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by Erin Matthews
illustrated by
Bridget Starr Taylor
PAIRED
My Home
READ
STRATEGIES & SKILLS
Comprehension Content Standards
Strategy: Visualize Social Studies
Skill: Key Details Geography
High-Frequency Words
down, out, up, very
Phonics
Short i Word count: 71**
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Genre Fantasy
Essential Question
What is it like where you live?
by Erin Matthews
illustrated by Bridget Starr Taylor
PAIRED
My Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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We go on a trip.
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What can we see?
3
We go up.
What can we see?
4
We can see a cloud.
5
We look out.
What can we see?
6
We can see a bird.
7
We look down.
What can we see?
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We can see a farm.
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We go very far.
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Our trip was fun!
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Retell
Use your Detail Detail Detail
own words
to retell
details in What Can We See?
Text Evidence
1. Look at page 5. What details
tell you what Cat and Mouse
see first? Key Details
2. Look at page 9. Where are
Cat and Mouse now? Key Details
3. How can you tell that What
Can We See? is a fantasy? Genre
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My
Home
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Genre Nonfiction
Compare Texts
Read about where some
children live.
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My home is in a city.
My home is in a town.
Meiko Arquillos/UpperCut Images/Getty Images, Celia Peterson/arabianEye/Getty Images, Illustration: Natalia Vasques
My home is on a farm.
Ann Cutting/The Image Bank/Getty Images, Illustration: Natalia Vasques
Make Connections
Do Cat and Mouse see any of the
things in My Home? Text to Text
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Purpose To share pictures of
places we live
What to Do
Step 1 Draw a picture of
your home.
Step 2 Draw a picture of the
street where you live.
Step 3 Label your pictures. Share
them with the class.
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Literature Circles
Fiction
Thinkmark
Setting
Where did the story take place?
Characters
Who are the main characters?
Sequence of Events
Tell what happened first, then,
next, and finally.
Where I Live
GR B • Benchmark 2 • Lexile BR
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