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Course Clarification:

Students will abound in their reading power by reading poetry, short stories, and full-length novels. Students will practise retelling and summarizing stories, as well as reading aloud in front end of audiences. They volition demonstrate comprehension through reading response questions. Vocabulary volition be introduced from the literature and proficient for retentivity.

Reading List (included for free in the online lessons; no need to purchase separately):

Poetry by Walter de la Mare, James Riley, Christina Rossetti

Books: The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk and The Adventures of Former Mr. Toad by Thorton Westward. Burgess; The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Club, Hope

Brusk stories: Beatrice Potter stories, L Famous Stories, and a multifariousness of other curt stories

Lesson 1

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  1. If you didn't get here through My EP Assignments, I suggest you get there and create an account. At that place is an offline version of this grade if you are interested in a workbook. Scroll up for the link.
  2. Listen to Horton Hatches an Egg by Dr. Seuss. Horton has to exist very patient, but he is rewarded in the finish. Learning takes a long time just like hatching an egg, but there is a great reward for your patience in the cease! (If the video disappears, here's another.)
  3. While yous are listening, you could depict a picture show of the story.
  4. What did y'all think of Horton?
  5. What did y'all retrieve of Maisy?
  6. What did you think of what came out of the egg?
  7. This is the terminate of your piece of work for this course for your showtime day. Y'all are allowed to movement at your own pace (this is homeschooling), merely it's intended you consummate i lesson a day.

Lesson 2

  1. Listen to some poems by Mother Goose.
  2. The starting time poem, "Curly locks, curly locks," is most a man request a adult female (with curly hair) to marry him. He promises her that she won't have to piece of work. What does he say that she'll practice? (Answer)
  3. The adjacent poem is about ii sisters arguing. What are they arguing about? (Reply)
  4. The adjacent poem is a description of a pair of tongs. (It'due south very short, just two lines.)
  5. The last poem is the most famous. What happens? (Respond)

Lesson iii

  1. Listen to poems past Mother Goose.
  2. What is the trivial male child doing in the first poem? (Answer)
  3. What is he supposed to be doing? (Answer)
  4. To be "unmarried" ways you are non married.
  5. What lesson does the concluding poem teach? (Respond)

Lesson 4

  1. Listen to poems by Mother Goose.
  2. This first poem doesn't make any sense! What does it say he burned his mouth on? (Answer)
  3. What is happening in the 2d verse form? (Respond)
  4. The last verse form is not very nice, but the Bible does say that those who marry will have troubles, both husbandsand wives.

Lesson 5

  1. Listen to these two poems by Mother Goose.
  2. Draw a picture about one of these poems or tell someone about what happens in both of them.

Lesson vi

  1. Read poems 04, 05, and 06 by Walter de la Mare. You tin sentry Mr. Thou reading the poems and talking about them in this video.
  2. Why is Tim so tired? (Answers)
  3. What does he think is so ugly in "I can't Abear"? (Answers) (Here is a pic of a butcher shop.)
  4. What do you remember it ways that he can't "abear" the butcher shop? (Answers)
  5. What happened in "Some One"? (Answers)

Lesson seven

  1. Read poems 08, 10, and 11 by Walter de la Mare. You tin watch Mr. G reading the poems and talking about them in this video.
  2. This is a motion-picture show of Banbury cakes in poem 08. Exercise you know what a cupboard is? (hint: What words do you encounter in cupboard?)
  3. What is "The Closet" about? (Answers)
  4. What is "The Window" about? (Answers)
  5. The widow in number 11 may not have a lot of money, but why is she non really poor? (hint: second to concluding line) (Answers)
  6. There is a long listing in this poem of unlike kinds of weeds. Usually you retrieve that weeds are for pulling and throwing abroad, just weeds tin can have a lot of uses and can even be eaten. Hither are a few pictures of some of the things listed. Comfrey Hawksbit Clover
  7. Can you find whatever of those where you live?

Lesson 8

  1. Read poems sixteen and nineteen past Walter de la Mare. You can watch Mr. Grand reading the poems and talking nigh them in this video.
  2. What animals does he say tin't see him? (respond: mole, bat, befouled owl)
  3. In fact moles tin run into, they just see very poorly. Bats tin run into, but they can't see well in the dark, which is when they similar to fly. Owls can see past solar day, but they are usually asleep because they like to be out at nighttime also. His science isn't the best in this verse form!
  4. "Summer Evening" paints a word picture show. Can you picture the scene? Draw the picture he describes in this poem.

