Journeys Scope Sequence GradesK 6

Scope and Sequence
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

of Skill Instruction
K-6 Grades K–6
Experience
Journeys Common Core
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Scope and Sequence
of Skill Instruction
K–6
Table of Contents
Kindergarten..........................................................................2
Grade 1....................................................................................28
Grade 2 ...................................................................................52
Grade 3....................................................................................76
Grade 4....................................................................................102
Grade 5....................................................................................128
Grade 6....................................................................................152
Grade K: Welcome to Kindergarten
Week Selections Concepts of Print Phonemic Awareness Letter Names
Listen to Rhymes Concepts of Print Phonemic Awareness Letter Names

“Jack and Jill” Recognize Names Rhyming Words Letters: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee
“One, Two, Three, Four, Five” Distinguish Letters, Numbers Blend Syllables
1 “Pease Porridge Hot” Book Handling
“Colors” Environmental Print
“To Market, To Market”
Listen to Rhymes Concepts of Print Phonemic Awareness Letter Names

“I Went Upstairs” Book Handling Rhyming Words Letters: Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj
“Mix a Pancake” Distinguish Letters, Numbers Blend and Segment Syllables
“Sing a Song of Sixpence” Environmental Print
2 “Little Arabella Stiller” Recognize First and Last
Listen to Songs Names
“Quack! Quack! Quack!”
Grade K: Unit 1
READING LIT & INFORMATIONAL TEXT FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS SPEAKING & LISTENING LANGUAGE WRITING
Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Lesson Selections Text-Based Comprehension Speaking and Listening Target/Academic Vocabulary Language Writing
Phonics High-Frequency Words
Big Book Target Skill Phonological Awareness Concepts of Print N/A Selection Vocabulary Grammar Skill Writing Mode
What Makes a Family? Main Ideas Rhyming Words Directionality: Left to Right celebrate (v), family (n), memories (n), Nouns for People Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Single Sounds Book Parts include (v)
Target Strategy Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Summarize Letter Names Words to Know Oral Vocabulary Names
Building with Dad Letters Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo (High-Frequency Words) cranes, crew, gleaming, mechanic,
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill I outlining, solid Focus Trait
Genre Decodable Readers Conventions
Paired Selections See What We Can Do Fluency Domain-Specific Vocabulary
1 “Frère Jacques” We Can Make It Read with Expression aren’t, sibling, ancestor, relation
“Everybody Says”
“Tortillas for Mommy” Vocabulary Strategy
“My Little Sister” Classify and Categorize Family Words
Genre: for “Frère Jacques” Poetry
and Lullaby Enrich Vocabulary
Genre: for Remaining Paired Talk About Families
Selections Poetry
2 Grade K Grade K 3
*Penmanship addressed with Phonics skill on Day 1.
Grade K: Unit 1

How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? Understanding Characters Beginning Sounds Directionality: Follow Words bullying (v), tidies (v), fidget (v), Nouns for Places Narrative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Left to Right, Top to Bottom interrupt (v)
Target Strategy Letter Names Book Handling Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Infer/Predict Letters Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt Oral Vocabulary Labels
Friends at School Words to Know (HFW) busy, company, container, job, scoop,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Decodable Readers like tortoises Focus Trait
Author’s Purpose We Go to School Word Choice
2 Paired Selection I Like Fluency Domain-Specific Vocabulary
“My School Bus” Pause for Punctuation behave, member, respect, community
Genre: Informational Text
Vocabulary Strategy
Antonyms
Enrich Vocabulary
Talk About School
Please, Puppy, Please Story Structure Beginning Sounds Letters and Words: First, Last fetch (v), inside (n), outside (n), Nouns for Animals and Things Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Words in Oral Sentences Letters, Distinguish Letters please (v)
Target Strategy from Words Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Monitor/Clarify Letter Names Oral Vocabulary Captions
I Have a Pet! Letters Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz Words to Know (HFW) cooperate, curious, interesting, slimy,
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill the smooth, vet Focus Trait
Conclusions Decodable Readers Ideas
3 Paired Selection Baby Bear’s Family Fluency Domain-Specific Vocabulary
“Different Kinds of Dogs” The Party Reading Rate responsibility, groom, train, nurture
Vocabulary Strategy
Synonyms
Enrich Vocabulary
Talk About Pets
4 Grade K Grade K 5
Grade K: Unit 1

Big Book Target Skill Phonological Awareness Concepts of Print Speaking and Listening Selection Vocabulary Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Everybody Works Text and Graphic Features Beginning Sounds Spaces Between Words Talk About Jobs creating (v), delivering (v), hobby (n), Action Verbs in Present Tense Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Words in Oral Sentences Environmental Print protecting (v)
Target Strategy
Read Aloud Book Analyze/Evaluate Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Writing Form
Pizza at Sally’s Letter Mm * and customers, dough, famous, perfect, Story Sentences (Adding Details)
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill sprinkled, stretchy
Genre Decodable Readers Fluency Focus Trait
4 Paired Selection Mm Pause for Punctuation Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
“The Elves and the Shoemaker” I Like Mm volunteer, worker, job, goods, services
“The Lion and the Mouse”
Genre: for Elves Fairy Tale Vocabulary Strategy
Genre: for Lion Fable Classify and Categorize Words for Jobs
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Endings -ed, -ing
The Handiest Things in the World Details Beginning Sounds Capitalization: First Word in a Share Ideas appears, future, handy, stray Action Verbs in Present Tense Narrative Writing
Genre:: Informational Text Words in Oral Sentences Sentence
Target Strategy Punctuation: Period, Question Oral Vocabulary Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Question Phonics Mark admired, delicious, delight, doubt, fable, Class Story (Telling Details)
The Little Red Hen Letter Ss * sigh
Genre: Folk Tale and Fable Second Read Skill Review m, s Words to Know (HFW) Focus Trait
5 (Traditional Tale) Cause-and-Effect
Decodable Readers
Review: I, like, the, and Domain-Specific Vocabulary
invention, utensil, aid, purpose
Ideas
Paired Selection Ss Fluency Research/Media Literacy Skills

Stone Soup I Like Ss Pause for Punctuation Vocabulary Strategy Research a Tool
Genre: Informational Text Synonyms
Enrich Vocabulary
Asking Questions
6 Grade K Grade K 7
Grade K: Unit 2

My Five Senses Compare and Contrast Blend Onset and Rime Book Parts Discuss Daily Activities aware (adj.), senses (n), sight (n), Sensory Words Informative Writing
Genre:: Informational Text Using a Chart touch (n)
Target Strategy Phonics Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Monitor/Clarify Letter Aa* (Short a) Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Descriptive Sentences
Listen, Listen see drift, ripen, scurry, sizzle, whisper, (Sensory Words)
Genre: Concept Book Second Read Skill Decodable Readers whistle
Summarize Aa Fluency Focus Trait
6 Paired Selections
“Poems About Senses”
I See Pause for Punctuation Domain-Specific Vocabulary
vision, sound, flavor, texture, scent
Word Choice
“Picnic Day”
“Here Are My Eyes” Vocabulary Strategy
“The Storm” Context Clues
“Five Wonderful Senses”
Genre: Poetry Enrich Vocabulary
Sentence Completion Activity (using
opposites)
Mice Squeak, We Speak Understanding Characters Blend Onset and Rime Punctuation: Period, Question Have a Conversation chatter (v), coo (v), snore (v), Sensory Words Informative Writing
Genre:: Realistic Fiction Segment Onset and Rime Mark, Exclamation Point squawk (v)
Read Aloud Book Analyze/Evaluate Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Descriptive Sentences
Amelia’s Show-and-Tell Fiesta Letter Tt * we foolish, frowns, ruffled, special, (Sensory Words)
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill treasures, tropical
Author’s Word Choice Decodable Readers Fluency Focus Trait
7 Paired Selection
“The Fort Worth Zoo”
Tt
We Like Toys
Read with Expression Domain-Specific Vocabulary
communicate, respond, language,
Word Choice
Genre: Informational Text conversation
Vocabulary Strategy
Classify and Categorize Sensory Words
Enrich Vocabulary
Words for Sounds
Move! Details Blend Onset and Rime Spaces Between Words Share Information and Ideas colony (n), rustling (v), slithers (v), Adjectives for Colors Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Segment Onset and Rime Directionality startled (v)
Read Aloud Book Visualize Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Captions (Descriptive Sentences;
Jonathan and His Mommy Letter Cc * (/k/) a backward, beat, leap, strange, wiggle, Colors, Sensory Words)
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill zigzag
Compare and Contrast Decodable Readers Fluency Focus Trait
8 Paired Selection Cc Read with Expression Domain-Specific Vocabulary Word Choice
“The Hare and the Tortoise” I Can See dive, swim, climb, fly
Genre: Folk Tale and Fable Research/Media Literacy
Vocabulary Strategy Research an Animal
Classify and Categorize Action Words
Enrich Vocabulary
Movement Words
8 Grade K Grade K 9
Grade K: Unit 2

What Do Wheels Do All Day? Text and Graphic Features Blend Phonemes Letters in Words Share Information and Ideas sputter (v), travelers (n), twirl (v), Adjectives for Numbers Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text patrol (v)
Target Strategy Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Question Letter Pp * to Oral Vocabulary Description (Descriptive Words,
Good Morning, Digger early, weeds, community, cement, Numbers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill Decodable Readers Fluency vacant, welding
Conclusions Pp Reading Rate Focus Trait
9 Paired Selection
“Wheels Long Ago and Today”
I Like Animals Domain-Specific Vocabulary
push, pull, roll, spin
Word Choice
Genre: Informational Text Research/Media Literacy Skills

Vocabulary Strategy Answer Questions About Vehicles
Synonyms
Enrich Vocabulary
Talk About Vehicles
Mouse Shapes Story Structure Blend Phonemes Capitalization: First Letter of a Talk About Characters hurry (v), pounced (v), sneaky (adj.), Adjectives for Size and Shape Informative Writing
Genre: Concept Book Sentence tricky (adj.)
Target Strategy Phonics Space Between Words Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Summarize Review Letters Aa* (Short a), Oral Vocabulary Description (Descriptive Words, Size
David’s Drawings Tt*, Cc* (/k/), Pp* Words to Know (HFW) add, fluffy, fresh, grinned, moment, and Shape)
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill Review: see, we, a, to shyly
Characters Decodable Readers Focus Trait
10 Paired Selection
“Signs and Shapes”
Mmmm, Good!
The Playground
Fluency
Read with Expression
Domain-Specific Vocabulary
rectangle, triangle, diamond, circle, oval,
Word Choice
Genre: Informational Text square
Vocabulary Strategy
Classify and Categorize Shape Words
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Suffixes -ly, -ful
10 Grade K Grade K 11
Grade K: Unit 3

Jump into January Compare and Contrast Blend Phonemes Letters in Words Share Information glistens (v), jive (v), local (adj.), Sentence Parts: Subject Narrative Writing
Genre: Concept Book Final Sound Spaces Between Words orchard (n)
Read Aloud Book Question Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Story Sentences (Exact Nouns)
Every Season Review Letter Aa* (Short a) come, me bloom, peck, scatter, speckled, store,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Words with a (Short a) tracks Focus Trait
Text and Graphic Features Blending Words Fluency Word Choice
11 Paired Selection Pause for Punctuation Domain-Specific Vocabulary
“Holidays All Year Long” Decodable Readers wind, weather, season, evaporate, air Research/Media Literacy Skills
Genre: Informational Text Come and See Me Chart the Weather
Pam and Me Vocabulary Strategy
Figurative Language
Enrich Vocabulary
Multiple-Meaning Words
Snow Conclusions Blend Phonemes Letters and Words Compare Texts drifted (v), gathering (v), swirled (v), Sentence Parts: Verb Narrative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Final Sound Spaces Between Words wisely (adv.)
Read Aloud Book Monitor/Clarify Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Story Sentences (Exact Verbs)
Storm Is Coming! Letter Nn * with, my guard, huddle, nodded, pasture, silent,
Genre: Fantasy Second Read Skill Words with n stampede Focus Trait
Understanding Characters Blending Words Fluency Word Choice
12 Paired Selection
“How Water Changes” Decodable Readers
hibernate, adapt, temperature, melt
Genre: Informational Text I Can Nap
Tap with Me Vocabulary Strategy
Classify and Categorize
Sensory Words
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Endings -ed, -ing
What Do You Do With a Tail Like Author’s Purpose Blend Phonemes Directionality Share Information and Ideas belongs, capture, nasty, sensitive Complete Sentences: Narrative Writing
This? Final Sound High-Frequency Word Hunt Capitalization and
Genre: Informational Text Target Strategy Oral Vocabulary Punctuation Writing Form
Visualize Phonics daily, herd, muscles, pattern, several, Story Sentences (Details)
Read Aloud Book Letter Ff * Words to Know (HFW) usually
A Zebra’s World Second Read Skill Words with f you, what Focus Trait
Genre: Informational Text Text and Graphic Features Blending Words Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
13 Fluency insect, mammal, fish, reptile, bird
Paired Selections Decodable Readers Reading Rate Research/Media Literacy Skills
Wings What Can You See? Vocabulary Strategy Animal Fun Facts
Dragonfly Fat Cat Context Clues
Tails
On Our Way Enrich Vocabulary
Genre: Poetry Words with Prefixes un-, re-
Grade K: Unit 3

Turtle Splash! Cause-and-Effect Blend Phonemes High-Frequency Word Hunt Share Ideas idle (adj.), lounging (v), scampers (v), Verbs in Past Tense Narrative Writing
Genre: Concept Book Isolate Middle Sound timid (adv.)
Target Strategy Words to Know (HFW) Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Infer/Predict Phonics are, now Oral Vocabulary Story (Sequence: Beginning, Middle,
Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear Letter Bb * burrow, desert, (beaver’s) lodge, Ending)
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Words with b Fluency patient, shade, soaring
Author’s Purpose Blending Words Read with Expression Focus Trait
Paired Selection Domain-Specific Vocabulary Organization
14 “Where Animals Live” Decodable Readers habitat, environment, woodland,
Genre: Informational Text What Now? grassland, wetland Research/Media Literacy Skills
At Bat Use References Sources to Gather
Vocabulary Strategy Information About a Particular
Classify and Categorize Habitat
Number Words
Enrich Vocabulary
Number Words and Ordinals
What a Beautiful Sky! Sequence of Events Blend Phonemes Letters, Words, and Sentences Talk About the Night Sky fireball (n), thinner (adj.), beautiful Statements (Capitalization and Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Isolate Middle Sound (adj.), misty (adj.) Punctuation)
Read Aloud Book Analyze/Evaluate Phonics Review: come, me, with, my, Oral Vocabulary Story (Sequence: Beginning, Middle,
How Many Stars in the Sky? Review Letters Aa* (Short a), you, what, are, now dazzling, distance, gazing, leaned, Ending)
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill Nn*, Ff*, Bb* planet, tunnel
Author’s Word Choice Words with a (Short a), n, f, b Fluency Focus Trait
Paired Selection Blending Review Pause for Punctuation Domain-Specific Vocabulary Organization
15 “What Will the Weather Be Like?” star, sun, moon, galaxy
Genre: Informational Text Decodable Readers
Pam Cat Vocabulary Strategy
Come with Me Figurative Language: Simile
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Endings
-ed, -ing
Grade K: Unit 4

What Is Science? Details Blend Phonemes High-Frequency Word Hunt Share Ideas About Science fossils (n), geodes (n), geysers (n), Proper Nouns for People and Opinion Writing
Genre: Poetry Isolate Middle Sound glaciers (n) Pets
Read Aloud Book Summarize Phonics is, how, of, so many, where Oral Vocabulary Message (Different Parts)
Dear Mr. Blueberry Letter Ii * information, perhaps, pleased, pond,
Genre: Fantasy Main Ideas Words with (Short i) Fluency spurt, travel Focus Trait
Blending Words Pause for Punctuation Organization
Paired Selection Domain-Specific Vocabulary
16 “Benjamin Franklin, Inventor” Decodable Readers experiment, life science, earth science, Write About Reading
Genre: Biography What Is It? physical science Performance Task
It Is My Cab
Vocabulary Strategy
Classify and Categorize
Science Words
Enrich Vocabulary
Science and Scientists
From Caterpillar to Butterfly Sequence of Events Blend Phonemes Letters in Words Share Information and Ideas ever, pumps (v), rush, tiny Proper Nouns for People and Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text Segment Phonemes Spaces Between Words Pets
Target Strategy Oral Vocabulary Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Infer/Predict Phonics Words to Know (HFW) creaks, hare, hinge, howling (wind), Thank-You Note
It Is the Wind Letter Gg * find, this, from, came, but, on path, sways
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill Words with g Focus Trait
17 Paired Selection
Author’s Word Choice Blending Words Fluency
Read with Expression
metamorphosis, molt, chrysalis, larva
Voice
“Anansi and Grasshopper” Decodable Readers Write About Reading

Genre: Folk Tale and Trickster Tale Can You Find It? Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
Gig Pig Multiple-Meaning Words
Research/Media Literacy Skills
Enrich Vocabulary Make a Poster
Words for Sounds
Atlantic Author’s Purpose Blend Phonemes Directionality: Follow Words Share Information conquered, lapping, relatives, scraping Verbs in Future Tense Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text Segment Phonemes Left to Right, Top to Bottom,
Target Strategy Page by Page Oral Vocabulary Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Analyze/Evaluate Phonics canoe, dew, glided, paddle, peered, Friendly Letter (Different Parts)
One-Dog Canoe Letter Rr * Words to Know (HFW) crew
Genre: Fiction Second Read Skill Words with r will, be, into, that, your, who Focus Trait
Figurative Language Blending Words Domain-Specific Vocabulary Conventions
18 Paired Selections Fluency inlet, iceberg, gulf, wave, tide
Poems About the Sea Decodable Readers Read with Expression Write About Reading
“If You Ever” What Will It Be? Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
“A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea” Rac Is It Context Clues
“Ten Little Fishes” Research/Media Literacy Skills
“Undersea” Enrich Vocabulary Compare Bodies of Water
Genre: Poetry Ask Questions About Words
Grade K: Unit 4

Sheep Take a Hike Cause-and-Effect Blend Phonemes Punctuation: Period, Question Tell a [Cumulative] Story bicker (v), compass (n), hiking (adj.), Verbs in Past Tense Opinion Writing
Genre: Fantasy Segment Phonemes Mark, Exclamation Point tramp (v)
Target Strategy Directionality Top to Bottom, Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Question Phonics Left to Right Oral Vocabulary Opinion Sentences
Nicky and the Rainy Day Letter Dd * blizzards, boring, cliffs, impossible,
Genre: Fantasy Second Read Skill Words with d Words to Know (HFW) jungle, meadow Focus Trait
Sequence of Events Blending Words go, for, here, they, soon, up Word Choice
19 Paired Selections Domain-Specific Vocabulary
“The Three Billy Goats Gruff” Decodable Readers Fluency trail, gear, supplies, pack Write About Reading
“The Builder and the Oni” Go for It! Pause for Punctuation Performance Task
Genre: Fairy Tale D Is for Dad Vocabulary Strategy
Antonyms
Enrich Vocabulary
Words for Walking and Hiking
Curious George’s Dinosaur Discovery Sequence of Events Blend Phonemes High-Frequency Word Hunt Discuss Curiosity expected (v), display (n), museum (n), Verbs Past, Present, Future Opinion Writing
Genre: Fantasy Segment Phonemes quarry (n)
Read Aloud Book Visualize Phonics Review: is, how, of, so, many, Oral Vocabulary Opinion Sentences
Duck & Goose Review Letters Ii* (Short i), Gg*, where, this, find, from, came, apologized, attention, confusion, notice,
Genre: Fantasy Second Read Skill Dd*, Rr* but, on, will, be, into, that, snooze, webbed Focus Trait
Conclusions Review words with i (Short i), your, who, go, for, here, they, Word Choice
20 Paired Selection g, d, r soon, up Domain-Specific Vocabulary
“Exploring Land and Water” Blending Review discover, examine, experiment, verify Write About Reading
Genre: Informational Text Fluency Performance Task
Decodable Readers Reading Rate Vocabulary Strategy
The Big Dig Synonyms
We Fit
Enrich Vocabulary
Grade K: Unit 5

Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin Details Blend Phonemes Directionality: Top to Bottom, Share Ideas especially (adv.), market (n), messy Pronouns he, she, we Informative Writing
Genre: Poetry Segment Phonemes Left to Right, Page by Page (adj.), sometimes (adv.)
Read Aloud Book Infer/Predict Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Lists (Structure of Numbered Lists)
Simon and Molly plus Hester Letter Oo* (Short o) make, play, them, give, say, idea, just, plain, teach, together, until
Genre: Realistic Fiction Second Read Skill Words with o (Short o) new Focus Trait
21 Paired Selections
Author’s Word Choice Adding -s (/s/, /z/) (no formal
lesson) Fluency
practice, rehearsal, perform, applause
Organization
Celebration Blending Words Read with Expression Write About Reading

The Lobsters and the Fiddler Crab Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
“The More We Get Together” Decodable Readers Multiple-Meaning Words
“Make New Friends Make It Pop! Research/Media Literacy Skills
Genre: Poetry/Song My Dog Tom Enrich Vocabulary Research Musical Instruments
Words with Suffixes -ful, -ly
Leo the Late Bloomer Story Structure Blend and Segment Phonemes Punctuation: Quotation Marks Talk About Fiction and bloomer (n), patience (n), signs (n), Pronouns they, it, I Informative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Substitute Phonemes Informational Text sloppy (adj.)
Target Strategy Words to Know(HFW) Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Analyze/Evaluate Phonics said, good, was, then, ate, Oral Vocabulary Lists (Structure of Numbered Lists)
A Tiger Grows Up Letters Xx *, Jj * could blend, (tiger) cub, den, pounces, prey,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Words with x, j scraps Focus Trait
Sequence of Events Blending Words Fluency Organization
22 Paired Selection Reading Rate Domain-Specific Vocabulary
“What Can a Baby Animal Do?” Decodable Readers mature, develop, height, ability Write About Reading
Genre: Informational Text A Good Job Performance Task
Fix It! Vocabulary Strategy
Antonyms
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Suffix -less
Zinnia’s Flower Garden Sequence of Events Blend and Segment Phonemes Using Graphics Share Information and Ideas fragrant (adj.), inspects (v), pesky (adj.), Proper Nouns for Days and Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Substitute Phonemes sprinkles (v) Months
Read Aloud Book Visualize Phonics she, all, over, her, when, some Oral Vocabulary Invitations (Lists, Sentence Fluency)
Oscar and the Frog Letter Ee * (Short e) tadpole, stared, gills, hatch, shrink,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Words with e (Short e) Fluency (river) bank Focus Trait
Text and Graphic Features Blending Words Pause for Punctuation Organization
23 Paired Selection Domain-Specific Vocabulary
“Growing Sunflowers” Decodable Readers nutrients, sprout, sunlight, soil, water Write About Reading
Genre: Informational Text My Pet Dog Performance Task
Ben and Jen Vocabulary Strategy
Context Clues Research/Media Literacy Skills
How Living Things Grow
Enrich Vocabulary
Words for Growing
Grade K: Unit 5

