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Word Building Block

7A SCT 6A SCT 5A SCT 4A SCT 3A SCT 2A SCT

Enjoyable “look, listen and

Students master pre-reading Students identify nouns,
repeat” exercises and Students continue to build a Students develop more Students continue to develop
skills by trying to decode verbs and adjectives, and use
colorful illustrations help sight word vocabulary, adding pre-reading skills by saying pre-reading skills by saying
Highlights words with various vowel them within sentences.
pre-readers develop phonemic longer phrases and more individual sounds while words with consonant blends, Highlights
combinations (digraphs, Students learn the singular
awareness of the beginning advanced words. Students tracing letters. Toward the end consonant digraphs,
diphthongs), two-syllable and plural forms of nouns and
sounds of words, build a recite familiar rhyming words of the level, students begin to consonant-controlled vowels,
words with middle double verbs, and the comparative
sight word vocabulary, and in preparation for put together simple three- and long vowels produced by
consonants, and two-syllable and superlative forms
make the connection between phonics study. letter words. the silent e.
compound words. of adjectives.
spoken and written language.

Number Number
CONNECTING WORDS TO SOUND PATTERNS
1-10 RECOGNIZING FAMILIAR WORDS SAYING THE SOUNDS OF LETTERS CONSONANT COMBINATIONS SOUND-PART PUZZLE 1-10
FAMILIAR OBJECTS Vowel Combinations

11-20 — 11-20

21-30 21-30
— 1-2
31-40 31-40

41-50 SAYING RHYMING WORDS — 41-50

—
51-60 — 51-60
SAYING WORDS WITH FUNCTION OF WORDS
61-70 THE SAME SOUND — Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives 61-70

71-80 71-80

81-90 81-90
—
91-100 RIDDLES — 91-100

101-110 SAYING RHYMING PHRASES CHANGING LETTER SOUNDS FIVE-MINUTE FAIRY TALES — 1-2 101-110
PUTTING SOUNDS TOGETHER COMPOUND WORDS
111-120 111-120

121-130 PUTTING WORDS TOGETHER 121-130

131-140 — 131-140
— — —
141-150 — 141-150

151-160 READING ALOUD 151-160

161-170 161-170
GUESSING “WHO IS THERE?” SAYING RHYMING POEMS STEP-BY-STEP TO STORIES FAMOUS FABLES ON STAGE MY OWN MINI-BOOKS
171-180 1-2 171-180

181-190 — — — — — 181-190

191-200 191-200

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Sentence Building Block

AI SCT AII SCT BI SCT BII SCT CI SCT CII SCT

Through reading stories and Students refine their ability

Students study the structure
of simple sentences and learn
expressions which convey
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attitude or intention, such as
“can,” “must,” “may” and
“should.” Students learn to
write negative sentences,
questions and sentences
thoughts developed within a
using the past tense.
Number
SIMPLE SENTENCES
1-10 Subjects, Predicates
Students refine their ability to
answering questions,
identify subject and predicate
students improve reading
in longer sentences
comprehension and writing
containing modifiers such as
skills. Punctuation, spelling
adjectives and adverbs.
and capitalization are also
Students conjugate irregular
solidified. Students learn to
verbs, as well as study
recognize a sequence of
pronouns, prepositions and
irregular plurals of nouns.
short paragraph.
WRITING FROM MEMORY SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
Students learn to define Students learn to construct
to identify subjects, verbs
words using context clues and respond to questions
and objects, and learn how
in the stories; to identify using who, what, where,
to conjugate the future,
main ideas within a story to when, why and how; to Highlights
progressive and perfect
better understand the story interpret information in
tenses. Students continue
as a whole; and to compare charts; to organize
studying punctuation.
and contrast actions, information from passages
Students begin writing
characters and information into a chart format; and to
complete sentences
from a passage. write answers independently.
independently.
Number
DEFINING WORDS PARTS OF A SENTENCE ELEMENTS OF STATEMENTS
1-10

11-20 11-20
2-3
21-30 2-3 2-3 2-4 2-4 21-30
1-2
31-40 31-40

41-50 EXPRESSIONS IN THE PAST 41-50

2-3 EXPRESSIONS OF LANGUAGE STORY 1
51-60 STORY 1 The Fire Cat 2-3 STORY 1 In the Great Meadow The Dragonfly of Lookout Mountain
2-4 51-60
2-3
BASIC EXPRESSIONS SENTENCE TOPICS IDENTIFYING IDEAS ORGANIZING INFORMATION
61-70 61-70

