Wonders READING/WRITING COMPANION 1.2

NEW EDITION

NEW EDITION

Grade 1 • Unit 2

McGraw Hill

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READING/WRITING COMPANION

CYAN MAG YELO BLACK HEX.GREEN

ISBN: 978-981-4923-62-0

PHX MAC #1448240 03/02/18

READING/WRITING COMPANION 1.2

UNIT 2

NEW EDITION

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Unit 2

Our Community

The Big Idea

Weekly Concept.................................................................................. 4 Phonics: Short e ....................................................................................6 Words to Know

Shared Read

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Shared Read Good Job, Ben!..................................................... 12 Respond to Reading........................................................................22 Genre Study: Realistic Fiction ...................................................23 Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Events ..........24 Words to Know

Paired Read

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29 Paired Read Firefighters at Work..........................................29 32 Grammar: Nouns ...............................................................................32 Make Connections ...........................................................................33 33 Research and Inquiry ....................................................................34 34 Write About the Text....................................................................36 36

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Week 1 • Jobs Around Town

SOCIA

What makes a community? .........................................................2

SOCIA

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Week 2 • Buildings All Around Weekly Concept................................................................................38 Phonics: Short u ................................................................................ 40 Words to Know

Shared Read

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Shared Read Cubs in a Hut ....................................................... 46 Respond to Reading........................................................................56 Genre Study: Fantasy .....................................................................57 Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Events ..........58 Words to Know

Paired Read

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Paired Read Homes Around the World..............................63 Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns ...................................66 Make Connections ...........................................................................67 Research and Inquiry ....................................................................68 Write About the Text....................................................................70

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Weekly Concept................................................................................72 Phonics: End Blends ........................................................................ 74 Words to Know

Shared Read

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Shared Read The Best Spot .......................................................80 Respond to Reading........................................................................90 Genre Study: Nonfiction ................................................................ 91 Comprehension Skill: Main Topic and Key Details .......92 Words to Know

Paired Read

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Paired Read Bats in Caves..........................................................97 Grammar: Possessive Nouns .....................................................100 Make Connections ...........................................................................101 Research and Inquiry .................................................................. 102

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Write About the Text..................................................................104

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Week 3 • A Community in Nature

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Week 4 • Let’s Help Weekly Concept.............................................................................. 106 Phonics: th, sh, -ng ......................................................................... 108 Words to Know

Shared Read

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Shared Read Thump Thump Helps Out ............................. 114 Respond to Reading...................................................................... 124 Genre Study: Fantasy ................................................................... 125 Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Events ........ 126 Words to Know

Paired Read

.............................................................. 128

Paired Read Kids Can Help! .......................................................131 Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns ............................. 134 Make Connections ......................................................................... 135 Research and Inquiry .................................................................. 136 Write About the Text.................................................................. 138

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Weekly Concept..............................................................................140 Phonics: ch, -tch, wh, ph ............................................................ 142 Words to Know

Shared Read

..............................................................144

Shared Read Which Way on the Map? ...........................148 Respond to Reading...................................................................... 158 Genre Study: Nonfiction ............................................................. 159 Comprehension Skill: Main Topic and Key Details ..... 160 Words to Know

Paired Read

.............................................................. 162

Paired Read “North, East, South, or West?”................. 165 Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns ......................................... 168 Make Connections ......................................................................... 169 Research and Inquiry .................................................................. 170 Write About the Text...................................................................172

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Week 5 • Follow the Map

My Sound-Spellings....................................................................... 174 Handwriting Models ..................................................................... 176

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Unit 2

Our Community

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Unit 2

A community is a group of people or a place where people live. A neighborhood or a group of friends are types of communities.

Talk about the people in the picture.

What are they doing?

Circle the things that you see in your neighborhood.

Talk about the things you do in your

neighborhood.

What makes a community?

Our Community

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Weekly Concept Jobs Around Town

01

Essential Question What jobs

need to be done in a community?

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LABORATE

Talk About It This man works at the grocery store. What does he do?

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Talk about what jobs need to be done in a community.

Use the photos and words to help you.

teacher

doctor

bus driver

police officer

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Write three jobs you know.

Jobs I Know

Talk about how these people help us in our community.

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Phonics

02

Short e The letters e or ea can make the short e sound, as in get or bread.

men vet pet bed red mess head well dress smell deaf bread 6

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Shared Read

Fred’s pet hen can peck!

The top of its head is red.

Your Turn

LABORA CCOOLL L A B O R A TTEE

Look for these words with the short e sound in “Good Job, Ben!”

