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Mrs. Stoffel’s

Weekly StoryTown:

* Focus Skill * Vocabulary Words * Spelling Words

1 st day of the week : Pre-Spelling test - 100% = no spelling homework or test for the week! 2 nd to last day of the week : Practice Spelling test - 100% = no spelling test tomorrow Last day of the week : Spelling & Reading tests

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Mrs . Stoffe l ’s Week ly Read ing and Spe l l i ng Test Schedu le

** Please note, their may be some slight changes to the schedule in April and May due to NeSA Testing **

Week of… Lesson 1: August 29 Lesson 2: September 6 Lesson 3: September 12 Lesson 4: September 19 Lesson 5: September 26 Lesson 6: October 6 Lesson 7: October 10 Lesson 8: October 17 Lesson 9: October 24 Lesson 10: October 31 Lesson 11: November 7 Lesson 12: November 14 Lesson 13: November 28 Lesson 14: December 5 Lesson 15: December 12

Lesson 16: January 9 Lesson 17: January 17 Lesson 18: January 23 Lesson 19: January 30 Lesson 20: February 6 Lesson 21: February 13 Lesson 22: February 21 Lesson 23: February 27 Lesson 24: March 6 Lesson 25: March 21 Lesson 26: March 27 Lesson 27: April 3 Lesson 28: April 18 Lesson 29: April 24 Lesson 30: May 1

Lesson 1

“Rope Burn” by Jan Siebold Realistic Fiction

Focus Skill: Conflict and Resolution

Vocabulary Words:

humiliation expectations

Fringes hesitating sincere coaxed

Spelling Words:

Short vowels bandage chest drift dull dusk

stretch flock fond

measure does scrap shift smash switch swept threat timid plaid trust twist

Lesson 2

“Line Drive” by Tanya West Dean Autobiography

Focus Skill: Conflict & Resolution

Vocabulary Words:

maven mortified reigned conceited designated

smirk exhilarated

Spelling Words:

Long Vowel needle speech reason crease thief fade obtain faint steep rayon eager shadow saying mild coach smoke twice human

teenage niece

Lesson 3

“Chang and the Bamboo Flute” by Elizabeth Starr Hill

Historical Fiction Focus Skill: Character’s Motives

Vocabulary Words:

pried desperately

sneered indignantly urgently grudgingly

Spelling Words:

counter fraud oyster appoint drawn awning laundry feud shawl jewel

royalty powder annoying cashew scoop bamboo browse ointment rooster rescue

Lesson 4

“The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter” by: Bonnie Christensen

Biography Focus Skill: Character’s Motives

Vocabulary Words:

relented faze

eccentric infuriated

disheartened impassable crusaded

Spelling Words:

talked hurried smiling

dropped clapping stepped worried worrying changing stayed buying dried

picnicking scared driving obeyed playing tried carried hurrying

Lesson 5

“It Takes Talent” Reader’s Theater

Focus Skill: Character’s Motives & Conflict/Resolution

Vocabulary Words:

genial spectacular prognostication flop stricken overcome dramatically feverishly restrain protest

Spelling Words:

stretch does

measure reason coach kneeling twice rayon appoint scoop drawn feud jewel fraud royalty hurried scared changing buying obeyed

Lesson 6

“The Night of San Juan” by Lulu Delacre Realistic Fiction

Focus Skill: Theme

Vocabulary Words:

wistful grateful

grim raspy

swarmed revelers

irresistible

Spelling Words: drizzle gobble meddle shuffle bundle pickle hobble topple hurtle vehicle struggle wiggle spindle speckle griddle ripple article triple jingle bugle

Lesson 7

“When the Circus Came to Town” by Laurence Yep Historical Fiction

Focus Skill: Theme

Vocabulary Words:

fret assured nudged

outlandish ruckus

proclaimed

Spelling Words: suppose hurricane ballad bellow success appeal

announcer tissue

excellent terrific collect slippery common arrange suffer follow kennel squirrel message summary

Lesson 8

“When Washington Crossed the Delaware” by Lynne Cheney

Narrative Nonfiction Focus Skill: Sequence

Vocabulary Words:

crucial crisis maneuvered perseverance encountered persuading appealed destiny

Spelling Words: entire hospital public combine golden chimney pretzel survive absorb turmoil wisdom journey condition whisper identify establish furnace capture marvelous nursery

