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Lesson 5: Stormalong

Genre: Tall Tale

Paired Text: Hoderi the Fisherman

Genre: Folktale

Essential Question:

Why do people pass down stories over the years?

Comprehension Skills and Strategies

**Target Skill: Understanding Characters**

**Target Strategy: ​Infer/Predict**

Target Skill: Point of View

Target Skill: Hyperbole

  • PAH Project: Hyperbole: Figurative Language

Language

Spelling: Homophones

  • Spelling City
  • IXL: Homophones with pictures
  • IXL: Identify homophones
  • IXL: Use the correct homophone

Target Vocabulary

  • Vocabulary City

Vocabulary Strategies: Reference Materials

  • Reference Materials Part 1
  • IXL: Use guide words
  • IXL: Use dictionary entries
  • IXL: Use dictionary definitions 

Grammar: Proper Nouns

  • Grammar Snap Video: Common and Proper Nouns
  • BrainPOP: Capitalization
  • PAH Project: Capitalization Rules: Proper Nouns
  • LearnZillion: Use correct capitalization: adding capitals
  • LearnZillion: Use correct capitalization: removing capitals
  • LearnZillion: Write titles correctly by knowing which words to capitalize
  • IXL: Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect
  • IXL: Capitalizing days, months, and holidays
  • IXL: Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features
  • IXL: Capitalizing the names of historical events, periods, and documents
  • IXL: Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages
  • IXL: Capitalizing titles
  • IXL: Formatting titles
  • IXL: Formatting and capitalizing titles

Foundational Skills

Decoding: Homophones

  • BrainPOP: They're, Their, and There
  • ​Between the Lions:
  • HomophonesLearnByLyrics: To Too Two Song
  • LearnByLyrics: There They're There Song​
  • The Grammarheads: Their There They're

Fluency: Expression

Writing

Narrative Writing:
Fictional Narrative

Focus Trait: Organization

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