Objectives and Learning Goals
Unit 1
The Twin Club:
- Content Knowledge: Exploring Communities
- Phonics: Short Vowels and Consonants
- Text-Based Comprehension: Character and Setting
- Conventions: Sentences
- Writing: Personal Narrative
Exploring Space with an Astronaut:
- Content Knowledge: Exploring Space
- Phonics: Long Vowels VCe
- Text-Based Comprehension: Main Idea and Details
- Conventions: Subjects
- Writing: Expository Nonfiction
Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night:
- Content Knowledge: Exploring Nature
- Phonics: Consonant Blends
- Text-Based Comprehension: Character and Setting
- Conventions: Predicates
- Writing: Writing for Tests: Realistic Fiction
A Walk in the Desert:
- Content Knowledge: Exploring the Desert
- Phonics: Inflected Endings
- Text-Based Comprehension: Main Idea and Details
- Conventions: Declarative and Interrogative Sentences
- Writing: Brief Report
The Strongest One:
- Content Knowledge: Exploring for Answers
- Phonics: Consonant Digraphs
- Text-Based Comprehension: Facts and Details
- Conventions: Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences
- Writing: Play Scene
Unit 2
Tara and Tiree, Fearless Friends:
- Content Knowledge: Dangerous Situations
- Phonics: Vowels: r-Controlled ar, or, ore
- Text-Based Comprehension: Cause and Effect
- Conventions: Common Nouns
- Writing: Narrative Nonfiction
Abraham Lincoln:
- Content Knowledge: Changing History
- Phonics: Contractions
- Text-Based Comprehension: Author's Purpose
- Conventions: Proper Nouns
- Writing: Biography
Scarcity:
- Content Knowledge: Meeting People's Needs
- Phonics: Vowels: r-Controlled er, ir, ur
- Text-Based Comprehension: Facts and Details
- Conventions: Singular and Plural Nouns
- Writing: Writing for Tests: Expository Nonfiction
The Bremen Town Musicians:
- Content Knowledge: Working Together
- Phonics: Plurals
- Text-Based Comprehension: Cause and Effect
- Conventions: Plural Nouns That Change Spelling
- Writing: Fairy Tale
One Good Turn Deserves Another:
- Content Knowledge: Solving Problems
- Phonics: Vowels Patterns a, ai, ay
- Text-Based Comprehension: Compare and Contrast
- Conventions: Possessive Nouns
- Writing: Folk Tale
Unit 3
Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends:
- Content Knowledge: Supporting Creative Ideas
- Phonics: Vowel Patterns e, ee, ea, y
- Text-Based Comprehension: Author's Purpose
- Conventions: Verbs
- Writing: Animal Fantasy
Dear Juno:
- Content Knowledge: Creative Ways We Communicate
- Phonics: Vowel Patterns o, oa, ow
- Text-Based Comprehension: Draw Conclusions
- Conventions: Verbs with Singular and Plural Nouns
- Writing: Friendly Letter
Anansi Goes Fishing:
- Content Knowledge: Creative Thinking
- Phonics: Compound Words
- Text-Based Comprehension: Compare and Contrast
- Conventions: Verbs for Past, Present, and Future
- Writing: Narrative Poem
Rosa and Blanca:
- Content Knowledge: Creative Ideas Leading to Surprises
- Phonics: Vowel Patterns I, ie, igh, y
- Text-Based Comprehension: Sequence
- Conventions: More about Verbs
- Writing: Writing for Tests
A Weed is a Flower:
- Content Knowledge: Where Creative Ideas Come From
- Phonics: Comparative Endings -er, -est
- Text-Based Comprehension: Fact and Opinion
- Conventions: Verbs am, is, are, was, were
- Writing: Review
Unit 4
A Froggy Fable:
- Content Knowledge: Help with Changes
- Phonics and Spelling: Final Syllable -le
- Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
- Comprehension Strategy: Background Knowledge
- Conventions: Adjectives and Our Senses
- Writing: Friendly Letter
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin:
- Content Knowledge: Plants Changing
- Phonics and Spelling: Vowel Patterns oo, u
- Comprehension Skill: Sequence
- Comprehension Strategy: Important Ideas