Lesson nine

  1. Read poems 20 and 39 by Walter de la Mare. You tin listen to Mr. K reading and talking almost these poems in this video.
  2. What is the oak's "green crest"? (hint: What part of the oak tree is green?)
  3. Where are the star'south thrones ready? (hint: Where are the stars?)
  4. What words in this poem rhyme? (Answers)
  5. In number 39, what sounds does the woman hear now that she is quondam and there is no longer music and singing in her house? (Answers)

Lesson 10

  1. 1. Choose 1 of these books to mind to:
    • Sophie's Masterpiece
    • Stellaluna
    • Harry the Muddied Dog
    • The Rainbow Fish
    • The Tooth
    • Guji Guji
    • Romeow and Drooliet
    • A Bad Case of Stripes

Lesson 11

  1. You are going to listen to a poem called "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin," past James Riley. Here'due south the text if you lot want to read forth, just first read the notes below and look at the flick.
    • The line that is repeated in this poem is, "When the frost is on the punkin and the forage's in the shock."
    • Pumpkin is spelled punkin on purpose. Say it the way it is written. The verse form is written with a sort of emphasis. That's how the farmer speaks.
    • Fodder is feed for animals. Here is grain in shocks. The grain has all been harvested, nerveless. It'southward ready to feed the animals.
    • What fourth dimension of year is it when the harvest is all nerveless and there is frost on the pumpkin? (answer: It's the end of fall.)
  2. How does the poet feel about the end of harvest? (Answers)
  3. What are some lines that show how he feels? (Answers)

Lesson 12

  1. Read poems 01 through 04 past Christina Rossetti. You can listen to Mr. G reading and talking about these poems.
  2. In the first ii poems, what is she describing? (Answers)
  3. In verse form 03, where are the 2 places she digs for flowers? (Answers)
  4. Where volition the flowers grow and where volition flowers never abound? (Answers)
  5. Hither is a movie of a linnet in poem 04.
  6. What story does the bird tell? (Answers)

Lesson 13

  1. Read poems 08, 09 and ten by Christina Rossetti. You can mind to Mr. One thousand reading and talking about these poems.
  2. The picture I showed you on Lesson 12 is of a linnet on a bough, a tree branch. The poem talks nearly two linnets, two birds. 1 is outside in a tree and 1 is in a muzzle. The poet asks which one is luckier. What is the poet's answer? (Answers)
  3. Poem 09 is most rainbows. When it says "bow," it is talking about a rainbow. What does information technology say you need in lodge to have a rainbow? (Answers)
  4. Poem x talks nigh violets. Here is a picture of violets. Turf means the ground or grass. The poet smells something sweetness. The wind blows the smell her way. At the end of the poem she says that violets brand the turf sweet. What does that mean? (Answers)

Lesson 14

  1. Read poems sixteen, 17 and 18 by Christina Rossetti. You can listen to Mr. Yard reading and talking most the poems.
  2. In poem 16 she describes how a flint rock just looks like a stone, but it really has a special purpose.
  3. Hither is a picture of what happens when you strike flint rock. What words in the poem depict this picture? (Answers)
  4. There are many things and people in this world that await ordinary, but serve a special purpose.
  5. In poem 17, it says that even the coldest May brings what? (Answers)
  6. When information technology is summer in the USA, information technology is winter in Australia. The The states is in the north, what we call the northern hemisphere, and Commonwealth of australia is in the south or southern hemisphere. Too, you know that the sun rises and sets at different times everyday.
  7. In the summertime in the United states of america the days are long, the sun gets up early on and goes down late, so the nights are shorter. At the same time in Australia the reverse is happening. Then when the days are long, the nights are brusk; and when the days are short, the nights are long. Right?
  8. The lark is known for singing in the morning, so when the sun is upwardly early, the lark can sing for hours and hours.
  9. The nightingale is known for singing at dark. The poem says that fifty-fifty though the nights are long, they seem short considering of the nightingale's singing. Does that hateful she likes or doesn't like the nightingale's vocal? (Answers)
  10. Here is a singing lark and a singing nightingale.

Vocabulary

  1. Adore ways to think well of someone or something, to have a good opinion of something, to respect someone.

Lesson xv

  1. Read poems 20, 21 and 22 past Christina Rossetti. Yous can heed to Mr. G reading and talking near the poems.
  2. What is poem 20 about? (Answers)
  3. Describe a movie of the caterpillar in the verse form.
  4. What is the poet feeling in the beginning stanza (section) of verse form 21? (Answers)
    • A stanza is a department of a verse form. There's a space between each stanza.
  5. What is the poet feeling at the finish of the 2nd stanza? (Answers)
  6. What words rhyme in poem 22? (Answers)

Lesson xvi

  1. Read poems 24 and 25 past Christina Rossetti. You lot can listen to Mr. Grand reading and talking virtually the poems.
  2. These poem teach. What is taught in poem 24? (Answers)
  3. What do you think is being taught in poem 25? (hint: You would know if you lived in England.) (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Use the verse form to try to figure out the answers. Which is worth the most – pound, shilling or pence? The least? (At the time the poem was written, these are what were used in England for money.)
    • What volition y'all give me for my pound?
    • Full twenty shillings round.
    • What will you requite me for my shilling?
    • Twelve pence to give I'g willing.
    • What will you give me for my penny?
    • Four farthings, just and then many.
  2. And so look at the money from other countries.
    • British pounds, shillings and pence
    • European Union countries utilize Euros and Cents
    • South Africa uses Rand and Cents
    • Commonwealth of australia and Canada utilize their own types of dollars.

