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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?

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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