentions the sport rugby.It's like to football and is played in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. The story mentions a scrum. Information technology's not really important, but here is a video showing what a scrum is in the sport, rugby. As well, an accountant is someone who keeps track of the coin for a business; and when the hippo is wallowing in the mud information technology only means he'due south lying down and relaxing in the mud.
  2. What problem did the zoo have? How did they solve the problem? Tell a parent or older sibling. (Answers)
  3. What kind of person was the zookeeper? (hint: expect at the beginning of the story) (Answers)

Vocabulary*

  1. *Print out iv vocabulary worksheets.
  2. Give-and-take list: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, slumber, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , bulge, annihilate, emulate
  3. Click on disrepair and read the definition.
  4. Fill in a vocabulary worksheet folio for tirelessly and contented. Do only these words. The remaining words will be completed in future lessons.
  5. The words are in the gild they are found in the story. Try to spot them. NOTE: the give-and-take may look a little different in the story, peradventure wallowing instead of wallow, for case, just information technology is the same word.
  6. Write a definition for each word. You lot can click on each word to a higher place to see the definitions. You don't take to write out everything in the definition, but write what helps you understand what the word means. Case for gleam: shine. That's plenty if information technology helps you know what gleam means.
  7. Depict a picture for each give-and-take.

Lesson 22

  1. Read "The Metropolis Zoo." You lot tin also listen to it.

Vocabulary

  1. Word list: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, slumber, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , bulge, demolish, emulate
  2. Click on intently and read the definition.
  3. Fill in a vocabulary worksheet page for slumber and exasperated. Practice just these words. The remaining words will exist completed in future lessons.
  4. The words are in the gild they are constitute in the story. Try to spot them. Annotation: the word may look a petty dissimilar in the story, maybe wallowing instead of wallow, but it is the aforementioned word.
  5. Write a definition for each word. Y'all can click on each word higher up to come across the definitions. You don't have to write out everything in the definition, only write what helps you understand what the word means. Example for gleam: shine. That's plenty if information technology helps you know what gleam means.
  6. Draw a picture for each discussion.

Lesson 23

  1. Read "The Metropolis Zoo." You can also heed to information technology.

Vocabulary

  1. Give-and-take list: tirelessly, busted, contented, slumber, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , burl, annihilate, emulate
  2. Click on wallow and read the definition.
  3. Fill in a vocabulary worksheet folio for gleam and bulge. Do just these words. The remaining words will be completed in a futurity lesson.
  4. The words are in the club they are found in the story. Try to spot them. Notation: the word may look a little different in the story, maybe wallowing instead of wallow, just it is the aforementioned word.
  5. Write a definition for each word. You tin can click on each word to a higher place to run across the definitions. You don't accept to write out everything in the definition, just write what helps you empathise what the discussion means. Case for gleam: shine. That'southward enough if it helps you know what gleam means.
  6. Depict a moving-picture show for each give-and-take.

Lesson 24

  1. Read "The City Zoo." Y'all can likewise listen to it.

Vocabulary

  1. Discussion listing: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, slumber, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , bulge, demolish, emulate
  2. Fill in a vocabulary worksheet page for demolish and emulate.
  3. The words are in the order they are found in the story. Attempt to spot them. NOTE: the word may await a picayune different in the story, maybe wallowing instead of wallow, but it is the aforementioned word.
  4. Write a definition for each word. You can click on each word above to come across the definitions. You don't accept to write out everything in the definition, simply write what helps y'all sympathize what the word ways. Instance for gleam: shine. That's enough if it helps you know what gleam ways.
  5. Draw a picture for each word.

Lesson 26

  1. Nosotros're going to start a new book.What is it called? Who wrote it? (Answers)
  2. Read chapter 1. Here's the audio link if y'all'd like to listen.
  3. What happened in chapter ane? Tell someone. Tell them who the chapter was about and what that person did.

Lesson 29

  1. Read affiliate 4. (Audio)
  2. What does Peter wish he could do? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Envy ways to be jealous of.

Lesson 30

  1. Read chapter 5. (Audio)
  2. How does Mr. Toad make his song? (Answers)
  3. Tell someone what happened in this affiliate.