71-80 71-80
2-3 2-4
81-90 1-2 STORY 1 Rip Van Winkle 2-3 2-4 81-90

91-100 MODIFIERS 91-100

2-3

101-110 STORY 2 Purple, Green and Yellow 2-3 101-110

2-3
111-120 STORY 1 Moon Cat 1-2 THOUGHT SEQUENCE STORY 2 The Cricket in Times Square 2-3 STORY 1 The Chinese Artist 2-4 STORY 2 Casey Webber 2-4 111-120

121-130 MAKING SHORT SENTENCES COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CONSTRUCTING SENTENCES SYNTHESIZING IDEAS 121-130
INDEPENDENTLY
131-140 MAKING STATEMENTS 131-140
2-3
141-150 1-2 2-4 141-150
2-3 2-3 2-4
151-160 151-160

161-170 161-170

171-180 171-180
VOCABULARY REVIEW 1-2 VOCABULARY REVIEW 2-3 VOCABULARY REVIEW 2-3 VOCABULARY REVIEW 2-3 VOCABULARY REVIEW 2-4 VOCABULARY REVIEW 2-4
181-190 181-190
STORY 3
191-200 STORY 2 The Four Squirrels 1-2 STORY 3 Grandpa’s Visit 2-3 STORY 2 The Velveteen Rabbit 2-3 Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch Snatcher 2-3 STORY 2 How Willy Got His Wheels 2-4 STORY 3 Homer Price 2-4 191-200

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Paragraph Building Block

DI SCT DII SCT EI SCT EII SCT FI SCT FII SCT

Students hone their ability to

Students learn complex Students further develop their
Students learn to identify the comprehend passages by
Students focus on combining Students learn to identify the sentences by studying understanding and
sequence of events, imagery analyzing referring words, and
simple sentences to create topic and main idea of different clauses, as well as comprehension of paragraphs
and description in a passage. by interpreting text through
compound and complex paragraphs, as well as direct and indirect speech. by analyzing and recounting
Highlights Underlining exercises further restatement, examples and
sentences. In this level, supporting statements and They also continue to study a selections from works of Highlights
develop students’ reading description. Students also
students learn to identify a details within a paragraph. paragraph’s main idea. fiction. Concision exercises
comprehension. Students develop a better
statement as a unit of Students develop a better Students learn to analyze allow students to enhance their
also learn logical reasoning understanding of how to
thought in exercises that ask understanding of the paragraphs by organizing understanding of fictional
ability and how events in a apply information gathered
them to extract statements relationship between main ideas and important passages by condensing this
passage effect a from a text by responding to
from paragraphs. paragraphs. points into diagrams information into short, often
certain result. questions that require detailed
and charts. independent responses.
and specific answers.
Number Number

1-10 COMBINING SENTENCES TOPIC CLAUSES SEQUENCE AND IMAGERY REFERRING WORDS UNRAVELING TEXT 1-10

11-20 11-20
3-5
21-30 2-4 3-4 3-5 21-30

31-40 31-40

41-50 2-4 3-4 INTERPRETING TEXT 41-50

RECOMMENDED READING 1 RECOMMENDED READING 1 STORY 1
51-60 2-4 3-4 3-5 51-60
Black Beauty The Red Pony Boy
MAIN IDEA UNDERLINING RECOUNTING STORY EVENTS
61-70 61-70

71-80 3-5 3-5 71-80

2-4 3-4
81-90 81-90
RECOMMENDED READING 1 RECOMMENDED READING 1 STORY 2
91-100 The Wizard of Oz
2-4
The Princess and the Goblin
3-4
The Yearling
3-5 91-100
RECOMMENDED READING 2 GRAPHING AND CHARTING RECOMMENDED READING 2 CONCISION
101-110 STATEMENTS FROM PARAGRAPHS
Old Yeller
2-4
Secret of the Andes
3-4 101-110
UNDERSTANDING PARAGRAPHS REASON AND RESULT STORY 1
111-120 A Wrinkle in Time
3-5 111-120

121-130 RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS 121-130

131-140 3-4 3-5 131-140

2-4 3-4
2-4
141-150 3-5 141-150

151-160 151-160

161-170 161-170

171-180 171-180
VOCABULARY REVIEW 2-4 VOCABULARY REVIEW 2-4 VOCABULARY REVIEW 3-4 VOCABULARY REVIEW 3-4 VOCABULARY REVIEW 3-5 VOCABULARY REVIEW 3-5
181-190 181-190
RECOMMENDED READING 2 RECOMMENDED READING 3 RECOMMENDED READING 2 RECOMMENDED READING 3 STORY 2 STORY 3
191-200 Li Lun, Lad of Courage
2-4
Island of the Blue Dolphins
2-4
Alice in Wonderland
3-4
The Shakespeare Stealer
3-4
Caddie Woodlawn
3-5
Julie of the Wolves
3-5 191-200

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Summary Block Critique Block