Lesson 9

“Leonardo’s Horse” by: Jean Fritz Focus Skill: Sequence

Vocabulary Words:

scholars specialized gesture envisioned proportion resisted

Spelling Words: VCCCV Words

congress English fortress expression conclude complain complex distrust contribute explode umbrella

merchandise remembrance concrete goggles portray technique accomplish function membrane

Lesson 10

“The Secret Ingredient” Reader’s Theater

Focus Skill: Theme & Sequence

Vocabulary Words:

eminent charity modest disgruntled inadequate aghast dismayed amends absentminded concoction

Spelling Words:

Review list bundle vehicle struggle hurtle triple

hurricane golden journey hospital excellent message arrange whisper terrific

expression conclude

merchandise technique accomplish orchestra

Lesson 11

“Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea” Historical Fiction

Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast

Vocabulary Words:

inflammable dignified rowdy seldom

conducted shatter broached

Spelling Words:

Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV) Pattern enemy balance basis closet decent define eleven fanatic honest humor minute model

protest ocean

pretend private radar second slogan editor

Lesson 12

“Ultimate Field Trip 3: Wading into Marine Biology” Expository Nonfiction Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast

Vocabulary Words:

adjust residents specimens recoil pesky debris internal

Spelling Words:

Words with prefix re-, un-, non- reenter refried

reconsider repaint reform replay retake remake reclaim replant unable

uninformed undesirable

untold unwise

nonconductor nonproductive nonexistent nonflammable nondairy

Lesson 13

“Stormalong” Tall Tale

Focus Skill: Cause and Effect

Vocabulary Words:

bellowing yearning outcast withered reputation escapades betrayed unfathomable

Spelling Words:

Words with suffixes –able, -ible, -ment, -less development dispensable enjoyable digestible divisible

irresistible admissible appointment argument payment

amazement priceless judgment

resentment embarrassment

boundless ageless aimless

motionless worthless

Lesson 14

“A Drop of Water” Expository Nonfiction Focus Skill: Cause and Effect

Vocabulary Words:

elongate elastic rigid accumulate underlying intricate vanish replenishing

Spelling Words:

Words ending with en, el, er sounds barrel cannon capitol civil clever

discover frozen general hidden inventor mayor pepper polar proper sandal saucer original theater tutor musical

Lesson 15

“How the Prairie Became Ocean” Reader’s Theater

Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast & Cause and Effect

Vocabulary Words:

recount endeavor uninhabitable dwell sustain brimming monotonous teeming parched sorrowful

Spelling Words: Review Words

enemy fanatic honest ocean slogan reclaim

reconsider uninformed unwise

nonexistent digestible enjoyable admissible argument amazement priceless capitol general mayor

theater

Lesson 16

“The School Story” by Andrew Clements Realistic Fiction

Focus Skill: Make Inferences

Vocabulary Words:

tempted proposed insights instinct essence baffled

indication

Spelling Words: Prefixes im-, in-, ir-, il-

inactive inaccurate irregular irrelevant ineffective imbalance immature impatient imperfect impossible illegal

illiterate illegible inaction

independent invalid

indefinite injustice

irreplaceable impolite

Lesson 17

“Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street” By Roni Schotter Realistic Fiction

Focus Skill: Make Inferences

Vocabulary Words:

hiatus embarked unimaginable extravagant gourmet throng precarious

Spelling Words: Suffixes –ant, -ent, -eer, -ist, -ian

accountant applicant attendant defiant mutineer expectant hesitant quadrant resistant servant

dependent indulgent insistent urgent

auctioneer accompanist

artist cellist

technician novelist

Lesson 18

“Project Mulberry” by Linda Sue Park Realistic Fiction

Focus Skill: Main Idea and Details

Vocabulary Words:

compartments swayed phobia invasion vetoed wispy

Spelling Words: Suffixes –ous, -eous, -ious

courteous hazardous humorous monstrous porous curious furious glorious delirious fictitious gracious ambitious

discourteous dangerous anxious

spontaneous religious delicious

mountainous ridiculous

Lesson 19

“Inventing the Future: The Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison

by: Marfe Ferguson Delano Biography

Focus Skill: Main Idea and Details

Vocabulary Words:

tendency feat irrepressible prestigious

device industry

Spelling Words: Homophones

steal steel waste waist weak week base bass pain pane flare flair dual duel

stationary stationery flower flour sight site

Lesson 20

“The Invention Convention” Biography

Focus Skill: Make Inferences & Main Idea and Details

Vocabulary Words:

scours appropriate practical portable circulate protrude boisterous deduction fickle measly

