Unit 1: Going Places

•What makes a place special? How does imagination make a place seem different? In this unit, students address these questions by reading realistic fiction and using elements and clues to make connections. After learning what good writers do, they develop their own stories through pictures, 

spoken words, and letters.

Unit 2: Living Together

•What do living things need? How and why do some animals eat, move, and live like they do? In this unit, students address these questions by reading and understanding informational texts to make connections. After learning what good informational writers do, they develop their own informational list books.

Unit 3: Tell Me a Story

•Why do we like stories? What are stories like and what can we learn from them? In this unit, students address these questions by reading and understanding traditional stories. After learning why they like stories, students will compose their own opinion books. 

Unit 4: Then and Now

•What can we learn from the past? What was life like in the past and how has it changed now? In this unit, students address these questions by reading and understanding narrative nonfiction texts. After learning about the qualities of narrative texts they have read, they compose their own personal narratives.

Unit 5: Outside My Door

•What can we learn from the weather? How have people learned to live in bad weather? In this unit, students address these questions by reading and understanding informational texts. After learning about the qualities of the informational texts they have read, they compose their own nonfiction texts.