“Amazing Growth Facts”
and
“The Old Grandfather and His
Little Grandson”
“Amazing Growth Facts”
tells interesting facts about how people and different kinds of plants and animals grow in size and weight. All things grow at different rates. Some things, such as bamboo, kelp, kangaroos, and crocodiles, grow very quickly. Others, such as clams, grow very slowly.
Key Words
Average: having qualities that are typical of
most people or things
Conversation: when you change something
from one form, system, or purpose to another
Height: how tall someone or something is
Length: the measurement of something from
one end to another
Rate: the number of times something happens
over a period of time
Weight: how heavy someone or something is
Academic Words
benefit = something that gives you an
advantage, that helps you, or that has a good effect
➡ Growing fast is a great benefit to animals.
It helps them live on their own sooner.
category = group of people or things that
have related characteristcs
➡ Bears and deer belong to the category of
warm-blooded animals. Snakes and lizards
belong to a different group.
enormous = extremely large in size or amount ➡ The elephant is enormous! It is a huge animal.
percent = equal to a particular amount in
every hundred
➡ About 75 percent of the eggs hatched.
The rest of the eggs did not hatch.
Word Study: Spelling Words with Long Vowel Sound /o¯ /
Learning to identify sound-spelling patterns will help you read and spell words correctly. The long vowel sound /o¯/ can be spelled in
many ways.
Four common spellings are:
o as in cold,
o_e as in bone
oa as in roast
and ow as in snow.
Look at the chart below.
Notice the sound-spelling patterns for /o¯/.
“The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” is about a very old man. His son and his son’s wife treat him badly because he makes a mess when he eats. They make him eat out of a wooden bowl so that he can’t break it. One day his little grandson tells his parents that he is making a wooden bowl for when they are old. After hearing this, the son and his wife feel very bad and start to take better care of the
grandfather.
tells interesting facts about how people and different kinds of plants and animals grow in size and weight. All things grow at different rates. Some things, such as bamboo, kelp, kangaroos, and crocodiles, grow very quickly. Others, such as clams, grow very slowly.
Key Words
Average: having qualities that are typical of
most people or things
Conversation: when you change something
from one form, system, or purpose to another
Height: how tall someone or something is
Length: the measurement of something from
one end to another
Rate: the number of times something happens
over a period of time
Weight: how heavy someone or something is
Academic Words
benefit = something that gives you an
advantage, that helps you, or that has a good effect
➡ Growing fast is a great benefit to animals.
It helps them live on their own sooner.
category = group of people or things that
have related characteristcs
➡ Bears and deer belong to the category of
warm-blooded animals. Snakes and lizards
belong to a different group.
enormous = extremely large in size or amount ➡ The elephant is enormous! It is a huge animal.
percent = equal to a particular amount in
every hundred
➡ About 75 percent of the eggs hatched.
The rest of the eggs did not hatch.
Key Words
Average: having qualities that are typical of
most people or things
Conversation: when you change something
from one form, system, or purpose to another
Height: how tall someone or something is
Length: the measurement of something from
one end to another
Rate: the number of times something happens
over a period of time
Weight: how heavy someone or something is
Academic Words
benefit = something that gives you an
advantage, that helps you, or that has a good effect
➡ Growing fast is a great benefit to animals.
It helps them live on their own sooner.
category = group of people or things that
have related characteristcs
➡ Bears and deer belong to the category of
warm-blooded animals. Snakes and lizards
belong to a different group.
enormous = extremely large in size or amount ➡ The elephant is enormous! It is a huge animal.
percent = equal to a particular amount in
every hundred
➡ About 75 percent of the eggs hatched.
The rest of the eggs did not hatch.
Word Study: Spelling Words with Long Vowel Sound /o¯ /
Learning to identify sound-spelling patterns will help you read and spell words correctly. The long vowel sound /o¯/ can be spelled in
many ways.
Four common spellings are:
o as in cold,
o_e as in bone
oa as in roast
and ow as in snow.
Look at the chart below.
Notice the sound-spelling patterns for /o¯/.
Learning to identify sound-spelling patterns will help you read and spell words correctly. The long vowel sound /o¯/ can be spelled in
many ways.
Four common spellings are:
o as in cold,
o_e as in bone
oa as in roast
and ow as in snow.
Look at the chart below.
Notice the sound-spelling patterns for /o¯/.
“The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” is about a very old man. His son and his son’s wife treat him badly because he makes a mess when he eats. They make him eat out of a wooden bowl so that he can’t break it. One day his little grandson tells his parents that he is making a wooden bowl for when they are old. After hearing this, the son and his wife feel very bad and start to take better care of the
grandfather.
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