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Unit at a Glance
Language Focus: Describe, Retell

Unit 2 a Story
Reading Strategy: Monitor

Shoot
Phonics Focus: Final Blends: nd,
nk, nt, ng; Final Blends: mp, sk, ft, lt
Topic: Living and Nonliving Things

for the
Sun
Share What You Know 
? 1  Think of something that
is alive.

Big
When is
2  Act Out how it moves. Have
something the class guess what it is.
Question alive? 3  Share your picture. Tell
what else the living thing
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, USA can do.
A young girl at an aquarium reaching for
a leopard shark swimming in a kelp forest

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 1 Words
PART

Language Focus to Know Science Vocabulary

am
can
Describe not Key Words
Listen and sing. People, plants, and animals are  living .
Song   

I Lo ve
person
plant

My Bike
eat

nonliving

I can eat and I can drink.

I am living. animal
breathe
I am healthy. I can think.
I am a living thing.
My bike can not eat. drink
move
My bike can not play.
It’s nonliving.
That’s OK. Talk Together
I love it anyway!
You are living. How do you know? Describe
Tune: “Camptown Races”
how something nonliving is different from
something living.
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 1
PART

Thinking Map Academic Vocabulary

List Facts More Key Words

alive energy exercise
Living Things Checklist plant
can eat 
can drink 
can breathe 
grow  pot
List facts Check off the
about living facts here. A plant is alive. Swimming takes My heart beats
things here. A pot is not alive. a lot of energy. fast when I
exercise.

Look and listen for facts in texts that you food  health  Talk Together
hear and read.
Use one Key Word
in a sentence.

I have a lot of
energy today.
My family likes Brushing your
It’s nonliving!
many kinds of teeth is good for
Talk Together food. your health.

Choose a  living  or  nonliving  thing in the

classroom. Have a partner guess what it is
using the checklist and other questions.
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 1
PART

Phonics Focus

Talk Together
Final Blends: nd, nk, nt, ng
Listen and read. Find the words with
ending blends.
Over to You

Am I a Living Thing?
hand sink ant ring Am I a living thing? I run for a ball and Work with a
bring it back. I drink water and breathe air. partner.
Listen and Learn I eat food. I was small, but I grew big. I am Take turns. Pick
a word with an
Listen to the blends at the end of the picture words. a dog. I am a living thing.
ending blend.
Choose the words that have the same ending Am I a living thing? I cannot run, but I can Make up your
blends as the picture words. move. I can turn my face to the sun. I make own sentence
food from the sun. I can grow and breathe air. with the word.
1.  2.  I am a plant. I am a living thing.

grand slant blank trust  lift  sink

3.  4. 

sing  pink  send front  bend  tank

Practice reading words with ending blends by
reading “Am I a Living Thing?” with a partner.
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 Read a Song
A song is words with music. You can
sing a song.
Are You Living?
by Laura Purdie Salas
✓ Look for rhyme. Listen to the rhythm.
illustrated by
Vanessa Newton

Can it fly? Can it run by?

rhyme

Reading Strategy
Monitor your reading. When is
something  alive ?

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 Are you  living ? Are you living? Do you  eat ? Do you sleep?

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 If you need to  breathe  air, You’re  living . You’re living.
 Move  from here to there, then
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 Is it growing? Is it growing? Toward the sky? Green and high?

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 If it needs damp ground and It’s a  plant . It’s a plant.
Sunshine all around, then
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 Is it  moving ? Is it moving? Can it fly? Can it run by?

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  Living  things need dinner, So they need
Or they get much thinner. To  drink  and feed.  ❖
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 1
PART

Think and Respond Reread and Describe

Talk About It  List Facts

1.  What happens to a  living  thing if it does What other facts did you learn about living
not  eat ? things? Add to the checklist.
If a living thing does not eat, it will .
2.  What helps a  plant  grow tall?
Living Things Checklist
can eat 
helps plants grow tall. can drink 
3.  How do you know if something is  living ? can breathe 
grow 
Something is living if . Š
Š
Š
Write About It 
Living things  move  in different ways.
With a partner, look through the pictures in
How do you like to move?
the song. What is  living  and  nonliving  in
I like to and . each picture? Use your checklist.

The flower grows. I grow, too.

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 1
PART

Word Work Making Connections You read about what

makes something living . Now read about
how one living thing becomes nonliving .
Sort Words Genre A diagram uses steps to show how
something is made.
Living Things Nonliving Things

boy ball

A
dog flag

Straw
plant clock
You can sort these You can sort these
words in a group words in a group
because they are because they are
alike. They are all alike. They are all

Hat
Living Things. Nonliving Things.

Try It Together

Use picture cards. Sort the words into

by Lily Block
two groups. Talk about how the words
in each group are alike and different.
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 NGSPIL_263_15258-24AT

1 T
 hese living plants grow tall 2 A
 farmer cuts down the plants. 3 The dry plants are straw. 4 T
 he straw is made into a hat.
and green. The farmer collects the plants. The hat is nonliving.