Lesson 17* (Note that an asterisk * indicates that there is a worksheet on this lesson)

  1. Read poems 26, 27 and 28 by Christina Rossetti. You lot can heed to Mr. Grand reading and talking about the poems.
  2. How many cherries did their family eat? (answer: i+1+2+vi = x)
  3. *Make a agenda folio based on this verse form for any calendar month information technology is right now. Example: It says that February is dripping moisture, so you lot would write February at the top and draw rain drops and puddles. Make sure to add in the date numbers in the right boxes.

Lesson 18

  1. Read poems 29 and 34 by Christina Rossetti. You can listen to Mr. Chiliad reading and talking about the poems.
  2. Both of these poems are about different uses of words. For case, the peacock has eyes but can't see with them. Here is a picture of peacock feathers that look similar optics.
  3. The poet is observant (pays attending to what's around her). I know you don't empathise everything she points out, but find one affair she observes in each poem and explain what it ways to a parent or older sibling so draw a picture of information technology. Instance: The caput of a pivot is the acme round part, but of course it doesn't have hair. Yous could draw a human head on the top of a pokey pin.

Lesson xix

  1. Read poems 38, 39 and 40 past Christina Rossetti. You lot can listen to Mr. Yard reading and talking virtually the poems.
  2. Poem 40: If you don't know what a ferry is, what clues are there in the poem to help you guess what it is? (respond: "across the h2o" and "boatman") What is a ferry? (Answers)
  3. How much does a ferry ride cost in this poem? (Answers)
  4. Poem 39: What does information technology hateful that the milk is coming when the cows come domicile? (Answers)
  5. Hither are pictures of drake, brake (thicket) and rushy lake. Look at the pictures and read the poem once more. Now tin you flick what it's talking well-nigh?
  6. Poem 38: What is happening in this poem? Offset, what is a swallow? (wait for clues in the poem like "fly away")
  7. When does the eat leave and wing abroad? (Answers)
  8. When does the eat come habitation? (Answers)
  9. What is happening in this poem? (Answers)

Lesson 20

  1. Read poems 45, 46 and 47 by Christina Rossetti. You lot can listen to Mr. G reading and talking about these poems.
  2. What does the poet compare to a boat sailing? (Answers)
  3. What does the poet compare to a bridge? (If you don't know, apply the clues. What bow looks like a bridge from the world to the sky?) (Answers)
  4. What is the bulletin of poem 46? (Answers)
  5. What is the message of poem 47? (Answers)

Lesson 21*

  1. Read "The City Zoo." You tin also mind to it. It mentions the sport rugby.It's like to football and is played in Britain. The story mentions a scrum. Information technology's not actually important, only here is a video showing what a scrum is in the sport, rugby. Also, an accountant is someone who keeps track of the money for a business; and when the hippo is wallowing in the mud it just ways he's lying down and relaxing in the mud.
  2. What problem did the zoo take? How did they solve the problem? Tell a parent or older sibling. (Answers)
  3. What kind of person was the zookeeper? (hint: look at the beginning of the story) (Answers)

Vocabulary*

  1. *Print out 4 vocabulary worksheets.
  2. Word list: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, slumber, attentively, exasperated, gleam, wallow , bulge, demolish, emulate
  3. Click on disrepair and read the definition.
  4. Fill in a vocabulary worksheet page for tirelessly and contented. Do only these words. The remaining words will be completed in future lessons.
  5. The words are in the social club they are establish in the story. Endeavour to spot them. NOTE: the give-and-take may look a little different in the story, peradventure wallowing instead of wallow, for example, but it is the same word.
  6. Write a definition for each word. You can click on each give-and-take above to see the definitions. Yous don't have to write out everything in the definition, just write what helps you sympathise what the word means. Case for gleam: shine. That's enough if information technology helps you know what gleam ways.
  7. Depict a picture for each word.