Lesson 35

  1. Read chapter 10. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happened in this chapter.

Lesson 36

  1. Read chapter 11. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happened in this chapter.

Vocabulary

  1. Exercise you remember the definitions?
  2. Do yous call back what green-eyed means? (reply: to be jealous of)

Lesson 37

  1. Read chapter 12. (Audio)
  2. What makes Mr. Toad's natural language then wonderful? (Answers)
  3. Why does Peter retrieve Mr. Toad'southward natural language is fastened in the incorrect place? (Answers)

Lesson 38

  1. Read chapter 13. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happened in this affiliate.
  3. Can you escape? Hither are the words that might help you escape: notice, envy, bulge, wallow, adore, intent, sleep, gleam, repair

Lesson 39

  1. Read chapter 14. (Audio)
  2. Look for the word indignant in the beginning of today's reading.
  3. Look for the word hastily at the terminate of today's reading.
  4. indignant ways feeling angered or annoyed
  5. hastily ways doing something in a hurry
  6. It's fourth dimension to act. Say this line indignantly, "I can't believe you did that!" Say it like you lot are actually annoyed!
  7. Now say it with green-eyed, like you are really jealous that they got to do that dandy matter. "I tin can't believe you did that!"
  8. At present say it hastily, really fast! If that's likewise hard, yous can practise something hastily. Picking up things from the flooring would be a great thing to practise hastily. 🙂

Lesson 41

  1. Read chapter 16. (Audio)
  2. Why practice y'all think Old Mr. Toad turns pale and leaves at the cease of the chapter? (hint: Information technology has to do with who Jimmy saw that day.) (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. To amble means to walk slowly.
  2. If you lot are smug, it means y'all accept too much pride in yourself.
  3. Broken-hearted means worried.

Lesson 44

  1. Read chapter xix. (Audio)

Vocabulary

  1. Contemptuousness means thinking that someone or something is worthless or despicable.
  2. Feeble means non having physical strength.
  3. Who was feeble in this chapter? (hint: He was feeble considering he was so scared.) (Answers)

Lesson 45

  1. Read chapter twenty. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happens in this chapter.

Lesson 46*

  1. Read chapter 21. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happens in this affiliate.

Vocabulary *

  1. *Play charades. Become through the list below and human action out your vocabulary words. Give this list (Old Mr. Toad vocabulary) to the person watching and they tin can judge which word you are acting out. (Print information technology out front and back and hold onto it in your binder. Yous'll need it in a few days.)
    • Amble (walk like you are relaxed and taking your time)
    • Feeble (act like you have no strength left in your body at all)
    • Scorn (human action like you lot want aught to practice with something)
    • Smug (turn up your nose similar you think yous are more important than everyone else)
    • Hastily (act like yous are in a big bustle)
    • Indignant (stomp your foot like yous are really angry and annoyed with someone)
    • Envy (bear on something that someone else has and and then pout like you want it)
    • Broken-hearted (act similar y'all are actually worried, seize with teeth your nails, walk back and along, shake your head, brand your face up look worried)
  2. Play this vocabulary game with the words you have learned from your book.

Lesson 48

  1. Read chapter 23. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happens at the terminate of the story.

Lesson 49*

  1. *Fill in this volume report course. (If that doesn't open, it's the commencement download on this page – the one that's a ruddy open up book.)
  2. You could salve this for your portfolio.

Lesson 50

Vocabulary

  1. Either read this story to someone and inquire someone else to act information technology out as you read, or ask someone to read the story and you human activity it out. Or, you could both take turns acting it out. I used boys just you could read it equally Jacqueline and Johanna and employ feminine pronouns if you like. (Read off the screen or utilize the printed version on the Old Mr. Toad vocabulary sheet from Lesson 46.)
  • Jack ambled downwards the street, humming a vocal, grinning in the dominicus. He was on his style to his friend'southward house for a altogether party. Suddenly he stopped. He had forgotten a present! Now he started feeling very anxious. What was he going to exercise? He decided he ameliorate go go a present. He hastily returned home and searched for a present. He didn't know what else to do, so he grabbed his stack of baseball cards and put them in a paper handbag. He ran out of the house and down the street. He was huffing and puffing and had to sit considering he was so feeble from running so fast and then far. Joe was already at the political party.
  • (The histrion has to be Joe at present.) Joe took 1 look at Jack'due south bag and felt very smug. "That'south your nowadays?" he said scornfully. "What? Did you bring him your luncheon?"
  • (Now the histrion can be Jack over again.) Jack was indignant. He knew it wasn't the best looking present, simply he all the same thought it was a good present.
  • (At present the actor can be JOE.) Soon their friend started opening presents. He opened Joe'south first. It turned out that their friend already had one. Joe was upset that he wasn't more excited almost it. He opened Jack's bag concluding. His eyes grew broad. He jumped upward and started saying how great it was. He couldn't believe Jack had given him so many. Jack was actually happy he had brought them, but Joe was envious that Jack had brought the best present.

