Reading

MyView Unit 1 – Social Studies: Exploration (Geography)-Environments

Essential Question: How does our environment affect us?

U1W1: Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale retold by Chitra Banjerjee Divakaruni

• Weekly Question: How do people travel in different environments?

• Genre: Traditional Tales

• Focus: I can learn more about traditional tales and analyze plot and setting in a folktale.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze plot and setting; Use text evidence

U1W2: Why the Sky is Far Away retold by Mary-Joan Gerson

• Weekly Question: How do different cultures relate to their environments?

• Genre: Folktale

• Focus: I can learn more about traditional tales and infer theme in a folktale

• Close Read Skills: Infer theme; Ask & answer questions

U1W3: Cocoliso by Andrew Pi Andreu

• Weekly Question: How can an environment affect lives and relationships?

• Genre: Realistic Fiction

• Focus: I can learn more about themes concerning environments by analyzing characters in realistic fiction.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze Characters, Make inferences

U1W4: Living in Deserts by Tea Benduhn

• Weekly Question: What creative solutions do people come up with to survive in their environment?

• Genre: Informational Text

• Focus: I can learn more about the themes concerning environments by analyzing text features in an informational text.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text features; Use text evidence

U1W5: The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico by Nina Jaffe

• Weekly Question: Why should we appreciate our environment?

• Genre: Myth

• Focus: I can learn more about traditional tales and analyze descriptive language in a myth.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze descriptive language; Visualize details

U1W6: PBI

MyView Unit 2 – Science: Patterns (Life Science)-Interactions

Essential Question: How do plants and animals live together?

U2W1: Patterns in Nature by Jennifer Rozines Roy and Gregory Roy

• Weekly Question: How do patterns in nature help plants and animals?

• Genre: Informational Text

• Focus: I can learn more about informational texts and read a text that helps me identify main idea and details in an informational text.

• Close Read Skills: Identify main idea and details; Monitor comprehension

U2W2: Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey

• Weekly Question: How do living things in a habitat support one another?

• Genre: Informational Text

• Focus: I can learn more about informational texts and read a text that helps me analyze text structure in an informational text.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text structure; Evaluate details

U2W3: Wolf Island by Celia Godkin

• Weekly Question: How can a chain of events affect plants and animals?

• Genre: Realistic Fiction

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme interactions by reading a text that helps me analyze illustrations in realistic fiction.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze illustrations; Synthesize information

U2W4: Welcome Back, Wolves! by Pooja Makhijani and Wolves Don't Belong in Yellowstone by Frances Ruffin

• Weekly Question: How does reintroduction of a species affect plants and animals in a habitat?

• Genre: Persuasive

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme interactions by reading texts that help me analyze text structure in persuasive texts.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text features; Use text evidence

U2W5: Nature's Patchwork Quilt by Mary Miche

• Weekly Question: Why is it important for plants and animals to depend on each other?

• Genre: Informational Text

• Focus: I can learn more about informational texts and read a text that helps me explain the author's purpose in an informational text.

• Close Read Skills: Explain author's purpose; Visualize details

U2W6: PBI

MyView Unit 3 – Humanities: Expressions (Arts and Literature)-Heroes

Essential Question: What makes a hero?

U3W1: Below Deck: A Titanic Story by Tony Bradman

• Weekly Question: What qualities do we see in heroes?

• Genre: Historical Fiction

• Focus: I can learn more about historical fiction and read a text that helps me analyze plot and setting in historical fiction.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze plot and setting; Confirm or correct predictions

U3W2: Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box by Michael Bandy and Eric Stein

• Weekly Question: How can a hero's actions affect other people?

• Genre: Historical Fiction

• Focus: I can learn more about historical fiction and read a text that helps me analyze characters in historical fiction.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze characters; Make connections

U3W3: Little House on the Prairie and By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Weekly Question: How do challenges turn ordinary people into heroes?

