Each Unit is comprised of:

• Lessons including Reading, Writing, Grammar, Morphology, and Spelling

  • *Note: Writing styles utilized for longer pieces include "Opinion", "Narrative", and "Informational"

• A Unit Assessment that evaluates students' reading comprehension, understanding and retention of academic and domain-specific vocabulary words, as well as the grammar and morphology skills targeted in each Unit. A writing prompt will also be given as well as periodic fluency checks. 

• Pausing Points designed to review, reinforce, or extend the content and skills taught

Unit 1 (16 Days) Personal Narratives

-Students will read different personal narratives and will work to identify the elements of this particular genre. Students will then construct their own personal narrative focusing on an important memory from their pasts. While writing the students will use dialogue, sensory details, transition words, detail etc. 

Unit 2 Part 1  (15 Days)  Empires in the Middle Ages

• Students will explore these two separate regions and their medieval history and will analyze the impact they have had on the modern world through reading multiple interactive stories, writing an opinion paragraph, taking notes, practicing vocab, etc. 

Unit 2 Part 2 (10 Days) 

• - Empires in the Middle Ages

Unit 3 (15 Days) 

-Poetry 

Unit 4 (10 Days) 

• -Eureka! Student Inventor

Unit 5 (16 Days) 

-Geology

Unit 6 (13 Days) 

-Contemporary Fiction 

Unit 7 (17 Days) 

-American Revolution 

Unit 8 (20 Days) 

-Tresure Island