Chameleon, Chameleon Conclusions Blend and Segment Phonemes Parts of a Book: Front and Play a Guessing Game danger (n), juicy (adj.), peaceful (adj.), Questions (Capitalization and Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Substitute Phonemes Back Covers, Title Page, poisonous (adj.) Punctuation)
Target Strategy Dedication Page Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Monitor/Clarify Phonics Oral Vocabulary Report (Dictate Facts)
Red Eyes or Blue Feathers Letters Hh*, Kk * Words to Know (HFW) communicate, mood, scent, sly, survive,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Words with h, k he, no, away, must, by, there temperature Focus Trait
Author’s Purpose Blending Words Ideas
Paired Selection Fluency Domain-Specific Vocabulary
24 “Amazing Animal Bodies” Decodable Readers Pause for Punctuation adapt, disguise, predator, prey, blend Write About Reading
Genre: Informational Text Hog in a Hat Performance Task
Kid Hid Vocabulary Strategy
Classify and Categorize Describing
Words
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Suffixes -ful, -ly
Pie in the Sky Text and Graphic Features Blend and Segment Phonemes Types, Functions of Print Share Ideas buds (n), damp (adj.), feast (n), Exclamations (Capitalization Informative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Substitute Phonemes Materials finally (adv.) and Punctuation)
Read Aloud Book Summarize Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Report (Dictate Facts)
Bread Comes to Life Review Letters Oo* (Short o), Review: make, play, them, give, crop, golden, patch, sprout, sturdy, grind
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Xx*, Jj*, Ee* (short e), Hh*, say, new, said, good, was, Focus Trait
Sequence of Events Kk* then, ate, could, she, all, Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
25 Paired Selection Words with o (Short o), x, j, e over, her, when, some, no, crop, harvest, fruit, grains, vegetables
“From Apple Tree to Store” (Short e), h, k he, away, must, by, there Write About Reading
Genre: Informational Text Blending Review Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
Fluency Classify and Categorize Seasons
Decodable Readers Read with Expression Research/Media Literacy Skills
Six Pigs Hop Enrich Vocabulary Favorite Recipes
Play Kid, Play Words for Eating and Foods
Grade K: Unit 6

Kitten’s First Full Moon Conclusions Substitute Phonemes High-Frequency Word Hunt Talk About Trying Your Best seemed, sprang, stretched, tumbled Nouns Singular and Plural Opinion Writing
Genre: Fiction
Target Strategy Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Visualize Letter Uu* (Short u) do, down, went, only, little, just assistant, enormous, generous, mayor, Response to Literature (Sentence
Curious George Makes Pancakes Words with u (Short u) shocked, volunteers Frames, Expressing an Opinion)
Genre: Fantasy Second Read Skill Blending Words Fluency
Genre: (Fantasy vs. Realistic Text) Pause for Punctuation Domain-Specific Vocabulary Focus Trait
26 Paired Selection
Drinking Fountain
Decodable Readers
All In
persistence, effort, attempt,
accomplishment
Voice
The Puppy Chased the Sunbeam Bug and Cat Write About Reading
Silvery Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
Moon Boat Antonyms
Genre: Poetry
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Prefix re-
One of Three Compare and Contrast Substitute Phonemes Directionality Talk About a Trip since (adv.), invited (v), remember (v), Subject-Verb Agreement (Past, Opinion Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction triplets (n) Present, Future)
Read Aloud Book Monitor/Clarify Letters Ll *, Ww* have, help, one, every, ask, Oral Vocabulary Response to Literature
Someone Bigger Words with l, w walk creatures, firmly, kite, launched (a kite), (Sentence Frames, Giving Reasons)
Genre: Humorous Fiction Second Read Skill Blending Words light, replied
Understanding Characters Fluency Focus Trait
27 Paired Selection
“Cross-Country Trip”
Decodable Readers
Win a Cup!
luggage, tourist, journey, landmark
Ideas
Genre: Informational Text Wes Can Help Write About Reading

Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
Classify and Categorize Places
Enrich Vocabulary
Words with Prefix un-
You Can Do It, Curious George! Story Structure Substitute Phonemes Environmental Print Share Ideas prize (n), different (adj.), chef (n), Subject-Verb Agreement (Past, Opinion Writing
Genre: Fantasy slope (n) Present, Future)
Read Aloud Book Infer/Predict Letters Vv*, Zz* look, out, very, their, saw, put Oral Vocabulary Response to Literature
The Little Engine That Could Words with v, z bellowed, dingy, rumbled, valley, (Sentence Frames, Giving Reasons)
Genre: Fantasy Second Read Skill Blending Words Fluency waiters, weary
Genre: Fantasy Pause for Punctuation Focus Trait
28 Paired Selections
Poems About Things You Can Do
Decodable Readers
Vet on a Job!
considerate, kind, loyal, thoughtful
Ideas
“Whistling” Roz the Vet Write About Reading

“Time to Play” Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
“By Myself” Context Clues
Genre: Poetry Research/Media Literacy Skills
Enrich Vocabulary Write About Curious George
Grade K: Unit 6

Look at Us Main Idea and Details Track Syllables Types, Functions of Print Share Information and Ideas projects (n), visitors (n), scared (adj.), Prepositions for, to, with Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text Materials proud (n)
Target Strategy Phonics Writing Form
Read Aloud Book Question Letters Yy*, Qq* (qu) Words to Know (HFW) Oral Vocabulary Journal
Baby Brains Words with y, q (qu) off, take, our, day, too, show certainly, embarrassed, languages,
Genre: Fiction Second Read Skill Blending Words mumbled, popular, study Focus Trait
Author’s Purpose Fluency Voice
29 Paired Selection
“The Three Little Pigs”
Decodable Readers
Not Yet
Reading Rate Domain-Specific Vocabulary
develop, accomplish, knowledge Write About Reading
Genre: Fairy Tale Can Not Quit Yet Performance Task
Vocabulary Strategy
Figurative Language Research/Media Literacy Skills
Simon James Books
Enrich Vocabulary
Words for Feelings
Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the Understanding Characters Track Syllables Environmental Print Good Neighbors and Good attendance (n), balance (v), perfume (n), Prepositions in, on, out, off, by Opinion Writing
Last Day of Kindergarten Friends success (n)
Genre: Fantasy Target Strategy Phonics Words to Know (HFW) Writing Form
Summarize Review Letters Aa* (short a), Review: down, do, went, only, Oral Vocabulary Journal
Read Aloud Book Ee* (Short e), Ii* (Short i), little, just, have, help, one, announced, entrance, expect, favorite,
Pet Show! Second Read Skill Oo* (Short o), Uu* (Short u) every, ask, walk, look, out, independent, judge Focus Trait
Genre: Realistic Fiction Genre: (Fantasy vs. Realistic Text) Blending Review very, their, saw, put, off, Voice
30 Paired Selection
Words with -s, -ing take, our, day, too, show Domain-Specific Vocabulary
concern, kindness, neighborly, generous Write About Reading
“Schools Then and Now” Decodable Readers Fluency Performance Task
Genre: Informational Text Max Is Down Read with Expression Vocabulary Strategy
A Fun Job Synonyms
Enrich Vocabulary
Prepositions in Sentences
Grade 1: Back to School Lessons
Lesson Selections Concepts of Print Alphabet Routine Phonemic Awareness Letters and Sounds High-Frequency Words
Big Books • Print Represents Speech (Introductions • Identify Letters • Distinguish Vowel Sounds • Short a I
• Jack’s Talent and Names) • Blend Phonemes • Consonants m, s, t, c to
• Alphabet Song
• Back to School • Letters, Words, and Sentences • Isolate Phonemes • Phonogram -at like
Back • Photo Captions (Names of Countries) • Place Names • Segment Phonemes a
to • Environmental Print • Name and Match Letters • Rhyming Words see
School the
(one • Punctuation Marks and Intonation • Alphabet Sequence
we
week) • Print Uppercase and Lowercase go
Letters of the Alphabet is
are
Grade 1: Unit 1
Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Lesson Selections Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Language Writing
Comprehension Awareness/Phonics Frequency Words Listening
Anchor Text Target Skill Phonemic Awareness Fluency Read Aloud Selection Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
What Is a Pal? Main Idea Beginning Sound Accuracy: Word The Lion and the Mouse fun, pal, pet, what Words with Short a Nouns Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Blend Phonemes Recognition
Text Target Strategy Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Summarize Phonics High-Frequency Words Comprehension beautiful, excellent, invitation, miss, ruin, Basic: am, at, sat, man, dad, Labels
Paired Selection Short a and, be, help, play, with, suddenly mat
Friends Forever Second Read Skill Consonants n, d you Speaking and Focus Trait
Genre: Poetry Genre: Informational Text Consonants p, f Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
1 How to Have a Good ally, relative, aid
Decodable Reader Discussion Write About Reading
Selections Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Dan and Nan Classify and Categorize Words
Nat Cat
Nan and Dan
Fan, Fan, Fan
The Storm Understanding Characters Beginning Sound Accuracy: Words Susie and the Bandits storm, Pop, come, wet, bed Words with Short i Possessives Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Blend Phonemes Connected in Text
Target Strategy Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Phonics High-Frequency Words Comprehension bandits, brave, chattered, ears, steady, Basic: if, is, him, rip, fit, pin Captions
Storms! Short i for, have, he, look, too, still
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Consonants r, h /z/s what Speaking and Focus Trait
Text Genre: Realistic Fiction Consonants b, g Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
2 Phonogram -it Ask and Answer Questions precipitation, thermometer, lightning
Decodable Reader Write About Reading
Can It Fit? Context Clues
I Ran
Sid Pig
Pam
28 Grade 1 Grade 1 29
Grade 1: Unit 1

Curious George at School Sequence of Events Beginning Sound Phrasing: Punctuation Stone Stew curious, school, this, George, kids, mess, Words with Short o Action Verbs Narrative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Blend Phonemes paints, job • Present Tense
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify Phonics do, find, funny, sing, no, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: log, dot, top, hot, lot, ox Sentences
School Long Ago Short o they apart, crept, proud, sneaked, snout,
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Consonants l, x Speaking and worried Focus Trait
Text Author’s Word Choice Inflection -s Listening Skill Word Choice
3 Using Visuals Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Decodable Reader mascot, educator, principal Write About Reading
Selections Performance Task
Lil and Max Vocabulary Strategies
Did Dix Dog Do It? Multiple-Meaning Words
Max Fox and Lon Ox
Is It Funny?
Lucia’s Neighborhood Text and Graphic Features Beginning Sound Intonation Painting Word Pictures Lucia, book, car, firefighter’s, goal, hi, Words with Short e Adjectives Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Blend Phonemes home, librarian, neighborhood, pants, • Size and Shape
Text Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening plant, street Spelling Words Writing Form
Question Phonics all, does, here, me, my, Comprehension Basic: yet, web, pen, wet, leg, Class Story
Paired Selection Short e who Oral Vocabulary hen
City Mouse and Country Second Read Skill Consonants y, w canvas, combinations, ease, important, Focus Trait
Mouse Author’s Word Choice Consonants k, v, j rhythm, row Word Choice
4 Genre: Fable Phonogram -et
Domain-Specific Vocabulary Write About Reading
Decodable Reader urban, citizen, services Performance Task
Selections
Pals Vocabulary Strategies Research/Media Literacy Skills
Ned Alphabetical Order Using Text Features
Ken and Vic
My Pets
Gus Takes the Train Story Structure Final Sound Accuracy: Self-Correct Training Around the Town takes, conductor, train, window Words with Short u Adjectives Narrative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Segment Phonemes • Color and Number
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate Phonics friend, full, good, hold, Comprehension alleys, dash, ferry, space, subways, Basic: up, bug, mud, nut, hug, Class Story
City Zoo Short u many, pull sealed tub
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Consonants qu, z Focus Trait
Text Genre: Fantasy Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
5 habitat, diet, conservation
Decodable Reader Write About Reading
Fun in the Sun Synonyms
Yams! Yum! Research/Media Literacy Skills
Fun, Fun, Fun! Class Report
Bud
Grade 1: Unit 2

Jack and the Wolf Understanding Characters Final Sound Expression Night of the Wolf sheep, trick, wolf, once upon a time Words with Short a Complete Sentences Informative Writing
Genre: Fable Segment Phonemes
Target Strategy Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize Phonics High-Frequency Words Comprehension clang, fault, figure, jumbled, plenty, Basic: an, bad, can, had, cat, ran Sentences That Describe
The Three Little Pigs Review Short a away, call, come, every, tossed Challenge: add, pass
Genre: Fairy Tale Second Read Skill Double Final hear, said Speaking and Focus Trait
6 Story Message Consonants and ck Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
Decodable Reader Phonogram -ack Ask and Answer Questions: moral, consequence, tradition
Selections About Stories Write About Reading
Ann Packs Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Tess and Jack Shades of Meaning
A Duck in Mud
Ducks Quack
How Animals Main Idea and Details Segment Phonemes Rate Prairie Dogs baby, bees, bird, dance, down, Words with Short i Commas in a Series Informative Writing
Communicate Blend Phonemes elephants, food, smell
Genre: Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words Writing Form
Informational Text Infer/Predict Phonics animal, how, make, of, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: in, will, did, sit, six, big Poetry
Review Short i some, why agreement, crowd, discussed, warn, Challenge: trip, grin
Paired Selection Second Read Skill Clusters with r Speaking and creek, bills Focus Trait
Insect Messages Text and Graphic Features Phonogram -ip Listening Skill Word Choice
Genre: Discuss Informational Text: Domain-Specific Vocabulary
7 Informational Text Compare and Contrast behavior, instinct, senses Write About Reading
Performance Task
Decodable Reader Vocabulary Strategies
Selections Using a Glossary
Brad and Cris
What Did Dad Get?
Crabs
The Big Job
A Musical Day Sequence of Events Segment Phonemes Phrasing: Natural Pauses The Neighbors aunt, band, guitars, music Words with Short o Statements Informative Writing
Genre: Middle Sound
Realistic Fiction Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate Phonics her, now, our, she, today, Comprehension crisp, edges, faraway, peeked, smudge, Basic: on, got, fox, pop, not, hop Thank-You Note
Paired Selection Review Short o would village Challenge: block, clock
Drums Second Read Skill Clusters with l Focus Trait
Genre: Narrator Phonogram -ock Domain-Specific Vocabulary Word Choice
8 Informational Text percussion, composer, rehearse
Write About Reading
Decodable Reader Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Selections Define Words
Our Flag Research/Media Literacy Skills
The Plan How to Make a Musical Instrument
Our Sled Club
The Pet Club
Grade 1: Unit 2

Dr. Seuss Text and Graphic Features Segment Phonemes Accuracy: Word The Little Red Hen books, Dr., hit, rhymes, wrote Words with Short e Singular and Plural Nouns Informative Writing
Genre: Middle Sound Recognition
Biography Target Strategy Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Question Phonics High-Frequency Words Comprehension trip, yanking, twice, awake, wonder, try Basic: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get Description
Paired Selection Review Short e after, draw, pictures, read, Challenge: sled, step
Two Poems from Dr. Second Read Skill Blends with s was, write Domain-Specific Vocabulary Focus Trait
Seuss Genre: Biography literature, verse, paragraph Ideas
9 Genre: Poetry
Vocabulary Strategies Write About Reading
Decodable Reader Antonyms Performance Task
Selections
Step Up! Research/Media Literacy Skills
Splat! Splat! Ask and Answer Questions Using
Nuts for Ben and Jen Information from Media
Miss Tess Was Still
A Cupcake Party Story Structure Segment Phonemes Stress Chipper Chips In baked, cupcakes, party, tree Words with Short u Using a, an, and the Informative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Middle Sound
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize Phonics eat, give, one, put, small, Comprehension enemies, forest, hibernate, must, Basic: us, sun, but, fun, bus, run Description
Happy Times Review Short u take pouches, predators Challenge: jump, must
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skill Final Blends Speaking and Focus Trait
10 Dialogue Phonogram -ump Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary
emotion, esteem, zeal
Organization
Decodable Reader Discuss Sensory Words and
Selections Words About Feelings Write About Reading
Who Likes to Jump? Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
The Lost Cat Synonyms
Flint and Scamp
The List
Trade Book Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

Extended
Reading
From Seed to Pumpkin Summarize moist, energy, prickly, tends, attract,

Genre: Informational Monitor/Clarify wither, bare, remain
Text
Grade 1: Unit 3

At Home in the Ocean Author’s Purpose Blend Phonemes Phrasing Punctuation The Piano Lessons biggest, feet, grow, manatees, ocean, Words with th Proper Nouns Informative Writing
Genre: Segment Phonemes penguins, sea otters, turtle, warm,
Informational Text Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening whales Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate Phonics blue, cold, far, little, live, Comprehension Basic: that, then, this, them, Sentences That Inform (adverbs)
Paired Selection Digraph th their, water, where Oral Vocabulary with, bath
Water Second Read Skill Base Words and -s, -es, companions, exchange, gracefully, Challenge: thick, tenth Focus Trait
Genre: Details -ed, -ing Endings portions, practice, strict Ideas
11 Informational Text
Domain-Specific Vocabulary Write About Reading
Decodable Reader arctic, current, tidal Performance Task
Selections
Seth and Beth Vocabulary Strategies Research/Media Literacy Skills
Zeb Yak Classify and Categorize Color Words Facts About an Ocean Animal and Its
The Duck Nest Habitat
Animal Moms
How Leopard Got His Sequence of Events Blend and Segment Rate Turtle, Frog, and Rat danced, flowers, giraffe, hyena, leopard, Words with ch, tch Commands Informative Writing
Spots Phonemes paint, zebra
Genre: Strategy Substitute Initial High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words Writing Form
Folktale Question Phonemes been, brown, know, never, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: chin, chop, much, chip, Instructions
off, out, own, very adventure, frisky, shivered, spied, rich, chick
Paired Selection Second Read Skill Phonics Speaking and tumbled, view Challenge: match, pitch Focus Trait
The Rain Forest Story Lesson Digraphs ch, tch Listening Skill Sentence Fluency
Genre: Possessives with ’s Giving Clear Descriptions Domain-Specific Vocabulary
12 Informational Text Phonogram -atch predator, primate, jungle Write About Reading
Performance Task
Decodable Reader Vocabulary Strategies
Selections Homophones
Scratch, Chomp
Rich Gets a Dog
Champs
Kits, Chicks, and Pups
Seasons Cause and Effect Blend and Segment Accuracy: Word The Prickly Pride of Texas blow, day, leaves, school, seeds, snow, Words with sh, wh, ph Subjects and Verbs Informative Writing
Genre: Phonemes Recognition snowman, spring, summer, fall, winter • Subject-Verb Agreement
Informational Text Target Strategy Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words Writing Form
Visualize Phonics High-Frequency Words Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: ship, shop, which, when, Sentences That Inform
Paired Selection Digraphs sh, wh, ph down, fall, goes, green, bouquet, burst, glows, plow, shrivel, whip, fish
Four Seasons for Animals Second Read Skill Contractions with ’s, n’t grow, new, open, Speaking and vines Challenge: shell, graph Focus Trait
Genre: Sound Words yellow Listening Skill Ideas
13 Informational Text Discuss Informational Text: Domain-Specific Vocabulary
weather, cycle, sunlight Write About Reading
Compare and Contrast
Decodable Reader Performance Task
Selections Vocabulary Strategies
Phil’s New Bat Word Endings -ed, -ing, or -s
In a Rush
Ralph Goes to Camp
Trish’s Gift
Grade 1: Unit 3

The Big Race Conclusions Middle Sound Expression The Tortoise and the Hare cottontail, hay, hooray, lizard, race, Words with Long a Verbs and Time Informative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Substitute Medial roadrunner • Present and Past Tense
Target Strategy Phonemes High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict four, five, into, over, starts, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: came, make, brave, late, Report
Rules and Laws Phonics three, two, watch cactus, habitat, mainly, search, stems, gave, shape
Genre: Second Read Skill Long a (CVCe) Speaking and howl Challenge: waves, chases Focus Trait
Informational Text Cause and Effect Phonogram –ake Listening Skill Ideas
14 Soft c, g, dge Speaking About a Topic Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Decodable Reader Phonogram -ace legal, rule, duty Write About Reading
Tate’s Cakes Vocabulary Strategies
Dave and the Whales Shades of Meaning
A Safe Lodge
The Race
Animal Groups Compare and Contrast Middle Sound Intonation The Dancing Wolves amphibians, body, breathe, feathers, Words with Long i The Verb be Informative Writing
Genre: Substitute Medial group, hair, mammals, reptiles, • Using is, are, was and were
Informational Text Target Strategy Phonemes High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening tadpoles, tails, wings Spelling Words Writing Form
Monitor/Clarify bird, both, eyes, fly, long, Comprehension Basic: time, like, kite, bike, white, Report
Paired Selection Phonics or, those, walk Oral Vocabulary drive
Animal Picnic Second Read Skill Long i (CVCe) alert, directions, scale, sensitive, swivel, Challenge: stripe, mice Focus Trait
Genre: Play Text and Graphic Features Digraphs kn, wr, gn, mb threatened Word Choice
15 Phonograms -ine, -ite
Decodable Reader Domain-Specific Vocabulary Write About Reading
Selections trait, adapt, survive Performance Task
Mike’s Bike
The Nest Vocabulary Strategies Research/Media Literacy Skills
The Nice Vet Suffixes -er, -est Ask and Answer Questions Using
Kite Time Information from Media
Grade 1: Unit 4

