Mrs. Stauffer

12/15/2025-12/19/2025

In reading we will be learning about animal habitats and adaptations. Students will use what they have learned from this u nit and complete a habitat project. More information on this project will be sent home soon.

Essential question: How are kids around the world different?

Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast

  • To compare is to tell how things or events are alike

  • To contrast is to tell how they are different

Vocabulary Strategies: similes

  • A simile uses the words like or as to compare two different things.

  • To understand a simile, figure out how an author compares one thing to another.

  • Example: "like a whale in the sky"

High Frequency

  • many

  • morning

  • through

  • very

  • sleep

  • eat

  • colors

  • down

  • below

  • don't

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Vocabulary

common- something that is shared or owned by two or more people

costume- clothing you wear to look like something or someone else

customs- ways of acting or events that a group of people have done over and over again

favorite- something hat is liked the best

parades- large groups of people, including bands, moving, through a public place for a special event

surrounded- something that is closed in on all sides

travels- making a trip somewhere

wonder- curious about something and wanting to know about it.