Written by Eve Bunting
Illustrated by C.F. Payne
Genre: Historical fiction
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast – tell how details and ideas are alike or different
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict – use clues to figure out more about the selection
Grammar
Common and Proper Nouns: -A word that names a person, a place, or a thing is a noun.
ex. My mom helped to build a new road.
The work lasted one year.
-A noun that names any person, place, or thing is called a common noun. A noun that names a particular person, place, or thing is called
a proper noun.
-Proper nouns begin with capital letters. A proper noun may have more than one word. Begin each important word in a proper noun with a capital
letter.
ex. His daughter Audrey visited him at his job
in England.
Guided Reading Books
The Tallest Tower (Empire State Building)
Champ of the Hoover Dam
Sky-High Dreams
Champ
Social Studies Connection
Google Earth images of Golden Gate Bridge
Download Google Earth
Bixby Bridge – Big Sur
Science Connection
Bridges Brain Pop Video
Arch bridge
Suspension bridge
Chapter 3 – Understanding Multiplication
3-1 Count Equal Groups 3-2 Relate Addition and Multiplication 3-3 Skip Count on a Number Line 3-4 Model Multiplication 3-5 Model with Arrays