Let’s Go to the Moon! Main Idea and Details Substitute Phonemes: Stress One Giant Leap crater, footprints, gravity, lunar, rocket, Words with Long o Questions Narrative Writing
Genre: Medial rover • What Is a Question?
Informational Text Target Strategy Substitute Phonemes: High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words • Writing Questions Writing Form
Question Final around, because, before, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: so, go, home, hole, no, Sentences About Yourself
Paired Selection Distinguish Vowel bring, carry, light, show, atmosphere, decision, landscape, rope, joke, bone, stove, poke (main idea)
Mae Jemison Second Read Skill Sounds think miniature, surface, vast Challenge: chose, wrote
Genre: Biography Author’s Purpose Focus Trait
16 Phonics Domain-Specific Vocabulary Ideas
Decodable Reader Long o (CV, CVCe) star, orbit, planet
Selections Long u (CVCe) Write About Reading
Go, Jones! Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
So Much Fun Suffixes -y, -ful
June’s Pictures Research/Media Literacy Skills
My Mule, Duke Using Text Features
The Big Trip Compare and Contrast Substitute Phonemes: Phrasing: Attention to The Rainy Trip desert, engine, exclaimed, island, jumpy, Words with Long e Compound Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Medial Punctuation (Question parachute, stubborn, travel, troubles, • Produce and Expand
Target Strategy Substitute Phonemes: Mark) Listening/Speaking: Listening tunnel Spelling Words Compound Sentences Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize Final Comprehension Basic: me, be, read, feet, tree, Sentences About Yourself
Lewis and Clark’s Big Trip Blend Phonemes High-Frequency Words Oral Vocabulary keep, eat, mean, sea, these (details)
Genre: Second Read Skill Identify Final Phonemes about, by, car, could, Speaking and complain, delighted, horizon, lonely, Challenge: street, please
Informational Text Dialogue don’t, maybe, sure, Listening Skill pleaded, shelter Focus Trait
17 Phonics there Speaking to Persuade Ideas
Decodable Reader Long e (CV, CVCe) Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Selections Vowel Pairs ee, ea railroad, pilot, motion Write About Reading
At the Beach Final ng, nk Performance Task
Who Will Teach Us? Phonogram -ink Vocabulary Strategies
Plunk, Plunk Define Words
The King’s Song
Where Does Food Come Author’s Purpose Substitute Phonemes: Expression The Three Wishes chocolate, favorite, paddies, vegetables Vowel Pairs ai, ay Names of Months, Days, and Narrative Writing
From? Medial Holidays
Genre: Target Strategy Substitute Phonemes: High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words • Commas in Dates Writing Form
Informational Text Summarize Final first, food, ground, right, Comprehension disappointed, eagerly, fancy, scampered, Basic: play, grain, sail, mail, Friendly Letter
sometimes, these, slippery, spotted may, rain, way, day, stay, pain
Paired Selection Second Read Skill Phonics under, your Speaking and Challenge: paint, spray Focus Trait
Jack and the Beanstalk Conclusions Vowel Pairs ai, ay Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary Sentence Fluency
18 Genre: Fairy Tale Contractions ’ll, ’d
Phonograms -ay, -ain
Using Visuals crop, livestock, orchard
Write About Reading
Decodable Reader Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Selections Multiple-Meaning Words
Ray Trains Dex
Sweet Treats
What Will We Do?
Let’s Eat
Grade 1: Unit 4

Tomás Rivera Sequence of Events Substitute Phonemes: Intonation Christina’s Work Tomás Rivera, Texas, born, library, Vowel Pairs oa, ow Future Tense Narrative Writing
Genre: Biography Medial people, stories, family, teacher • Future Tense Using will
Target Strategy Distinguish Vowel High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words: • Future Tense Using going to Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify Sounds done, great, laugh, paper, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: show, row, grow, low, Personal Narrative
Life Then and Now Combine, Segment soon, talk, were, work author, exactly, incomplete, permission, blow, snow, boat, coat, road,
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Syllables signature, welcomed toad Focus Trait
Text Using Context Challenge: flown, toast Organization
19 Phonics Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Decodable Reader Vowel Pairs oa, ow invention, artifact, country Write About Reading
Selections Contractions ’ve, ’re Performance Task
It Was Snow Fun Phonograms -ow, -oat Vocabulary Strategies
Boat Rides Synonyms Research/Media Literacy Skills
Fun with Gram Report About a Famous American
Rex Knows
Anchor Text Target Skill Phonemic Awareness Fluency Read Aloud Selection Vocabulary Spelling Principle: Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Little Rabbit’s Tale Cause and Effect Combine, Segment Rate Chicken Little apple, Beaver, Goose, happily ever after, Compound Words Prepositions and Prepositional Narrative Writing
Genre: Folktale Syllables oh, says, sky, told Phrases
Target Strategy Recognize Syllables High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words: • Prepositional Phrases for Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Identify Phonemes: door, more, mother, old, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: bedtime, sunset, bathtub, where Personal Narrative
Silly Poems Medial try, use, want, wash calf, flooded, meadow, rippled, swarm, sailboat, flagpole, backpack, • Prepositional Phrases for
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skill Speaking and wade playpen, raincoat, inside, when Focus Trait
20 Story Lesson Phonics
Compound Words
Listening Skill
himself
Challenge: rowboat, homemade
Word Choice
Decodable Reader Use Sensory Words and
Selections Short Vowel /e/ea Words About Feelings respect, opinion, kindness Write About Reading
Bedtime for Ray Performance Task
Pancake Ran Vocabulary Strategies
A Springtime Rain Compound Words
Rosebud

Extended
Amazing Whales! Visualize blue whale, basketball court, softballs,

Reading
Genre: Informational Monitor/Clarify mammal, sperm whale, mile, giant

Text Analyze/Evaluate squid, baleen, humpback whale, right
whale, destroy, scientists
Grade 1: Unit 5

The Garden Story Structure Substitute Vowel Sounds Phrasing: Natural Pauses Grandpa’s Tree candles, frightened, poems, shouted, r-Controlled Vowel ar Subject Pronouns Narrative Writing
Genre: Fantasy Segment Syllables of course • Pronouns That Name One
Target Strategy Blend Syllables High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words • Pronouns That Name More Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate Add Phonemes few, night, loudly, window, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: far, arm, yard, art, jar, bar, Than One Story Sentences (dialogue)
Garden Good Guys noise, story, shall, world clever, clues, detectives, poked, sneaky, barn, bark, card, yarn
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Phonics Speaking and whispered Challenge: smart, chart Focus Trait
Text Repetition r-Controlled Vowel ar Listening Skill Voice
21 r-Controlled Vowels or, Giving Clear Explanations Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Decodable Reader ore prune, flower, pollen Write About Reading
Selections Phonograms -ar, -ore Performance Task
Mark Shark Vocabulary Strategies
Clark’s Part Prefix re-
At the Shore
More Fun for Jake
Amazing Animals Conclusions Substitute Vowel Sounds Accuracy: Connected Text How Bat Learned to Fly amazing, camel, color, dolphin, polar r-Controlled Vowels er, ir, ur The Pronouns I and me Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Segment Syllables bear, porcupine, toes
Text Target Strategy Blend Syllables High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words Writing Form
Visualize baby, begins, eight, follow, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: her, fern, girl, sir, stir, bird, Story Sentences
Paired Selection Phonics learning, until, years, misty, promised, receive, roamed, fur, hurt, turn, third (vivid verbs)
The Ugly Duckling Second Read Skill r-Controlled Vowels er, young slender, sparkling Challenge: curl, first
Genre: Folktale Using Context ir, ur Focus Trait
22 Domain-Specific Vocabulary Word Choice
Decodable Reader gills, skeleton, organ
Selections Write About Reading
See the Birds Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
A Bath for Mert Using a Dictionary Entry
Fox and Crow Research/Media Literacy Skills
Meet Gert Using Text Features
Whistle for Willie Cause and Effect Substitute Vowel Sounds Stress Around the World in a Day carton, empty, errand, grocery, Vowel Digraph oo Possessive Pronouns Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Segment Syllables happened, pocket, shadow, whirled • Using my, your, his, and her
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words • Using mine, yours, his, and Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify Phonics again, along, began, boy, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: look, book, good, hook, hers Story Summary
Pet Poems Vowel Digraph /oo/ father, house, nothing, accent, behave, gooey, siesta, sizzling, brook, took, foot, shook, wood,
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skill Syllable Pattern CVC together Speaking and translated hood Focus Trait
23 Figurative Language Listening Skill
Domain-Specific Vocabulary Challenge: crook, hoof
Organization
Decodable Reader Speaking to Express an
Selections Opinion shelter, caregiver, exercise Write About Reading
Look at This! Performance Task
Two Good Cooks Vocabulary Strategies
Good Homes Define Words
Big Problems
Grade 1: Unit 5

A Tree Is a Plant Sequence of Events Substitute Vowel Sounds Expression Visiting Butterflies adult, blossoms, center, hundreds Vowel Digraphs oo, ou, ew Indefinite Pronouns Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Segment Syllables
Text Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words Writing Form
Question Phonics ready, country, soil, kinds, Comprehension completely, gentle, lonely, recognize, Basic: soon, new, noon, zoo, Story
Paired Selection Vowel Digraphs/Spelling earth, almost, covers, reflection, settle boot, too, moon, blew, soup,
Grow, Apples, Grow! Second Read Skill Patterns: oo, ou, ew warms you Focus Trait
Genre: Informational Figurative Language More Spellings for /oo/: Domain-Specific Vocabulary Challenge: grew, scoop Ideas
Text ue, u, u_e oxygen, nutrients, reproduce
24 Decodable Reader Vocabulary Strategies
Write About Reading
Performance Task
Selections Multiple-Meaning Words
Moose’s Tooth Research/Media Literacy Skills
Moon News Life Cycle Report
Boot’s Clues
Red Zed and Blue Stu
The New Friend Understanding Characters Substitute Vowel Sounds Phrasing: Attention to Señor Coyote, the Judge brushes, crates, crew, pails, rejoined, Vowel Combinations ou, ow Contractions Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Identify Syllables Punctuation repaid, seventh, soccer, unloaded, • Contractions with not
Target Strategy Segment Syllables Listening/Speaking: Listening unpack Spelling Words • Contractions with Pronouns Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize Add Phonemes High-Frequency Words Comprehension Basic: how, now, cow, owl, ouch, Story
Symbols of Our Country buy, city, family, myself, Oral Vocabulary house, found, out, gown, town
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Phonics party, please, school, Speaking and blossom, ledge, lugging, shady, shallow, Challenge: shout, power Focus Trait
Text Narrator Vowel Combinations seven Listening Skill cavern Sentence Fluency
25 ou, ow Speaking About a Topic
Decodable Reader Vowel Combinations oi, Domain-Specific Vocabulary Write About Reading
Selections oy, au, aw diversity, culture, society Performance Task
Down on the Farm
Scout and Count Vocabulary Strategies
Dawn’s Voice Synonyms with Introduction to
Shawn’s Toys Thesaurus
Grade 1: Unit 6

The Dot Compare and Contrast Substitute Vowel Sounds Accuracy: Self-Correct The Art Contest blank, gazing, noticed, squiggle, straight, Base Words ending in -ed, -ing Exclamations Opinion Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Segment Syllables swirly • What Is an Exclamation?
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Spelling Words • Writing Exclamations Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify Phonics above, bear, even, Comprehension Oral Vocabulary Basic: mix, mixed, hop, hopped, • Using Determiners in Opinion Sentences
Artists Create Art! Base Words (CVCe, pushed, studied, field, magical, shrubbery, softly, universe, hope, hoping, run, running, Exclamations
Genre: Biography Second Read Skill CVC) with Endings surprised, teacher, wondrous use, used Focus Trait
Figurative Language -ed, -ing toward Challenge: writing, grabbed Voice
26 Decodable Reader Long e Spelling Patterns Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Selections y, ie canvas, pottery, watercolor Write About Reading
Bears Performance Task
Hiding and Seeking Vocabulary Strategies
Henry and Dad Go Figurative Language (Idioms) Research/Media Literacy Skills
Camping Ask and Answer Questions: Using
Speedy and Chase Information from Media
What Can You Do? Author’s Purpose Segment Syllables Intonation The Shoemaker and the binoculars, captain, computers, float, Base Words ending in -er, -est Kinds of Sentences Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Identify Syllables Elves something • Statement, Question,
Text Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Spelling Words Exclamation, or Command? Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate Phonics always, different, enough, Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Basic: hard, harder, hardest, • Four Kinds of Sentences Opinion Sentences
Paired Selection Base Words/Inflections happy, high, near, Comprehension cobweb, demanded, dreadful, fast, faster, fastest, slow, • Produce and Expand
The Wind and the Sun Second Read Skill -er, -est (change y once, stories grumbled, panted, terrified slower, slowest, sooner Sentences Focus Trait
Genre: Fable Using Context to i) Challenge: shorter, shortest Sentence Fluency
27 Syllable -le Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Decodable Reader motivation, explore, leader Write About Reading
The Three Races Vocabulary Strategies
Seed Sisters Classify and Categorize: Emotion Words Research/Media Literacy Skills
The Fox and the Grapes How-to Report
Jingle, Jangle, and Jiggle
The Kite Story Structure Segment Syllables Phrasing: Natural Pauses A Hopeful Song junk, laughter, perhaps Spelling Patterns igh, y, ie (long i) Kinds of Adjectives Opinion Writing
Genre: Fantasy Delete Phonemes • Adjectives for Taste and Smell
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words • Adjectives for Sound and Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Phonics across, ball, cried, head, Comprehension assures, audience, chorus, determined, Basic: my, try, sky, fly, by, dry, Texture Opinion Sentences
Measuring Weather Long i Spelling Patterns heard, large, second, enthusiasm, stomped pie, cried, night, light
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill igh, y, ie should Speaking and Challenge: myself, brighter Focus Trait
Text Genre: Fantasy Base Words/Inflections Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary Word Choice
28 -ed, -ing, -er, -est, -es Compare and Contrast degrees, temperature, climate
Decodable Reader Phonograms -ight, -y Stories Write About Reading
Sally Jane and Beth Ann Homographs
Ty and Big Gilly
Bird Watching
Benches
Grade 1: Unit 6

Hi! Fly Guy Understanding Characters Segment Syllables Expression A Stone Goes to Court award, chapter, fancy, guy, rescue Suffixes -ly, -y, -ful Adverbs Opinion Writing
Genre: Chapter Book Delete Phonemes • Adverbs for How and Where
Target Strategy Distinguish Vowel High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words • Adverbs for When and How Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize Sounds caught, took, listen, Comprehension corner, disguised, mystery, seriously, Basic: sad, sadly, slow, slowly, Much Opinion Paragraph
Busy Bugs thought, minute, signs, solve dust, dusty, trick, tricky, help,
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skill Phonics beautiful, idea, Speaking and helpful Focus Trait
29 Author’s Word Choice Suffixes -ful, -ly, -y
Long Vowel Spelling
friendship Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary
larva, antennae, thorax
Challenge: quickly, hopeful Ideas
Decodable Reader Using Visuals
Selections Patterns: a, e, i, o, u Write About Reading
Quiz Game Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Jack and the Beans Prefix un-
Ruth’s Day
Stew for Peg
Winners Never Quit! Main Idea and Details Segment Syllables Rate: Adjust Reading Rate The Parts of the House Have already, dribbled, goalie, rather Syllable Pattern CV Adjectives That Compare Opinion Writing
Genre: Narrative to Purpose a Fight • Adjectives with er and est
Nonfiction Target Strategy Phonics Oral Vocabulary Spelling Words • Using the Right Adjective Writing Form
Summarize Syllabication (CV) High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Listening mightiest, show-off, waste, wild, wobble, Basic: even, open, begin, baby, Opinion Paragraph
Paired Selection Prefixes un-, re- brothers, everyone, field, Comprehension careful tiger, music, paper, zero, table,
Be a Team Player Second Read Skill loved, most, only, below Focus Trait
Genre: Informational Genre: Narrative Nonfiction people, sorry Speaking and Domain-Specific Vocabulary Challenge: because, silent Organization
30 Text Listening Skill cooperation, teamwork, success
Write About Reading
Ask and Answer Questions:
Decodable Reader Informational Texts Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Selections Suffix -ly
Amy Ant
Julie and Jason
Home at Last
Soccer

Extended
Reading
Owl at Home Infer/Predict winter, whirled, whooshed, guest,

Genre: Fantasy Monitor/Clarify pleasant, kettle, tear, tea, sobbed,
Question following, sailed, shining
Grade 2: Unit 1
Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Lesson Selections Speaking and Listening Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Language Writing
Comprehension Awareness/Phonics Frequency Words
Anchor Text Target Skill Phonemic Awareness Fluency Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Henry and Mudge Sequence of Events Identify Phonemes Accuracy: Word The Perfect Pet curly, straight, floppy, drooled, weighed, stood, Short Vowels a, i Subjects and Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Syllables in Spoken Words Recognition collars, row Predicates
Target Strategy Spelling Words Writing Form
Listening/Speaking: Recount
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Phonics High-Frequency Words Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: sad, dig, jam, glad, list, win, Sentences That Tell a True Story
key details
All in the Family Short Vowels a, i around, be, five, help, traits, offspring, inherit flat, if, fix, rip, kit, mask
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill CVC Syllable Pattern next, or, pull, take, Review: as, his Focus Trait
1 Text Author’s Word Choice until, walked Speaking and Listening Skill
Hold a Conversation
Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
Use a Dictionary
Challenge: sandwich, picnic Ideas
Decodable Readers Write About Reading

We Camp Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
The Picnic Ants Alphabetical Order
My Family Compare and Contrast Identify Phonemes Accuracy: Connected Text More Than a Best Friend remembered, porch, crown, spend, stuck, visit, Short Vowels o, u, e Simple Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Syllables in Spoken Words cousin, piano
Text Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Listening/Speaking: Ask Spelling Words Writing Form
Question Phonics bring, children, comes, questions about what a Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: wet, job, hug, rest, spot, mud, Friendly Letter
Paired Selection Short Vowels o, u, e do, family, like, make, speaker says to clarify conflict, related, siblings, unity, interact left, help, plum, nut, net, hot
Family Poetry Second Read Skill CVC Syllable Pattern those, use, with comprehension Review: get, not Focus Trait
“Everybody Says” by Informational Text Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Challenge: lunch, spend Voice
Dorothy Aldis Speaking and Listening Skill Guide Words
2 “Abuelita’s Lap” by Pat
Mora
Ask and Answer Questions
Vocabulary Strategies
Write About Reading
Performance Task
“Grandpa’s Stories” by Using a Glossary
Langston Hughes
Genre: Poetry
Decodable Readers
Bud, Ben, and Roz
The Funny Hat Contest
Dogs Author’s Purpose Blend Phonemes Accuracy: Self-Correct Choosing a Pet hairy, litter, canned, clipped, stayed, coat, Long Vowels a, i Types of Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Sort Phonemes chews, mammals
Text Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate Phonics city, full, no, think, other, Listening/Speaking: Main Idea Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: cake, mine, plate, size, ate, Sentences That Describe
Paired Selection Long Vowels a, i places, put, school, and Details, Supporting Details reproduce, characteristic, canine, adapt grape, prize, wipe, race, line, pile,
Helping Paws Second Read Skill Sounds for c sing, think, this rake Focus Trait
3 Genre: Informational Compare and Contrast Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: gave, bike Word Choice
Text Share an Experience Use a Glossary Challenge: mistake, while
Write About Reading
Decodable Readers Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
City Ride Multiple-Meaning Words
Mice Can Race
Grade 2: Unit 1

Diary of a Spider Cause and Effect Segment, Substitute Intonation Bats: Beastly or Beautiful? rotten, sticky, insects, scare, judge, screaming, Long Vowels o, u What Is a Noun? Narrative Writing
Genre: Humorous Phonemes dangerous, breeze
Fiction Target Strategy Sort Phonemes High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Recount Spelling Words Writing Form
Summarize mind, could, today, play, key ideas from text read Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: doze, nose, use, rose, pole, Personal Story
Paired Selection Phonics cheer, hello, read, see, aloud appreciate, compliment, cooperate, peer close, cute, woke, mule, rode, role,
A Swallow and a Second Read Skill Long Vowels o, u, e by, hundred tune Focus Trait
4 Spider Figurative Language Sounds for g Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: home, joke Ideas
Genre: Fable Multiple Entries Challenge: wrote, ice cube
Write About Reading
A Bed of Roses Context Clues
Swim Like a Frog Research/Media Literacy Skill
Brainstorming
Teacher’s Pets Story Structure Segment Phonemes Phrasing: Punctuation Lester share, noticed, suddenly, bursting, noises, Consonant Blends with r, l, s Singular and Plural Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction wonderful, quiet, sprinkled Nouns
Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Recount Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize Consonant Blends with table, says, little, find, the beginning, middle, end Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: spin, clap, grade, swim, place, Personal Story
See Westburg by Bus! r, l, s both, cold, long, green, community, diagram, suburb last, test, skin, drag, glide, just,
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill we, eat stage Focus Trait
5 Text Author’s Word Choice Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: slip, drive Sentence Fluency
Use A Digital Dictionary Challenge: climb, price
Flint Cove Clambake Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
The Stop and Spend Base Words and Endings -ed, -ing
Sale Research/Media Literacy Skill
Finding Information
Grade 2: Unit 2

Animals Building Text and Graphic Identify Phonemes Expression City Life Is for the Birds beaks, break, deepest, hang, pond, shaped, Common Final Blends nd, ng, nk, nt, More Plural Nouns Informative Writing
Homes Features winding, branches ft, xt, mp
Genre: Informational Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Ask and Writing Form
Text Target Strategy Common Final Blends nd, bear, work, animals, answer questions to deepen Domain-Specific Vocabulary Spelling Words Informational Paragraph
Question ng, nk, nt, ft, xt, mp know, most, myself, understanding habitat, shelter, pasture Basic: next, end, camp, sank, sing,
Paired Selection sleep, second, three, drink, hunt, stand, long, stamp, Focus Trait
6 Whose Home Is This? Second Read Skill she Apply Vocabulary Knowledge pond, bring Ideas
Genre: Informational Using Context Use a Dictionary Review: jump, left
Text Challenge: young, friend Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Decodable Readers Base Words and Prefixes un-, re-
A Job for Bob Research/Media Literacy Skill
Baby Animals Understand Sources
The Ugly Vegetables Conclusions Sort Phonemes Accuracy: Connected Text Trouble in the Lily Garden blooming, muscles, nodded, plain, scent, Double Consonants and ck Proper Nouns Informative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Identify Medial Phonemes shovels, tough, wrinkled
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Answer Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate Phonics pictures, air, pretty, told, using complete sentences Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: dress, spell, class, full, add, Summary Paragraph
They Really Are GIANT! Double Consonants and ck window, funny, try, he, nutrients, seedling, solar energy neck, stuck, kick, rock, black, trick,
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Double Consonants (CVC) cried, car Speaking and Listening Skill doll Focus Trait
7 Text Story Structure Communication Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
Dictionary Skills: Discuss Example Sentences
Review: will, off
Challenge: across, pocket
Organization
Decodable Readers (punctuation and style of sentences) Write About Reading

Jill and Mack Performance Task
Rabbit’s Muffins Vocabulary Strategies
Homophones
Super Storms Main Ideas and Details Substitute Phonemes Rate Floods: Dangerous Waters flash, equal, damage, reach, pounding, Consonant Digraphs What Is a Verb? Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Syllables in Spoken Words prevent, beware, bend th, sh, wh, ch, tch
Text Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Describe Writing Form
Visualize Phonics few, people, eye, high, key details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Spelling Words Informational Paragraph
Paired Selection Consonant Digraphs th, sh, my, open, yellow, lightning, precipitation, water vapor Basic: dish, than, chest, such, thin,
Weather Poems Second Read Skill wh, ch, tch, ph happy, starts, before push, shine, chase, white, while, Focus Trait
“Night Drumming for Cause and Effect Base Words and Endings Apply Vocabulary Knowledge these, flash Voice
Rain” -s, -ed, -ing Use a Glossary Review: which, then
8 “Who Has Seen the Challenge: catch, thumb Write About Reading
Wind” Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
“Weather” Compound Words
Genre: Poetry Research/Media Literacy Skill
Research Questions
Decodable Readers
Splish! Splash! Whales
Drifting Up, Up, Up
Grade 2: Unit 2

