Download Unit 4 Week 1

Splish! Splash! Animal Baths
by
April Pulley Sayre
Genre: A photo essay uses mostly photographs and captions to tell about a topic.
Story Overview: I’m reading Splish! Splash! Animal Baths. It’s got all sorts of neat
facts about how animals take baths. Birds sit on a giraffe’s neck and pick off ticks. Pigs
roll around in mud. It makes their skin cool. I see how the animals baths are alike and
different. This is fun!
Vocabulary:
1. itches – tickling feelings in the skin that make one want to scratch noun
2. puddles – small pools of water, especially rainwater noun
3. preen - to smooth or clean feathers with the beak or bill verb
4. beasts – animals other than humans noun
5. handy – useful adjective
6. nibble – to bite gently or to take small bites verb
Strategy: Asking questions – Asking questions means to ask yourself questions about
the text as you read. Asking questions helps clarify meaning, identify important events,
or locate specific information in a text.
Skill: Compare and Contrast – When good readers compare two or more things, they
tell how things are alike. When good readers contrast, they tell how the things are
different.
Grammar: Linking Verbs – A linking verb is a verb that does not show action.
Spelling List: Words with R controlled vowels
Part, start, park, farm, dark, sort, storm, short, for, horse
Review words: scream, stripe
High-Frequency Words: area, money, piece