Lesson 22

  1. Read "The City Zoo." You tin can as well listen to it.

Vocabulary

  1. Word list: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, slumber, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , bulge, demolish, emulate
  2. Click on intently and read the definition.
  3. Make full in a vocabulary worksheet folio for sleep and exasperated. Do only these words. The remaining words volition be completed in future lessons.
  4. The words are in the order they are establish in the story. Try to spot them. Notation: the word may look a niggling dissimilar in the story, maybe wallowing instead of wallow, but it is the same word.
  5. Write a definition for each give-and-take. You can click on each give-and-take higher up to meet the definitions. You don't have to write out everything in the definition, just write what helps you lot understand what the word means. Instance for gleam: smooth. That's enough if it helps yous know what gleam ways.
  6. Depict a picture for each word.

Lesson 23

  1. Read "The City Zoo." Yous tin can also listen to information technology.

Vocabulary

  1. Give-and-take listing: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, sleep, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , burl, demolish, emulate
  2. Click on wallow and read the definition.
  3. Fill in a vocabulary worksheet page for gleam and bulge. Practice just these words. The remaining words will be completed in a future lesson.
  4. The words are in the order they are constitute in the story. Endeavor to spot them. Note: the give-and-take may await a trivial unlike in the story, perchance wallowing instead of wallow, only it is the aforementioned discussion.
  5. Write a definition for each word. Y'all tin click on each word above to see the definitions. You don't accept to write out everything in the definition, only write what helps you understand what the discussion ways. Example for gleam: polish. That's enough if it helps you know what gleam means.
  6. Draw a moving picture for each word.

Lesson 24

  1. Read "The City Zoo." You can as well mind to it.

Vocabulary

  1. Word list: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, slumber, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , burl, demolish, emulate
  2. Fill up in a vocabulary worksheet page for demolish and emulate.
  3. The words are in the club they are plant in the story. Try to spot them. NOTE: the discussion may wait a lilliputian different in the story, perhaps wallowing instead of wallow, simply it is the aforementioned discussion.
  4. Write a definition for each word. You can click on each word above to come across the definitions. You don't have to write out everything in the definition, merely write what helps you understand what the word means. Case for gleam: polish. That's enough if information technology helps you know what gleam means.
  5. Draw a motion-picture show for each word.

Lesson 26

  1. We're going to start a new book.What is it chosen? Who wrote information technology? (Answers)
  2. Read chapter 1. Here's the audio link if you lot'd like to listen.
  3. What happened in chapter 1? Tell someone. Tell them who the chapter was about and what that person did.

Lesson 29

  1. Read chapter iv. (Sound)
  2. What does Peter wish he could exercise? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Envy means to be jealous of.

Lesson 30

  1. Read chapter five. (Audio)
  2. How does Mr. Toad make his song? (Answers)
  3. Tell someone what happened in this chapter.

Lesson 35

  1. Read chapter 10. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happened in this affiliate.

Lesson 36

  1. Read affiliate 11. (Sound)
  2. Tell someone what happened in this affiliate.

Vocabulary

  1. Do you retrieve the definitions?
  2. Do y'all remember what envy means? (answer: to be jealous of)

Lesson 37

  1. Read chapter 12. (Audio)
  2. What makes Mr. Toad'due south tongue so wonderful? (Answers)
  3. Why does Peter think Mr. Toad'due south natural language is attached in the incorrect place? (Answers)

Lesson 38

  1. Read chapter xiii. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happened in this affiliate.
  3. Can you escape? Here are the words that might help you escape: observe, envy, bulge, wallow, admire, intent, slumber, gleam, repair

Lesson 39

  1. Read chapter 14. (Audio)
  2. Wait for the discussion indignant in the starting time of today's reading.
  3. Look for the word hastily at the finish of today's reading.
  4. indignant means feeling angered or bellyaching
  5. hastily means doing something in a hurry
  6. It's time to act. Say this line indignantly, "I can't believe you did that!" Say it like you are really annoyed!
  7. Now say it with envy, like you are actually jealous that they got to exercise that smashing thing. "I can't believe you did that!"
  8. At present say information technology hastily, really fast! If that's too difficult, you lot tin can practise something hastily. Picking upwardly things from the floor would be a great thing to do hastily. 🙂

Lesson 41

  1. Read chapter sixteen. (Sound)
  2. Why do yous think Sometime Mr. Toad turns pale and leaves at the end of the chapter? (hint: Information technology has to do with who Jimmy saw that day.) (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. To amble means to walk slowly.
  2. If y'all are smug, it ways you have too much pride in yourself.
  3. Anxious means worried.