Lesson 55

  1. "The Three Little Pigs."You can read forth. Yous can also intermission it and read each page yourself first.

Lesson 56*

  1. *"The Clever Owl" – Print page 2. Read page 1. Check your answers on page 3.

Lesson 57*

  1. *"Peanut"– Print folio 2. Read page i. Bank check your answers on page 3.

Lesson 58*

  1. *"Onetime Socks"– Impress folio 2. Read page 1. Check your answers on page 3.
  2. Yous could save this in your portfolio.

Lesson 59*

  1. *"Babe Sister" – Print page ii. Read page 1. Bank check your answers on page three.

Lesson 60

  1. Scroll down. Read the two stories and answer the questions. Impress your answers when you lot are done or have a parent check your answers while they are on the screen. Don't lose your answers! (Answers)

Lesson 61

  1. You are starting a new book today, The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk, past Thornton Burgess. I remember this volition be the last book yous volition read by this author for school, but he wrote 170 books, so if you lot like to read them, your parents can help you search for more to read on the computer.
  2. Read chapter ane of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  3. Who were all of the characters in this affiliate? (Answers)

Lesson 62

  1. Read chapter 2 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. Practise you think who is sleeping in the barrel?  (Sound)
  2. What is the "problem with thoughtlessness?" (hint: The answer is in the very last sentence of the get-go paragraph-or section-of the chapter.) (Answers)
  3. And so, what is the reverse? What does thoughtfulness do? (hint: Information technology's the opposite of thoughtlessness.) (Answers)
  4. Talk with your parents virtually how you lot tin exist thoughtful of them.

Lesson 63

  1. Read affiliate 3 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.(Audio)
  2. Why did Peter Rabbit become afraid? (reply: He thinks he might have killed Jimmy Skunk.)

Lesson 64

  1. Read affiliate four of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.(Sound)
  2. Who did Jimmy blame for rolling the butt? (Answers)
  3. What did Jimmy Skunk do to him? (Answers)
  4. Jimmy Skunk walked abroad "with a bang-up bargain of nobility." Dignity ways he had accolade and respect. He was sure he had done the correct thing.
  5. Effort walking "with a not bad bargain of dignity."

Lesson 65

  1. Read chapter v of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Suspicion means a feeling or belief that someone is guilty or that a certain thought is truthful
  3. Finish this judgement: I take a suspicion that… (Yous don't accept to write information technology. Simply say information technology.) Here's an case: I have a suspicion that Andrew has gotten into the cookie jar.

Lesson 66

  1. Read chapter 6 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. What practise you retrieve it ways that he "smarted all over"? Utilize the story to help you effigy it out. Here is the sentence information technology is from: He ached and smarted all over. This is at the terminate of the chapter. What had just happened? (Answers)

Lesson 67

  1. Read chapter vii of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. What is Sammy Jay'south suspicion? (Answers)

Lesson 68

  1. Read affiliate 8 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. Tell someone about the affiliate.

Vocabulary

  1. In this chapter it says that Jimmy Skunk is shrewd. Information technology means that he's clever and smart.
  2. Jimmy thinks maybe he did Reddy an injustice. That ways he thinks perhaps he wasn't fair to Reddy when he sprayed him.

Lesson 69

  1. Read affiliate 9 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone about the chapter.

Vocabulary

  1. Jimmy Skunk was smiling as he ambled towards the old house of Johnny Chuck.
  2. How was Jimmy Skunk walking towards Johnny Chuck'due south old house? Demonstrate.

