Every unit has two modules, including both literary and informational texts.

Each lesson has these essential components: turn & talk, close read, vocabulary, analysis, conventions/parts of speech, and writing

1: Understanding Communities

Readers will understand that characters in stories have unique points of view.

Writers will understand that signal word tell the sequence of events in a story.

2: Making Decisions

Readers will understand that knowing the structure of a story helps them comprehend the text.

Writers will understand that describing a character's actions, thoughts, and feelings enhances a story.

3: Building Ideas

Readers will understand that illustrations in literary texts and specific features in informational texts can help

them understand what they read.

Writers will understand that using multiple sources makes research-based writing stronger.

4: Facing Challenges and Change

Readers will understand that characters face challenges in stories.

Writers will understand that a character's actions, thoughts, and feelings are revealed through details.

5: Pioneering New Ideas and New Worlds

Readers will understand that texts on the same topic have similarities and differences.

Writers will understand that opinions need strong reasons to support them.

6: Changing the World

Readers will understand specific strategies they can use to improve their understanding of texts.

Writers will understand that opinions and reasons are connected.