Lesson 44

  1. Read chapter xix. (Audio)

Vocabulary

  1. Scorn means thinking that someone or something is worthless or despicable.
  2. Feeble ways not having physical strength.
  3. Who was feeble in this affiliate? (hint: He was feeble because he was so scared.) (Answers)

Lesson 45

  1. Read affiliate twenty. (Sound)
  2. Tell someone what happens in this chapter.

Lesson 46*

  1. Read chapter 21. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happens in this affiliate.

Vocabulary *

  1. *Play charades. Go through the list below and act out your vocabulary words. Give this list (Old Mr. Toad vocabulary) to the person watching and they can approximate which discussion y'all are acting out. (Print it out front and back and hold onto information technology in your binder. You'll need information technology in a few days.)
    • Amble (walk like you lot are relaxed and taking your fourth dimension)
    • Feeble (act like you take no force left in your torso at all)
    • Contemptuousness (human activity similar you desire nothing to practise with something)
    • Smug (turn upwardly your nose similar you retrieve yous are more than of import than everyone else)
    • Hastily (act like you lot are in a large bustle)
    • Indignant (stomp your human foot like you lot are actually angry and bellyaching with someone)
    • Envy (bear upon something that someone else has and and so pout like yous desire it)
    • Anxious (act like you lot are really worried, bite your nails, walk back and forth, shake your head, brand your face look worried)
  2. Play this vocabulary game with the words you have learned from your book.

Lesson 48

  1. Read chapter 23. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone what happens at the end of the story.

Lesson 49*

  1. *Fill in this book study class. (If that doesn't open up, information technology'due south the first download on this page – the 1 that's a ruddy open book.)
  2. You lot could save this for your portfolio.

Lesson 50

Vocabulary

  1. Either read this story to someone and ask someone else to human activity it out as you read, or ask someone to read the story and y'all act information technology out. Or, yous could both take turns interim it out. I used boys but yous could read it equally Jacqueline and Johanna and use feminine pronouns if you like. (Read off the screen or use the printed version on the One-time Mr. Toad vocabulary sheet from Lesson 46.)
  • Jack ambled downwardly the street, bustling a song, smiling in the sun. He was on his mode to his friend's house for a birthday political party. Suddenly he stopped. He had forgotten a present! At present he started feeling very broken-hearted. What was he going to do? He decided he improve go get a present. He hastily returned habitation and searched for a present. He didn't know what else to exercise, so he grabbed his stack of baseball game cards and put them in a paper bag. He ran out of the house and down the street. He was huffing and puffing and had to sit because he was so feeble from running so fast and so far. Joe was already at the party.
  • (The actor has to be Joe at present.) Joe took one look at Jack'southward bag and felt very smug. "That'due south your nowadays?" he said scornfully. "What? Did you bring him your dejeuner?"
  • (Now the actor can be Jack again.) Jack was indignant. He knew it wasn't the best looking nowadays, only he however thought it was a expert present.
  • (Now the role player can exist JOE.) Before long their friend started opening presents. He opened Joe's kickoff. It turned out that their friend already had one. Joe was upset that he wasn't more excited nigh it. He opened Jack's bag last. His eyes grew broad. He jumped up and started maxim how keen it was. He couldn't believe Jack had given him then many. Jack was actually happy he had brought them, only Joe was envious that Jack had brought the all-time present.

Lesson 55

  1. "The Three Little Pigs."Y'all tin read along. Yous tin can also pause it and read each page yourself showtime.

Lesson 56*

  1. *"The Clever Owl" – Print page 2. Read folio i. Check your answers on page iii.

Lesson 57*

  1. *"Peanut"– Print page 2. Read folio 1. Check your answers on page three.

Lesson 58*

  1. *"Old Socks"– Impress page 2. Read page one. Check your answers on page iii.
  2. You lot could salvage this in your portfolio.

Lesson 59*

  1. *"Baby Sister" – Impress folio 2. Read page 1. Check your answers on folio 3.

Lesson 60

  1. Ringlet downward. Read the two stories and reply the questions. Print your answers when you are done or have a parent check your answers while they are on the screen. Don't lose your answers! (Answers)

Lesson 61

  1. You are starting a new volume today, The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk, past Thornton Burgess. I think this will exist the concluding book you volition read past this author for schoolhouse, but he wrote 170 books, and then if you lot like to read them, your parents can aid you search for more than to read on the reckoner.
  2. Read chapter 1 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  3. Who were all of the characters in this affiliate? (Answers)

Lesson 62

  1. Read affiliate 2 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. Exercise you call back who is sleeping in the barrel?  (Audio)
  2. What is the "problem with thoughtlessness?" (hint: The respond is in the very terminal sentence of the first paragraph-or section-of the affiliate.) (Answers)
  3. So, what is the opposite? What does thoughtfulness do? (hint: It'due south the reverse of idealessness.) (Answers)
  4. Talk with your parents about how y'all can exist thoughtful of them.

Lesson 63

  1. Read chapter 3 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.(Audio)
  2. Why did Peter Rabbit become afraid? (respond: He thinks he might have killed Jimmy Skunk.)