Lesson seventy

  1. Read chapter ten of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. How did Peter try to leave of Johnny Chuck'southward firm? (Answers)
  3. What did Jimmy Skunk say to Peter to go him dorsum? (Answers)
  4. Tell someone the story of the book so far.

Lesson 71

  1. Read affiliate xi of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. What does it mean that Jimmy Skunk "kept his word"? (Answers)

Lesson 72

  1. Here is a sentence from the chapter:
    • Unc' Baton grinned. "Adept mo'nin', Brer Skunk," he replied. "I tin can't rightly say I have. I had it on my heed to ask yo' the same thing."
    • The apostrophes are replacing missing letters. Yo' is you lot, for instance. Unc' is uncle. Mo'nin' is morning time.
    • Here is what it says: Uncle Baton grinned. "Good morning, Brother Skunk," he replied. "I tin't rightly say I accept. I had information technology on my mind to enquire you the same thing."
    • He speaks with a kind of accent. He'due south what we telephone call a country bumpkin; information technology'south like in the poem about the frost on the "punkin."
    • Exercise a little interim. Read the sentence out loud similar Unc' Billy would.
    • Anytime you aren't sure what he is saying, read information technology out loud to help you figure it out.
  2. Read chapter 12 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  3. What happened in the chapter?

Lesson 73

  1. Read chapter thirteen of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. Jimmy Skunk can spray a stinky perfume. Who else has a "weapon" to keep others from attacking him? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. defense – when you stop an assailant
  2. offense – when you attack
  3. What does the sentence beneath hateful?
    • Prickly Porky and I are armed for defence, but nosotros never utilise our weapons for offence. (Answers)

Lesson 74

  1. Read affiliate fourteen of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. What are 2 different views about eggs? (Answers)

Lesson 75

  1. Read chapter xv of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. What are Jimmy Skunk and Uncle Billy both thinking almost? (Answers)
  3. Do you retrieve they are going to go the eggs?

Lesson 76

  1. Read affiliate 16 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Why does Uncle Baton desire Jimmy to become first? (Answers)
  3. Why does Jimmy want Uncle Baton to go offset? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Play this vocabulary review game. Choose one of the games. When yous get a right answer, y'all get to play!

Lesson 78

  1. Read chapter 18 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. Why did they have bad tempers? (Why were they in a bad mood?) (hint: It tells you in the last paragraph, at the very stop of the affiliate.) (Answers)

Lesson 79

  1. Read chapter 19 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. Why do you recall Jimmy Skunk is not afraid of Farmer Chocolate-brown'southward boy? (Answers)

Lesson fourscore

  1. Read affiliate 20 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone about the affiliate.

Vocabulary

  1. impudent – non showing respect to someone who deserves respect
  2. associate –– someone y'all know, just non really well
  3. Tell someone these words and what they hateful.

Lesson 81

  1. Read affiliate 21 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone about the chapter.

Vocabulary

  1. Farmer Chocolate-brown's male child says to Uncle Billy, "Never lose your temper over trifles."
  2. The give-and-take trifle (say it try-full) appears at the stop likewise:
    • It had seemed a trifle, kicking that egg out of that nest, only see what the results were. Truly, little things oftentimes are not so little as they seem.
  3. The concluding sentence is our clue as to what trifle means. Information technology calls them "little things."
  4. What do you retrieve trifle means? Does it mean things that are small? No, that'south not it. What practice you lot think those sentences are saying? (Answers)
  5. Play the vocabulary review game. Choose whatever game you would like to play.
  6. If you want, you could take a screen shot and relieve this in your portfolio.

Lesson 82

  1. Read chapter 22 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. What pull a fast one on did Uncle Billy practice to try and get out of trouble? (Answers)
  3. Did he fool Farmer Chocolate-brown's boy? Did he retrieve the possum was dead? (Answers)

Lesson 83

  1. Read chapter 23 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. How did Farmer Brown's boy get Uncle Billy to end pretending? (Answers)

Lesson 85*

  1. *Complete a book review for The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk or some other book you recently read.
  2. Relieve this in your portfolio.

