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ELA

Module Essential Question: How do people and animals use their senses to navigate the world?

• In this module, students will listen to, read, and view a variety of texts and media that present them with information about the five senses. As students build their vocabulary and synthesize topic knowledge, they will learn that our senses are powerful tools that help us experience the world in exciting ways.

  • A genre focus on informational text provides students with opportunities to identify central ideas, text and graphic features, and media techniques in order to better understand unfamiliar texts. Students will also encounter a personal narrative and historical fiction to build knowledge across genres.

Targeted Reading Skills

• Central Idea

• Summarize

• Text and Graphic Features

• Text Structure

• Content-Area Words

• Ask and Answer Questions

• Media Techniques

• Figurative Language

• Visualize

• Plot

• Author’s Craft

Vocabulary Words

• luminous, transparent, reflect, illuminates, judge, relish, familiar, savor, enhance, accepted, obstacles, command, denying, adapt, comfort, absurd, taunt, forfeit, despised, ferocious, elaborately, coveted

  • Skills: Multiple Meaning Words (Homophones) & Vocabulary in Context

Grammar 

• Sentence Fragments

• Run-On Sentences

• Writing Complete Sentences

• Review Quotations

• Using Complete Sentences

• Capitalizing Historical Events and Documents

• Capitalizing Titles

• Capitalizing Languages, People’s Names, and Nationalities

• Review Parts of a Sentence

• Using Proper Nouns

• Action Verbs

• Main Verbs and Helping Verbs

• Linking Verbs

• Review Fragments and Run-On Sentences

• Using Action, Main, Helping, and Linking Verbs

Phonics & Spelling 

• Spelling words with prefixes re– and pre–

• Spelling words with suffixes –s, –es, –ed, and –ing

Writing 

• Informational Texts

Religion

• We Show Our Love for God

  • God aks for our love

  • We give God our love in prayer

  • We honor the saints in prayer

  • We pray for Others

Social Studies

Native American groups that inhabited the region that became PA include: Erie, Iroquois, Lenape, Munsee, Shawnee, and Susquehannock tribes. The Native Americans interacted with the environment and developed unique cultures. 

• What Native American tribes were located in PA?

  • How did the Americas become populated?

  • What tribes are located in PA?

  • How were the tribes organized?

• How did Native Americans live in Pennsylvania?

  • What were the main chores of the Algonquins and the Iroquois?

  • How did the homes of the Algonquins and the Iroquois differ?

  • Why was bartering important for the Algonquins and the Iroquois?

  • What kinds of transportation was used?

• Who were the first European settlers in PA?

  • What was the Age of Exploration?

  • Which countries started colonies in PA?

  • Where were the early settlements of the Swedish and Dutch?

  • What did the Swedish and the Dutch contribute to society?