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Unit 9 • AMAZING CREATURES

Write Gg, Ww, Xx, and Vv.

GgWwXx Vv

GgGgGg XxXxXxWwWwWw VvVvVv

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Illustrator credits: Cvr: Marisol Sarrazin. 5: Laurence Cleyet-Merle. 7: Wallace Keller. 8: Wallace Keller. 9: Mark and Rosemary Jarman. 10: Mark and Rosemary Jarman. 11: Nathan Jarvis. 12: Nathan Jarvis. 15: Brian Fujimori. 16: Brian Fujimori. 17: Ron Berg. 18: Ron Berg. 19: Dana Regan. 20: Dana Regan. 21: Nathan Jarvis. 22: Nathan Jarvis. 25: Paul Harvey. 27: Kristin Sorra. 28: Kristin Sorra. 29: Annie Lunsford. 30: Annie Lunsford. 31: Nathan Jarvis. 32: Nathan Jarvis.Photo Credits: All Photographs by Macmillan/McGraw Hill (MMH) except as noted below: 3: (tl) Jules Frazier/Getty Images, (tcl) Photodisc/Getty Images; (tr) Rubberball Productions/Getty Images (bl) Comstock/Punchstock; (br) Burke/Triolo Productions. 4: (t) Jules Frazier/Getty Images; (tl) Photodisc/Getty Images; (cl) C Squared Studios/Getty Images; (cr) C Squared Studios/Getty Images (bl) Gunnar Smollannsky/Photonica. 9: Photodisc/Getty Images. 13: (tl) C Squared Studios/Getty Images; (tcl) Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures; (br) Getty Images. 14 : (t, bl) C Squared Studios/Getty Images; (tr) photolink/Getty Images; (cr) Digital Vision Direct. 17: (l) NHPA /Linda Pitkin; (r) Leszczynski, Zigmund/Animals Animals. 18: (l) Jeff Hunter/Getty Images, (r) Georgette Douwma/Naturepl.com. 19: Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures. 23: (tcl) Photodisc/Getty Images; (tr) Jules Frazier/Getty Images; (br) Rubberball Productions/Getty Images; (bl) C Squared Studios/Getty Images; (bcl) Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures. 24: (tl) C Squared Studios/Getty Images; (tlw), (br,) photodisc/Getty Images; (trg) Jules Frazier/Getty Images; (tr) Corbis; (cr) Rubberball Productions/Getty Images; (bl) Karl Weatherly/Getty Images. 29: (tl) C Squared Studios/Getty Images; (tr) Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures

At Home:Use the cover of the Activity Book to talk about the theme: Amazing Creatures.

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Phonics: /g/gSay the name of each picture. Write the letter that stands for the /g/ sound you hear at the beginning of the word. Elicit from children the difference between a letter and a word.

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Ask your child to name each picture and its beginning letter and sound.

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Vocabulary: Classify and Categorize BeetlesThink about the selection Beetles. Cut out the pictures. Sort the animals into groups of beetles and not beetles. Name the animals in each group.

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Ask your child to name the animals and tell how he or she sorted them.


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Goliath beetle mouse ladybug

penguin frog firefly

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Comprehension: Classify and Categorize BeetlesUse the pictures on the back to help you identify the animal name. Sort them into groups of insects and not insects.

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Ask your child to name the animals and tell how he or she sorted them.


Name

We can play.

He said, “I am big”.High-Frequency Words: she, hePoint to the title page first. Then, read the book aloud to a partner.

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Ask your child to read the book aloud to you.

He Said,She Said

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She said, “I am little”. What can we do?

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Phonics: /w/wSay the name of each picture. Identify the sound that you hear at the beginning of each picture name. Write the letter that stands for the /w/ sound. Repeat the names aloud.

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Phonics: Blending w, gPoint to the word as you blend the sounds and say the word. Write the word. Then circle the picture that goes with the word.

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Ask your child to blend the letter sounds to read each word.