Lesson 91

  1. The new book you will brainstorm reading is calledFifty Famous Stories.
  2. Here is the link if your parent wants to download it.
  3. Here is the link for you lot to read the first story.
  4. Here's the link if yous'd similar to listen to someone read the story to you as y'all read along in your volume.
  5. What country is Alfred the rex of? (Answers)
  6. Who was his regular army fighting against? (Answers)
  7. When King Alfred fled from a battle, where did he end up? (Answers)
  8. What did Male monarch Alfred forget to exercise? (Answers)
  9. What was the lady's reaction? (Answers)

Lesson 92

  1. Read the second story nearly the beggar. If you desire to listen, click hither.
  2. Tell the story to someone.

Lesson 93

  1. Read the story virtually the seashore. If yous desire to mind, click here.
  2. Tell the story to someone.

Lesson 94

  1. Read about William. If you want to heed, click here.
  2. Tell the story to someone.

Lesson 95

  1. Read about the white ship . If you lot want to listen, click here.
  2. Tell someone about the story.

Lesson 97

  1. Read "A Story of Robin Hood." If you desire to listen, click here.
  2. In front of an audition (can be your family on the couch), tell them the story and read to them (out loud) the verse form at the end of the story.

Lesson 106

  1. Read most Sir Walter Raleigh. The "leigh" part of the name is pronounced LEE. Listen
  2. Tell someone near the story. Where did he travel to from England? (Answers)

Lesson 107

  1. Read well-nigh Pocahontas. Listen
  2. Tell someone well-nigh Pocahontas. What brave thing did she do to save a human being's life? (Answers)

Lesson 110

  1. Read almost William Tell. A tyrant is a bad leader who acts mean and makes everyone do any he wants. Heed
  2. Tell someone about the story. What test of his skill did Tell have to perform? (Answers)

Lesson 111

  1. Read the story of "The Bell of Atri." Listen (HINT: If you read the questions at present, before the story, then it volition help y'all notice and remember the answers.)
  2. Who rang the bell? Did he really ring it to let people know he had been wronged? (Answers)
  3. What had been done wrong to him and how was it fixed? (Answers)

Lesson 117 (You lot could "print screen" the vocabulary exercise for your portfolio.)

  1. Read about Julius Caesar. Listen
  2. He was a ruler where? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Do y'all recollect these words?

Lesson 119

  1. Read nearly 2 friends. Listen
  2. Damon offered to exist in prison instead of his friend and to fifty-fifty take his punishment of death if Pythias didn't come back from visiting his family.
  3. What did the tyrant do when he saw how true-blue and trusting the friends were? (Answers)

Lesson 120

  1. Read "A Laconic Respond." Become to this page and click on the picayune speaker next to the give-and-take, breviloquent, to hear how to say it. Listen
  2. What is a breviloquent answer? (Answers)
  3. At dinner tell all the big people in your dwelling what a breviloquent answer is and they will be impressed.

Lesson 123

  1. Read most Socrates. You tin can listen to how his name is said on this folio. It starts with "sock." Listen
  2. Find Greece on the map. Alexander the Swell was in Greece too (earlier he conquered other areas as well). (hint: It's toward the lesser. Information technology'south a little hard to read. Expect for the GRE…)

Lesson 125

  1. This is your reading consignment, but it's writing. Forgive me, okay? Did you know that the best fashion to become a better author is to read practiced writing?
  2. Write the fifty-commencement famous story. You lot could write annihilation, but a lot of these stories are about real life people from history. Is there anyone y'all learned about in history that you could tell a story about? You can type your story. It tin can be short, but tell the story.

Lesson 126

  1. Read "Doctor Goldsmith." Heed
  2. What was the "medicine?" (Answers)
  3. It says that Md Goldsmith gave all his "ready coin," all the money he had ready. What do y'all think that means? ("I don't know" is not an answer. It's okay to be wrong, but it's not okay to not effort.) (Answers)

Lesson 127

  1. Read "The Kingdoms." In this story it talks about the vegetable kingdom, mineral kingdom and the animal kingdom. Kingdom is a word that is used to describe the whole collection each type of affair. Mind
  2. When the rex says, "so be it", he means amen, please allow it be so. What kingdom does the king want to belong to? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Play a vocab game ane more time.