Ben head get yet men wet step bread smells ten Jet vet well pet Glenn read Jobs Around Town

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Words to Know

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again We’re going back to school again.

When do you go back to school again?

HFW

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There is a lot of mail in his bag.

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Are there a lot of things on your desk?

HFW

use Use a spoon to eat soup.

What do you use to eat your dinner?

HFW

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Shared Read

cross We can cross the street now.

What must you do before you cross the street? fill

What else can you fill a glass with? get well We hope you get well soon!

Name some things you do to get well again.

Jobs Around Town

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Lisa can fill the glass with water.

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Words to Know licks My dog licks my hand.

Show how a cat licks its paws. smells

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This pizza smells good.

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What smells good to you? sniffs The dog sniffs the cat.

Ask a friend what their pet sniffs.

Unit 2 • Week 1

Shared Read

vet My dad is a vet.

When do you take your pet to the vet? wet Don’t run on the wet floor!

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Why should we not run on a wet floor?

LABORA CCOOLL L A B O R A TTEE

Your Turn Say the sentence for each word.

Then make up another sentence.

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Read

Shared Read Find Text Evidence

ead to find out R about jobs in Ben’s town. oint to each word P in the title as you read it. ircle and read C aloud the word with short e as in bed.

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Essential Question

04

What jobs need to be done in a community?

Good Go od Job, Ben!

Realistic Fiction

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Read

Shared Read Find Text Evidence

nderline and U read aloud the word there. ircle and read C aloud each word with short e as in bed.

Comprehension 1 Where do Ben and

Mom go?

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Ben and Mom head to town.

It is a big trip.

There is a lot to see.

Realistic Fiction Find Text Evidence

Comprehension 1 What will Ben and

Mom get on?

2 Look at the picture.

Where is the bus driver?

Help

get on Stuart Monk/Shutterstock

Ben and Mom will get on the bus.

The driver stops on this block.

Circle the answer in the picture.

Good job!

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Read

Shared Read Find Text Evidence

nderline and U read aloud the words use and again. ircle and read C aloud each word with short e as in bed.

Comprehension 1 Who can not cross

yet?

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Ben and Mom can not cross yet.

Stop! Stop! She can help.

Big job!

Realistic Fiction Find Text Evidence

Comprehension 1 What do the men

use?

2 Look at the picture.

What do the men fill?

Help

cracks

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Ben and Mom can walk.

Six men use a drill and fill cracks.

It will look new again.

Circle the answer in the picture.

Wet job!

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Read

Shared Read Find Text Evidence

ircle and read C aloud each word with short e as in bed.

Comprehension 1 Look at the picture.

What smells good?

Circle the answer in the picture.

2 How much bread

does Mom get?

Ben and Mom step in for bread.

Ben sniffs. It smells good. Yum! Mom gets ten.

Hot job!

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Realistic Fiction Find Text Evidence

Comprehension 1 Look at the picture.

Who licks Ben? Circle the answer in the picture.

2 Who helped Jet?

Ben and Mom get Jet. Jet licks Ben. The vet helped Jet get well quick.

Pet job!

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Read

Shared Read Find Text Evidence

ircle and read C aloud each word with short e as in bed.

Comprehension 1 What do Ben and

Mom get?

2 Look at the picture.

Who helps Ben and Mom? Circle the answer in the picture.

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Ben and Mom stop to get books.

Ben can get help from Miss Glenn.

Glad job!

Realistic Fiction Find Text Evidence

Comprehension 1 What books did Ben

read about?

2 Look at the picture.

Who did a good job?

Circle the answer in the picture.

What did Ben get?

What did he read?

Ben read books on jobs.

Good job, Ben!

3 Talk about the jobs

you read in the story.

Are these jobs that you see in your town, too?

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Respond to Reading

Reread

Shared Read

ircle and write the words that answer the questions about C “Good Job, Ben!” Write the page numbers.

Questions

Text Evidence

Answers

1 How do Ben and Mom go to town?

Ben and Mom go to town by . bus taxi

Page(s):

2 What does Mom get?

Mom gets

Page(s):

3 What did Miss Glenn do?

Miss Glenn Ben get books. read helped

bread

. milk

Page(s):

Work with a partner to ask and answer the questions above.

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Genre Study

Reread

Shared Read

Remember, realistic fiction is a genre. It is a made-up story. It has characters that do things that could happen in real life.

Reread to find out what makes this story realistic fiction.

Share how you know it is realistic fiction. rite about the characters. Then write W something they do that could happen in real life.

Who could be real?

What could really happen?

1.

1.

2.

2.