Lesson 64

  1. Read chapter iv of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.(Audio)
  2. Who did Jimmy blame for rolling the barrel? (Answers)
  3. What did Jimmy Skunk do to him? (Answers)
  4. Jimmy Skunk walked abroad "with a peachy deal of nobility." Nobility means he had laurels and respect. He was sure he had done the right thing.
  5. Try walking "with a great bargain of nobility."

Lesson 65

  1. Read chapter 5 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. Suspicion means a feeling or conventionalities that someone is guilty or that a certain thought is true
  3. Finish this sentence: I have a suspicion that… (You don't have to write it. Simply say it.) Here's an example: I have a suspicion that Andrew has gotten into the cookie jar.

Lesson 66

  1. Read chapter 6 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. What practise yous think information technology means that he "smarted all over"? Use the story to help you figure it out. Here is the sentence it is from: He ached and smarted all over. This is at the terminate of the chapter. What had merely happened? (Answers)

Lesson 67

  1. Read chapter 7 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. What is Sammy Jay's suspicion? (Answers)

Lesson 68

  1. Read affiliate 8 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. Tell someone about the chapter.

Vocabulary

  1. In this affiliate it says that Jimmy Skunk is shrewd. It means that he'south clever and smart.
  2. Jimmy thinks perhaps he did Reddy an injustice. That means he thinks maybe he wasn't fair to Reddy when he sprayed him.

Lesson 69

  1. Read chapter 9 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone about the chapter.

Vocabulary

  1. Jimmy Skunk was smiling as he ambled towards the old house of Johnny Chuck.
  2. How was Jimmy Skunk walking towards Johnny Chuck's old business firm? Demonstrate.

Lesson 70

  1. Read chapter 10 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. How did Peter try to get out of Johnny Chuck's house? (Answers)
  3. What did Jimmy Skunk say to Peter to get him back? (Answers)
  4. Tell someone the story of the book so far.

Lesson 71

  1. Read affiliate 11 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. What does it mean that Jimmy Skunk "kept his word"? (Answers)

Lesson 72

  1. Here is a sentence from the chapter:
    • Unc' Billy grinned. "Good mo'nin', Brer Skunk," he replied. "I can't rightly say I accept. I had it on my mind to enquire yo' the same thing."
    • The apostrophes are replacing missing letters. Yo' is you, for case. Unc' is uncle. Mo'nin' is morning.
    • Here is what it says: Uncle Billy grinned. "Good forenoon, Blood brother Skunk," he replied. "I tin can't rightly say I have. I had it on my mind to ask yous the same thing."
    • He speaks with a kind of accent. He'due south what we telephone call a country bumpkin; it's similar in the poem about the frost on the "punkin."
    • Practice a little acting. Read the sentence out loud like Unc' Billy would.
    • Anytime you aren't sure what he is proverb, read information technology out loud to assist yous figure it out.
  2. Read affiliate 12 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  3. What happened in the affiliate?

Lesson 73

  1. Read chapter 13 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Jimmy Skunk can spray a stinky perfume. Who else has a "weapon" to go along others from attacking him? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. defense force – when you lot end an aggressor
  2. offense – when you assail
  3. What does the sentence below mean?
    • Prickly Porky and I are armed for defence, but nosotros never apply our weapons for offence. (Answers)

Lesson 74

  1. Read chapter 14 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. What are 2 different views near eggs? (Answers)

Lesson 75

  1. Read chapter xv of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Sound)
  2. What are Jimmy Skunk and Uncle Baton both thinking about? (Answers)
  3. Exercise you think they are going to become the eggs?

Lesson 76

  1. Read chapter 16 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Why does Uncle Billy want Jimmy to get first? (Answers)
  3. Why does Jimmy want Uncle Billy to go first? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Play this vocabulary review game. Cull one of the games. When you lot get a right answer, yous become to play!

Lesson 78

  1. Read chapter 18 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Why did they have bad tempers? (Why were they in a bad mood?) (hint: It tells you in the last paragraph, at the very end of the affiliate.) (Answers)

Lesson 79

  1. Read affiliate 19 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Why do you lot think Jimmy Skunk is not afraid of Farmer Brown's boy? (Answers)

Lesson lxxx

  1. Read affiliate 20 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone almost the chapter.

Vocabulary

  1. impudent – non showing respect to someone who deserves respect
  2. associate –– someone you know, only non really well
  3. Tell someone these words and what they hateful.

Lesson 81

  1. Read chapter 21 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. Tell someone about the chapter.

Vocabulary

  1. Farmer Chocolate-brown'southward male child says to Uncle Billy, "Never lose your atmosphere over trifles."
  2. The discussion trifle (say it try-total) appears at the end as well:
    • Information technology had seemed a trifle, kicking that egg out of that nest, but run across what the results were. Truly, little things often are not and then little as they seem.
  3. The final sentence is our clue every bit to what trifle means. It calls them "little things."
  4. What do you think trifle ways? Does it mean things that are small? No, that'due south non it. What do you think those sentences are saying? (Answers)
  5. Play the vocabulary review game. Cull whatsoever game you lot would similar to play.
  6. If you lot want, you lot could accept a screen shot and salve this in your portfolio.