Lesson 130

  1. Read near the "King and The Gooseherd" (someone who herds, or watches, geese –like a shepherd watches sheep). Listen
  2. What tin't the king do? (Answers)
  3. How many pieces of gold does the boy go? (Answers)

Lesson 132

  1. Read the get-go one-half of this story. Heed till 8:23
  2. A venture is what they called the goods people bought and sent on a ship to be sold wherever it went. Y'all could earn money, or information technology might get lost at ocean. It was a gamble, a kind of adventure.
  3. How much did he buy the cat for? (Answers)
  4. What was the male child's venture? (Answers)

Lesson 136

  1. You are going to start reading a new book, The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge. You've been reading lots of short stories. Let's read a whole, big book together. Pay attention to my reading directions each lesson.
  2. Note: This has been edited somewhat from the original to arrange the language some for modern readers. The retainer'due south dialect is still there, but it has been modified to make information technology a little easier.
  3. Read the first half of chapter 1. (Audio – write down the fourth dimension that you stop)
  4. Bobbsey is the concluding proper noun of the twins' family. What are the names of the twins? (Answers)
  5. Who are older and who are younger? (Answers)
  6. Who is Snap? (Answers)

Lesson 140

  1. Read affiliate iii. (Audio) While you read, picture in your mind what is happening. Brand a movie of the book in your mind. It will aid you remember what is happening.
  2. What's the big snowball? (Answers)
  3. Who do you retrieve made the enormous snowball?

Lesson 141

  1. Read affiliate 4. (Audio)
  2. Who is accused of playing the trick? (Answers)
  3. Practice you lot think he did it? Why or why not? (Answers)
  4. Anytime you lot are reading something long and offset to forget what's happening and experience confused, y'all need to Cease. Go back to what you recall and starting time from there.

Lesson 142

  1. Read chapter v. (Sound) If yous come up to a give-and-take you don't know, audio information technology out and say it out loud. Read the sentence over again with the word in it and and then keep going. Ordinarily it volition explain, or you can effigy out what it is. Yous can also look for clues like how the characters are feeling. Are they happy or upset about what's happening?
  2. Who played the trick? (Answers)

Lesson 143

  1. Read the first one-half of chapter vi. (Sound – write downwards where you stop today)
  2. Their cook has a big accent. Read what she says out loud to assist y'all effigy out what she is saying.
  3. What is happening in this affiliate?

Lesson 144

  1. Read the 2d half of chapter 6. (Sound – get-go where you stopped on Lesson 143)
  2. Who is going to tell the children about Snow Social club? (Answers)
  3. Why does he "virtually wish" Snow Lodge had burned down? (Answers)
  4. What do you remember might take been Mr. Carford's problem? (Answers)

Lesson 145

  1. Read chapter 7. (Audio)
  2. Who owned Snow Lodge? (Answers)
  3. Who is Henry Burdoch? (Answers)
  4. When did Mr. Carford go out Snowfall Lodge? (Answers)
  5. Depict a motion picture of Snowfall Order. It'south described in a couple paragraphs starting with Mr. Carford saying, "Oh, information technology'due south just fine in that location!"

Lesson 146

  1. Read chapter 8. (Audio)
  2. What does Mr. Carford requite the Bobbsey twins at the very, very end of the chapter? (Answers)

Lesson 153

  1. Read the first half of affiliate 14 . (Audio – write down where you stop today)
  2. Tell someone about what'southward happening.
  3. What exercise you lot recollect is going to happen?

Lesson 155

  1. Read affiliate 15. (Audio)
  2. Who practice you think pushed the snowball over on them?

Lesson 158

  1. Read the second half of chapter 17. (Audio – kickoff where you lot stopped on Lesson 157)
  2. Tell someone what is happening in the story. What was this chapter about?

Lesson 159

  1. Read chapter 18. (Audio)
  2. Who do you think was throwing snowballs at the end of the chapter?

Lesson 164

  1. Stop the book! (Audio)
  2. How does the book stop?

Lesson 166

  1. Mind to a story.

Lesson 167

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 168

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 169

  1. Heed to a story.

Lesson 170

  1. Mind to a story.

Lesson 171

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 172

  1. Mind to a story.

Lesson 173

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 174

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 175

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 176

  1. Mind to a story.

Lesson 177

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 178

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 179

  1. Listen to a story.

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