How Chipmunk Got Understanding Add Phonemes Phrasing: Punctuation On Thin Ice curled, direction, healed, height, toward, -ed, and -ing Endings Verbs in the Present Informative Writing
His Stripes Characters Syllables in Spoken Words tunnel, tease, brag
Genre: Folktale High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Recount Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy Phonics kept, would, afraid, own, key details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: liked, using, riding, chased, Instructions
Paired Selection Summarize Base Words and Endings show, might, why, tradition, culture, literature spilled, making, closed, hoping,
Why Rabbits Have -ed, -ing many, for, dark Speaking and Listening Skill baked, hiding, standing, asked Focus Trait
9 Short Tails Second Read Skill CV Syllable Pattern Listen to Compare and Contrast Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: mixed, sleeping Ideas
Genre: Traditional Tale Author’s Word Choice Use a Digital Dictionary Challenge: teasing, knocking
Write About Reading
Maybe So Synonyms
Racing Away!
Anchor Text Target Skill Phonemic Awareness Fluency Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Contractions Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Jellies Fact and Opinion Add and Delete Phonemes Stress Sharks on the Run! decide, disgusting, drift, millions, simple, Verbs in the Present, Informative Writing
Genre: Informational wrapped, choices, weaker Spelling Words Past, and Future
Text Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Ask for Basic: I’m, don’t, isn’t, can’t, we’ll, it’s, Writing Form
Monitor/Clarify Contractions really, you, because, clarification; Ask and answer Domain-Specific Vocabulary I’ve, didn’t, you’re, that’s, wasn’t, Instructions
Paired Selection right, go, they, was, questions oceanography, gulf, current you’ve
Splash Photography Second Read Skill me, old, better Review: us, them Focus Trait
10 Genre: Informational Author’s Purpose Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Challenge: they’re, wouldn’t Word Choice
Text Have a Conversation Use a Thesaurus
Write About Reading
Let’s Have Fun Base Words and Suffixes -er, -est
I’m Going to Win

Extended
Reading
Poppleton in Winter Infer/Predict icicle, proud, picket, certainly, melted, bust,

Question clay, molding, sleigh, midnight
Grade 2: Unit 3

Click, Clack, Moo: Conclusions Syllables in Spoken Words Expression Don’t Play Cards with a Dog in problem, impossible, understand, impatient, Base Words with Endings -s, -es Compound Sentences Opinion Writing
Cows That Type the Room! furious, demand, gathered, believe
Genre: Humorous Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Spelling Words Writing Form
Fiction Infer/Predict Base Words and Endings another, heard, some, Speaking/Listening: Answer Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: hens, eggs, ducks, bikes, Persuasive Letter
-s, -es kind, light, hard, more, questions to deepen notify, announce, companion boxes, wishes, dresses, names,
Paired Selection Second Read Skill grow, far, to understanding bells, stamps, dishes, grapes Focus Trait
11 Talk About Smart
Animals!
Author’s Word Choice
Speaking and Listening Skill
Guide Words
Review: jets, frogs
Challenge: stitches, fences
Ideas
Genre: Informational Class Discussion Write About Reading

Text Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Prefixes pre- and mis-
Decodable Readers
Jess Makes Gifts
Cooking with Mom Fox
Ah, Music! Text and Graphic Substitute Phonemes Rate: Adjust Rate to Music in the Snow vibration, concentrate, relieved, creative, Words with ai, ay Expanding/ Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Features Purpose performance, tune, expression, volume Rearranging
Text Phonics Speaking and Listening: Spelling Words Compound Writing Form
Target Strategy Vowel Digraphs ai, ay High-Frequency Words Identify story structure, Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: pay, wait, paint, train, pail, Sentences Opinion Paragraph
Paired Selection Question along, against, someone, understanding characters, pitch, percussion, creativity clay, tray, plain, stain, hay, gray,
“There’s a Hole at the night, part, morning, character motives away Focus Trait
12 Bottom of the Sea” Second Read Skill hold, bird, different, Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: stay, day Voice
Genre: Song Fact and Opinion girl Use a Digital Dictionary Challenge: raisin, birthday
Write About Reading
Trains Idioms
The Waiting Game Research/Media Literacy Skill
Choosing Media Sources
Schools Around the Main Idea and Details Match Phonemes Accuracy: Self-Correct One-Room Schoolhouse culture, community, languages, transportation, Words with ee, ea Quotation Marks Opinion Writing
World subjects, lessons, special, wear
Genre: Informational Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Answer in Spelling Words Writing Form
Text Analyze/Evaluate Vowel Digraphs ee, ea story, world, about, complete sentences Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: free, teach, teeth, please, Persuasive Paragraph
everything, first, store, education, public, schedule, tutor beach, wheel, team, speak, sneeze,
Paired Selection Second Read Skill her, two, slowly, of Speaking and Listening Skill sheep, meaning, weave Focus Trait
An American School Text and Graphic Summarizing Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: eat, read Word Choice
13 Genre: Features Use a Glossary Challenge: between, reason
Informational Text Write About Reading
Decodable Readers Using a Dictionary
The Shell Sheep
Reef Sees the Wide
World
Grade 2: Unit 3

Helen Keller Author’s Purpose Segment Phonemes Natural Pauses Whale of a Lesson curious, imitated, knowledge, motion, silence, Long o (o, oa, ow) Using Proper Nouns Opinion Writing
Genre: Biography illness, darkness, behavior
Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Describe Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize Long o (o, oa, ow) front, hair, warm, started, key ideas Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: own, most, soap, float, both, Persuasive Essay
Talking Tools stories, never, all, food, nonverbal, communicate, visual know, loan, goat, flow, loaf, throw,
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill sky, party coach Focus Trait
14 Text Genre: Biography Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: so, grow Ideas
Use a Dictionary Challenge: swallow, ocean
Bill E. Goat and Wise Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
Crow Suffix -ly
Mud Bugs Research/Media Literacy Skills
Science Experiment
Officer Buckle and Cause and Effect Syllables in Spoken Words Accuracy: Connected Text Adventures at Scout Camp attention, buddy, obeys, speech, enormous, Compound Words Abbreviations Opinion Writing
Gloria safety, shocked, station
Genre: Humorous Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Ask Spelling Words Writing Form
Fiction Monitor/Clarify Compound Words ever, care, thought, over, questions to clarify Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: cannot, pancake, maybe, Persuasive Essay
Schwa Vowel Sound off, small, new, book, comprehension risk, protection, hazard, inform baseball, playground, someone,
Paired Selection Second Read Skill live, after myself, classroom, sunshine, Focus Trait
15 Safety at Home
Genre: Readers
Humor Speaking and Listening Skill
Retell or Summarize
Determine Pronunciation
outside, upon, nothing
Review: into, inside
Organization
Theater Challenge: nobody, everywhere Write About Reading

Vocabulary Strategy Performance Task
Decodable Readers Root Words
What Does It Say?
In the Grove
Grade 2: Unit 4

Mr. Tanen’s Tie Trouble Story Structure Syllables in Spoken Words Rate A Better Way to Save received, account, budget, disappointed, Base Words with Endings -ed, -ing Pronouns Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction chuckled, staring, repeated, fund
Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Recount Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Base Words and Endings gone, said, something, characters and plot details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: running, clapped, stopped, Story Paragraph
The Jefferson Daily -ed, -ing fly, also, saw, look, duties, citizen, responsibility hopping, batted, selling, pinned,
News Second Read Skill horse, river, have cutting, sitting, rubbed, missed, Focus Trait
16 Genre: Informational Understanding Apply Vocabulary Knowledge grabbed Ideas
Text Characters Use a Digital Dictionary Review: mixed, going
Challenge: wrapped, swelling Write About Reading
Beep! Beep! Homographs
We Helped Research/Media Literacy Skills
Audio Recording
Luke Goes to Bat Sequence of Events Segment Phonemes Stress And the Crowd Roared! practice, hurried, position, roared, extra, curb, Long i (i, igh, y) Subject-Verb Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction cheered, final Agreement
Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Use Spelling Words Writing form
Paired Selection Visualize Long i (i, igh, ie, y) doing, sure, else, turned, complete sentences to Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: night, kind, spy, child, light, Story Paragraph
Jackie Robinson blue, room, teacher, answer questions determined, morals, respect find, right, high, wild, July, fry, sigh
Genre: Informational Second Read Skill any, studied, carry Review: by, why Focus Trait
17 Text Formal and Informal
Language
Multiple Entries
Challenge: behind, lightning Voice

Bright Lights Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Wild Cats Antonyms
Compare and Contrast Media
Messages
My Name Is Gabriela Understanding Blending Phonemes Expression Doctor Salk’s Treasure accepted, express, fluttering, grand, pretend, Long e Spelled y The Verb be Narrative Writing
Genre: Biography Characters Identify Sound Placement prize, wonder, taught
High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Describe Spelling Words Writing form
Paired Selection Target Strategy Phonics words, mother, friends, key details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: happy, pretty, baby, very, Descriptive Paragraph
Poems About Reading Analyze/Evaluate Long e Sound for y under, draw, watch, print, journalist, exchange, publish puppy, funny, carry, lucky, only,
and Writing Changing y to i always, soon, Speaking and Listening Skill sunny, penny, city Focus Trait
18 Genre: Poetry Second Read Skill anything, been Share an Experience Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: tiny, many Word Choice
Author’s Word Choice Use a Dictionary Challenge: sorry, noisy
Bunny and the Penny Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Puppies Suffixes -y and –ful
Grade 2: Unit 4

The Signmaker’s Text and Graphic Substitute Phonemes Phrasing: Punctuation Wild Friends, Wow! assistant, agreed, polite, failed, tearing, Words with ar Commas in Dates and Narrative Writing
Assistant Features wisdom, trouble, cleared Places
Genre: Humorous Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Ask Spelling Words Writing Form
Fiction Target Strategy Words with ar didn’t, I’ll, please, talk, questions to clarify Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: car, dark, arm, star, park, yard, Fictional Story
Question good, is, are, baby, comprehension advertise, announcement, post, beacon party, hard, farm, start, part, spark
Paired Selection too, sound Review: art, jar Focus Trait
19 The Trouble with Signs Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Challenge: carpet, apartment Organization
Genre: Play Point of View Following Directions Use a Glossary
Write About Reading
Darling Starling Shades of Meaning
Going to the Farm
Dex: The Heart of a Compare and Contrast Substitute Phonemes Intonation Ordinary Heroes depended, overlooked, sprang, studied, r-Controlled Vowels or, ore Commas in a Series Narrative Writing
Hero gazing, hero, exercise, sore
Genre: Fantasy Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Answer Spelling Words Writing Form
Monitor/Clarify Words with r-Controlled being, ready, I’ve, tall, questions to clarify Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: horn, story, fork, score, store, Fictional Story
Paired Selection Vowels or, ore stood, very, ground, understanding charity, grant, improve, figure corn, morning, shore, short, born,
Heroes Then and Now Second Read Skill laugh, begins, flower tore, forget Focus Trait
20 Genre: Informational Figurative Language Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: for, more Organization
Text Compare and Contrast Dictionary Skills: Discuss Example Sentences Challenge: report, force
(punctuation and style of sentences) Write About Reading
Decodable Readers Performance Task
A Sporty Game Vocabulary Strategies
My Story Prefix over-

Extended
Where Do Polar Bears Monitor/Clarify den, cub, Arctic, survive, tundra, lemming,
Reading
Live Question seaweed, fierce, extinct

Analyze/Evaluate
Grade 2: Unit 5

Penguin Chick Main Ideas and Details Substitute Phonemes Phrasing: Natural Pauses From Duckling to Duck finally, junior, otherwise, slippery, steer, Words with er What Is an Adjective? Informative Writing
Genre: Narrative waterproof, webbed, whistle
Nonfiction Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Describe Spelling Words Writing Form
Infer/Predict Words with er nothing, move, across, key ideas and details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: father, over, under, herd, Problem-Solution Paragraph
Paired Selection Words with ir, ur took, house, voice, development, life cycle, shelter, climate water, verb, paper, cracker, offer,
Emperor Penguins Second Read Skill behind, one, how, out cover, germ, master Focus Trait
21 Genre: Informational Cause and Effect Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: fern, ever Word Choice
Text Use a Thesaurus Challenge: remember, feather
Write About Reading
Mustangs Dictionary Entry
Time to Move Research/Media Literacy Skills
Answer a Question
Gloria Who Might Be Understanding Rhyme and Meaning Accuracy: Self-Correct The Middle Seat lonely, seriously, copy, heavily, planning, Homophones Using Adjectives Informative Writing
My Best Friend Characters Syllables in Spoken Words answered, guessed, knot
Genre: Realistic Fiction High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Ask Spelling Words Writing Form
Strategy Phonics floor, toward, what’s, questions to clarify Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: meet, meat, week, weak, Compare and Contrast Paragraph
Paired Selection Question Homophones found, boy, everyone, comprehension force, flight, pressure mane, main, tail, tale, be, bee,
How to Make a Kite Base Words and Endings field, does, their, into too, two Focus Trait
22 Genre: Informational Second Read Skill -er, -est Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: sea, see Organization
Text Figurative Language Explain a Procedure Use a Dictionary Challenge: threw, through
Write About Reading
What’s That? Figurative Language/Idioms
Get Smarter!
The Goat in the Rug Conclusions Syllables in Spoken Words Rate: Adjust Rate to Nothing But a Quilt sharpening, spinning, strands, weave, yarn, Suffixes -ly, -ful Irregular Verbs Informative Writing
Genre: Narrative Purpose dye, duplicated, delicious
Nonfiction Strategy Phonics Speaking/Listening: Recount Spelling Words Writing Form
Summarize Suffixes -y, -ly, -ful High-Frequency Words most important details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: helpful, sadly, hopeful, Informational Paragraph
Paired Selection Final Stable Syllables -tion, knew, idea, though, craft, fiber, loom, textile thankful, slowly, wishful, kindly,
Basket Weaving Second Read Skill -ture down, four, give, great, useful, safely, painful, mouthful, Focus Trait
23 Genre: Informational Sequence of Events large, write, coming Apply Vocabulary Knowledge weakly Word Choice
Text Use a Glossary Review: jumped, saying
Challenge: quickly, wonderful Write About Reading
Fraidy Cat Compound Words
Bugs in Action Research/Media Literacy Skills
Using Digital Visual Aids
Grade 2: Unit 5

Half-Chicken Cause and Effect Syllables in Spoken Words Expression Tiger in the Water: A Folktale tumbling, flung, tangled, empty, peacefully, Prefixes re-, un- Irregular Action Verbs Informative Writing
Genre: Folktale Segment Phonemes from Malaysia stream, blazed, swift
Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize Phonics earth, away, brothers, Speaking/Listening: Answer Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: unhappy, retell, untangle, Research Report
The Lion and the Prefixes re-, un-, over-, brown, without, here, questions to deepen customs, classic, honor, myth unkind, repaint, refill, unlike,
Mouse Second Read Skill pre-, mis- learning, began, understanding remake, unpack, reread, unlock, Focus Trait
24 Genre: Traditional Tale Point of View Silent Consonants surprised, there Apply Vocabulary Knowledge replay Ideas
Speaking and Listening Skill Determine Part of Speech Review: read, happy
Decodable Readers Compare and Contrast Challenge: rewrite, overheard Write About Reading
The Unreal Party Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Knick and Knack Antonyms
From Seed to Plant Text and Graphic Substitute Phonemes Phrasing: Punctuation Johnny Appleseed and His pod, soak, shoot, root, nutrition, tasty, soften, Words with aw, al, o More Irregular Action Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Features Apples grain Verbs
Text Phonics High-Frequency Words Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy Words with au, aw, al, o, a through, young, leaves, Speaking and Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: tall, saw, dog, draw, call, fall, Research Report
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify ball, our, done, hear, Following Directions in a process, bud, sprout soft, paw, ball, yawn, log, small
Super Soil learn, were, only Procedure Review: all, walk Focus Trait
25 Genre: Informational Second Read Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Challenge: awful, wallpaper Voice
Text Cause and Effect Use a Digital Dictionary
Write About Reading
A Spring Walk Using Context
The Softball Game
Grade 2: Unit 6

The Mysterious Story Structure Segment Phonemes Accuracy: Connected Text Diego’s Double Surprise confused, ordinary, control, sensible, Words with ew, oo, ou Contractions Opinion Writing
Tadpole suspiciously, training, cage, upset
Genre: Fantasy Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Recount Spelling Words Writing Form
Infer/Predict Words with oo, ew, ue, ou every, ago, won’t, now, key details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: root, crew, spoon, few, bloom, Response Poem
Paired Selection follow, head, don’t, larva, biology, organism grew, room, you, stew, boost,
From Eggs to Frogs Second Read Skill goes, again, alone Speaking and Listening Skill scoop, flew Focus Trait
26 Genre: Informational Conclusions Cooperative Storytelling Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: zoo, noon Word Choice
Text Pronunciation Challenge: shampoo, balloon
Write About Reading
The New Moose Multiple-Meaning Words
Follow the Clues
The Dog That Dug for Fact and Opinion Match Phonemes Intonation Epperson’s Icicle discovered, guard, remove, souvenirs, Words with oo (book) What Is an Adverb? Opinion Writing
Dinosaurs Add a Phoneme amazed, explained, exact, growled
Genre: Biography Target Strategy High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Ask and Spelling Words Writing Form
Question Phonics buy, father, called, answer questions to clarify Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: took, books, foot, hoof, cook, Opinion Paragraph
Paired Selection Words with oo (book) town, even, maybe, comprehension impression, remains, organic, material nook, hood, wood, stood, shook,
La Brea Tar Pits Second Read Skill where, water, outside, crook, cookbook Focus Trait
27 Genre: Informational
Text
Author’s Purpose tomorrow Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
Use a Dictionary
Review: look, good
Challenge: crooked, bookcase
Organization
Write About Reading

Woody Woodchuck Shades of Meaning
and the Mysterious Research/Media Literacy Skills
Ball Research Question
One or More
Yeh-Shen Sequence of Events Blend Phonemes Phrasing: Natural Pauses Cinderella Stories served, overjoyed, valuable, worn, concealed, Words with ow, ou Possessive Nouns Opinion Writing
Genre: Fairytale glimmering, content, task
Target Strategy Phonics High-Frequency Words Speaking and Listening Skill Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate Vowel Diphthongs ow, ou want, while, falling, Retelling a Story Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: cow, house, town, shout, Response Paragraph
Cinderella enough, lived, loved, oral tradition, multicultural, generation down, mouse, found, loud, brown,
Genre: Fairytale Second Read Skill should, happened, ground, pound, flower Focus Trait
28 Compare and Contrast sorry, above Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: out, now Ideas
Decodable Readers Part of Speech Challenge: towel, pounce
Howie’s Big Brown Box Write About Reading
What a Surprise! Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Classify/Categorize
Grade 2: Unit 6

Two of Everything Understanding Syllables in Spoken Words Expression A Lesson in Happiness contained, grateful, startled, odd, search, Words with ai, ay, igh, -y Possessive Pronouns Opinion Writing
Genre: Folktale Characters Substitute Phonemes leaned, tossed, village
High-Frequency Words Speaking/Listening: Recount Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy Phonics once, woman, upon, key details Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: aim, snail, bay, braid, ray, Response Essay
Stone Soup Summarize Reading Longer Words eight, seven, near, tales, values, beliefs always, gain, sly, chain, shy, bright,
Genre: Traditional Tale with Long Vowels a wash, paper, who, fright Focus Trait
29 Second Read Skill and i your Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: tray, try Ideas
Decodable Readers Point of View Vowel Diphthongs oi, oy Use a Glossary Challenge: contain, thigh
Not So Alike Write About Reading
Corduroy and Will Vocabulary Strategies Performance Task
Antonyms
Share an Experience
Now & Ben Compare and Contrast Syllables in Spoken Words Rate: Adjust Rate to Steve Jobs: Inventor accomplishments, inventions, result, designed, Words with oa, ow, ee, ea Choose Between Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Purpose achieve, composed, remarkable, amounts Adjectives and
Text Target Strategy Phonics Speaking and Listening Skill Spelling Words Adverbs Writing Form
Visualize Reading Longer Words High-Frequency Words Presentations Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: seated, keeps, speed, seen, Response Essay
Paired Selection with Long Vowels o almost, from, money, patriot, pioneer, symbol, historical means, clean, groan, roast, bowls,
A Model Citizen Second Read Skill and e door, years, together, crow, owe, grown Focus Trait
30 Genre: Informational Using Context Final Stable Syllable -le sometimes, pushed, Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: green, snow Word Choice
Text remember, dear Use a Digital Dictionary Challenge: peace, below
Write About Reading
A Picnic Problem Root Words
Polly Poodle

Exploring Space Travel Question control panel, rockets, launch, takeoff, landing,
Extended
Reading
Monitor/Clarify speed, friction, gear, inner, layer, outer,

Analyze/Evaluate fire-resistant, extravehicular, pouches,
emergencies, prepare, explorers, scientists,
experiments
Grade 3: Unit 1
Text-Based
Lesson Selections Decoding Fluency Speaking and Listening Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Language Writing
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Short vowels a, e, i, o, u Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
A Fine, Fine School Story Structure Such a Deal! principal, strolled, proud, worried, soared, Short Vowels Simple Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Humorous Fiction Words with the announced, fine, certainly
Target Strategy VCCV Pattern Speaking/Listening: Retell the Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize story Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: crop, plan, thing, smell, Descriptive Paragraph
One-Room Schoolhouses educator, administrator, classroom, schoolhouse, shut, sticky, spent, lunch,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill subject, curriculum pumpkin, clock, gift, class, skip, Focus Trait
1 Analyze Illustrations Hold a Discussion or
Conversation Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
swing
Review: next, hug
Word Choice: Exact Words
Shades of Meaning Challenge: hospital, fantastic Write About Reading

Performance Task
Context Clues
Anchor Text Target Skill Long Vowels a, e, Phrasing Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Trial of Cardigan Jones Conclusions i, o, u Sequoyah convinced, trial, jury, guilty, pointed, honest, VCe Spellings Kinds of Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Fantasy murmur, stand
Target Strategy Words with the VCe Speaking/Listening: Determine Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Pattern the main ideas and supporting Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: spoke, mile, save, excuse, Dialogue
You Be the Jury details prosecution, verdict, judge, courtroom, lawyer cone, invite, cube, price, erase,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill ripe, broke, flame, life, rule Focus Trait
2 Author’s Word Choice Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: these, those Ideas: Audience and Purpose
Ask and Answer Questions Use a Dictionary Challenge: surprise, decide
Write About Reading
Dictionary/Glossary
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Vowel Pairs Reading Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Destiny’s Gift Understanding ai, ay, ee, ea Open Your Eyes! raise, spreading, earn, figure, contacted, block, Long a and Long e Spellings Compound Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Characters afford, customers
Speaking/Listening: Ask and Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy answer questions volunteer, business, charity, community service Basic: lay, real, trail, sweet, today, Personal Narrative
Kids Making a Difference Analyze/Evaluate dream, seem, tea, treat, afraid,
Genre: Informational Text Apply Vocabulary Knowledge leave, bait, screen, speed Focus Trait
3 Second Read Skill
Story Message
Use a Glossary Review: paint, please
Challenge: yesterday, explain
Voice: Express Thoughts and Feelings

