Unit 6
Together We Can
Unit 6 Week 1
Phonics sound: variant vowel /u/
Reading/Writing Workshop story: “Super Tools”
Literature Anthology story: “Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type”
Spelling words: moon, tune, flew, blue, fruit, soup, toy, coin, enough, door
High frequency words: answer, brought, busy, door, enough, eyes
Structural analysis: Suffixes /-ful/ and /-less/
Grammar: Pronouns
Vocabulary words:
Demand: If you demand someone to do something, you ask forcefully or strongly.
Emergency: An emergency is something that you do not expect and need to take care of right away.
Unit 6 Week 2
Phonics sound: variant vowel /o/
Reading/Writing Workshop story: “All Kinds of Helpers”
Literature Anthology story: “Meet Rosina”
Spelling words: haul, cause, saw, claw, paw, dawn, moon, soup, love, friend
High frequency words: brother, father, friend, love, mother, picture
Structural analysis: Vowel team syllables
Grammar: Possessive pronouns
Vocabulary words:
Accept: If you accept something, you take it or agree to it.
Often: if you do something often, you do it a lot.
Unit 6 Week 3
Phonics sound: silent letters /wr/kn/gn/
Reading/ Writing Workshop story: “Snow Day”
Literature Anthology story: “Rain School”
Spelling words: gnat, gnu, know, knife, been, write, wrong, cause, dawn, their
High frequency words: been, children, month, question, their, year
Structural analysis: Compound words
Grammar: Special pronouns
Vocabulary words:
Country: A country is a land where a group of people live.
Gathers: Gathers means “brings or comes together is one place”.
Unit 6 Week 4
Phonics sound: Review three letter blends
Reading/Writing Workshop story: “A Spring Birthday”
Literature Anthology story: “Lissy’s Friends”
Spelling words: strike, spray, splash, split, scrape, three, know, write, your, heard
High frequency words: before, front, heard, push, tomorrow, your
Structural analysis: Inflection endings /-ed/-ing/
Grammar: I and Me
Vocabulary words:
Difficult: Something that is difficult is not easy.
Nobody: Nobody means “no person”.
Unit 6 Week 5
Phonics sound: /ar/air, are, ear
Reading/Writing Workshop story: “Share the Harvest and Give Thanks”
Literature Anthology story: “Happy Birthday U.S.A.!”
Spelling words: fair, pair, bear, wear, spare, share, three, splash, favorite, surprise
High frequency words: favorite, few, gone, surprise, wonder, young
Structural analysis: Controlled Vowel Syllables /-r/
Grammar: Adverbs That Tell How
Vocabulary:
Nation: A nation is a group of people living in one country.
Unite: To unite is to join together.
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