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Now I Know My Sight Words Learning Mats © 2012 Scholastic Teaching Resources • page 111

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Find each you. Color that egg brown.

Then color the rest of the picture.

Write you.

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■ Using the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

■ Connections to the Common Core State Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

■ Lesson 1: Synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

■ Lesson 2: Synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

■ Lesson 3: Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

■ Lesson 4: Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

■ Lesson 5: Compound Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

■ Lesson 6: Homophones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

■ Lesson 7: Homographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

■ Lesson 8: Eponyms: People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

■ Lesson 9: Eponyms: Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

■ Lesson 10: Words From Other Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

■ Lesson 11: Words From Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

■ Lesson 12: Words From Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

■ Lesson 13: Blends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

■ Lesson 14: Content Words: Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

■ Lesson 15: Content Words: Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

■ Lesson 16: Latin Roots aud, grat, ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

■ Lesson 17: Greek Word Parts aero, belli, pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

■ Lesson 18: Greek Word Parts chronos, phon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

■ Lesson 19: British English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

■ Lesson 20: Word Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

■ Lesson 21: Funny Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

■ Lesson 22: Confusing Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

■ Lesson 23: Prefixes de-, fore-, im-, micro-, anti- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

■ Lesson 24: Suffixes -ance, -ity, -al, -less, -ible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

■ Word List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

■ Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Using This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Comprehension Skills At-a-Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Meeting the Common Core State Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

1. In the Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2. Animal Ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3. Doris Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

4. Wise About Words . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

5. Home, Sweet Home . . . . . . . . . . 11

6. Trucks on the Runway . . . . . . . . . 12

7. Rosa’s Surprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

8. Aibo and Fido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

9. Factory Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

10. Long-Ago Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

11. Meet Stegosaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

12. Winds of the World . . . . . . . . . . . 18

13. Two Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

14. Harry’s Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

15. Cranes Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

16. Meet the Marsupials . . . . . . . . . . 22

17. Good Advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

18. Monkey Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

19. Mystery Footprints . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

20. Cookie Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

21. Family Fun on the Nile . . . . . . . . 27

22. Let’s Go Camping . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

23. Meet Princess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

24. Bandit Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

25. Fast and Faster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

26. A Mighty Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

27. Washtub Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

28. Space Junk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

29. Dining Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

30.GoatsasFirefighters . . . . . . . . . . 36

31. A Popular Water Sport . . . . . . . . . 37

32. That Chilly Feeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

33. Silly Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

34. Monster Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

35. A Tense Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

36. Place Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

37. Paul and Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

38. The Ice Cream Worker . . . . . . . . . 44

39. Talking on Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

40. Jessie’s Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Contents

Passages

Now I Know My Colors, Shapes & Patterns Learning Mats © 2012 Scholastic Teaching Resources • page 9

Which things are red in real life? Color them.

Write red.

Name:

Color: Red

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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Problem-Solving Packets

Fishy Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Guess the Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Count the Spots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Find the Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Face the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

How Much Is This Bag? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Problem-Solving Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Solve-It Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Mat

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About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Meeting the Common Core State Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Shoe Box Learning Centers Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Alphabet Skills Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Shoe Box Learning Center Skill PageBreakfast Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Distinguishing Letter Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Spill the Letters Match-Up . . . . . . . . . Differentiating Between Uppercase and Lowercase Letters. . . 13Conversation-Heart Messages . . . . Identifying Printed Forms of Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Feely-Box Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Letters by Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Up and Down the Beanstalk . . . . . . . Recognizing and Sequencing Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19ABC Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Alphabetical Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21The Mystery of the Missing Letters . . Sequencing Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Lost and Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing and Sequencing Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Match the Mix-Ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Differentiating Between Similar Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Trace and Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Features of Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Letter Collages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exploring Features of Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Snowy Day Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forming Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Airplane ABCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forming and Naming Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Tweet-Tweet Letter Treats . . . . . . . Recognizing and Forming Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Rainy Day Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing and Forming Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Cups of Cocoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing and Forming Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37ABC Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing and Forming Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Alphabet Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Discriminating Similarities and Differences in Letters . . . . . . 40Cloudy Day ABCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Discriminating Similarities and Differences in Letter Shapes . . 42Handmade Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forming Letters With the Finger-Spelling Alphabet . . . . . . 43Vroom! Vroom! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blending Letter Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47B Is for Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecting Letters, Sounds, and Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49On Alphabet Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Beginning Letter-Sound Relationships . . . . . . . 50Buried Treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Letter-Sound Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52It’s a Parade! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Letter Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Check It Out! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Letter Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Musical Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Letter Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60The Sound Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Phonemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Apples on a Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hearing Word Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67All About My Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recognizing Letters and Sound-Spelling Relationships . . . . 71More Easy-to-Make Shoe Box Learning Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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DirectionsChoose a cereal box front.