Antonyms Performance Task

Interpret Information Presented Visually
Grade 3: Unit 1
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Long o Spelled oa, ow Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Pop’s Bridge Compare and Contrast The Bixby Bridge balancing, tide, crew disappears, foggy, stretch, Long o Spellings Common and Proper Narrative Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction excitement, cling Nouns
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Answer Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict questions with appropriate Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: load, open, told, yellow, Prewrite a Personal Narrative
Bridges elaboration and detail foreman, construction, suspension, arches, soak, shadow, foam, follow,
Genre: Informational Text Secondary Skill harness glow, sold, window, coach, Focus Trait
4 Story Structure almost, throat Ideas: Important and Interesting Details
Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review: cold, most
Use Guidewords Challenge: tomorrow, sailboats Write About Reading
Performance Task
Word Families Research/Media Literacy Skills
Brainstorm Topics
Anchor Text Target Skill Long i spelled i, ie, igh Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Roberto Clemente: Pride Cause and Effect The Tennessee Tornado stands, score, fans, league, slammed, Long i Spellings Plural Nouns with -s Narrative Writing
of the Pittsburgh Pirates pronounced, style, polish, and -es
Genre: Biography Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Speak in Spelling Words Writing Form
Visualize complete sentences Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: slight, mild, sight, pie, Draft a Personal Narrative
Paired Selection amateur, professional, outfield, spectators, mind, tie, pilot, might, lie, tight,
Baseball Poems Second Read Skill sportsmanship blind, fight, die, midnight Focus Trait
5 Genre: Poetry Literal and Nonliteral Review: find, night Sentence Fluency: Time-Order Words
Meanings Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Challenge: silent, frightening
Use a Digital Dictionary Write About Reading
Performance Task
Prefix mis- Research/Media Literacy Skills
Narrow a Topic
Grade 3: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Words with the VCV Reading Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Bat Loves the Night Sequence of Events Pattern Bats Are the Best Beasts twitch, detail, swoops, slithers, squeak, dozes, More Short and Long Vowels What Is a Verb? Opinion Writing
Genre: Narrative echoes, snuggles
Nonfiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask and Spelling Words Writing Form
Question answer questions Domain Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: math, toast, Response Paragraph
Paired Selection mammal, echolocation, nocturnal, environment easy, socks, Friday, stuff, paid,
6 A Bat Is Born
Genre: Poetry
Second Read Skill
Domain-Specific
Recount an Experience Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
cheese, June, elbow, program,
shiny, piles, sticky
Focus Trait
Ideas: Details and Examples
Vocabulary Use a Digital Glossary Review Words: each, both
Challenge Words: comb, Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies holiday Performance Task
Suffixes -able, -ible
Anchor Text Target Skill Three-Letter Clusters Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
What Do Illustrators Do? Text and Graphic (scr, spr, str, thr) Louis Braille: Boy Inventor tracing, imagine, illustrate, scribbles, sketches, Three-Letter Clusters Verb Tenses Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text Features research, textures, tools
Speaking/Listening: Determine Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy the main idea and supporting Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: three, scrap, street, Opinion Piece
Jack Draws a Beanstalk Analyze/Evaluate details foreground, typeface, watercolors, composition, spring, thrill, scream, strange,
Genre: Traditional Tale publisher throw, string, scrape, spray, Focus Trait
7 Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill threw, strong, scratch Organization: Topic Sentence
Sequence of Events Create an Audio Recording Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review Words: think, they
Context Sentences Challenge Words: straight, Write About Reading
scramble Performance Task
Synonyms
Anchor Text Target Skill Silent Letters kn, wr Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Harvest Birds Conclusions Sweet Berries harvest, separate, ashamed, borders, advice, Unexpected Consonant Spellings Using Commas Opinion Writing
Genre: Folktale borrow, patch, serious
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Speak in Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict complete sentences when Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: itch, wreck, knee, Response Paragraphs
The Treasure retelling steps pilgrimage, perceptions, perspective patch, wrap, knot, watch, knife,
8 Genre: Folktale Second Read Skill
Literal and Nonliteral Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
stretch, write, knew, knock,
match, wrong
Focus Trait
Word Choice: Using Linking Words
Meanings Tell a Story Parts of a Dictionary Entry Review Words: know, catch
Challenge Words: wrinkle, Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies knuckle Performance Task
Context Clues
Grade 3: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel Diphthongs ow Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Kamishibai Man Cause and Effect and ou The Magical Art of Mime familiar, jerky, vacant, rickety, blurry, rude, Vowel Sound in town Abstract Nouns Opinion Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction blasted, applause
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask and Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify answer questions Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: clown, round, bow, Prewrite a Response to Literature
The True Story of mime, atmosphere, storyteller, improvisation cloud, power, crown, thousand,
Kamishibai Second Read Skill crowd, sound, count, powder, Focus Trait
9 Genre: Informational Text Analyze Illustrations Apply Vocabulary Knowledge blouse, frown, pound Organization: Opinion Statement
Multiple-Meaning Words Review Words: house, found
Challenge Words: Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies mountain, coward Performance Task
Dictionary/Glossary
Refine a Research Question
Anchor Text Target Skill Words with au, aw, al, Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Young Thomas Edison Main Ideas and Details and o Ryan Hreljac,* Saving Lives at Six signal, genius, gadget, invention, laboratory, Vowel Sound in talk Pronouns and Opinion Writing
Genre: Biography experiment, occasional, electric Antecedents
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Determine Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize the main ideas and supporting Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: talk, cross, awful, Draft a Response to Literature
Moving Pictures details patent, phonograph, sound waves, kinetoscope law, cloth, cost, crawl, chalk,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill also, raw, salt, wall, lawn, Focus Trait
10 Sequence of Events Apply Vocabulary Knowledge always Sentence Fluency: Avoiding Redundancy
Use a Dictionary Review Words: soft, small
Challenge Words: often, Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies strawberry Performance Task
Shades of Meaning
Generate a Research Plan

Extended
Amos & Boris Visualize backwashes, navigation, enterprise,

Reading
Monitor/Clarify phosphorescent, luminous, vast, mammal,

sounded, ambitions, spout, tidal wave,
desperately, mote, rumbled
Grade 3: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel Diphthongs oi, oy Phrasing Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Technology Wins the Sequence of Events J-Block contribute, athletes, improve, power, flexible, Vowel Sound in joy Plural Nouns Informative Writing
Game process, compete, fraction
Genre: Informational Text Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Answer Spelling Words Writing Form
Question questions with appropriate Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: joy, point, voice, Cause-and-Effect Paragraph
Paired Selection elaboration and detail force, energy, sensor, sports engineer join, oil, coin, noise, spoil, toy,
Science for Sports Fans Second Read Skill joint, boy, soil, choice, boil Focus Trait
Genre: Informational Text Text and Graphic Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review Words: come, are Word Choice: Cause-and-Effect Signal
11 Features Use a Digital Dictionary Challenge Words: poison,
destroy
Words

Suffixes -less, -ful, -ous Performance Task

Interpret Information Presented
Quantitatively
Anchor Text Target Skill Homophones Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Tops and Bottoms Theme Growing Up risky, grunted, crops, profit, scowled, plucked, Homophones Writing Quotations Informative Writing
Genre: Trickster Tale Words Ending in -er tugged, hollered
Target Strategy and -le Speaking/Listening: Speak in Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize complete sentences when Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: hole, whole, its, Compare-and-Contrast Paragraph
Goodness Grows in retelling story events cultivate, depletion, rotation, sustainable it’s, hear, here, won, one, our,
12 Gardens
Second Read Skill
Point of View Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
hour, their, there, fur, fir
Review Words: road, rode
Focus Trait
Word Choice: Compare-and-Contrast
Interpret Information Presented Use a Glossary Challenge Words: peace, piece Signal Words
Orally
Idioms Performance Task
Anchor Text Target Skill Contractions with n’t, Reading Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Yonder Mountain: A Compare and Contrast ‘d, ‘ve The Best Worst Day peak, examined, fondly, steep, rugged, pausing, Contractions Subject-Verb Informative Writing
Cherokee Legend mist, pleaded Agreement
Genre: Legend Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate questions Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic: I’d, he’s, haven’t, doesn’t, Informative Paragraph
Paired Selection tribe, chief, treaty, territory, oral tradition let’s, there’s wouldn’t, what’s,
The Trail of Tears Second Read Skill she’s, aren’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, Focus Trait
13 Genre: Informational Text Story Message Apply Vocabulary Knowledge he’d, they’re Organization: Group-Related Information
Use a Digital Glossary Review: can’t, isn’t
Challenge: we’re, weren’t Write About Reading
Homophones and Homographs
Gather Information
Grade 3: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Words with ar, or, ore Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Aero and Officer Mike Author’s Purpose More Than a Pet lying, loyal, partners, shift, quiver, patrol, ability, Vowel + /r/ Sounds Pronoun-Verb Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text snap Agreement
Paired Selection Summarize the main ideas and supporting Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: horse, mark, Prewrite an Explanatory Essay
Kids and Critters details guide dog, husbandry, colleague, companion, storm, market, acorn, artist,
14 Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill veterinarian March, north, barking, stork, Focus Trait
Point of View thorn, forest, chore, restore Ideas: Choosing a Topic
Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review Words: dark, story
Multiple-Meaning Words Challenge Words: partner, Write About Reading
fortune Performance Task
Prefixes in-, im- Research/Media Literacy Skills
Take Notes
Anchor Text Target Skill Words with er, ir, ur, or Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Extra-good Sunday Understanding Give Yourself a Gift anxiously, degrees, tense, ingredients, Vowel + /r/ Sound in nurse Verb Tenses Informative Writing
Genre: Humorous Fiction Characters recommended, remarked, festive, cross
Speaking/Listening: Retell the Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy main plot events Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: nurse, work, shirt, Draft an Explanatory Essay
Imagine a Recipe Infer/Predict recipe, chef, teaspoon, tablespoon, hurt, first, word, serve, curly,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking and Listening Skill measurements dirt, third, worry, turn, stir, firm Focus Trait
15 Second Read Skill
Formal and Informal
Hold a Group Discussion
Review Words: her, girl
Challenge Words: perfect,
Voice: Using Formal Language
Language Parts of a Dictionary Entry hamburger Write About Reading

Performance Task
Using a Thesaurus
Grade 3: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Words with air, ear, are Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Judy Moody Saves the Story Structure Counting Cans recycle, project, dripping, carton, complicated, Vowel + /r/ Sounds in air and What Are Adjectives Opinion Writing
World! global, rubbish, hardly, shade, pollution fear and Articles?
Genre: Humorous Fiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask and Writing Form
Monitor/Clarify answer Domain-Specific Vocabulary Spelling Words Persuasive Letter
16 Paired Selection
“My Smelly Pet” from Judy Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill
compost, landfill, conserve Basic Words: air, wear, chair,
stairs, bare, bear, hair, care, Focus Trait
Moody Theme Report on a Text Apply Vocabulary Knowledge pear, pair, share, near, ear, Ideas: Introducing the Topic and Opinion
Genre: Humorous Fiction Use a Dictionary beard
Review Words: buy, year Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies Challenge Words: earring, Performance Task
Context Clues compare
Anchor Text Target Skill Words with /j/ and /s/ Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Albertosaurus Mystery: Conclusions Words with the VCCCV Otzi’s Story clues, remains, evidence, prove, fossils, Words with /j/ and /s/ Adjectives That Opinion Writing
Philip Currie’s Hunt in Pattern skeletons, uncovering, buried, fierce, location Compare
the Badlands Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Answer Spelling Words Writing Form
Genre: Informational Text Visualize questions in complete Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: age, space, Opinion Paragraph
sentences paleontology, badlands, field notes, sediment change, jawbone, jacket, giant,
17 Paired Selection
Finding Fossils for Fun
Second Read Skill
Point of View Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
pencil, circle, once, large,
dance, jeans, bounce, huge
Focus Trait
Voice: Convincing Voice
Genre: Informational Text Ask and Answer Questions Use a Digital Dictionary Review Words: nice, place
Challenge Words: excited, Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies gigantic Performance Task
Suffix -ly
Anchor Text Target Skill Words with /k/ and / Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
A Tree Is Growing Text and Graphic kw/ The World Tree pollen, store, clumps, passages, absorb, Spelling the /k/ and /kw/ Sounds Using the Verb be and Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text Features throughout, coverings, spines, tropical, Helping Verbs
Speaking/Listening: Ask and dissolve Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy answer questions in complete Basic Words: shark, check, Problem-and-Solution Paragraph
Stopping by Woods on a Question sentences Domain-Specific Vocabulary queen, circus, flake, crack,
18 Snowy Evening
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill
roots, growth rings, leaves, precipitation, decay second, squeeze, quart,
squeak, quick, coldest, Africa,
Focus Trait
Word Choice: Exact Words
Domain-Specific Create an Audio Recording Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Mexico
Vocabulary Use a Glossary Review Words: black, thank Write About Reading
Challenge Words: correct, Performance Task
question
Word Roots
Grade 3: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel Sounds in spoon Reading Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Two Bear Cubs Story Structure and wood Bear Scare scolding, greedily, hesitation, ignores, burden, Vowel Sounds in spoon and wood More Irregular Verbs Opinion Writing
Genre: Myth/Play glancing, console, base, drowsy, heroic
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Retell the Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize story Related Vocabulary Basic Words: mood, wooden, Prewrite a Persuasive Essay
Whose Land Is It? dilemma, embraced, hinder, commended drew, smooth, blue, balloon,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill true, crooked, chew, tooth, Focus Trait
19 Story Message Apply Vocabulary Knowledge hooves, cool, food, pooch Ideas: Thinking About Your Audience
Use a Digital Glossary Review Words: blew, foot
Challenge Words: loose, jewel Write About Reading
Prefixes pre-, re-, bi-
Paraphrasing v. Plagiarism
Anchor Text Target Skill Compound Words Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Life on the Ice Main Ideas and Details Clever Colonies shelter, layer, constant, climate, wilderness, Compound Words What Is an Adverb? Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text region, unexpected, gliding, overheated,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask and colony Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict answer questions Basic Words: birthday, anyone, Draft a Persuasive Essay
The Raven: An Inuit Myth Domain-Specific Vocabulary sometimes, everything,
Genre: Myth Second Read Skill equator, Fahrenheit, Celsius, precipitation homework, afternoon, airplane, Focus Trait
20 Literal and Nonliteral
Meanings Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
grandmother, something,
without, himself, faraway,
Organization: Paragraphs for Reasons
Context Sentences sunburned, daylight Write About Reading

Review Words: someone, Performance Task
Vocabulary Strategies cannot
Dictionary/Glossary Challenge Words: scorekeeper, Research/Media Literacy Skills
everybody Citing Sources

Extended
Boy, Were We Wrong Monitor/Clarify fossil, waddle, tendons, bask, microscope, blood
Reading
About Dinosaurs! Question vessels, scaly, x-rays, herd, comet, asteroid,

Summarize acid rain, paleontologist
Grade 3: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Base Words and -ed, Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Sarah, Plain and Tall Story Structure -ing Seal’s Story prairie, slick, fetch, clattered, sniff, rough, batted, Words with -ed and -ing Adverbs That Narrative Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction thumped, buzzing, rustle Compare
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Retell the Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify story Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: coming, Fictional Narrative Paragraph
Wagons of the Old West pioneer, expansion, prairie, bonnet swimming, dropping, tapping,
21 Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill
Point of View
Hold a Group Discussion Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
taping, invited, saving, stared,
planned, changing, joking,
Focus Trait
Ideas: Setting the Scene
Parts of a Dictionary Entry loved, gripped, tasted
Review Words: making, stopped Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies Challenge Words: freezing, Performance Task
Prefix non- scared
Anchor Text Target Skill Spelling Changes: -s, Phrasing Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Journey: Stories of Compare and Contrast -es, -ed, -ing The Taste of Hope survival, migrate, plenty, frightening, accidents, Changing Final y to i Making Comparisons Narrative Writing
Migration solid, chilly, landscape, thunderous, dramatic
Genre: Informational Text Target Strategy Less Common Plurals Speaking/Listening: Determine Spelling Words Writing Form
Visualize the main ideas and supporting Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: cities, cried, Descriptive Paragraph
Paired Selection details adaptation, basic needs, insect, migration puppies, hurried, stories, flies,
22 The Grasshopper and the
Ant
Second Read Skill
Author’s Word Choice Speaking and Listening Skill Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
parties, tried, pennies, fried,
carried, babies, spied, ponies
Focus Trait
Word Choice: Using Similes
Genre: Fable Create an Audio Recording Shades of Meaning Review Words: pretty, very
Challenge Words: countries, Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies libraries Performance Task
Word Roots
Grade 3: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Suffixes -ful, -y, -ous, Reading Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Journey of Oliver K. Sequence of Events -ly, -er Piggy Goes to Town sincere, conversations, managed, inspired, Suffixes -ful, -ly, and -er Possessive Nouns and Narrative Writing
Woodman loaded, reunion, loveliest, currently, terror, Pronouns
Genre: Fantasy Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Speak in pleasure Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate complete sentences when Basic Words: singer, loudly, Dialogue
Paired Selection answering questions Domain-Specific Vocabulary joyful, teacher, fighter, closely,
Moving the U.S. Mail Second Read Skill postage stamp, correspondent, e-mail, return powerful, farmer, quickly, Focus Trait
23 Genre: Informational Text Formal and Informal
Language
Recount an Experience
address careful, friendly, speaker,
wonderful, truly
Voice: Characters’ Feelings
Apply Vocabulary Knowledge Review Words: hopeful, safely Write About Reading
Use a Glossary Challenge Words: listener, Performance Task
calmly
Suffixes -er, -est
Anchor Text Target Skill Prefixes un-, pre-, re-, Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves Author’s Purpose bi- Mapping the World guided, rippled, arrival, voyage, twisted, aboard, Prefixes re- and un- Complex Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction anchor, spotted, bay, lava
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask and Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Question answer questions Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: unfold, rejoin, Prewrite a Fictional Narrative
The Land Volcanoes Built eruption, magma, mountain, island untie, reheat, unfair, unclear,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill repaid, rewrite, unhurt, recheck, Focus Trait
24 Analyze Illustrations Apply Vocabulary Knowledge unlucky, unwrap, reuse, unsure Ideas: Using Vivid Details
Use Guidewords Review Words: reread, unsafe
Challenge Words: unbuckle, Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies unknown Performance Task
Shades of Meaning
Conduct a Research Project
Anchor Text Target Skill Suffixes -less, -ness, Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Mountains: Surviving on Text and Graphic -able Extreme Skiing, Extreme Danger approached, section, avalanches, increases, Suffixes -less and -ness More, Most, -er, -est Narrative Writing
Mt. Everest Features equipment, tanks, slopes, altitude, succeed,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking/Listening: Determine halt Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy the main ideas and supporting Basic Words: painless, sickness, Draft a Fictional Narrative
Paired Selection Infer/Predict details Domain-Specific Vocabulary sadness, helpless, thankless,
The Big Cleanup peak, summit, range, ridge, landform kindness, hopeless, darkness, Focus Trait
25 Genre: Play Second Read Skill
Main Ideas and Details
Present a Research Report Apply Vocabulary Knowledge
fearless, thickness, careless,
goodness, spotless, softness
Word Choice: Choosing Words for Effect
Use a Digital Dictionary Review Words: useful, weakly Write About Reading
Challenge Words: breathless, Performance Task
Vocabulary Strategies eagerness
Analogies
Grade 3: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Common Final Syllables Accuracy Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Foot Race Across Main Ideas and Details -tion, -sion, -ture Outrunning Polio principal, proud, announced, advice, loyal, ability, Words with VCCV Pattern Abbreviations Informative Writing
America absorb, loveliest, compete, approached
Genre: Narrative Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask Spelling Words Writing Form
Nonfiction Analyze/Evaluate questions Vocabulary Strategies Basic Words: person, helmet, Compare-and-Contrast Paragraph
Suffix -ion until, carpet, Monday, enjoy,
Short Article Speaking and Listening Skill forget, problem, Sunday, Focus Trait
Paca and the Beetle: A Brainstorming Problems and Domain-Specific Vocabulary garden, order, mistake, umpire, Organization: Group-Related Information
Folktale from Brazil Solutions competition, motivation, victorious, willpower herself
Genre: Folktale Review Words: after, under Write About Reading
Challenge Words: expect, Performance Task
Below Level wisdom
Trade Book
Donavan’s Word Jar
26 Author: Monalisa DeGross
Genre: Realistic Fiction
On Level
Trade Book
Jake Drake, Know-It-All
Author: Andrew Clements
Advanced
Trade Book
Capoeira
Author: George Ancona
Long Article Target Skill Double Consonants Intonation Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Power of Magnets Cause and Effect Maglev Trains research, tools, familiar, gadget, invention, Words with Double Consonants Contractions Informative Writing
Genre: Expository experiment, electric, power, prove, improve
Nonfiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Explain Spelling Words Writing Form
Summarize causes and effects Vocabulary Strategies Basis Words: jelly, bottom, Problem/Solution Paragraph
Short Article Homographs and Homophones pillow, happen, butter, lesson,
Electromagnets and You Speaking and LIstening Skill cherry, sudden, arrow, dollar, Focus Trait
Genre: Photo Essay Deliver a News Report Domain-Specific Vocabulary hello, rabbit, letter, button Ideas: Elaborating with Details
attract, repel, poles, electromagnet Review Words: funny, better
Below Level Challenge Words: stubborn, Write About Reading
Trade Book mirror Performance Task
Donavan’s Word Jar
Author: Monalisa DeGross
27 Genre: Realistic Fiction
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book
Capoeira
Grade 3: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Words with ough and Phrasing Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Becoming Anything He Fact and Opinion augh Rising to the Challenge throughout, textures, peak, steep, tropical, Words with ough and augh Commas in Sentences Informative Writing
Wants to Be landscape, slopes, altitude, survival, equipment
Genre: Biography Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Determine Spelling Words Writing Form
Visualize the main ideas and supporting Vocabulary Strategies Basic Words: taught, thought, Instructions
Short Article details Word Roots rough, laugh, bought, cough,
My Blue Belt Day! ought, caught, fought, Focus Trait
Genre: Journal Entry Speaking and LIstening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary daughter, tough, through, Word Choice: Exact Words
Give a Descriptive Presentation overcome, agility, barriers, championship enough, brought
Below Level Review Words: was, draw Write About Reading
Trade Book Challenge Words: sought, Performance Task
Donavan’s Word Jar naughty
28 Genre: Realistic Fiction
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book
Capoeira
Long Article Target Skill Words Ending in -er Expression Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
A New Team of Heroes Understanding or -le Two Players excitement, score, athletes, tense, succeed, Words Ending with -er or -le What Is a Preposition? Informative Writing
Genre: Drama Characters league, earn, partners, pleasure, contribute
Speaking/Listening: Hold a Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Target Strategy discussion Vocabulary Strategies Basic Words: apple, river, little, Prewrite a Research Report
C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N Monitor/Clarify Prefixes un- and dis- October, ladder, summer, purple,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking and LIstening Skill later, November, giggle, uncle, Focus Trait
Dramatize a Story Domain-Specific Vocabulary winter, center, double Ideas: Facts and Definitions
Below Level compete, pressure, defense, teammate Review Words: flower, people
Trade Book Challenge Words: whistle, Write About Reading
Donavan’s Word Jar character Performance Task
29
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book
Capoeira
Grade 3: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Schwa Sound Reading Rate Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Saving Buster Conclusions Service Dogs worried, certainly, raise, afford, applause, Words Beginning with a- or be- Correct Pronouns Informative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction anxiously, dramatic, guided, ingredients, fetch
Short Article Question the main ideas and supporting Vocabulary Strategies Basic Words: below, about, Draft a Research Report
Acting Across Generations details Compound Words belong, around, again, alone,
Genre: News Article because, above, between, Focus Trait
Speaking and LIstening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary alive, behind, begin, along, Organization: Group-Related Information
Below Level Present a Visual donate, city council, theater group, senior center before
Trade Book Review Words: away, want Write About Reading
Donavan’s Word Jar Challenge Words: awhile, Performance Task
Author: Monalisa DeGross beyond
30
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book
Capoeira

