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Mrs. Stoffel’s
Weekly StoryTown:
* Focus Skill * Vocabulary Words * Spelling Words
1 st day of the week : Pre-Spelling test - 100% = no spelling homework or test for the week! 2 nd to last day of the week : Practice Spelling test - 100% = no spelling test tomorrow Last day of the week : Spelling & Reading tests
** Please keep at home **
Mrs . Stoffe l ’s Week ly Read ing and Spe l l i ng Test Schedu le
** Please note, their may be some slight changes to the schedule in April and May due to NeSA Testing **
Week of… Lesson 1: August 29 Lesson 2: September 6 Lesson 3: September 12 Lesson 4: September 19 Lesson 5: September 26 Lesson 6: October 6 Lesson 7: October 10 Lesson 8: October 17 Lesson 9: October 24 Lesson 10: October 31 Lesson 11: November 7 Lesson 12: November 14 Lesson 13: November 28 Lesson 14: December 5 Lesson 15: December 12
Lesson 16: January 9 Lesson 17: January 17 Lesson 18: January 23 Lesson 19: January 30 Lesson 20: February 6 Lesson 21: February 13 Lesson 22: February 21 Lesson 23: February 27 Lesson 24: March 6 Lesson 25: March 21 Lesson 26: March 27 Lesson 27: April 3 Lesson 28: April 18 Lesson 29: April 24 Lesson 30: May 1
Lesson 1
“Rope Burn” by Jan Siebold Realistic Fiction
Focus Skill: Conflict and Resolution
Vocabulary Words:
humiliation expectations
Fringes hesitating sincere coaxed
Spelling Words:
Short vowels bandage chest drift dull dusk
stretch flock fond
measure does scrap shift smash switch swept threat timid plaid trust twist
Lesson 2
“Line Drive” by Tanya West Dean Autobiography
Focus Skill: Conflict & Resolution
Vocabulary Words:
maven mortified reigned conceited designated
smirk exhilarated
Spelling Words:
Long Vowel needle speech reason crease thief fade obtain faint steep rayon eager shadow saying mild coach smoke twice human
teenage niece
Lesson 3
“Chang and the Bamboo Flute” by Elizabeth Starr Hill
Historical Fiction Focus Skill: Character’s Motives
Vocabulary Words:
pried desperately
sneered indignantly urgently grudgingly
Spelling Words:
counter fraud oyster appoint drawn awning laundry feud shawl jewel
royalty powder annoying cashew scoop bamboo browse ointment rooster rescue
Lesson 4
“The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter” by: Bonnie Christensen
Biography Focus Skill: Character’s Motives
Vocabulary Words:
relented faze
eccentric infuriated
disheartened impassable crusaded
Spelling Words:
talked hurried smiling
dropped clapping stepped worried worrying changing stayed buying dried
picnicking scared driving obeyed playing tried carried hurrying
Lesson 5
“It Takes Talent” Reader’s Theater
Focus Skill: Character’s Motives & Conflict/Resolution
Vocabulary Words:
genial spectacular prognostication flop stricken overcome dramatically feverishly restrain protest
Spelling Words:
stretch does
measure reason coach kneeling twice rayon appoint scoop drawn feud jewel fraud royalty hurried scared changing buying obeyed
Lesson 6
“The Night of San Juan” by Lulu Delacre Realistic Fiction
Focus Skill: Theme
Vocabulary Words:
wistful grateful
grim raspy
swarmed revelers
irresistible
Spelling Words: drizzle gobble meddle shuffle bundle pickle hobble topple hurtle vehicle struggle wiggle spindle speckle griddle ripple article triple jingle bugle
Lesson 7
“When the Circus Came to Town” by Laurence Yep Historical Fiction
Focus Skill: Theme
Vocabulary Words:
fret assured nudged
outlandish ruckus
proclaimed
Spelling Words: suppose hurricane ballad bellow success appeal
announcer tissue
excellent terrific collect slippery common arrange suffer follow kennel squirrel message summary
Lesson 8
“When Washington Crossed the Delaware” by Lynne Cheney
Narrative Nonfiction Focus Skill: Sequence
Vocabulary Words:
crucial crisis maneuvered perseverance encountered persuading appealed destiny
Spelling Words: entire hospital public combine golden chimney pretzel survive absorb turmoil wisdom journey condition whisper identify establish furnace capture marvelous nursery
Lesson 9
“Leonardo’s Horse” by: Jean Fritz Focus Skill: Sequence
Vocabulary Words:
scholars specialized gesture envisioned proportion resisted
Spelling Words: VCCCV Words
congress English fortress expression conclude complain complex distrust contribute explode umbrella
merchandise remembrance concrete goggles portray technique accomplish function membrane
Lesson 10
“The Secret Ingredient” Reader’s Theater
Focus Skill: Theme & Sequence
