SCOPE
AND
SEQUENCE
UNIT THEME
1 Mysteries
2 Eating Extremes
3 Cool Jobs
4 Shipwrecks
5 Science Investigators
6 Plants and Trees
7 Mind’s Eye
8 Animal Wonders
9 Building Beauty
10 Forces of Nature
11 Giants of the Past
12 Technology
4  Scope and Sequence
READING
A:  A Mysterious Visitor
B:  The Lost City of Atlantis
A:  The World of Speed Eating
B:  The Hottest Chilies
A:  Digging for the Past
B:  Getting the Shot
A:  I’ve Found the Titanic!
B:  My Descent to the Titanic
A:  The Disease Detective
B:  At the Scene of a Crime
A:  Planting for the Planet
B:  Fatal Attraction
A:  Understanding Dreams
B:  Seeing the Impossible
A:  A Penguin’s Year
B:  Do Animals Laugh?
A:  A Love Poem in Stone
B:  The Great Dome of Florence
A:  Wild Weather
B:  When Weird Weather Strikes
A:  The Mammoth’s Tale
B:  Monsters of the Deep
A:  The Robots are Coming!
B:  How Will We Live in 2045?
ACADEMIC SKILLS
VIDEO READING SKILL VOCABULARY BUILDING CRITICAL THINKING
A:  Scanning A:  Word usage: pass and past A:  Applying Ideas
Moon Mystery
B:  Skimming B:  Word forms of sink and strike B:  Synthesizing Information
A:  Identifying the Parts of a Passage A:  Collocations with argue A:  Justifying Opinions
Science of Taste
B:  Pronoun Reference B:  Collocations with painful B:  Applying Ideas
A:  Collocations with get A:  Evaluating Advice
A:  Dealing with New Vocabulary (1)—Using a Dictionary
Right Dog for the Job
B:  Understanding Suffixes
B:  Word forms of pay, cost, B:  Personalizing;
and spend Synthesizing Information
A:  Evaluating Arguments
A:  Identifying a Paragraph’s Main Idea A:  Word usage: agree
An Ancient Shipwreck
B:  Recognizing Compound Subjects and Objects B:  Synonyms for totally
B:  Evaluating Ideas;
Justifying Ideas
A:  Applying Ideas
A:  Identifying the Purpose of a Paragraph A:  Suffix -ous
The Flu Virus
B:  Inferring Meaning B:  Word forms of possible
B:  Evaluating Evidence;
Sythesizing Information
A:  Creating a Timeline of Events A:  Word forms with -ation A:  Justifying Opinions
Giants of the Forest
B:  Understanding a Process B:  Collocations with difference B:  Applying Ideas
A:  Organizing Information (1)—Creating a Concept Map A:  Adjectives with -ed and -ing B:  Reflecting;
Parasomnia
B:  Understanding Conjunctions B:  Collocations with mistake Applying Ideas
A:  Word usage: on (your) own A:  Categorizing Information
A:  Dealing with New Vocabulary (2)—Using Context
Amazing Narwhals
B:  Identifying Supporting Details
B:  Adjectives to describe B:  Evaluating Supporting
emotions Details
A:  Collocations with promise A:  Understanding Opinions
A:  Annotating Text
Brunelleschi’s Dome
B:  Understanding Infographics
B:  Words acting as nouns B:  Synthesizing Information;
and verbs Inferring Information
A:  Prefix fore-
A:  Understanding Tenses A:  Personalizing
Tornado Terror
B:  Understanding Cause and Effect
B:  Synonyms and antonyms
B:  Ranking Advice
for unusual
A:  Understanding Passive Sentences A:  Collocations with in A:  Discussing Pros and Cons
Ichthyosaurs
B:  Organizing Information (2)—A Chart B:  Suffix -ward B:  Ranking
A:  Justifying Opinions
A:  Identifying Examples A:  Collocations with daily
A Social Robot
B:  Understanding Prefixes B:  Word usage: pick up
B:  Rating Predictions;
Evaluating Ideas
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