Match the alphabet letters to the

letters in the cereal name. Place the

letters on the box.

Choose a new cereal and repeat.

Breakfast Words

Children match letters to spell

cereal names.

Materials• shoebox

• boxlabel

• studentdirections

• scissors

• glue

• emptycerealboxes

(singleservingsize;orcerealbox

templates,page10)

• alphabetboards(pages11–12)

• resealableplasticbags

Shoe Box Setup

Cut out the fronts from several different

cereal boxes. Copy the alphabet

boards. Make letter tiles by cutting apart

the letters on each board. Place each set

of letter tiles in a resealable bag. Place the

cereal box fronts and letter tiles in the

shoe box. Glue the label to one end of

the box and the student directions to the

inside of the lid.

Have children say the name

of the cereal. Encourage

them to think of other words

that start with the same sound. For

variations on this activity, substitute other

food boxes such as those for noodles,

crackers, and cookies. For an extra

challenge, children can sort the packages

into ABC order by initial letter.

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A. Use what you know. Write the best word to complete each sentence.

1. The fumes from the old machine had a _________________ smell .

2. Food was _________________ at the fancy buffet .

3. According to this study, there’s been a _________________ in crime this year .

4. The students took around a _________________ for more playground equipment and asked people to sign it .

5. After staying up all night writing a paper, Theo looked really _________________ .

6. The judge gave an _________________ ruling on the case .

7. It is of _________________ importance that you finish all your assignments today .

8. The prince in this tale was _________________ and trustworthy .

9. Some farmers create a _________________ by cutting paths through their cornstalks in the fall .

10. The _________________ met with his teacher every day .

B. Read each question. Choose the best answer.

1. What’s a labyrinth? ❒ complicated ❒ simple ❒ straightforward

2. What can surge? ❒ rock ❒ water ❒ star

3. What makes you haggard? ❒ sleep ❒ sleepy ❒ sleeplessness

4. Who is valiant? ❒ coward ❒ bystander ❒ hero

Writing to Learn

draw a comic strip. Use at least three vocabulary words in the dialogue.

LESSON

2 name _______________________________________________________ date ____________

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Name ___________________________________________ Date__________________________

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Passage 3

1 . Context Clues 2 . Inference 3 . Predict

DorisPracticesDoris is a little short for her age, but she

wants to play on the school basketball team.

So Doris practices all the time. She plays

with friends, her uncle, and her brother

at home. Next week the coach is holding

tryouts.

1. In this paragraph, the word tryouts means

A . tests .

B . practices .

C . demonstrations .

2. Which sentence is most likely true?

A . Doris is a quitter .

B . Doris is determined .

C . Doris is a star player .

3. What will most likely happen next?

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Name___________________________ Skill: Learning number twoColor the two apples.

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Write the number and number word.

Circle each group of two balls.

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Name___________________________Skill: Sequencing

Draw what comes next in the box at the end of each row.

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3. toxic ____________________________

4. bountiful ____________________________

5. rise ____________________________

6. dauntless ____________________________

7. principal ____________________________

8. maze ____________________________

9. plea ____________________________

10. adherent ____________________________

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1 . Context Clues 2 . Predict 3 . Main Idea

AnimalWaysAnimals have different ways of protecting themselves. Suppose a strange dog threatens a cat. What does the cat do? It stretches its legs and arches its back. It fluffs its fur and turns so its side faces the dog. All this makes the cat look much bigger. In case the dog doesn’t get the idea, the cat also hisses!

1. In this paragraph, the word threatens must mean A . causes a feeling of joy . B . wants to make friends with . C . shows signs of hurting .

2. You can predict that when a cat hisses, a dog usually A . attacks .

B . backs off .

C . gets bigger .

3. The main idea of this paragraph is A . how dogs protect themselves . B . why dogs threaten cats . C . how cats protect themselves .

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How much does each fish cost?

Match each price tag with its fish.

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Flash. His price tag

has the least number.

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2. How much does Bronco cost? __________

3. How much does Arty cost? __________

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