Vocabulary Words:
eminent charity modest disgruntled inadequate aghast dismayed amends absentminded concoction
Spelling Words:
Review list bundle vehicle struggle hurtle triple
hurricane golden journey hospital excellent message arrange whisper terrific
expression conclude
merchandise technique accomplish orchestra
Lesson 11
“Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea” Historical Fiction
Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary Words:
inflammable dignified rowdy seldom
conducted shatter broached
Spelling Words:
Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV) Pattern enemy balance basis closet decent define eleven fanatic honest humor minute model
protest ocean
pretend private radar second slogan editor
Lesson 12
“Ultimate Field Trip 3: Wading into Marine Biology” Expository Nonfiction Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary Words:
adjust residents specimens recoil pesky debris internal
Spelling Words:
Words with prefix re-, un-, non- reenter refried
reconsider repaint reform replay retake remake reclaim replant unable
uninformed undesirable
untold unwise
nonconductor nonproductive nonexistent nonflammable nondairy
Lesson 13
“Stormalong” Tall Tale
Focus Skill: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary Words:
bellowing yearning outcast withered reputation escapades betrayed unfathomable
Spelling Words:
Words with suffixes –able, -ible, -ment, -less development dispensable enjoyable digestible divisible
irresistible admissible appointment argument payment
amazement priceless judgment
resentment embarrassment
boundless ageless aimless
motionless worthless
Lesson 14
“A Drop of Water” Expository Nonfiction Focus Skill: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary Words:
elongate elastic rigid accumulate underlying intricate vanish replenishing
Spelling Words:
Words ending with en, el, er sounds barrel cannon capitol civil clever
discover frozen general hidden inventor mayor pepper polar proper sandal saucer original theater tutor musical
Lesson 15
“How the Prairie Became Ocean” Reader’s Theater
Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast & Cause and Effect
Vocabulary Words:
recount endeavor uninhabitable dwell sustain brimming monotonous teeming parched sorrowful
Spelling Words: Review Words
enemy fanatic honest ocean slogan reclaim
reconsider uninformed unwise
nonexistent digestible enjoyable admissible argument amazement priceless capitol general mayor
theater
Lesson 16
“The School Story” by Andrew Clements Realistic Fiction
Focus Skill: Make Inferences
Vocabulary Words:
tempted proposed insights instinct essence baffled
indication
Spelling Words: Prefixes im-, in-, ir-, il-
inactive inaccurate irregular irrelevant ineffective imbalance immature impatient imperfect impossible illegal
illiterate illegible inaction
independent invalid
indefinite injustice
irreplaceable impolite
Lesson 17
“Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street” By Roni Schotter Realistic Fiction
Focus Skill: Make Inferences
Vocabulary Words:
hiatus embarked unimaginable extravagant gourmet throng precarious
Spelling Words: Suffixes –ant, -ent, -eer, -ist, -ian
accountant applicant attendant defiant mutineer expectant hesitant quadrant resistant servant
dependent indulgent insistent urgent
auctioneer accompanist
artist cellist
technician novelist
Lesson 18
“Project Mulberry” by Linda Sue Park Realistic Fiction
Focus Skill: Main Idea and Details
Vocabulary Words:
compartments swayed phobia invasion vetoed wispy
Spelling Words: Suffixes –ous, -eous, -ious
courteous hazardous humorous monstrous porous curious furious glorious delirious fictitious gracious ambitious
discourteous dangerous anxious
spontaneous religious delicious
mountainous ridiculous
Lesson 19
“Inventing the Future: The Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison
by: Marfe Ferguson Delano Biography
Focus Skill: Main Idea and Details
Vocabulary Words:
tendency feat irrepressible prestigious
device industry
Spelling Words: Homophones
steal steel waste waist weak week base bass pain pane flare flair dual duel
stationary stationery flower flour sight site
Lesson 20
“The Invention Convention” Biography
Focus Skill: Make Inferences & Main Idea and Details
Vocabulary Words:
scours appropriate practical portable circulate protrude boisterous deduction fickle measly
Spelling Words:
Review Words irreplaceable
immature indefinite illiterate