Straw begins as a  living  thing. A straw hat is a  nonliving  thing.  ❖

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 1
PART

Respond and Extend Grammar

Compare Genres Adjectives

Reread “Are You Living?” and “A Straw Hat.” An  adjective  describes, or tells about, a  noun .
How are they different?
A  red   machine  collects the  tall   plants .
Song Diagram

Grammar Rules Adjectives

Adjectives tell how •  The plants are in  big  piles.

something looks.
color size
They tell about:
• Size •  The  yellow  straw is made into a hat.
1 These living plants grow tall
and green.
2 A farmer cuts down the plants.
The farmer collects the plants.
• Color shape
Straw begins as a living thing. • Shape •  The  round  hat fits on my head.

Toward the sky? Green and high?

Read a Sentence
rhyming words 85 96
Which words below are adjectives? How do
numbered steps
you know?

The red ribbon is on the small hat.

Talk Together
Write a Sentence 
Think about what you read. When is
Think about a shirt you have. Write
something  alive ?
a sentence to tell about it. Use an
adjective. Read the sentence to a partner.
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 2 Words
PART

Language Focus to Know Science Vocabulary

had
that
Retell a Story will Key Words flower
Listen αnd sing. sun

The Ant and the Song    petal

Grasshopper
leaf
I will retell a story
About a smart ant bud
And a lazy grasshopper
That did not like to plan.

In the hot summer,

Ant looked for seeds.
When winter days came,
seed
Ant had good food to eat.
Parts of a plant
Grasshopper did not work.
All summer he played.
But then he was hungry
On cold winter days.
Talk Together
Tune: “On Top of Old Smokey”

Look at this living plant. Talk about its parts.

Use the diagram to make up a story. Retell the
story to a friend.
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 2
PART
PART

Thinking Map Academic Vocabulary

Identify Plot More Key Words

Character-Setting-Plot Chart
height length light
Character: Character:
Write the names of
Ant Grasshopper
the characters here.

Setting:
Write where the
outside
story happens here. This basketball The length of the The light is bright
player’s height is carrot is 7 inches. enough to read
seven feet. the book.
Plot:

Ant works to get food for winter. project ready Talk Together
Grasshopper does not, so he is
hungry in winter. Ask a question using
a Key Word.

Write what happens What is the

in the story here. height of
that tree?
I am so proud of The runners are
my science fair ready to race.
Talk Together
project.
Retell a story you know to a partner. Write
the title. Then fill out a character-setting-plot
chart. Take turns.

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 2
PART
PART

Phonics Focus

Final Blends: mp, sk, ft, lt Talk Together

Listen and read. Find the words with

ending blends.
Over to You

A Sunny Plant
lamp desk gift belt
This is a sunflower. That flower comes from Work with
a seed. It gets lots of sunlight. It gets lots of a partner.
Listen and Learn
water too. It lifts and tilts its face to the sun. Take turns.
Listen to each sentence. Choose the word with the Point to a word
Farmers grow a lot of sunflowers. Each
with an ending
final blend that best completes the sentence. plump flower is very big. People cut some blend. Your
flowers. They put them on a desk or table. partner says
1.  Chen wore a 2.  Can you rope?
People make food from sunflowers. People and the word.
to the party.
birds eat sunflower seeds.
best jump
mend lend
mask sent
3.  Too much is 4.  The boy can swim
not good for you. to the  .
dent sand
salt rent
nest raft
Practice reading words with final blends by
reading “A Sunny Plant” with a partner.
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 Read a Folk Tale
What happens in the folk tale?
A folk tale has a plot. A plot is what
happens in a story.
The Daisy
by Lada Josefa Kratky
illustrated by Vicki Wehrman
A seed sleeps. The seed becomes
a flower.

Reading Strategy
Monitor your reading. What happens
to the seed?

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 A little  seed  sleeps under the earth. The  sun  shines. The rain falls.

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 One morning, the sun rises. The sun knocks on the door.

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 The sun asks the little seed to come The little seed says she just wants
out and play. to sleep.
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 A raindrop knocks on the door. The raindrop asks the little seed to
come out and play.
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 The little seed says she just wants The little seed goes back to sleep.
to sleep.
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 Time passes. The sun rises. The sun and the rain knock on the
More rain falls. little seed’s door.
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 bud petal

leaf

stem

The door opens. A  leaf  grows. Then One  petal  opens. Then many
a little  bud  grows. more open!
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 The little daisy smiles. The daisy says hello to her friends.
She is  ready  to play now.
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 Meet the Author

Lada Josefa Kratky

Lada Josefa Kratky grew up in Uruguay.
Today she lives in California.

Lada writes books in both English and

Spanish. She has written many wonderful
folk tales!