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Comprehension: Classify and CategorizeLook at the pictures in each row. Draw an X on the animal that does not belong. Tell why it does not belong.

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Ask your child to tell you which animal does not belong and why.


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Phonics: /g/g, /w/wSay the name of each picture. Then write the letter that stands for the sound you hear at the beginning of the word. Repeat the names aloud.

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Phonics: /ks/xSay the name of each picture. Write the letter that stands for the /ks/ sound you hear at the end of each word. Elicit from children the difference between a letter and a word.

At Home:

Ask your child to name each picture and its ending letter and sound.

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Comprehension: Compare and Contrast Fish FacesThink about the selection Fish Faces. Look at each picture. Read each label. Cut out the labels and glue them below the correct fish. Tell how the fish are the same and different.

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Ask your child to read the label that tells about each fish. Talk about how the fish are the same and different.


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Comprehension: Compare and Contrast Fish FacesThink about the selection Fish Faces. Look at each picture. Read each label. Cut out the labels and glue them below the correct fish. Tell how the fish are the same and different.

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Ask your child to read the label that tells about each fish. Talk about how the fish are the same and different.


It has spots

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Look at this fish

.High-Frequency Words: has, lookRead the book aloud to a partner. Pick a sentence. Count the words in the sentence.

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Look!

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Phonics: /v/vSay the name of each picture. Identify the sound that you hear at the beginning of each picture name. Circle each picture whose name begins with the same sound as van. Write the letter.

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Ask your child to name each picture on the page that begins with the same sound as van.

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Phonics: Blending x, vPoint to the word as you blend the sounds and say the word. Read the sentence. Write the word that completes the sentence. Read the sentence again.

At Home:

Ask your child to read the sentences aloud.

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Comprehension: Compare and ContrastLook at each animal. Circle the two that are the same. Tell why they are the same.

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Ask your child to point to the animals that are different and tell you why they are not the same.

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Phonics: /ks/x, /v/vSay the name of each picture. Write the letter x if its name ends with the /ks/ sound. Write the letter v if its name begins with the /v/ sound.

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Ask your child to name each picture. Then have your child name each letter he or she wrote.

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If the dinosaurs came back by Bernard MostGg Ww

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Phonics: /g/g, /w/wSay the name of each picture. Identify the sound that you hear at the beginning of each picture name. Write the letter that stands for the sound. Repeat the names aloud.

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Comprehension: Fantasy and RealityListen to the following directions. Look at the pictures. Circle the picture that shows something that could have really happened. Draw a line under the picture if it could not have happened.

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Ask your child to use the story to tell about the things dinosaurs could and could not have really done.


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Vocabulary: Opposites1. Circle the animal that is thin. Draw a line under the animals that are fat. 2. Circle the animal that is short. Draw a line under the animals that are tall.3. Circle the animal that is big. Draw a line under the animals that are small.

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Ask your child to name the opposites.

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Rex has a towel

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Look at Rex!

Rex

High-Frequency Words: she, he, has, lookRead the book aloud to a partner. Pick a sentence. Count the words in the sentence.

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He can swim

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Phonics: /ks/x, /v/vSay the name of each picture. Identify the sound that you hear at the beginning or end of each picture name. Write the letter x if you hear the /ks/ sound. Write the letter v if you hear the /v/ sound.

At Home:

Ask your child to name each picture and its ending or beginning letter and sound.

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Phonics: Blending g, w, x, vLook at each picture. Point to the word as you blend the sounds and say each word. Circle the word that goes with the picture. Write the word.

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Ask your child to read each word aloud.

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Comprehension: Fantasy and RealityListen to the following directions. Look at the pictures. Circle the picture that shows something that might really happen. Draw a line under the picture that is make-believe.

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Ask your child to tell you why each picture is real or make-believe.


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Phonics: /g/g, /w/w, /ks/x, /v/vSay the name of each picture. Then write the letter that stands for the sound you hear at the beginning or end of the word. Repeat the names aloud.

At Home:

Ask your child to name each picture and its beginning or ending letter and sound.

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