- Conventions: Adjectives for Number, Size, and Shape
- Writing: Writing for Tests: Expository Nonfiction
Soil:
- Content Knowledge: Changes Under the Ground
- Phonics and Spelling: Diphthongs ou, ow, oi, oy
- Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion
- Comprehension Strategy: Questioning
- Conventions: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
- Writing: Short Expository Report
The Night the Moon Fell:
- Content Knowledge: Difficult Changes
- Phonics and Spelling: Syllable Patterns
- Comprehension Skill: Plot and Theme
- Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
- Conventions: Adverbs That Tell When and Where
- Writing: Narrative Poem
The First Tortilla:
- Content Knowledge: Changes in Weather
- Phonics and Spelling: Vowel Digraphs oo, ue, ew, ui
- Comprehension Skill: Plot and Theme
- Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
- Conventions: Adverbs That Tell How
- Writing: Thank-You Note
Unit 5
Firefighters!:
- Content Knowledge: Responsibility
- Phonics and Spelling: Suffixes -ly, -ful, -er, -or, -ish
- Comprehension Skill: Facts and Opinions
- Comprehension Strategy: Important Ideas
- Conventions: Pronouns
- Writing: Narrative Nonfiction
Carl the Complainer:
- Content Knowledge: Responsible Community Members
- Phonics and Spelling: Prefixes un-, re-, pre-, dis-
- Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect
- Conventions: Singular and Plural Pronouns
- Writing: Realistic Fiction
Bad Dog, Dodger!:
- Content Knowledge: Responsible Animal Owners
- Phonics and Spelling: Consonant patterns kn, wr, gn, mb
- Comprehension Skill: Plot and Theme
- Comprehension Strategy: Background Knowledge
- Conventions: Using I and Me
- Writing: Journal Entry
Horace and Morris but mostly Dolores:
- Content Knowledge: Responsible Friends and Neighbors
- Phonics and Spelling: Consonant Patterns ph, gh, ck, ng
- Comprehension Skill: Character and Setting
- Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
- Conventions: Different Kinds of Pronouns
- Writing: Animal Fantasy
The Signmaker’s Assisstant:
- Content Knowledge: Making Mistakes
- Phonics and Spelling: Vowel Patterns aw, au, au(gh), al
- Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Details
- Comprehension Strategy: Inferring
- Conventions: Contractions
- Writing: Writing for Tests: Humorous Fiction
Unit 6
Just Like Josh Gibson:
- Content Knowledge: Sports Traditions
- Phonics and Spelling: Inflected Endings
- Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast
- Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
- Conventions: Using Capital Letters
- Writing: Realistic Fiction
Red, White, and Blue:
- Content Knowledge: The American Flag
- Phonics and Spelling: Abbreviations
- Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
- Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
- Conventions: Quotation Marks
- Writing: Descriptive Poem or Song
A Birthday Basket for Tia:
- Content Knowledge: Family Celebrations
- Phonics and Spelling: Final Syllables -tion, -ture, -ion
- Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
- Comprehension Strategy: Questioning
- Conventions: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
- Writing: Invitation Letter
Cowboys:
- Content Knowledge: Cowboys
- Phonics and Spelling: Suffixes -ness, -less, -able, -ible
- Comprehension Skill: Sequence
- Comprehension Strategy: Text Structure
- Conventions: Commas
- Writing: Compare and Contrast
Grace for President:
- Content Knowledge: Celebrated and Shared Traditions
- Phonics and Spelling: Prefixes mis-, mid-, micro-, non-
- Comprehension Skill: Facts and Details
- Comprehension Strategy: Predict and Set Purpose
- Conventions: Commas in Compound Sentences
- Writing: Writing for Tests: Persuasive Statement