Grade 4: Unit 1
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill The VCV Syllable Accuracy and Self- Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Because of Winn-Dixie Story Structure Pattern Correction Sideline Support comfort, mention, mood, properly, intends, Short a and Long a What Is a Sentence? Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction consisted, positive, advanced, peculiar,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Sharing talent Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize similar stories Basic Words: blade, gray, past, Descriptive Paragraph
Because of BookEnds Domain-Specific Vocabulary afraid, magic, delay, amaze, drain,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill citizen, resident, volunteer, public servant maybe, break, sale, hang, stain, Focus Trait
1 Point of View
Flashback
How to Have a Literature
Discussion Vocabulary Strategies
glass, raft, jail, crayon, fact, stale,
steak
Word Choice
Prefixes re-, un-, dis- Review Words: skate, plan, chain, Write About Reading
today, erase Performance Task
Challenge Words: fraction, trait,
champion, activity, graceful
Anchor Text Target Skill Open and Closed Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
My Brother Martin: Author’s Purpose Syllables The Troublemaker Who Healed injustice, numerous, segregation, nourishing, Short e and Long e Kinds of Sentences Narrative Writing
A Sister Remembers a Nation captured, dream, encounters, preferred,
Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Target Strategy recall, example Spelling Words Writing Form
Martin Luther King Jr. Monitor/Clarify Speaking/Listening: Listing text Basic Words: west, steep, member, Story
Genre: Biography details Domain-Specific Vocabulary gleam, fresh, freedom, speed,
Second Read Skills abolish, disobedience, slavery, reform steam, beast, believe, speck, kept, Writing Trait
2 Paired Selection
Langston Hughes: A Poet and a
Explain Historical Events
Idioms Vocabulary Strategies
cheap, pretend, greed, shelf, least,
eager, reason, chief
Word Choice
Dreamer Prefixes in-, im- il-, ir- Review Words: sweet, smell, spent, Write About Reading
Genre: Poetry treat, leave Performance Task
Challenge Words: echo, menu,
creature, reveal, restaurant Research/Media Literacy Skills
Use Internet Sources
Anchor Text Target Skill The VCCV Syllable Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
My Librarian Is a Camel Cause and Effect Pattern Bridging the Gap isolated, virtual, devour, remote, impassable, Short i and Long i Quotations Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Text access, obtain, preserve, extremes, avid
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Citing text Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize evidence to support a view Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: skill, crime, grind, Dialogue
From Idea to Book demographics, censorship, public domain, tonight, brick, flight, live, chill,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills public opinion delight, build, ditch, decide, Writing Trait
3 Interpret Visuals
Domain-Specific Vocabulary Strategies
witness, wind, district, inch, sigh,
fright, remind, split
Voice
Vocabulary Using Context Review Words: gift, tight, sight, Write About Reading
blind, shiny Performance Task
Challenge Words: ignorant,
recognize, advice, twilight, rigid Research/Media Literacy Skills
Take Notes and Categorize Information

Grade 4: Unit 1
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VCV and VCCV Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Power of W.O.W.! Theme Syllable Bookmobile Rescue assist, burglaries, innocent, scheme, Short o and Long oo Fragments and Run- Narrative Writing
Genre: Play Patterns regretfully, misjudged, suspect, favor, On Sentences
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Sharing speculated, prior Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate similar experiences Basic Words: block, shown, oatmeal, Fictional Narrative: Prewrite
The Kid’s Guide to Money Domain-Specific Vocabulary wrote, fellow, scold, coast, odd,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill charity, coalition, involvement, community locate, slope, throat, host, online, Writing Trait
4 Elements of Drama Recount an Experience service shock, solve, known, remote, stock, Ideas
Allusion boast, globe
Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: foam, shadow, Write About Reading
Prefixes non-, mis- clock, glow, coach Performance Task
Challenge Words: bonus, approach,
motion, continent, accomplish
Anchor Text Target Skill Homophones Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Stormalong Understanding Mighty Joe Magarac yearning, memorable, betrayed, condition, Homophones Proper Nouns Narrative Writing
Genre: Tall Tale Characters seafaring, shortage, tidal, outcast,
Speaking/Listening: Retelling foaming, horrified Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy Basic Words: wait, weight, heard, Imaginative Story: Draft, Revise, Edit,
Hoderi the Fisherman Infer/Predict Speaking and Listening Skill Domain-Specific Vocabulary herd, days, daze, heel, heal, peak, Publish
Genre: Play/Folk Tale Literature Discussion lifestyle, tolerance, values, social rules peek, sent, cent, scent, feet, feat,
5 Second Read Skills vain, vane, vein, miner, minor Writing Trait
Hyperbole Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: it’s, its, their, there, Organization
Point of View Reference Materials they’re
Challenge Words: raise, raze, rays, Write About Reading
principal, principle Performance Task

Grade 4: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Invasion from Mars Story Structure Consonant The Tunguska Event alarmed, reacted, convey, daring, awe, Vowel Sounds: Short u and Long u, Verbs Informative Writing
Genre: Play Patterns: luminous, indescribable, extraordinary, /yoo/, /oo/
Target Strategy Digraphs Speaking/Listening: fade, conferring Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Paraphrasing a particular part Spelling Words News Report
The History of Radio Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: bunch, fruit, argue,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill broadcast, correspondent, journalism, public crumb, crew, tune, juice, refuse, Focus Trait
6 Elements of Drama
Formal and Informal
Listen to a Recording relations truth, young, clue, trunk, amuse,
suit, rude, trust, dew, stuck, rescue,
Ideas
Language Vocabulary Strategies brush Write About Reading

Suffixes -y, -ous Review Words: drew, true, cube, Performance Task
Sunday, stuff
Challenge Words: computer,
mustard, tissue, customer, attitude
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Phrasing: Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Coming Distractions: Questioning Fact and Opinion Consonant Punctuation Steven Spielberg: A Filmmaker’s entertaining, promote, focus, advertise, jolts, Vowel Sounds: /oo/, /oo/ Verb Tenses Informative Writing
Movies Patterns: Journey critics, target, thrilling, angles, generated
Genre: Informational Text Target Strategy Clusters Spelling Words Writing Form
Summarize Speaking/Listening: Identifying Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: bloom, cookbook, tool, Informational Paragraph
Paired Selection supporting reasons studio, producer, release, manipulate shampoo, put, wool, stool, proof,
How Do They Do That? Second Read Skills prove, group, brook, foolish, bush, Focus Trait
7 Genre: Informational Text Explain Concepts and
Ideas
Greek and Latin Word Parts
crooked, booth, raccoon, hook,
groom, roof, soup
Word Choice
Domain-Specific phon, photo, graph, auto, tele Review Words: stood, spoon, shook, Write About Reading
Vocabulary balloon, tooth Performance Task
Challenge Words: bulletin, cocoon,
cushion, proofread, marooned Research/Media Literacy Skills
Gather Relevant Information
Anchor Text Target Skill Stressed and Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Me and Uncle Romie Understanding Unstressed Jazzy Jasmine glorious, studio, concerned, model, smeared, Vowel Sounds: /ou/, /ô/ Progressive Verb Informative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Characters Syllables ruined, yanked, streak, schedule, feast Tenses
Speaking/Listening: Telling Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy similar stories Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: aloud, bald, hawk, Book Report
Sidewalk Artists Visualize craftsmanship, aesthetics, exhibition, south, faucet, proud, claw, tower,
Genre: Readers’ Theater Speaking and Listening Skill representation stalk, couple, howl, false, dawn, Writing Trait
8 Second Read Skills Hold a Literature Discussion allow, drown, pause, fault, cause, Organization
Point of View Vocabulary Strategies amount, cloudier
Theme Figurative Language Review Words: awful, power, sound, Write About Reading
almost, thousand Performance Task
Challenge Words: applaud, foul,
browse, gnaw, doubt

Grade 4: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Dear Mr. Winston Conclusions and Beginning Is Sasquatch Out There? fault, borrow, reference, fainted, genuine, Vowel +/r/ Sounds Compound and Informational Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Generalizations Syllables local, apologize, proof, slimy, insisted Complex Sentences
Speaking/Listening: Identifying Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy text evidence Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: spark, prepare, cheer, Explanatory Essay: Prewrite
Field Guide to Snakes of the Question reference material, database, retrieval, tear, scarf, scare, repair, earring,
Southwest bibliography scarce, weird, sharp, rear, spare, Writing Trait
9 Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills
Understanding Vocabulary Strategies
gear, hairy, compare, alarm, harsh,
upstairs, square
Organization
Characters Antonyms Review Words: air, clear, large, pair, Write About Reading
Humor chair Performance Task
Challenge Words: weary, startle,
appear, barnacle, awareness Research/Media Literacy Skills
Investigate a Topic
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel + r in Multi- Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
José! Born to Dance Author’s Purpose Syllable Words Mexican Dove debut, stubborn, permission, hauling, More Vowel + /r/ Sounds Pronouns Informational Writing
Genre: Biography mournful, towered, triumph, discouraged,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: toured, border Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate Paraphrasing a particular part Basic Words: learn, dirty, worn, sore, Explanatory Essay: Draft, Revise,
Dance to the Beat Domain-Specific Vocabulary thirst, burn, record, cure, board, Edit, Publish
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill choreography, dynamic, intermission, troupe course, worth, early, return, pure,
10 Simile and Metaphor Recount an Experience world, search, worse, thirteen, Writing Trait
Genre: Biography Vocabulary Strategies sport, current Word Choice
Shades of Meaning Review Words: first, hurt, work, third,
storm Write About Reading
Challenge Words: curious, thorough, Performance Task
earnest, portion, foreign

Discovering Mars: The Amazing Story Summarize sphere, astronomers, telescope, poles, ange,
Extended
conquest, diameter, craters, mammoth,

Reading
of the Red Planet Visualize

Analyze/Evaluate solar system, basin, base, colossal,
Monitor/Clarify advanced, cosmic, rays, ultraviolet,
microbes, roving, shuttles, gravity, cargo,
mass, scheme, permafrost, sustain,
ozone, atmosphere

Grade 4: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Compound Words Phrasing: Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms Text and Graphic Punctuation The Big Storm whirling, rapidly, condense, source, rotating, Compound Words Frequently Confused Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text Features rage, experience, ancient, predict, Words
Speaking/Listening: registered Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy Paraphrasing Basic Words: somebody, fireplace, Persuasive Paragraph
Recovering from Katrina Infer/Predict Domain-Specific Vocabulary nearby, toothbrush, homesick,
Genre: Newspaper Article barometer, humidity, pressure, condensation make-believe, anything, all right, Writing Trait
Second Read Skills goodbye, forehead, classmate, Ideas
11 Explain Scientific Ideas
Text Structure
Suffixes -ful, -less, -ness, -ment
flashlight, haircut, twenty-two,
driveway, alarm clock, baby-sit, Write About Reading
airport, forever, mailbox Performance Task
Review Words: birthday, anyone,
everything, without, sometimes Research /Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: field trip, absent- Conduct a Research Project
minded, life jacket, skyscraper,
nevertheless
Anchor Text Target Skill Base Words and Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Earth Dragon Awakes Sequence of Events Endings Safe from Harm trembles, wreckage, slab, possessions, Words with -ed, or -ing Possessive Nouns Opinion Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction tenement, crushing, rubble, debris,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Identify timbers, constructed Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize supporting reasons and Basic Words: rising, traced, stripped, Problem-Solution Composition
Twisters evidence Domain-Specific Vocabulary slammed, dancing, striped,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills core, crust, epicenter, landform, rock winning, snapping, bragging, Writing Trait
12 Conclusions and
Generalizations
Paraphrase Information in Vocabulary Strategies
handled, dripped, begged, dared,
skipped, hitting, spotted, raced,
Ideas
Author’s Word Choice Diverse Media Synonyms dimmed, spinning, escaped Write About Reading
Review Words: changing, joking, Performance Task
swimming, wrapped, tapping
Challenge Words: urged, striving,
whipped, breathing, quizzed
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Sequence of Events Common Word On My Way to Meet the Khan: display, alert, weariness, fractured, More Words with Modal Auxiliaries Opinion Writing
Bottom of the World Parts Excerpts from Marco Polo’s standards, vision, huddle, graceful, -ed or -ing
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Target Strategy Adventures stranded, concluded Writing Form
Summarize Spelling Words Persuasive Letter
Paired Selection Speaking/Listening: Discussing Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: wiped, covered,
Cold, Cold Science Second Read Skills the text, reviewing key ideas ecosystem, food web, energy, resource mapped, pleasing, slipped, Writing Trait
Genre: Informational Text Simile and Metaphor putting, traveled, seeking, visiting, Voice
13 Domain-Specific
Vocabulary
Discuss to Compare and
Greek and Latin Word Parts
mixed, shipped, phoning, offered,
smelling, hiking, checking, fainted, Write About Reading
Contrast Accounts spect, struct, tele, vis landed, becoming, wandering Performance Task
Review Words: fixing, saving, stared,
dropped, grinning
Challenge Words: amusing,
entertained, admitted, stunning,
starving

Grade 4: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Life and Times of the Ant Text and Graphic Suffixes Wicked Wind social, exchanges, excess, reinforce, storage, Final Long e Participles Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text Features transport, chamber, scarce, obstacles,
Speaking/Listening: Listen to transfers Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy make connections Basic Words: turkey, lonely, colony, Persuasive Essay: Prewrite
The Dove and the Ant Question Domain-Specific Vocabulary steady, hungry, valley, hockey,
Genre: Fable/Traditional Tale arthropod, exoskeleton, larva, invertebrate starry, melody, movie, duty, Writing Trait
14 Second Read Skills
Explain Scientific Vocabulary Strategies
drowsy, chimney, plenty, daily,
alley, fifty, empty, injury, prairie
Organization
Concepts and Ideas Suffixes -able, -ible Review Words: cherry, jelly, sticky, Write About Reading
Author’s Purpose worry, curly Performance Task
Challenge Words: envy, fiery, mercy,
discovery, mystery Research/Media Literacy Skills
Take Notes and Categorize Information
Anchor Text Target Skill Three-Syllable Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Ecology for Kids Main Ideas and Details Words Forests Are Forever organisms, directly, affect, traces, vast, Changing Final y to i Irregular Verbs Opinion Writing
Genre: Informational Text habitats, variety, species, banned,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarize radiation Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify ideas Basic Words: tiniest, hobbies, Persuasive Essay: Draft, Revise, Edit,
Wonderful Weather: “Fog,” “Weather,” Domain-Specific Vocabulary copied, countries, pitied, easier, Publish
“Umbrella,” "Spring Rain," and Second Read Skills conversation, extinction, endangered, laziest, families, spied, happiest,
“Weatherbee's Diner” Author’s Word Choice erosion, climate ladies, friendlier, studied, busier, Writing Trait
15 Genre: Poetry Analyze an Argument breezier, prettiest, noisier, healthier, Ideas
Vocabulary Strategies butterflies funniest
Using Context Review Words: hurried, stories, Write About Reading
carried, pennies, babies Performance Task
Challenge Words: heaviest,
categories, communities, Research/Media Literacy Skills
multiplied, qualities Conduct a Research Project

Grade 4: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Sound/Spelling Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Riding Freedom Compare and Contrast Changes Getting the Story escorted, swelled, relied, reputation, worthy, Spelling /k/, /ng/, and /kw/ Adjectives Narrative Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction churning, situation, deserve, defended,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Reviewing satisfied Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify key ideas Basic Words: risky, track, topic, Descriptive Paragraph
Spindletop Domain-Specific Vocabulary blank, question, pocket, monkey,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill frontier, pioneer, expansion, territory junk, equal, ache, public, attack, Writing Trait
16 Personification Report on a Text struck, earthquake, picnic, banker, Ideas
Genre: Historical Fiction Vocabulary Strategies electric, blanket, mistake, stomach
Figurative Language Review Words: quick, squeeze, Write About Reading
shark, second, circus Performance Task
Challenge Words: request, skeleton,
peculiar, attic, reckless
Anchor Text Target Skill More Sound/ Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Right Dog for the Job: Ira’s Path Sequence of Events Spelling Let Me Be Brave reward, graduate, symbol, foster, disobey, Words with Final /j/ and /s/ Adverbs Narrative Writing
from Service Dog to Guide Dog Changes confidence, patiently, confesses,
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: ceremony, performs Spelling Words Writing Form
Summarize Paraphrasing Basic Words: glance, judge, Friendly Letter
Paired Selection Domain-Specific Vocabulary damage, package, twice, stage,
Knowing Noses: Search-and-Rescue Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill safety, well-being, lifestyle, precaution carriage, since, practice, marriage, Writing Trait
17 Dogs
Main Idea and Details
Domain-Specific
Literature Discussion
baggage, office, message, bridge,
chance, notice, ridge, manage,
Voice
Vocabulary Suffixes -ion, -ation, -ition palace, bandage Write About Reading
Review Words: once, dance, Performance Task
change, age, bounce
Challenge Words: fringe, average,
fleece, fragrance, excellence
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Accuracy and Self- Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Hercules’ Quest Story Structure Prefixes re-, Correction Theseus and the Minotaur acquire, unfortunate, coerce, boasted, Prefixes: re-, un-, dis- Prepositions and Narrative Writing
Genre: Myth un-, dis- beamed, glared, ceased, declared, Prepositional
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: devised, resourceful Spelling Words Phrases Writing Form
Paired Selection Question Paraphrasing Basic Words: unused, refresh, Story
Zomo’s Friends Domain-Specific Vocabulary dislike, replace, unpaid, redo,
Genre: Folktale Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill legacy, mythology, tradition, quest disorder, unplanned, distrust, Writing Trait
Theme Tell a Story rewind, untrue, unload, recall, Word Choice
18 Allusion Vocabulary Strategies displease, uneven, rebuild, restart,
Adages and Proverbs uncover, untidy, discolor Write About Reading
Review Words: reuse, unfair, Performance Task
rewrite, unclear, untie
Challenge Words: disband,
rearrange, discontinue, refund,
unusual

Grade 4: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill More Common Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Conclusions and Suffixes The Father of India overcome, association, capitol, drought, Suffixes: -ful, -less, -ness, -ment Relative Pronouns Narrative Writing
Chavez Generalizations dedicate, publicity, violence, conflicts, and Adverbs
Genre: Biography Speaking/Listening: Discussing horizon, brilliant Spelling Words Writing Form
Strategy text details Basic Words: colorful, weakness, Personal Narrative: Prewrite
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Domain-Specific Vocabulary movement, endless, truthful, illness,
The Edible Schoolyard agronomy, commerce, cultivate subsistence cheerful, useless, beautiful, restless, Writing Trait
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills clumsiness, pavement, peaceful, Organization
19 Idioms
Problem and Solution
Reference Materials
fondness, neatness, speechless,
statement, wasteful, penniless, Write About Reading
treatment Performance Task
Review Words: kindness, careful,
sickness, helpless, fearful Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: numbness, Gather Relevant Information
ailment, resourceful, cleanliness,
appointment
Anchor Text Target Skill VCCV Pattern and Phrasing: Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Sacagawea Main Ideas and Details Word Parts Punctuation Race Against Death territory, accompany, proposed, interpreter, Words with VCCV Pattern Abbreviations Narrative Writing
Genre: Biography duty, supplies, route, corps, clumsy,
Strategy Speaking/Listening: Citing text landmark Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize reasons and evidence Basic Words: million, collect, lumber, Personal Narrative: Draft, Revise, Edit,
Native American Nature Poetry Domain-Specific Vocabulary pepper, plastic, borrow, support, Publish
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill cultural identity, language, celebration, thirty, perfect, attend, canyon,
20 Onomatopoeia
Text Structure
Paraphrase Text Read Aloud indigenous traffic, fortune, danger, soccer,
engine, picture, survive, seldom,
Writing Trait:
Ideas
Vocabulary Strategies effort
Shades of Meaning Review Words: until, invite, happen, Write About Reading
forget, letter Performance Task
Challenge Words: occur, venture,
challenge, rascal, splendid

Horses Monitor/Clarify ancestor, grazing, faint, sensitive, sense,
Extended
Reading
Visualize nuzzling, dominant, gaits, stride,

Infer/Predict markings, bays, roans, duns, offspring,
feral, moors, mounted, bareback, shod