Writing Tip 
Find details that Lada
Josefa Kratky uses to
Lada Josefa Kratky describe how a seed
grows into a flower.
The sun, the rain, and How do the details
help you understand
the daisy play together.  ❖ what happens?

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 2
PART
PART

Think and Respond Reread and Describe

Talk About It  Identify Plot

1.  What does the little  seed  grow up to be? Complete the chart for “The Daisy.”
The little seed grows up to be a . Character-Setting-Plot Chart

2.  Why do the  sun  and the raindrop knock at Character: Character: Character:
the little seed’s door? Sun Raindrop Little Seed
They want the little seed to .
Setting:
3.  How do the sun and the raindrop help the outside in
little seed? the country

They give her . Plot:

Write About It 

What does a seed need in order to grow?
Write one sentence. Read it aloud.
Use your character-setting-plot chart to describe
A seed needs the sun to grow. what happens to the little seed.

The little seed will not

play with the sun because
she only wants to sleep.

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 2
PART
PART

Word Work Making Connections You read about how

a seed becomes a flower and is alive. Now
read about giant redwood trees.
Sort Words Genre A project notebook shows what
someone is studying. It uses words and photos.
Plant Parts What Plants Need

leaf soil

bud water
Michael Fay
and the Giant
Redwoods
flower sun
You can sort these You can sort these
words in a group words in a group
because they are because they are
alike. They are all alike. They are all by Gabrielle Burns
Plant Parts. What Plants Need.

Try It Together

Write the words on cards. Sort the cards daisy

into two groups: Kinds of Plants and garden
flowerpot
Where Plants Grow. Talk about why
sunflower
each word belongs in its group.
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 Michael Fay studies redwood trees. Redwood trees can grow to a
They are one of the biggest living  height  of 360 feet!
things on Earth!
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 fog

Redwood Coast

CALIFORNIA

HB29 06 G1_U2_124
Second proof

Redwoods grow in California. Redwoods need warm, wet

California has what redwoods weather. They get a lot of water
need to grow. from fog.  ❖
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 2
PART
PART

Respond and Extend Grammar

Compare Genres Adjectives

How are the words in “The Daisy” and “Michael An  adjective  describes the size, color, shape,
Fay and the Giant Redwoods” different? how many, or how much, of a  noun .
Folk Tale Project Notebook
 One   child  sees  many   trees  in the forest.

Grammar Rules Adjectives

Adjectives tell how •  Michael walks  two  miles.

many or how much.
how many
•  These trees need  a lot  of water.

how much

The little seed says she just wants

Redwood trees can grow to a
height of 360 feet!
Read a Sentence
to sleep.
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Which word below is an adjective? How do
you know?
A folk tale is a fantasy. A project notebook is
A seed doesn’t really sleep. nonfiction. It has facts.
Michael photographs five trees.

Talk Together Write a Sentence 

Think about what you read. When is Write a sentence that describes the redwoods.
something alive? Use an adjective that tells “how many” or
“how much.”
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 Writing Project Language Frames

• I need  .
Write Like a Teacher Plan and Write • The steps are .
Talk with a partner about
Write How to Make Something 
plants and plant parts. Draw pictures of what
You can make a hat with straw.
you can make with plants. Pick one thing and
What else can you make with plants?
describe it to your partner.
Explain how to make something with
plants. Write for your classmates. Write what you will need. Then write what to
do. List the steps in order.

How to Make a Seed Picture Check Your Work Checklist

by Pham Thi Mai Revise and edit your writing. Think αbout the group,
Whαt You Need. Did you
Use this checklist. remember to write αll the
What You Need things thαt belong in this
list  pencil paper group?

 glue seeds  Finish and Share Did you use αdjectives to

describe how things look

What You Do Finish your writing. Leave space or feel?

Reαd eαch word of your
directions  1. Draw a picture on the paper . between steps. Number the work. Sαy αloud the
syllαbles. Circle words to
steps. Draw a picture to show check. Correct spelling
 2. Put glue on the parts of each step. errors.

the picture where you

Read your writing aloud.
want seeds . I need sunflower
Speak clearly. Share what
seeds.
 3. P ress the seeds onto the glue. you know.
Let it dry .

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 Unit

2 Wrap-Up

Talk About It!

?
Big
Question
When is something
alive?
Tell a Tale
Make up a new folk tale about A small plant and
a big bear lived in
living and nonliving things.
the forest.
The group decides on character
Share Your Ideas names and a setting. Then,
each person in the group tells
Think about what living things do and
part of the plot. Take turns.
what they need. When is something alive?
Choose one of these ways to share your
ideas about the Big Question.

Write It! Do It!

Make a Chart Living Make a Puppet
Nonliving
Draw a T chart. Write these T hings T hings Use a sock to make a puppet of Zina.
headings: Living Things and Then make Zina come alive! Show
Nonliving Things. Draw and kids book
what she can say and do. Use your
label pictures to go under sock puppets to have a puppet show.
each heading.
dog chair

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