Units of Study

Reading Street Units and Stories

Unit 1: Living and Learning

The Big Question: Which skills help us make our way in the world?

Week 1: When Charlie McButton Lost Power

Week 2:What About Me?

Week 3: Kumak's Fish

Week 4: Supermarket

Week 5: My Row and Piles of Coins


Unit 2: Smart Solutions

The Big Question: What are smart ways that problems are solved?

Week 1: Penguin Chick

Week 2: I Wanna Iguana

Week 3: Prudy's Problem and How She Solved It

Week 4: Tops and Bottoms

Week 5: Amazing Bird Nests


Unit 3: People and Nature

The Big Question: How are people and nature connected?

Week 1: How Do You Raise a Raisin

Week 2: Pushing Up the Sky

Week 3: Seeing Stars

Week 4: A Symphony of Whales

Week 5: Around One Cactus

Unit 4: One of a Kind

The Big Question: What does it mean to be unique?

Week 1: The Man Who Invented Basketball

Week 2: Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

Week 3: Rocks in His Head

Week 4: America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle

Week 5:Fly, Eagle, Fly!


Unit 5: Cultures

The Big Question: What happens when two ways of life come together?

Week 1: Suki's Kimono

Week 2: I Love Saturdays y dominos

Week 3: Good-Bye, 382, Shing Dang Dong

Week 4: Jalapeno Bagels

Week 5:Me & Uncle Romie


Unit 6: Freedom

The Big Question: What does freedom mean?

Week 1: The Story of the Statue of Liberty

Week 2: Happy Birthday, Mr. Kang

Week 3:Talking Walls: Art for the People

Week 4:Two Bad Ants

Week 5: Atlantis: The Legend of a Lost City