Grade 4: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VCV Pattern and Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The World According to Humphrey Theme Word Parts Fun and Games on the Range appreciate, blaring, combination, promptly, Words with VCV Pattern Comparative and Informative Writing
Genre: Fantasy introduce, nocturnal, feats, effort, suggest, Superlative
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Telling racket Spelling Words Adjectives and Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize similar stories (relating own Basic Words: event, humor, rapid, Adverbs Summary
Make the Switch experiences to story) Vocabulary Strategies music, relief, planet, detail, unite,
Genre: Advertisement Second Read Skills Using Context frozen, figure, siren, polite, hotel, Writing Trait
21 Idioms Speaking and Listening Skill protest, punish, defend, relay, Ideas
Point of View Literature Discussion habit, student, moment
Review Words: alive, open, orange, Write About Reading
begin, forest Performance Task
Challenge Words: rumor, jealous,
license, image, rival
Anchor Text Target Skill Syllable Patterns Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Cause and Effect and Word Parts Jane’s Big Ideas politics, intelligent, disorderly, approve, polls, Words with VCCV and VCV Patterns Negatives Informative Writing
Women the Vote legislature, amendment, candidates,
Genre: Biography Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: informed, denied Spelling Words Writing Form
Infer/Predict Paraphrasing particular part Basic Words: dentist, final, finish, Explanation
Paired Selection Domain-Specific Vocabulary narrow, shelter, ahead, corner,
The Role of the Constitution Second Read Skills suffrage, legislation, assembly, judicial hollow, divide, famous, recent, Writing Trait
22 Genre: Informational Text Conclusions and
Generalizations Vocabulary Strategies
silver, capture, cabin, dinner,
minus, minute, value, reward,
Sentence Fluency
Domain-Specific Adages and Proverbs broken Write About Reading

Vocabulary Review Words: again, enough, Performance Task
market, pencil, powder
Challenge Words: decent, secure, Research/Media Literacy Skills
standard, frontier, stampede Investigate a Topic
Anchor Text Target Skill Difficult VCCV Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Ever-Living Tree: The Life and Text and Graphic Patterns Deserts on the Move? resources, dense, evaporate, shallow, Words with VCCV Pattern Punctuation Informative Writing
Times of a Coast Redwood Features moisture, civilized, continent,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking/Listening: Explaining opportunities, customs, independent Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy the text Basic Words: poster, secret, Procedural Composition
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify Domain-Specific Vocabulary: whether, author, rocket, bushel,
Towering Trees Speaking and Listening Skill seedling, pollination, maturity, life cycle, agree, bucket, ticket, declare, Writing Trait
23 Genre: Poetry Second Read Skills
Similes
Recount an Experience germinate chicken, clothing, apron, whiskers,
degree, gather, achieve, rather,
Organization
Text Structure Vocabulary Strategies bracket, machine Write About Reading

Prefixes pre-, inter-, ex- Review Words: person, basket, Performance Task
between, artist, jacket
Challenge Words: regret, nephew,
method, decline, vibrate

Grade 4: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VCCCV Pattern Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Compare and Contrast New Friends in the Newsroom bond, suffered, intruder, companion, Words with VCCCV Pattern Commas Informative Writing
Remarkable Friendship enclosure, inseparable, charged, chief,
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Recounting exhausted, affection Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate a similar experience Basic Words: hundred, supply, Research Report: Prewrite
Paired Selection Domain-Specific Vocabulary: single, middle, explain, surprise,
Sea Sanctuary Second Read Skills adaptation, community, learned behavior, pilgrim, sandwich, instead, Writing Trait
24 Genre: Informational Text Fact and Opinion
Author’s Word Choice
survive, shelter complete, monster, settle, address,
farther, sample, although, turtle,
Ideas
Vocabulary Strategies athlete, orchard, kingdom Write About Reading

Suffixes -ed, -ly Review Words: daughter, neighbor, Performance Task
children, pumpkin, uncle
Challenge Words: fortress, instant, Research/Media Literacy Skills
exclaim, mattress, sculptor Use Internet Sources
Anchor Text Target Skill VV Pattern Adjust Rate to Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Fun They Had Author’s Purpose Purpose The Future of Flight progress, calculated, dispute, centuries, Words with VV Pattern Proper Mechanics Informative Writing
Genre: Science Fiction superior, insert, waste, inspector,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Identifying mechanical, average Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Question reasons and text evidence Basic Words: idea, lion, usual, radio, Research Report:
Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Domain-Specific Vocabulary: liar, poem, India, piano, January, Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish
Great Inventions Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill storage device, scanner, disc, records quiet, poet, science, diary, violin,
25 Genre: Informational Text Genre: Science Fiction Tell a Story period, February, cereal, video, Writing Trait
Formal and Informal Vocabulary Strategies meteor, rodeo Word Choice
Language Greek and Latin Word Parts Review Words: giant, lesson,
meter, therm, aud, fac program, quart, problem Write About Reading
Challenge Words: variety, gradual, Performance Task
geography, diagram, punctuate

Grade 4: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Common Final Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Girl Who Loved Spiders Story Structure Syllables The Importance of Spiders peculiar, intends, captured, nourishing, Final Schwa + /r/ Sound Making Comparisons Opinion Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction isolated, obtain, assist, favor, condition,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: memorable Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Visualize Paraphrasing main points Basic Words: enter, banner, sugar, Response to Fiction
Web Wise Vocabulary Strategies shower, motor, collar, labor, finger,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill Greek and Latin Word Parts mirror, beggar, favor, bother, Writing Trait
Point of View Presenting/Viewing a Dramatic fever, doctor, temper, actor, polar, Word Choice
Poetry Performance sweater, traitor, whenever
The Spider, Review Words: river, summer, Write About Reading
Spider Ropes dollar, center, number Performance Task
Challenge Words: calendar, error,
Below Level popular, barrier, director
Trade Book
26 Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
Author: Mildred Pitts Walter
On Level
Trade Book
Phineas L. MacGuire…Gets Slimed!
Author: Frances O’Roark Dowell
Advanced
Trade Book
Sea Turtles: Ocean Nomads
Author: Mary M. Cerullo
Long Article Target Skill More Final Phrasing: Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Amphibian Alert! Main Ideas/Details Syllables Punctuation Nowhere Else on Earth betrayed, shortage, species, continent, Final Schwa + /l/ Sound More Comparisons Opinion Writing
Genre: scarce, focus, convey, alert, introduce,
Informational Text Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Reviewing opportunities Spelling Words Writing Form
Question key ideas to support a point Basic Words: title, towel, battle, Journal Entry
Short Article Vocabulary Strategies pedal, metal, simple, eagle, special,
The Frog in the Milk Pail Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill Analogies total, trouble, nickel, gentle, barrel, Writing Trait
Genre: Fable Word Choice Make an Informational model, tangle, ankle, marvel, Voice
Presentation juggle, squirrel, riddle
Poetry Review Words: circle, travel, apple, Write About Reading
Toad by the Road, The Poison-Dart Frogs little, purple Performance Task
Challenge Words: cancel, decimal,
Below Level material, pretzel, triangle
Trade Book
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
27 Author: Mildred Pitts Walter
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book

Grade 4: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Stress in Rate Make an Informal Presentation Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Museums: Worlds of Wonder Fact and Opinion Multisyllable apologize, genuine, triumph, source, Three-Syllable Words Possessive Pronouns Opinion Writing
Genre: Expository Nonfiction Words registered, display, concluded, obstacles,
Target Strategy affect, vast Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Monitor/Clarify Basic Words: library, another, Public Service Announcement
Making the Most from Trash Vocabulary Strategies hospital, example, deliver, history,
Genre: Photo Essay Second Read Skill Prefixes con-, com-, in-, im- however, several, vacation, Writing Trait
Tone important, victory, imagine, Organization
Poetry camera, potato, remember,
Dinosaur Bone, together, memory, favorite, Write About Reading
Museum Farewell continue, president Performance Task
Review Words: unlucky, powerful,
Below Level grandmother, November
Trade Book Challenge Words: internal,
28 Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
Author: Mildred Pitts Walter
ornament, interview, universe,
article
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book
Long Article Target Skill Words with Silent Phrasing: Pauses Discuss Symbols and Images Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Save Timber Woods! Understanding Consonants in Media defended, satisfied, confidence, symbol, Words with Silent Consonants Correct Pronouns Opinion Writing
Genre: Readers' Theater Characters boasted, resourceful, brilliant, publicity,
territory, proposed Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article, Following Muir: A Target Strategy Basic Words: half, comb, mortgage, Opinion Essay
Persuasive Essay Infer/Predict Vocabulary Strategies honor, fasten, kneel, wreath, calm,
Genre: Persuasive Essay Word Origins answer, handsome, wrinkle, listen, Writing Trait
Second Read Skill fetch, yolk, climb, honest, knuckle, Ideas
Poetry Mood plumber, limb, folktale
The Comb of Trees, Enjoy the Earth Review Words: talk, knife, wrong, Write About Reading
knock, hour Performance Task
Below Level Challenge Words: tomb, glisten,
Trade Book design, hasten, wrestle
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book

Grade 4: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Unusual Spellings Accuracy and Self- Dramatize a Story Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Mystery at Reed’s Pond Conclusions/ Correction appreciate, effort, denied, informed, shallow, Unusual Spellings Pronoun Contractions Opinion Writing
Genre: Mystery Generalizations resources, average, suffered, inspector,
progress Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Target Strategy Basic Words: meant, routine, style, Opinion Essay
A Big Python Problem Summarize Vocabulary Strategies flood, month, pleasant, guess,
Genre: Informational Text Suffixes -er, -or, -ist women, either, against, disguise, Writing Trait
Second Read Skill sweat, magazine, guard, receive, Sentence Fluency
Poetry Word Choice wonder, league, type, ceiling,
Naming the Turtle, Greater Flamingo money Write About Reading
Review Words: front, head, elbow, Performance Task
Below Level shoe, mind
Trade Book Challenge Words: plaid, onion,
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World guarantee, rhyme, submarine
On Level
Trade Book
Advanced
Trade Book

Grade 5: Unit 1
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VCV Syllable Pattern Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
“A Package for Mrs. Jewls” Story Structure Ode to Lunch disturbing, interrupted, squashing, specialty, Short Vowels Complete Sentences Narrative Writing
from Wayside School Is struggled, staggered, wobbled, collapsed,
Falling Down Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Explaining the numb, shifted Spelling Words Writing Form
Genre: Humorous Fiction Summarize outcome of the story Basic Words: breath, wobble, blister, Short Story
Domain-Specific Words crush, direct, promise, grasp,
Paired Selection Second Read acceleration, inertia, momentum, physical numb, hymn, shovel, gravity, Focus Trait
Questioning Gravity Skills property frantic, swift, feather, comic, Ideas
1 Genre: Readers’ Theater Irony bundle, solid, weather, energy,
Point of View Vocabulary Strategies stingy Write About Reading
Using Context Review Words: bunch, district, track, Performance Task
pleasant, odd
Challenge Words: instruct, distress, Research/Media Literacy Skills
summit, massive, physical Conduct Research to Solve a
Problem
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel Sounds in VCV Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
A Royal Mystery Theme Syllable Patterns The Iron Princess discomfort, primitive, interior, honored, secretive, Long a and Long e Kinds of Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Play immersed, bungled, contagious, brandishing,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing imprinted Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Question the conclusion, explaining in Basic Words: awake, feast, stray, Descriptive Narrative
The Princess and the Pea their own words what they think Domain-Specific Words greet, praise, disease, repeat,
Genre: Fairytale Second Read will happen alternative medium, dimension, mood, display, braces, thief, ashamed, Focus Trait
Skills performance, technique sleeve, waist, beneath, sheepish, Voice
2 Elements of Drama Speaking and Listening Skill release, remain, sway, training,
Characterization Present a Multimedia Story Vocabulary Strategies niece Write About Reading
Adaptation Prefixes non-, un-, dis-, mis- Review Words: stale, afraid, Performance Task
freedom, eager, explain
Challenge Words: terrain, succeed,
betray, motivate, upheaval
Anchor Text Target Skill VCCV Pattern Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Off and Running Compare and Should We Let Politics Become debate, inflated, shaken, decorated, gradually, Long i and Long o Compound Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Contrast Personal? hesitated, scanned, stalled, beckoned,
prodded Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Expressing an Basic Words: sign, groan, reply, Dialogue
Vote for Me! Infer/Predict opinion and explaining why Domain-Specific Words thrown, strike, mighty, stroll,
Genre: Persuasive Text ballot, campaign, debate, election, slogan compose, dough, height, excite, Focus Trait
3 Second Read Speaking and Listening Skill apply, slight, define, odor, spider, Word Choice
Skills Participate in a Debate Vocabulary Strategies control, silent, brighten, approach
Idioms Using Context Review Words: sigh, twice, shown, Write About Reading
Formal and Informal tonight, remote Performance Task
Language Challenge Words: require, reproach,
defy, plight, opponent

Grade 5: Unit 1
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Digraphs in Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Double Dutch: A Celebration Sequence of Events Multisyllable Learning the Ropes unison, uniform, mastered, competition, Vowel Sounds: /oo/, /yoo/ Common and Proper Narrative Writing
of Jump Rope, Rhyme, Words identical, element, routine, intimidated, recite, Nouns
and Sisterhood Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing qualifying Spelling Words Writing Form
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Monitor/Clarify in one sentence Basic Words: glue, flute, youth, Fictional Narrative: Prewrite
Domain-Specific Words accuse, bruise, stew, choose, loose,
Paired Selection Second Read athletics, cardiovascular, physical exam, lose, view, confuse, cruise, jewel, Focus Trait
4 Score!
Genre: Poetry
Skills
Rhythm
sportsmanship execute, route, cartoon, avenue,
include, assume, souvenir
Ideas
Narrative Pacing Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: fruit, group, refuse, Write About Reading
Suffixes -ion, -tion argue, foolish Performance Task
Challenge Words: conclude, pursuit,
intrude, subdue, presume Research/Media Literacy Skills
Answer a Research Question
Anchor Text Target Skill Stressed and Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Elisa’s Diary Theme Unstressed Fair or Foul? officially, preliminary, opponents, brutal, Vowel Sounds: /ou/, /ô/, /oi/ Singular and Plural Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Syllables embarrassed, typically, gorgeous, supposedly, Nouns
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing sweeping, obvious Spelling Words: Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize Basic Words: ounce, sprawl, launch, Fictional Narrative: Revise
Words Free as Confetti Speaking and Listening Skill Domain-Specific Words loyal, avoid, basketball, moist,
Genre: Poetry Second Read Participate in a Group Discussion cultural identity, language barrier, perspective, haunt, scowl, naughty, destroy, Focus Trait
Skills non-verbal communication, translation saucer, pounce, poison, August, Voice
5 Dialogue auction, royal, coward, awkward,
Sequence of Events Vocabulary Strategies encounter Write About Reading
Suffixes -ly, -ful Review Words: cause, faucet, tower, Performance Task
false, amount
Challenge Words: poise, loiter,
exhaust, assault, alternate

Grade 5: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Beginning Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo Cause-and-Effect Syllables America’s Eagle dwarfed, presence, procedure, outfitted, Vowel + /r/ Sounds Verbs Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text transferred, calculate, snug, perch,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing enthusiastic, beaming Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Question the information Basic Words: glory, aware, carton, Procedural Composition
Why Koala Has No Tail Domain-Specific Words adore, aboard, dairy, ordeal,
Genre: Myth Second Read adaptive, endangered species, habitat, pardon, warn, vary, barely, torch, Focus Trait
Skills preservation, satellite tracking barge, soar, beware, absorb, Organization
6 Quotes and armor, stairway, perform, former
Description Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: board, repair, sharp, Write About Reading
Domain-Specific Synonyms and Antonyms square, compare Performance Task
Vocabulary Challenge Words: discard, forfeit,
orchestra, rarity, hoard Research/Media Literacy Skills
Investigate Different Aspects of a
Topic
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel + /r/ Sounds Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Old Yeller Understanding Annie’s Pride frantic, lunging, stride, checking, wheeled, More Vowel + /r/ Sounds Direct and Indirect Informative Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction Characters bounding, shouldered, strained, romp, Objects
Speaking/Listening: Answering picturing Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy questions to develop a Basic Words: earth, peer, twirl, Compare-Contrast Essay
What Makes It Good? Visualize summary Domain-Specific Words burnt, smear, further, appear,
Genre: Persuasive Text decisiveness, devotion, maturity, obligation, self- worthwhile, nerve, pier, squirm, Focus Trait
7 Second Read
Skills
sacrificing weary, alert, murmur, one-third,
reverse, worship, career, research,
Word Choice
Dialect Vocabulary Strategies volunteer Write About Reading

Author’s Word Adages and Proverbs Review Words: early, world, rear, Performance Task
Choice current, cheer
Challenge Words: yearn, engineer, Research/Media Literacy Skills
interpret, dreary, external Report on a Text
Anchor Text Target Skill Homophones Adjust Rate to Purpose Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Everglades Forever: Restoring Author’s Purpose Attack of the Alien Species endangered, unique, adapted, vegetation, Homophones Conjunctions Informative Writing
America’s Great Wetland conserving, restore, guardians, attracted,
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Picking out a regulate, responsibility Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/ Evaluate memorable detail, discussing Basic Words: steel, steal, aloud, Cause-and-Effect Essay
Paired Selection whether the story was effective Domain-Specific Words allowed, ring, wring, lesson, lessen,
National Parks of the West Second Read as a call to action carbon footprint, ecosystem, natural resource, who’s, whose, manor, manner, Focus Trait
8 Genre: Informational Text Skills wilderness pedal, peddle, berry, bury, hanger, Ideas
Explain Scientific Speaking and Listening Skill hangar, overdo, overdue
Ideas Explain an Author’s Argument Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: wait, weight, vain, Write About Reading
Domain-Specific Prefixes en-, re-, pre-, pro- vane, vein Performance Task
Vocabulary Challenge Words: canvass, canvas,
site, sight, cite

Grade 5: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Compound Words Phrasing: Punctuation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Storm Warriors Conclusions and A Watery Grave critical, secured, realization, annoyance, bundle, Compound Words Complex Sentences Informative Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction Generalizations clammy, squalling, commotion, demolished,
Speaking/Listening: Discussing the elite Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy significance of the title Basic Words: wildlife, uproar, Prewrite a Research Report
Pea Island’s Forgotten Heroes Infer/Predict Domain-Specific Words home run, headache, top-secret,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking and Listening Skill bold, competent, humility, purpose, unflappable teammate, wheelchair, light Focus Trait
Second Read Hold a Literature Discussion bulb, well-known, throughout, life Ideas
Skills Vocabulary Strategies preserver, barefoot, part-time,
9 Point of View Greek and Latin Roots warehouse, overboard, post office, Write About Reading
Characterization outspoken, up-to-date, awestruck, Performance Task
newscast
Review Words: goodbye, all right,
forever, twenty-two, somebody
Challenge Words: motorcycle,
overseas, quick-witted,
stomachache, bulletin board
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Schwa + Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Cougars Main Ideas and /r/ Sounds Who Tamed the Cat? unobserved, available, detecting, mature, Final Schwa + /r/ Sounds Direct Quotations and Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Details ferocious, resemble, particular, vary, Interjections
Speaking/Listening: Summarizing contentment, keen Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy Basic Words: cellar, flavor, cougar, Revise a Research Report
Purr-fection Monitor/Clarify Domain-Specific Words chapter, mayor, anger, senator,
Genre: Poetry adaptation, development, instinctive, passenger, major, popular, tractor, Focus Trait
Second Read observation, trait thunder, pillar, border, calendar, Sentence Fluency
10 Skills quarter, lunar, proper, elevator,
Explain Scientific Vocabulary Strategies bitter Write About Reading
Ideas Shades of Meaning Review Words: collar, honor, doctor, Performance Task
Domain-Specific enter, answer
Vocabulary Challenge Words: stellar, clamor, Research/Media Literacy Skills
tremor, circular, adviser Integrate Information from Multiple
Texts

Hound Dog True Monitor/Clarify potluck, custodial, traitorous, apprentice,
Visualize disposition, posterity, solitary, pursuit, matter-
Extended
Reading
Question of-fact, pouty, postpone, scrutiny, instincts,

Infer/Predict deterioration, impeccable, visage, propriety,
Summarize expertise, consequences, versus, lunge,
Analyze/Evaluate nickname, taut, mum, potential, retrieve,
ponder, prognostication, prone

Grade 5: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel Sounds in Accuracy and Self- Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Dangerous Crossing Cause-and-Effect Stressed Syllables Correction Mother and Son cramped, distracted, viewpoint, shattered, VCCV Pattern Subject and Object Opinion Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction surveyed, pressing, representatives, embark, Pronouns
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing bracing, conduct Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize Basic Words: bargain, journey, Opinion Essay
Revolution and Rights Domain-Specific Words pattern, arrive, object, suppose,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read checks and balances, congress, declaration, shoulder, permit, sorrow, tunnel, Focus Trait
Skills individual rights, representation subject, custom, suggest, perhaps, Voice
11 Visual Elements lawyer, timber, common, publish,
Primary Sources Vocabulary Strategies burden, scissors Write About Reading
Reference Materials Review Words: perfect, danger, Performance Task
narrow, survive, valley
Challenge Words: narrate, mentor, Research/Media Literacy Skills
attempt, collide, ignore Research Early American
Government
Anchor Text Target Skill Open and Closed Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Can’t You Make Them Fact and Opinion Syllables: VCV A Taxing Poem benefit, repeal, advantages, temporary, contrary, VCV Pattern Verb Tenses Opinion Writing
Behave, King George? Pattern prohibit, previously, midst, objected, rebellious
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Describing Spelling Words Writing Form
Question a character in one sentence, Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: human, exact, award, Problem-Solution Composition
Paired Selection sharing ideas colonies, freedom, protest, patriots, revolution behave, credit, basic, vivid, evil,
Tea Time! Second Read modern, nation, robot, panic, Focus Trait
12 Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Skills Speaking and Listening Skill Vocabulary Strategies select, cousin, item, police, prefer, Organization
Tone Summarize and Paraphrase Figurative Language menu, novel, deserve
Similes Information Review Words: figure, total, model, Write About Reading
equal, amaze Performance Task
Challenge Words: autumn,
nuisance, logic, column, laser
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Initial Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
They Called Her Molly Pitcher Conclusions and and Medial Lydia’s Journey legendary, formal, gushed, strategy, retreat, foes, VCCCV Pattern Regular and Irregular Opinion Writing
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Generalizations Digraphs shimmering, magnificent, revolution, plunged Verbs
Speaking/Listening: Discussing Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy the story, analyzing different Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: conflict, orphan, Persuasive Letter
A Spy for Freedom Analyze/Evaluate outcomes, expressing what commendation, duty, general, officer, regiment instant, complex, simply, burglar,
Genre: Play they would have done in her laundry, laughter, employ, anchor, Focus Trait
Second Read position Vocabulary Strategies merchant, improve, arctic, mischief, Ideas
13 Skills Reference Materials childhood, purchase, dolphin,
Text Structure Speaking and Listening Skill partner, complain, tremble Write About Reading
Domain-Specific Dramatize a Story Event Review Words: hundred, example, Performance Task
Vocabulary although, supply, empty
Challenge Words: anthem, illustrate,
function, conscience, apostrophe