• Genre: Historical Fiction

• Focus: I can learn more about historical fiction and read texts that help me infer theme in historical fiction

• Close Read Skills: Infer theme; Compare and contrast texts

U3W4: Mama Miti: Wangari Maathi and the Trees of Kenya by Donna Jo Napoli

• Weekly Question: Why do people need heroes?

• Genre: Biography

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme heroes by reading a text that helps me analyze text structure in a biography.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text structure; Summarize informational text

U3W5: Poems by Folami Abiade, Nikki Grimes, Mary E. Cronin, Jennifer Trujillo, and Charles R. Smith Jr. 

• Weekly Question: What kids of actions can be heroic?

• Genre: Poetry

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme heroes by reading texts that help me explain poetic elements in poetry.

• Close Read Skills: Explain poetic elements; Monitor comprehension

U3W6: PBI

MyView Unit 4 – Social Studies: Connections (History)-Events

Essential Question: How do communities change over time?

U4W1: The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams by Tanya Lee Stone

• Weekly Question: How can one person improve a community?

• Genre: Biography

• Focus: I can learn more about biography and read a text that helps me analyze text structure in a biography.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text structure; Confirm or correct predictions

U4W2: Frederick Douglass by Josh Gregory

• Weekly Question: How can personal stories change society?

• Genre: Biography

• Focus: I can learn more about biography and read a text that helps me identify the main idea and key details in a biography.

• Close Read Skills: Identify main idea and key details; Make inferences

U4W3: Milton Hershey: Chocolate King, Town Builder by Charnan Simon

• Weekly Question: How do big ideas change communities?

• Genre: Biography

• Focus: I can learn more about biography and read a text that helps me explain the author's purpose in a biography.

• Close Read Skills: Explain author's purpose; Ask and answer questions

U4W4: Green City by Allan Drummond

• Weekly Question: How can a leader's experiences inspire change?

• Genre: Narrative nonfiction

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme events by reading a text that helps me distinguish viewpoint in an autobiography.

• Close Read Skills: Distinguish viewpoint; Make connections

U4W5: Grace and Grandma by Rich Lo

• Weekly Question: How do people support each other in difficult times?

• Genre: Drama

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme events by reading a text that helps me identify play elements in a drama.

• Close Read Skills: Identify play elements; Monitor comprehension

U4W6: PBI

MyView Unit 5 – Science: Our World (Earth Science)-Solutions

Essential Question: How does the world challenge us?

U5W1: Deep Down and Other Extreme Places to Live by Shirin Yim Bridges

• Weekly Question: How can nature change people's lives?

• Genre: Informational Text

• Focus: I can learn more about informational texts and read a text that helps me analyze text features in an informational text.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text features; Confirm or correct predictions

U5W2: Earthquakes, Eruptions, and Other Events that Change Earth by Natalie Hyde

• Weekly Question: How do changes on Earth affect its environment?

• Genre: Informational Text

• Focus: I can learn more about informational texts and read a text that helps me analyze text structure in an informational text.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text structure; Synthesize information

U5W3: A Safety Plan: In Case of Emergency by Marcie Rendon

• Weekly Question: What are some ways to prepare for an emergency?

• Genre: Procedural

• Focus: I can learn more about informational texts and read a text that helps me analyze text structure in a procedural text.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze text structure; Monitor comprehension

U5W4: Nora's Ark by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

• Weekly Question: How should people respond during a disaster?

• Genre: Historical Fiction

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme solutions by reading a text that helps me analyze point of view in historical fiction.

• Close Read Skills: Analyze point of view; Make connections

U5W5: Aesop's Fox by Aki Sogabe

• Weekly Question: What can nature teach us about ourselves?

• Genre: Traditional Tales

• Focus: I can learn more about the theme solutions by reading a text that helps me infer theme in a traditional tale.

• Close Read Skills: Infer theme; Evaluate Details

U5W6: PBI

Weekly Reading Journal Letter directions/expectations

Daily 5 Activities:

• Read to Self

• Read to Someone

• Listen to Reading

• Word Work

• Work on Writing

Great websites/apps for reading: 

• Lexia

• Tumblebooks

• WorldBook

• Destiny

• PebbleGo/PebbleGo Next