Spelling Words:

Review Words irreplaceable

immature indefinite illiterate

independent applicant accountant insistent novelist technician cellist porous glorious

spontaneous fictitious mountainous

weak week dual duel

Lesson 21

“Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles”

by Kathryn Lasky Expository Nonfiction

Focus Skill: Author’s Purpose and Perspective

Vocabulary Words:

basking sleek vital damage analyzing detect

Spelling Words:

Prefixes in-, out-, down-, up- incompetent

uphold inconsiderate indecisive outrank inhumane inorganic income

invertebrate outgoing

outpatient outspoken outwit

downbeat downgrade downplay downtown uplift

upstage uptight

Lesson 22

“The Power of W.O.W!” by Crystal Hubbard

Play Focus Skill: Author’s Purpose and Perspective

Vocabulary Words:

somberly stammers monopolize deflated enraptured enterprising cumbersome

Spelling Words: Suffixes –ation, -ition, -sion, -ion

acceleration accumulation activation alteration

authorization calculation cancellation dedication

organization demolition repetition mansion pension passion tension champion confusion permission population companion

Lesson 23

“Any Small Goodness” by Tony Johnston Realistic Fiction

Focus Skill: Literary Devices

Vocabulary Words:

gouges desolate bustles fervor immaculate assuage

Spelling Words: Words with silent letters

assign autumn column crumb debris delight design glisten hasten knead

knowledge lightning resign rhyme solemn

thorough scenery whirl

wreath wrestled

Lesson 24

“Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride” by George Selden

Fantasy Focus Skill: Literary Devices

Vocabulary Words:

excursions giddy pinnacle gleeful panic turbulent precious

Spelling Words: Words with unusual plurals

addresses armies calves

countries leaves buses videos echoes shelves studios radios halves hooves knives taxes

tomatoes opportunities volcanoes stitches wolves

Lesson 25

“The Compassion Campaign” News Report – Reader’s Theater

Focus Skill: Literary Devices Author’s Purpose & Perspective

Vocabulary Words:

loathe bland mentor dilapidated coordination altruism sensibility advocacy mistreated compassion

Spelling Words: Review Words

indecisive outpatient downgrade uptight

acceleration demolition pension champion

authorization cancellation

autumn knowledge rhyme scenery wrestled armies shelves radios

tomatoes videos

Lesson 26

“Lewis and Clark” by: R. Conrad Stein Narrative Nonfiction

Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase

Vocabulary Words:

asset intently profusely ordeal terrain dismal peril esteem

Spelling Words: Prefix + Base Word + Suffix

unsuccessful undoubtedly impossibly disloyalty

deactivation unlikable

replacement unsafely

uncollectible immeasurable impassible

encouragement unbelievable unselfishly

rearrangement discoverable dishonestly unbreakable reappearance reassurance

Lesson 27

“Klondike Kate” by: Liza Ketchum

Biography Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase

Vocabulary Words:

remote laden appalled invest floundered grueling isolated

Spelling Words: Greek Word Parts

astronomy disaster asterisk astronaut asteroid chronic chronicle chronology chronological synchronize cyclical bicyclist cyclone

encyclopedia hydrogen hydrant hydrate optic

optician optical

Lesson 28

“The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest”

by: Steve Jenkins Expository Nonfiction Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion

Vocabulary Words:

summit accustomed secure essential streamlined acclimate

Spelling Words: Latin Word Parts

tractor distract traction contract attract subtract erupt

bankrupt interrupt abrupt rupture audio audible audience auditorium audition verdict diction dictate predict

Lesson 29

“The Man Who Went on the Far Side of the Moon”

by: Bea Uusma Schyffert Biography

Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion

Vocabulary Words:

ignited squinting jettisoned tranquility cramped potentially

Spelling Words: Borrowed Words

banana chimpanzee yogurt almanac syrup cousin stomach language foyer acronym chlorine kayak parka balcony replica anchor urban coyote

chocolate vanilla

Lesson 30

“Exploring the Gulf Coast” Reader’s Theater

Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase & Fact and Opinion

Vocabulary Words:

poised earnestly insufficient exceptional achievement bickering equivalent regal customary provoke

Spelling Words: Review Words

impossibly deactivation immeasurable unbreakable reappearance

asteroid chronology cyclone hydrate optical contract bankrupt audible diction almanac language balcony chlorine cousin urban