Mrs. Stauffer

1/6/2026-1/9/2026

Genre:Realistic Fiction

  • made-up characters, settings, and events that could be real

  • sometimes written in first person (using I, me, we, our, my, us)

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

  • animal

  • away

  • from

  • building

  • found

  • today

  • Saturday

  • thought

  • toward

  • watch

Spelling

clerk

burst

herd

work

skirt

worse

stir

first

churn

hurt

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.