Lesson 82

  1. Read chapter 22 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. What fob did Uncle Billy do to endeavour and go out of problem? (Answers)
  3. Did he fool Farmer Brown's boy? Did he think the possum was expressionless? (Answers)

Lesson 83

  1. Read chapter 23 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. (Audio)
  2. How did Farmer Brown'south boy become Uncle Baton to cease pretending? (Answers)

Lesson 85*

  1. *Consummate a book review for The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk or another volume you lot recently read.
  2. Save this in your portfolio.

Lesson 91

  1. The new book yous will begin reading is calledL Famous Stories.
  2. Here is the link if your parent wants to download information technology.
  3. Here is the link for you to read the get-go story.
  4. Hither's the link if yous'd like to listen to someone read the story to you equally you read along in your volume.
  5. What land is Alfred the king of? (Answers)
  6. Who was his ground forces fighting against? (Answers)
  7. When King Alfred fled from a battle, where did he end upwardly? (Answers)
  8. What did King Alfred forget to do? (Answers)
  9. What was the lady'south reaction? (Answers)

Lesson 92

  1. Read the 2d story virtually the beggar. If yous want to listen, click here.
  2. Tell the story to someone.

Lesson 93

  1. Read the story about the seashore. If you want to listen, click here.
  2. Tell the story to someone.

Lesson 94

  1. Read about William. If you want to mind, click hither.
  2. Tell the story to someone.

Lesson 95

  1. Read about the white ship . If you desire to heed, click here.
  2. Tell someone nearly the story.

Lesson 97

  1. Read "A Story of Robin Hood." If you lot want to listen, click here.
  2. In front of an audience (tin be your family unit on the couch), tell them the story and read to them (out loud) the poem at the end of the story.

Lesson 106

  1. Read nearly Sir Walter Raleigh. The "leigh" part of the name is pronounced LEE. Listen
  2. Tell someone about the story. Where did he travel to from England? (Answers)

Lesson 107

  1. Read about Pocahontas. Listen
  2. Tell someone about Pocahontas. What dauntless thing did she do to save a human being's life? (Answers)

Lesson 110

  1. Read about William Tell. A tyrant is a bad leader who acts mean and makes everyone practice whatever he wants. Listen
  2. Tell someone about the story. What exam of his skill did Tell have to perform? (Answers)

Lesson 111

  1. Read the story of "The Bell of Atri." Heed (HINT: If you read the questions at present, earlier the story, then information technology volition help you find and remember the answers.)
  2. Who rang the bell? Did he really ring information technology to let people know he had been wronged? (Answers)
  3. What had been done wrong to him and how was it stock-still? (Answers)

Lesson 117 (You lot could "print screen" the vocabulary exercise for your portfolio.)

  1. Read about Julius Caesar. Listen
  2. He was a ruler where? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Practise you remember these words?

Lesson 119

  1. Read about two friends. Listen
  2. Damon offered to be in prison instead of his friend and to even take his punishment of death if Pythias didn't come up back from visiting his family.
  3. What did the tyrant practice when he saw how true-blue and trusting the friends were? (Answers)

Lesson 120

  1. Read "A Breviloquent Answer." Go to this page and click on the little speaker next to the discussion, laconic, to hear how to say it. Listen
  2. What is a laconic answer? (Answers)
  3. At dinner tell all the big people in your home what a breviloquent answer is and they will be impressed.

Lesson 123

  1. Read well-nigh Socrates. You tin can listen to how his name is said on this page. It starts with "sock." Listen
  2. Find Greece on the map. Alexander the Great was in Greece besides (before he conquered other areas as well). (hint: Information technology's toward the lesser. It's a little hard to read. Look for the GRE…)

Lesson 125

  1. This is your reading assignment, merely it's writing. Forgive me, okay? Did you lot know that the best way to become a ameliorate writer is to read good writing?
  2. Write the fifty-starting time famous story. You could write anything, simply a lot of these stories are about real life people from history. Is there anyone you lot learned about in history that you could tell a story near? You can blazon your story. Information technology can exist short, but tell the story.

