The first story of the new year is Max’s Words written by Kate Banks. This is a story about a little boy, Max, and his two brothers. Both of his brothers have their own collections. One collects stamps and the other collects coins. Max wants to start a collection, so he decides to collect words. The genre of this story is humorous fiction.
The vocabulary words that go along with this story are:
collect ~ to gather things together in a group
scrambled ~ mixed together in a messy way
sorted ~ things were grouped together
orders ~ arrangement of things in a certain way, such as side by side or one after the other
ragged ~ uneven, torn or worn out
rapidly ~ quickly
continued ~ someone or something kept going or went on doing something
darted ~ moved suddenly or quickly
The comprehension skills that will be addressed are:
sequencing of events drawing conclusions infer/predict **Spiraling of past skills will be continued throughout the six weeks.