Unit 1: The Stories We Tell
Students explore how authors create stories and use different ways of communicating to help readers understand characters, events, and important messages.

In this unit, students will:

• Explore different text modes, including print, digital, auditory, spoken, visual, and multimodal texts

• Identify an author’s purpose and intended audience

• Identify characters, setting, major events, problem, solution, and dialogue

• Describe how characters respond to challenges and how their responses connect to a story’s central message, lesson, or moral

• Identify first-person and third-person points of view

• Explore how text features help organize and add meaning to texts

• Recognize the difference between literal and figurative language

• Use descriptive language to make writing more engaging

• Use transition words to sequence events and actions

• Compare different versions of the same story

• Write narratives about real or imagined experiences with a clear ending

• Create and share information using more than one mode of communication

• Use specific parts of a text to support ideas, answers, and opinions

Students will also strengthen:

• Phonics skills for reading and spelling, including consonant blends, digraphs, vowel patterns, and two-syllable words

• Reading fluency, accuracy, expression, and self-correction

• Vocabulary through context clues, root words, prefixes, and suffixes

• Common, proper, and irregular plural nouns

• Personal pronouns

• Capitalization and ending punctuation

• Simple and compound sentences and different sentence types

• Subject-verb agreement

• Handwriting, spacing, and writing fluency

Unit 2: Knowledge Quest
Students explore informational texts and learn how authors teach readers through facts, details, and explanations.

In this unit, students will:

• Identify main idea and supporting details

• Learn how text features help readers understand information

• Explore science and social studies topics through reading

• Ask questions and conduct simple research

• Organize and share information clearly

• Write informational pieces using facts and definitions

Students will also strengthen:

• Vocabulary and word analysis skills

• Grammar and sentence structure

• Reading fluency and comprehension

Unit 3: The Way I See It
Students learn how authors share opinions and support their ideas with reasons and evidence.

In this unit, students will:

• Identify opinions and supporting reasons

• Learn how authors persuade readers

• Compare different points of view

• Use linking words to connect ideas

• Write opinion pieces with clear reasons and conclusions

Students will also strengthen:

• Vocabulary and language development

• Grammar and punctuation skills

• Reading fluency and comprehension

Unit 4: Wise Words
Students explore stories, poems, and figurative language while learning how authors use words creatively.

In this unit, students will:

• Identify rhyme, repetition, and other poetic elements

• Explore figurative and descriptive language

• Analyze characters, plot, and story lessons

• Compare stories from different cultures

• Write poems and narrative pieces

Students will also strengthen:

• Vocabulary and word meaning

• Grammar and sentence writing

• Reading fluency and expression

Unit 5: Everything Changes
Students explore informational and opinion texts connected to science and social studies topics.

In this unit, students will:

• Identify main ideas and supporting details

• Analyze opinion writing and supporting reasons

• Conduct simple research using multiple sources

• Learn how authors organize information

• Write informational and opinion pieces

Students will also strengthen:

• Vocabulary and context clue skills

• Grammar and language conventions

• Reading comprehension and fluency

Unit 6: Language Leaps
Students build grammar and language skills to become stronger readers, writers, and communicators.

In this unit, students will:

• Learn how different parts of speech work in sentences

• Use pronouns, prepositions, and descriptive language correctly

• Practice dialogue and punctuation rules

• Strengthen sentence structure and mechanics

• Apply grammar skills in speaking and writing

Students will continue developing:

• Clear written communication

• Editing and revision skills

• Reading and writing fluency