Lesson 126

  1. Read "Dr. Goldsmith." Listen
  2. What was the "medicine?" (Answers)
  3. Information technology says that Doctor Goldsmith gave all his "ready money," all the money he had set up. What do y'all remember that means? ("I don't know" is non an answer. It'southward okay to be wrong, simply information technology'south not okay to not try.) (Answers)

Lesson 127

  1. Read "The Kingdoms." In this story it talks about the vegetable kingdom, mineral kingdom and the fauna kingdom. Kingdom is a word that is used to draw the whole collection each type of thing. Heed
  2. When the king says, "and so be it", he means amen, delight permit it be so. What kingdom does the king want to belong to? (Answers)

Vocabulary

  1. Play a vocab game one more than time.

Lesson 130

  1. Read virtually the "King and The Gooseherd" (someone who herds, or watches, geese –like a shepherd watches sheep). Listen
  2. What tin can't the rex do? (Answers)
  3. How many pieces of gold does the male child become? (Answers)

Lesson 132

  1. Read the first half of this story. Listen till 8:23
  2. A venture is what they chosen the goods people bought and sent on a ship to be sold wherever information technology went. You could earn money, or it might get lost at sea. Information technology was a chance, a kind of adventure.
  3. How much did he buy the true cat for? (Answers)
  4. What was the boy's venture? (Answers)

Lesson 136

  1. You are going to start reading a new book, The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Order. Yous've been reading lots of short stories. Allow's read a whole, big volume together. Pay attention to my reading directions each lesson.
  2. Note: This has been edited somewhat from the original to adapt the linguistic communication some for modern readers. The retainer's dialect is still in that location, only it has been modified to make it a petty easier.
  3. Read the first half of chapter 1. (Audio – write downward the fourth dimension that you stop)
  4. Bobbsey is the last name of the twins' family. What are the names of the twins? (Answers)
  5. Who are older and who are younger? (Answers)
  6. Who is Snap? (Answers)

Lesson 140

  1. Read chapter 3. (Audio) While you read, picture in your mind what is happening. Brand a movie of the book in your mind. Information technology will help you remember what is happening.
  2. What's the large snowball? (Answers)
  3. Who do yous think made the enormous snowball?

Lesson 141

  1. Read chapter 4. (Audio)
  2. Who is defendant of playing the trick? (Answers)
  3. Exercise yous think he did it? Why or why not? (Answers)
  4. Anytime you are reading something long and start to forget what's happening and feel dislocated, you need to STOP. Go back to what you remember and start from there.

Lesson 142

  1. Read affiliate five. (Audio) If yous come to a word y'all don't know, sound it out and say it out loud. Read the sentence again with the word in it then go along going. Ordinarily it volition explain, or you tin can figure out what information technology is. Yous can also look for clues like how the characters are feeling. Are they happy or upset about what'due south happening?
  2. Who played the play a trick on? (Answers)

Lesson 143

  1. Read the first one-half of chapter 6. (Audio – write down where you terminate today)
  2. Their cook has a big emphasis. Read what she says out loud to help you effigy out what she is proverb.
  3. What is happening in this chapter?

Lesson 144

  1. Read the second one-half of chapter 6. (Audio – start where you stopped on Lesson 143)
  2. Who is going to tell the children about Snow Lodge? (Answers)
  3. Why does he "near wish" Snowfall Lodge had burned downwardly? (Answers)
  4. What do y'all think might have been Mr. Carford'southward problem? (Answers)

Lesson 145

  1. Read affiliate seven. (Audio)
  2. Who owned Snowfall Lodge? (Answers)
  3. Who is Henry Burdoch? (Answers)
  4. When did Mr. Carford leave Snow Lodge? (Answers)
  5. Draw a picture of Snow Society. Information technology's described in a couple paragraphs starting with Mr. Carford maxim, "Oh, it'south just fine there!"

Lesson 146

  1. Read chapter 8. (Audio)
  2. What does Mr. Carford give the Bobbsey twins at the very, very end of the affiliate? (Answers)

Lesson 153

  1. Read the get-go half of chapter xiv . (Sound – write down where y'all stop today)
  2. Tell someone about what's happening.
  3. What do you call up is going to happen?

Lesson 155

  1. Read chapter fifteen. (Sound)
  2. Who do y'all call up pushed the snowball over on them?

Lesson 158

  1. Read the second one-half of chapter 17. (Audio – start where you stopped on Lesson 157)
  2. Tell someone what is happening in the story. What was this chapter near?

Lesson 159

  1. Read chapter 18. (Audio)
  2. Who do you think was throwing snowballs at the cease of the affiliate?

Lesson 164

  1. Finish the book! (Sound)
  2. How does the book end?

Lesson 166

  1. Heed to a story.

Lesson 167

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 168

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 169

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 170

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 171

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 172

  1. Heed to a story.

Lesson 173

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 174

  1. Mind to a story.

Lesson 175

  1. Heed to a story.

Lesson 176

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 177

  1. Listen to a story.

Lesson 178

  1. Heed to a story.

Lesson 179

  1. Listen to a story.

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