G SCT H SCT I SCT J SCT K SCT L SCT

Students analyze the With exercises focusing on Students begin understanding

Students learn to condense
important information from a
Highlights passage into a summary
one third of the length of the
original passage. Students
are formally introduced
to story elements such as
plot, character and setting.
Number
POINT MAKING
1-10
( )
“Internal Earth Changes,” “Food and
Nutrition,” “Food Fight”
11-20
21-30
Students develop greater
sensitivity to authors’ use of
descriptive language.
Summation exercises help
students focus on specific
points within passages.
Vocabulary exercises
introduce Greek and Latin
suffixes, prefixes and roots.
FACT AND OPINION
4-7
( )
“The Treasures of King Tutankhamen,”
“The Trigger Effect”
5-8
persuasive writing style
found in speeches,
advertisements and political
documents. They also learn
the components and
strategies of the more formal
“argument.” The level
concludes with a study of
précis, the most complex
form of summary.
PERSUASION
4-7
(A Speech by Eisenhower)
5-8
structure, theme and
character, students are
introduced to a closer
reading of text than in
previous levels. Students
develop an understanding of
how a writer’s intentions
are reflected in various
aspects of the work under
consideration.
AN INTRODUCTION
5-8
TO CRITICAL READING
(“A White Heron,” To Kill a Mockingbird ) 7-10
6-9
Students deepen their
understanding of the elements
of literature, such as plot,
setting, atmosphere, irony and
comedy, to improve their ability
to read critically. Students also
enhance their ability to read
critically by writing comments
about excerpts of novels,
poetry and plays.
PLOT
( )
NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms,
Aspects of the Novel, Macbeth,
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
6-9
the elements of figurative
language, such as metaphors,
similes and symbols, to
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improve their ability to read
critically. Students also
develop their ability to
express the meaning of
phrases, sentences and
passages in their own words.
Number
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
7-10 1-10
( )
The Norton Introduction to Poetry,
Reading Poetry,
The Poetry of William Blake, 11-20
Bliss, The Garden-Party
9-14 9-14 21-30

31-40 31-40
7-10
41-50
THEME
(“Dove,” Torch-Bearers of
History, “Dance” ) 4-7 PASSAGE ORGANIZATION 4-7
ARGUMENT 5-8
( SETTING AND ATMOSPHERE
) 7-10 41-50
(
“On the Level,” “I Have a Dream,”
“Militant Suffragists”
) ( “War and Poverty,”
“Peace in the Atomic Age” ) READING 1
NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms,
The Poetry of Coleridge, Hamlet
51-60 4-6 INTERPRETATION 51-60
Dancing at the Edge of the World The Norton Introduction to Literature,
61-70

71-80
5-8 5-8 6-9
(
PASSAGE STRUCTURE
Essays of E.B. White, The White Album,
The Medusa and the Snail, The Big Sea,
“To Hell with Dying”
) 7-10
9-14
( Literature: Thinking, Reading
and Writing Critically,
Lord of the Flies,
The Poetry of T.S. Eliot
) 9-14
61-70

71-80

81-90 IRONY 7-10 81-90

91-100
RECOMMENDED READING I
The Diary of Anne Frank
2-4
RECOMMENDED READING I
The Story of My Life
INTERPRETATION OF LANGUAGE
2-4
RECOMMENDED READING I
My Family and Other Animals
DESCRIPTION
2-4 ( NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms,
Irony and the Ironic,
King Oedipus
) 9-14
91-100

101-110 STORY ELEMENTS The Call of the Wild 4-7 4-7 5-8 6-9 TRAGEDY 101-110
(The Old Man and the Sea) (Pale Horse, Pale Rider )

111-120 7-10
COMEDY
7-10
( Introduction to Literature,
Macbeth ) 111-120

121-130 5-8 5-8 6-9 READING 2 Thinking on Paper 5-7 ( A Glossary of Literary Terms,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
The Importance of Being Earnest
) 9-14 121-130
CHARACTER ANALYSIS
131-140 9-14 131-140

141-150
SUMMARY
4-7
SUMMATION
4-7
PRÉCIS
5-8
( Pride and Prejudice
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ) 141-150
(A Wrinkle in Time, “The Gift of the Magi”) (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

151-160 CONTENT EVALUATION 7-10 CRITICAL WRITING 151-160

161-170
5-8 5-8 6-9
7-10
(
Approach to Literature,
Pride and Prejudice
Brave New World
) 9-14
( Critical Thinking,
Death of a Salesman,
The French Lieutenant’s Woman ) 161-170

171-180 9-14 171-180

181-190 181-190
RECOMMENDED READING II RECOMMENDED READING II RECOMMENDED READING II
191-200 “The Happy Prince”
2-4
Daddy-Long-Legs
2-4
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
2-4 READING 3 A Writer’s Time 4-6 191-200

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