independent applicant accountant insistent novelist technician cellist porous glorious
spontaneous fictitious mountainous
weak week dual duel
Lesson 21
“Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles”
by Kathryn Lasky Expository Nonfiction
Focus Skill: Author’s Purpose and Perspective
Vocabulary Words:
basking sleek vital damage analyzing detect
Spelling Words:
Prefixes in-, out-, down-, up- incompetent
uphold inconsiderate indecisive outrank inhumane inorganic income
invertebrate outgoing
outpatient outspoken outwit
downbeat downgrade downplay downtown uplift
upstage uptight
Lesson 22
“The Power of W.O.W!” by Crystal Hubbard
Play Focus Skill: Author’s Purpose and Perspective
Vocabulary Words:
somberly stammers monopolize deflated enraptured enterprising cumbersome
Spelling Words: Suffixes –ation, -ition, -sion, -ion
acceleration accumulation activation alteration
authorization calculation cancellation dedication
organization demolition repetition mansion pension passion tension champion confusion permission population companion
Lesson 23
“Any Small Goodness” by Tony Johnston Realistic Fiction
Focus Skill: Literary Devices
Vocabulary Words:
gouges desolate bustles fervor immaculate assuage
Spelling Words: Words with silent letters
assign autumn column crumb debris delight design glisten hasten knead
knowledge lightning resign rhyme solemn
thorough scenery whirl
wreath wrestled
Lesson 24
“Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride” by George Selden
Fantasy Focus Skill: Literary Devices
Vocabulary Words:
excursions giddy pinnacle gleeful panic turbulent precious
Spelling Words: Words with unusual plurals
addresses armies calves
countries leaves buses videos echoes shelves studios radios halves hooves knives taxes
tomatoes opportunities volcanoes stitches wolves
Lesson 25
“The Compassion Campaign” News Report – Reader’s Theater
Focus Skill: Literary Devices Author’s Purpose & Perspective
Vocabulary Words:
loathe bland mentor dilapidated coordination altruism sensibility advocacy mistreated compassion
Spelling Words: Review Words
indecisive outpatient downgrade uptight
acceleration demolition pension champion
authorization cancellation
autumn knowledge rhyme scenery wrestled armies shelves radios
tomatoes videos
Lesson 26
“Lewis and Clark” by: R. Conrad Stein Narrative Nonfiction
Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase
Vocabulary Words:
asset intently profusely ordeal terrain dismal peril esteem
Spelling Words: Prefix + Base Word + Suffix
unsuccessful undoubtedly impossibly disloyalty
deactivation unlikable
replacement unsafely
uncollectible immeasurable impassible
encouragement unbelievable unselfishly
rearrangement discoverable dishonestly unbreakable reappearance reassurance
Lesson 27
“Klondike Kate” by: Liza Ketchum
Biography Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase
Vocabulary Words:
remote laden appalled invest floundered grueling isolated
Spelling Words: Greek Word Parts
astronomy disaster asterisk astronaut asteroid chronic chronicle chronology chronological synchronize cyclical bicyclist cyclone
encyclopedia hydrogen hydrant hydrate optic
optician optical
Lesson 28
“The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest”
by: Steve Jenkins Expository Nonfiction Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion
Vocabulary Words:
summit accustomed secure essential streamlined acclimate
Spelling Words: Latin Word Parts
tractor distract traction contract attract subtract erupt
bankrupt interrupt abrupt rupture audio audible audience auditorium audition verdict diction dictate predict
Lesson 29
“The Man Who Went on the Far Side of the Moon”
by: Bea Uusma Schyffert Biography
Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion
Vocabulary Words:
ignited squinting jettisoned tranquility cramped potentially
Spelling Words: Borrowed Words
banana chimpanzee yogurt almanac syrup cousin stomach language foyer acronym chlorine kayak parka balcony replica anchor urban coyote
chocolate vanilla
Lesson 30
“Exploring the Gulf Coast” Reader’s Theater
Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase & Fact and Opinion
Vocabulary Words:
poised earnestly insufficient exceptional achievement bickering equivalent regal customary provoke
Spelling Words: Review Words
impossibly deactivation immeasurable unbreakable reappearance
asteroid chronology cyclone hydrate optical contract bankrupt audible diction almanac language balcony chlorine cousin urban