Unit 1

• Match spoken word to written word

• Punctuation: periods, exclamation marks, question marks

• Text features

• Recognize and produce rhyme

• Phoneme categorization, blending, segmentation, and manipulation

• Short a, short i, and short o (sounds in words), digraph ck,
  and double final consonants

• Common and proper nouns, plural nouns

• Fluency: phrasing, intonation, and expression

• Asking questions

• Reread to clarify or confirm understanding

• Identify the main topic and retell key details

• Describe the connection between 2 individuals, events, ideas, or
  pieces of information

• Identify similarities & differences between 2 texts on the same topic

• Compare & contrast the adventures and experiences of characters

• Identify real-life connections between words & their use

• Sort words into categories to demonstrate understanding

• Write personal responses

• Verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future

• State, clarify, & support ideas in a constructive conversation 

Unit 2

• Punctuation: periods, exclamation marks, question marks

• Quotation marks

• Recognize and produce rhyming words and alliteration

• Phoneme blending, segmentation, categorization, & manipulation

• Short vowels, inflectional ending -s, l blends, s /z/, ck /k/

• Double final consonants

• Possessive nouns, singular & plural nouns

• Fluency: phrasing, expression, self-correcting

• Drawing inferences, determine text importance, and re-read to understand the text

• Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story

• Use illustrations & details to describe characters, setting, and events

• Compare & contrast the adventures & experiences of characters

• Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs, verbs in basic sentences

• Write narrative text

• Engage effectively in whole-class and peer discussions

• State, clarify, and support ideas in a constructive conversation

Unit 3

• End punctuation

• Phoneme categorization, blending & substitution

• Recognize & produce rhyming words

• Phoneme deletion, segmentation & manipulation

• r-blends, s-blends & l-blends

• Final consonant blends & endings -ed

• Pitch & intonation, pausing, expression, & self-correcting

• Features of a sentence

• Make connections, summarize & synthesize

• Table of contents

• Identify relevant details & use context clues

• Informative writing process

• Personal & possessive pronouns, indefinite  pronouns

• Noun-verb agreement

• Engage effectively in whole-class & peer discussions

• State, clarify, & support ideas in a constructive conversation 

Unit 4

• Punctuation in context: dashes, commas, & quotation marks

• Punctuation in context: periods, exclamation marks & question marks

• Phoneme identification, categorization, segmentation & manipulation

• Phoneme blending and addition

• Consonant digraphs: th, sh, ng & inflectional ending -ing

• Consonant digraphs ch, tch, wh; closed syllables

• Three letter blends; plural ending -es

• Short vowels and consonant blends

• Fluency: self-correction, rate, pausing, expression

• Identify who is telling the story

• Ask & answer questions about key details

• Describe characters, settings, and major events

• Identify words & phrases that appeal to the senses

• Identify root words & their inflectional forms

• Use context as a clue to word meaning

• Write opinion texts

• Adjectives

• Use commas in dates and to separate words in a series

• Engage effectively in whole-class & peer discussions

• State, clarify, & support ideas in a constructive conversation 

Unit 5

•  End Punctuation & commas

• Phoneme categorization, blending, & substitution

• Phoneme segmentation, manipulation, addition & deletion

• Long a (final -e); long o (final -e); 

• Contractions with ’ll, ’re

• Soft c, g; Contractions with “not”

• Short Vowels, consonant blends, & digraphs

• Fluency self-correcting, pausing, expression, rate & mood

• Draw inferences, determine text importance, & author's purpose

• Use text features to locate key facts or information

• Use illustrations and details to describe key ideas

• Describe the connection between two individuals, events or ideas in a text

• Describe characters, setting, and major events in a story

• Draw inferences, identify main topic & retell details

• Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs

• Explanatory process writing

• Sentence types & propositions

• Engage effectively in whole-class & peer discussions

• State, clarify, & support ideas in a constructive conversation 

Unit 6

• Punctuation in context: dashes, colons, quotation marks

• Punctuation: periods, question marks, exclamation points

• Phoneme categorization, blending, & substitution

• Phoneme segmentation, manipulation, & addition 

• Long i (final -e); long u, e (final -e);  long a; long 0 (final -e)

• Inflectional Endings (drop final -e)

• long a vowel teams; inflectional endings (double final consonant)

• Fluency: self-correcting, pausing, rate, phrasing & expression 

• Make connections, summarize & synthesize

• Describe characters, settings, major events & key details 

• Understand the central message

• compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters

• Use context & affixes as a clue to word meaning

• Opinion process writing

• Produce simple & compound sentences

• Use frequently occuring conjunctions

• Engage effectively in whole-class & peer discussions

• State, clarify, & support ideas in a constructive conversation