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Comprehension Skill Characters are the people or animals in a story. To understand the characters, think about what they say and do. The setting is where the story takes place. The events are what happens in the story.

Reread “Good Job, Ben!” alk about the characters, setting, T and events on pages 14–15.

Find Text Evidence

Find the characters, the setting, and an event.

page 14

Ben and Mom head to town.

It is a big trip.

There is a lot to see.

escribe the characters, setting, and D events in the story. Write these details in the chart.

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Reread

Characters

Setting

Ben Mom

bus stop

Ben Mom

bakery

Ben

library

Shared Read

Events

They go to town.

They buy .

He is reading .

Talk about the characters, setting, and events on other pages.

Retell “Good Job, Ben!” using your own words.

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Words to Know

05

brave Tom is a brave boy.

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Mom puts the clothes on the line.

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What clothes do you like to wear? firefighters Firefighters help people.

How do firefighters fight fires?

Unit 2 • Week 1

Paired Read

protect The sunscreen will protect your skin.

Look at the photo. How does she protect her eyes? put on

When do you put on your boots? put out Mom can put out the fire.

How can you put out a fire?

Jobs Around Town

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She can put on her socks.

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Words to Know siren The police car has a siren.

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Why do we spray water on plants?

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LABORA CCOOLL L A B O R A TTEE

Your Turn Say the sentence for each word.

Then make up another sentence.

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Paired Read

06

Firefighters at Work

ead to find out what R firefighters do.

A bell rings at the firehouse.

Firefighters slide down a pole.

They put on special clothes.

Talk about what

The firefighters jump in a fire truck. The red truck has a loud siren. That tells cars to move away! boots

firefighters wear in the photo. Circle the labels. nderline clues that tell U what firefighters do when the bell rings.

hat

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jacket

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Paired Read The brave firefighters get to work. They use hoses to spray water. Their special clothes protect them. They put out the fire!

nderline the words U that tell what the special clothes do. ircle the word that tells C what is used to spray water. alk about why firefighters T are brave. Use evidence from the text.

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Photos can help you understand what the text means.

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Talk about what you learn about firefighters from the photos.

Write clues that tell the important things firefighters do. Use the text

and photos.

The text tells me...

The photos show me...

How does the author help you learn what firefighters do?

How does the author show that firefighters have an important job?

This text tells that firefighters . . .

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Grammar A noun names a person, place, or thing.

Find Text Evidence

Which words are nouns? Underline all the nouns.

Ben and Mom step in for bread.

A. Underline all the nouns.

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1.

2.

Jen and Dad are happy.

Pam gets on the bus to go to school.

B. Add a noun to complete the sentence. Write the sentence.

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Unit 2 • Week 1

goes to the vet.

Integrate

Make Connections

Talk about what the people in the photo are doing.

You can compare the people using these sentence starters: • The people in the photo help our community by . . .

• The people in “Good Job, Ben!” help our community by . . .

Compare the people in the photo and the people in “Good Job, Ben!”

Answer the Essential Question. Use what you learned this week.

What jobs need to be done in a community?

Jobs Around Town

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Both

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Integrate

Research and Inquiry

Jobs in the Community Step 1

Pick a person you know to interview. Write his or her name and job.

Use the photos and words to help you.

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Examples

chef

Name:

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Step 2

firefighter

vet

hairdresser

Job:

Write a question that you want to ask. Find out why their job is important.

Example

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Why is your job important to the community?

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Interview the person. Ask them your question from

Step 4

Draw and write about the person’s job.

A/An

Step 2

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is important

because Step 5

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Present your work.

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Write About the Text I answered the question: Which hat in “Good Job, Ben!” do you think is the best for the worker’s job?

Eva Focus on an Idea I wrote about the men’s hats.

Student Model: Opinion

I think the six men’s hats are the best for their job.

The men fix the street.

They wear hard, yellow hats.

Blend Images/SuperStock

Clues I used the picture to figure out a reason for my opinion.

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Pages 12–21

Shared Read

Reread

Grammar

Hard hats keep the men safe.

Hats is an example of a noun.

They guard the men’s heads.

The hard hats are the best.

Your Turn

CO L

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Which job in “Good Job, Ben!” would you like to have? Why? Use text evidence to support your answer.

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NEW EDITION

NEW EDITION

Grade 1 • Unit 2

McGraw Hill

9 789814 923620

READING/WRITING COMPANION

CYAN MAG YELO BLACK HEX.GREEN

ISBN: 978-981-4923-62-0

PHX MAC #1448240 03/02/18

READING/WRITING COMPANION 1.2

UNIT 2

NEW EDITION

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