Grade 5: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VV Syllable Pattern Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
James Forten Sequence of Events Freedom for Chatham Freeman persuade, apprentice, contributions, influential, VV pattern Commas and Opinion Writing
Genre: Biography aspects, authorities, bondage, provisions, Semicolons
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing dexterity, tentative Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize key events Basic Words: actual, cruel, influence, Persuasive Essay: Prewrite
Modern Minute Man Domain-Specific Words diet, museum, casual, ruin,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Speaking and Listening Skill abolitionist, emancipate, ethics, humanity, pioneer, trial, visual, realize, create, Focus Trait
14 Skills Create and Present a Timeline slavery riot, genuine, area, annual, audio, Organization
Explain Historical dial, theater, patriot
Events Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: video, science, Write About Reading
Main Ideas and Greek and Latin Roots February, period, usual Performance Task
Details graph, meter; port, ject Challenge Words: diagnose, media,
appreciate, society, prior
Anchor Text Target Skill Vowel + /l/ Sounds Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
We Were There, Too! Joseph Compare and in Unstressed Final Citizen Spies mimic, mocking, efficient, personally, lacked, Final Schwa + /l/ Sounds Transitions Opinion Writing
Plumb Martin and Sybil Contrast Syllable rural, tedious, organize, summons, peal
Ludington Speaking/Listening: Summarizing Spelling Words Writing Form
Genre: Biography Target Strategy a particular part Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: formal, whistle, label, Revise a Persuasive Essay
Monitor/Clarify defense, democracy, nationalism, pride, union puzzle, legal, angle, normal,
Paired Selection Speaking and Listening Skill needle, angel, pupil, struggle, level, Focus Trait
15 Patriotic Poetry
Genre: Poetry
Second Read
Skills
Discuss Poetic Elements Vocabulary Strategies
Prefixes in-, im-, il-, ir-
local, bicycle, channel, global,
stumble, quarrel, article, fossil
Word Choice
Text and Graphic Review Words: title, nickel, special Write About Reading
Features trouble, simple Performance Task
Text Structure Challenge Words: identical, vehicle,
mineral, colonel, artificial

Grade 5: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Word Parts and Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Lunch Money Author’s Purpose Inflectional Japanese Cartoons Are record, mental, launch, assuming, episodes, Words with -ed or -ing Adjectives Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Endings Manganificent developed, feature, incredibly, villains,
Target Strategy thumbed Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify Speaking/Listening: Summarizing Basic Words: scrubbed, listening, Friendly Letter
Zap! Pow!: A History of the the purpose in one sentence Domain-Specific Words stunned, knitting, carpeting,
Comics Second Read continuity, frame, movement, storyline wandered, gathering, beginning, Writing Trait
Genre: Informational Text Skills Speaking and Listening Skill skimmed, chatting, shrugged, Voice
16 Voice
Visual Elements
Share and Summarize a Story Vocabulary Strategies
Word Origins
bothering, whipped, quizzed,
suffering, scanned, ordered, Write About Reading
totaled, answered, upsetting Performance Task
Review Words: wandering, dimmed,
stripped, ordered, snapping
Challenge Words: compelling,
deposited, occurred, threatening,
canceled
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
LAFFF Story Structure Common Word The Visitor impressed, admitted, produced, destination, More Words with -ed or -ing Adverbs Narrative Writing
Genre: Science Fiction Parts original, concentrate, collected, rumor,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Discussing key suspense, compliment Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict ideas to draw conclusions Basic Words: tiring, borrowed, Character Description
From Dreams to Reality Domain-Specific Words freezing, delivered, whispered,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read experimentation, futuristic, ingenuity, patent, losing, decided, amazing, Focus Trait
Skills revolutionize performing, resulting, related, Word Choice
17 Literary Devices attending, damaged, remarked,
Point of View Vocabulary Strategies practicing, supported, united, Write About Reading
Reference Materials expected, amusing, repeated Performance Task
Review Words: pleasing, dared,
traveled, checking, landed Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: assigned, Create a Multimedia Presentation
entertaining, operated, rehearsing,
donated
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Suffixes Phrasing: Punctuation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Dog Newspaper Fact and Opinion Hundreds Rally at Fullerton High career, publication, household, edition, required, Changing Final y to i Prepositions and Narrative Writing
Genre: Autobiography formula, background, insights, uneventful, Prepositional
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarize destruction Spelling Words Phrases Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate the main conflict Basic Words: duties, earlier, loveliest, Autobiography
Poetry About Poetry Domain-Specific Words denied, ferries, sunnier, terrified,
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill brainstorm, creative license, manuscript, abilities, dirtier, scariest, trophies, Focus Trait
Main Ideas and Use Formal and Informal English publication, target audience cozier, enemies, iciest, greediest, Voice
18 Details drowsier, victories, horrified,
Narrative Pacing Vocabulary Strategies memories, strategies Write About Reading
Homophones and Homographs Review Words: easier, families, Performance Task
studied, countries, happiest
Challenge Words: unified,
dictionaries, boundaries, satisfied,
tragedies

Grade 5: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill More Common Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Darnell Rock Reporting Author’s Purpose Suffixes The Power of Spirit Lake issue, deteriorating, dependent, exception, Suffixes: -ful, -ly, -ness, -less, -ment More Kinds of Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction granted, effective, urge, violations, ordinance, Pronouns
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Drawing minimum Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize a diagram of the system Basic Words: lately, settlement, Prewrite a Personal Narrative
Volunteer! described (summarizing with Domain-Specific Words watchful, countless, steadily,
Genre: Persuasive Text Second Read diagrams) charity, coalition, generosity, neighborhood, closeness, calmly, government, Focus Trait
Skills volunteer agreement, cloudiness, delightful, Ideas
Dialogue Speaking and Listening Skill noisily, tardiness, forgetful,
19 Characterization Give and Evaluate a Persuasive Vocabulary Strategies forgiveness, harmless, enjoyment, Write About Reading
Speech Greek and Latin Suffixes appointment, effortless, plentiful Performance Task
-ism, -ist, -able, -ible Review Words: clumsiness,
movement, pavement, lonely,
penniless
Challenge Words: suspenseful,
merciless, seriousness,
contentment, suspiciously
Anchor Text Target Skill Stress in Three- Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Black Stallion Story Structure Syllable Words The Huntress piercing, descended, quivered, savage, delicacy, Words from Other Languages Proper Mechanics and Narrative Writing
Genre: Adventure fitful, heave, diminishing, rhythmic, marveling Writing Titles
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Question with details about plot, setting, Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: salsa, mattress, Revise a Personal Narrative
Horse Power characters, theme behaviors, cooperation, patience, relationship, tycoon, burrito, bandanna, tomato,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read training poncho, dungarees, lasso, patio, Focus Trait:
Skills Speaking and Listening Skill siesta, cargo, vanilla, tsunami, Voice
20 Characterization Hold a Literature Discussion Vocabulary Strategies iguana, plaza, caravan, hammock,
Theme Figurative Language pajamas, gallant Write About Reading
Review Words: canyon, mirror, Performance Task
magazine, rodeo, monkey
Challenge Words: mosquito,
cathedral, alligator, tambourine,
sombrero

About Time: A First Look at Monitor/Clarify principle, interval, revolution, coincided, aligned,
Extended
Reading
Time and Clocks Infer/Predict consistent, cylinder, corrosion, medieval,

Question mechanical, rudimentary, gears, coil,
precision, regulate, adjacent, theory

Grade 5: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Final Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Tucket’s Travels Sequence of Events Syllables Land Rush! undoubtedly, salvation, shuffled, stunted, Final /n/ or /∂ n/, /ch ∂ r/, /zh ∂ r/ The Verbs be and Opinion Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction evident, pace, seep, vain, mirages, factor have
Paired Selection Visualize a description in their own words Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: nature, certain, future, Editorial
Wild Weather atmosphere, barometer, climate, drought, villain, mountain, mixture, pleasure,
Genre: Technical Text Second Read Speaking and Listening Skill thunderstorm captain, departure, surgeon, Focus Trait
21 Skills
Figurative Language
Present Quantitative Information
texture, curtain, creature, treasure,
gesture, fountain, furniture,
Voice
Author’s Word Shades of Meaning measure, feature, adventure Write About Reading
Choice Review Words: picture, capture, Performance Task
surprise, receive, idea
Challenge Words: leisure, sculpture,
architecture, chieftain, enclosure
Anchor Text Target Skill More Final Syllables Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Birchbark House Theme Tales and Truths of the Ojibwe reasoned, margins, envy, upright, bared, spared, Final /ij/, /iv/, /is/ Perfect Tenses Opinion Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction nerve, banish, astonished, deserted
Paired Selection Infer/Predict in writing, then reading their Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: storage, olive, service, Response to Literature
Four Seasons of Food writing with appropriate rate customs, indigenous, language, mythology, relative, cabbage, courage, native,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read values passage, voyage, knowledge, Focus Trait
Skills Speaking and Listening Skill image, creative, average, justice, Organization
22 Author’s Word Give an Informative Speech Vocabulary Strategies detective, postage, cowardice,
Choice Reference Materials adjective, village, language Write About Reading
Visual Elements Review Words: notice, marriage, Performance Task
package, office, manage
Challenge Words: prejudice,
cooperative, beverage, heritage,
apprentice

Grade 5: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Unstressed Syllables Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Vaqueros: America’s First Text and Graphic The Turbulent History of Texas extending, dominated, residents, flourished, Unstressed Syllables Easily Confused Verbs Opinion Writing
Cowboys Features acquainted, prospered, hostile, acknowledged,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking/Listening: Summarizing sprawling, decline Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy in a paragraph, then reading Basic Words: entry, limit, talent, Persuasive Argument
Paired Selection Summarize the paragraph with appropriate Domain-Specific Words disturb, entire, wisdom, dozen,
Rhyme on the Range expression gold rush, pioneer, prospector, rancher, impress, respond, fortress, neglect, Focus Trait
23 Genre: Poetry Second Read
Skills
westward expansion patrol, kitchen, forbid, pirate,
spinach, adopt, frighten, surround,
Organization
Main Ideas and Vocabulary Strategies challenge Write About Reading

Details Adages Adages and Proverbs Review Words: honest, instead, Performance Task
whether, event, attend
Challenge Words: adapt, refuge, Research/Media Literacy Skills
distribute, industry, somber Report on a Text
Anchor Text Target Skill Simple Prefixes Accuracy and Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Rachel’s Journal: The Story of Cause-and-Effect Self-Correction Tales of the Trail rustling, balked, lectured, disadvantage, quaking, Prefixes: in-, un-, dis-, mis- Making Comparisons Opinion Writing
a Pioneer Girl beacon, mishap, surged, torment, fared
Genre: Historical Fiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Summarizing Spelling Words Writing Form
Analyze/Evaluate a particular part Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: mislead, dismiss, Prewrite a Response Essay
Paired Selection frontier, trailblazers, prairie, settlement, wagon insincere, unable, indirect, mistreat,
Westward to Freedom Second Read Speaking and Listening Skill train disaster, dishonest, insecure, Focus Trait
Genre: Informational Text Skills Compare and Contrast Varieties of unknown, incomplete, unequal, Organization
24 Figurative Language
Point of View
English Vocabulary Strategies
Using Context
unstable, misspell, disagree,
informal, discover, unwise, mislaid, Write About Reading
disgrace Performance Task
Review Words: untidy, disorder,
mistake, uneven, dislike
Challenge Words: invisible,
mishap, unfortunate, discourage,
unnecessary
Anchor Text Target Skill Consonant Phrasing: Punctuation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Lewis and Clark Main Ideas and Alternations The True Story of Sacagawea expedition, barrier, despite, fulfilled, range, Sufffix: -ion Contractions Opinion Writing
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Details techniques, resumed, edible, tributaries, trek
Speaking/Listening: Summarizing Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy main point by writing 3 Domain-Specific Words Basic Words: elect, election, tense, Revise a Response Essay
A Surprise Reunion Monitor/Clarify statements discovery, expedition, route, supplies, traveler tension, react, reaction, confess,
Genre: Play confession, decorate, decoration, Focus Trait
Second Read Vocabulary Strategies contribute, contribution, express, Word Choice
25 Skills Analogies expression, imitate, imitation,
Primary Source connect, connection, admire, Write About Reading
Explain Historical admiration Performance Task
Events Review Words: camera, famous,
question, movie, minute Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: fascinate, Use Primary and Secondary Sources
fascination, construct, construction

Grade 5: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Prefixes and Word Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Animals on the Move Text and Graphic Roots Moving from Place to Place disturbing, struggled, gradually, scanned, Word Parts: com-, con-, pre-, pro- Possessive Nouns Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Features identical, routine, gorgeous, sweeping,
Speaking/Listening: Paraphrasing primitive, brandishing Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Target Strategy and rephrasing in their own Basic Words: produce, company, Definition Paragraph
Skywoman’s Rescue Visualize words Vocabulary Strategies protect, preview, contain, combat,
Genre: Play Multiple-Meaning Words prejudge, commotion, contest, Focus Trait
Speaking and Listening Skill prefix, progress, computer, confide, Word Choice
Poetry Presenting a Dramatization convince, prospect, confirm,
The Whale, preflight, provide, propose, Write About Reading
Wild Geese promotion Performance Task
Review Words: continue, protest,
Below Level pretend, prepare
Trade Book Challenge Words: concurrent,
26 Skunk Scout
Author: Laurence Yep
conscious, commercial, complete,
conversation
On Level
Trade Book
Frindle
Advanced
Trade Book
Mysteries of the Mummy Kids
Author: Kelly Milner Halls
Genre: Nonfiction
Long Article Target Skill More Familiar Adjust Rate to Purpose Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Mysteries at Cliff Palace Theme Suffixes The Paleo Indians: Changing with dwarfed, procedure, transferred, enthusiastic, Suffixes -ant, -ent, -able, -ible, -ism, Titles and Informative Writing
Genre: Readers’ Theater the Times adapted, conserving, critical, realization, -ist Abbreviations
Target Strategy available, resemble Writing Form
Short Article Analyze/Evaluate Speaking/Listening: Paraphrasing Spelling Words Journal Entry
Cave of the Crystals main ideas to respond to a Vocabulary Strategies Basic Words: vacant, insistent,
Genre: Readers’ Theater question Suffixes -ness, -less, -ment reversible, patriotism, finalist, Focus Trait
honorable, contestant, observant, Voice
Poetry Speaking and Listening Skill urgent, pessimist, comfortable,
Places and Names: Give a Persuasive Speech absorbent, optimism, journalism, Write About Reading
A Traveler’s Guide, Los libros/ novelist, terrible, frequent, Performance Task
Books laughable, radiant, collectible
Review Words: president, important,
Below Level becoming, cheerful, illness
Trade Book Challenge Words: evident,
27 Skunk Scout triumphant, occupant, digestible,
Author: Laurence Yep curable
On Level
Trade Book
Frindle
Advanced
Trade Book
Genre: Nonfiction

Grade 5: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Greek Word Roots Expression Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Fossils: A Peek Into the Past Fact and Opinion Sue Tells a Story viewpoint, surveyed, advantages, previously, Greek Word Parts Commas in Sentences Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text legendary, retreat, persuade, aspects, rural,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Analyzing facts organize Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Question and opinions to understand the Basic Words: telephone, autograph, Summary
Trapped in Tar! message Vocabulary Strategies microscope, photograph, televise,
Genre: Informational Text Idioms biology, microphone, paragraph, Focus Trait
Speaking and Listening Skill symphony, telegraph, megaphone, Ideas
Poetry Participate in a Debate microwave, photocopy, biography,
Journey of the Woolly saxophone, telescope, calligraphy, Write About Reading
Mammoth, Fossils xylophone, homophone, Performance Task
homograph
Below Level Review Words: athlete, history,
Trade Book melody, type, topic
28 Skunk Scout
Challenge Words: telecommute,
bibliography, phonetic, microbe,
Genre: Realistic Fiction autobiography
On Level
Trade Book
Frindle
Advanced
Trade Book
Genre: Nonfiction
Long Article Target Skill Latin Word Roots Stress Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Case of the Missing Deer Conclusions and Fossils record, incredibly, destination, suspense, Latin Word Parts More Commas Informative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Generalizations required, insights, dependent, effective,
Speaking/Listening: Paraphrasing a diminishing, marveling Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Target Strategy particular part and rephrasing in Basic Words: Prewrite an Informational Essay
Fossil Fish Found! Infer/Predict their own words Vocabulary Strategies inspect, export, erupt, predict,
Genre: Informational Text Greek and Latin Roots respect, bankrupt, dictate, porter, Focus Trait
Speaking and Listening Skill tele, photo, graph, meter; scrib, rupt, port, ject report, spectacle, deport, interrupt, Organization
Poetry Oral Presentation dictator, import, disrupt, portable,
Encounter, transport, spectator, verdict, Write About Reading
Deep in the Forest dictionary Performance Task
Review Words:
Below Level support, hospital, polite, recent,
Trade Book memory
29 Skunk Scout
Challenge Words:
spectacular, contradict, corrupt,
Genre: Realistic Fiction retrospect, rupture
On Level
Trade Book
Frindle
Advanced
Trade Book
Genre: Nonfiction

Grade 5: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Identifying VCV, Accuracy Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Get Lost! The Puzzle of Main Ideas and VCCV, and VCCCV Finding Their Way undoubtedly, pace, reasoned, nerve, Words from Other Languages Other Punctuation Informative Writing
Mazes Details Syllable Patterns underestimated, disadvantage, extending,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking/Listening: Summarizing residents, balked, techniques, barrier Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy by paraphrasing main points Basic Words: ballet, echo, bouquet, Draft and Revise an Informational
Short Article Summarize Vocabulary Strategies cassette, coupon, safari, portrait, Essay
Journey to Cuzco Speaking and Listening Skill Word Origins barrette, depot, courtesy, petite,
Genre: Myth Using Multimedia in an Oral denim, brunette, buffet, garage, Focus Trait
Report khaki, crochet, chorus, essay, Ideas
Poetry alphabet
The Best Paths, Review Words: routine, rescue, Write About Reading
Compass crayon, amuse, reason Performance Task
Challenge Words: encore, collage,
Below Level matinee, premiere, embarrass
Trade Book
30 Skunk Scout
On Level
Trade Book
Frindle
Advanced
Trade Book
Genre: Nonfiction

Grade 6: Unit 1
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VCCV Syllable Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The School Story Understanding Pattern Kids in Print literary, revisions, manuscript, wry, editorial, Short Vowels Complete Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Characters muted, maze, publishing, pressuring,
Speaking /Listening: Reflecting disclose Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection “Eleven” Target Strategy on the story Basic Words: batch, reject, vanish, Personal Narrative Paragraph
Genre: Short Story Question Inferring and drawing Domain-Specific Vocabulary sloppy, rhythm, blunder, strict,
conclusions agent, copyright, plagiarism, press release, meadow, recover, cleanse, text, Focus Trait
Dialogue Speaking and Listening Skill
self-publish mystery, expand, bluff, promptly,
initials, statue, polish, somehow,
Voice
Simile Literature Discussion Vocabulary Strategies dreadful Write About Reading

Prefixes dis-, ex-, inter-, non- Review Words: swift, tense, modern, Performance Task
grasp, bundle
Challenge Words: salary, quintet,
magnetic, tepid, intact
Anchor Text Target Skill VCV Syllable Pattern Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Knots in My Yo-Yo String Author’s Purpose The Assignment contested, pursuit, scholastic, grimly, Long Vowels Kinds of Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Autobiography employed, tumult, mentor, culprit,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Evaluating deprived, miraculous Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict whether the author’s claim is Basic Words: scene, bracelet, mute, Personal Narrative
Sporty Poetry supported and how it affects Domain-Specific Vocabulary strive, faithful, devote, rhyme,
Genre: Poetry Second Read Skills readers’ reaction to the story aerobic, agility, endurance, flexibility, succeed, coax, rely, conceal, Focus Trait
2 Point of View
Figurative Language Speaking and Listening Skill
physical fitness forgave, lonesome, delete, confine,
exceed, terrain, reproach, abuse,
Voice
Give a Speech Vocabulary Strategies defeat Write About Reading

Suffixes -er, -or, -ar, -ist, -ian, -ent Review Words: disagree, compose, Performance Task
awake, unwise, release
Challenge Words: ratify, serene,
refute, appraise, humane
Anchor Text Target Skill Stressed and Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Making of a Book Sequence of Events Unstressed To E-Book or Not to E-Book? painstaking, exploded, submitted, Vowel Sounds: /ou/, /oo/, /ô/, /oi/ Subjects and Narrative Writing
Genre: : Informational Text Syllables negotiations, collaborate, repetitive, Predicates
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Evaluating appealing, complement, appropriate, Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate whether the author’s claim impaired Basic Words: mound, gloomy, Story Scene
Portraying Portraits is supported and citing text caution, annoy, dawdle, counter,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills evidence Domain-Specific Vocabulary haughty, rejoice, devour, Focus Trait
Domain-Specific best-seller, copyedit, marketing, public thoughtful, flawless, maroon, Word Choice
3 Vocabulary domain, publicize droop, doubt, bamboo, hoist,
Diagrams oyster, exhausted, scoundrel, Write About Reading
Vocabulary Strategies boundary Performance Task
Multiple-Meaning Words Review Words: royal, naughty,
avoid, announce, cartoon Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: bountiful, aloof, Present Findings
adjoin, taut, turquoise

Grade 6: Unit 1
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VCCCV Syllable Rate Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The ACES Phone Story Structure Pattern An Acorn’s Worth clamor, torrent, clustered, doleful, swiveled, Vowel + /r/ Sounds Common and Proper Narrative Writing
Genre: Science Fiction coaxed, transmissions, accustomed, Nouns
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Asking urgent, void Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify questions and considering Basic Words: source, flirt, hurdle, Plan a Fictional Narrative
Silent Noise different perspectives Domain-Specific Vocabulary parka, frontier, forward, radar,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills body language, frequencies, linguistics, earnest, afford, urban, discard, Focus Trait
4 Alliteration
Style and Tone
Compare and Contrast
pitch, sonar smirk, rehearse, mourn, surface,
parcel, yearn, fierce, starch,
Organization
Experiences Vocabulary Strategies formula Write About Reading

Prefixes de-, trans- Review Words: earth, further, Performance Task
squirm, pardon, perform
Challenge Words: horizontal, circuit,
reimburse, formidable, monarchy
Anchor Text Target Skill Homophones Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Myers Family Fact and Opinion Book...Camera...Action! predominantly, tendency, welfare, credit, Homophones Other Kinds of Nouns Narrative Writing
Genre: Biography aspect, aptly, tension, parallel, innovation,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Evaluating genuinely Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize whether the author’s claim Basic Words: waist, waste, patience, Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish a
Sound Check is supported and providing Domain-Specific Vocabulary patients, rite, right, write, muscle, Fictional Narrative
Genre: Readers’ Theater Second Read Skills details aesthetics, abstract, composition, mussel, principal, principle,
Author’s Purpose craftsmanship, montage summary, summery, sight, cite, Focus Trait
5 Analyze Events site, stationary, stationery, coward, Word Choice
Vocabulary Strategies cowered
Reference Sources Review Words: berry, bury, hangar, Write About Reading
hanger Performance Task
Challenge Words: barren, baron,
burrow, burro, borough Research/Media Literacy Skills
Interpret Visuals

Grade 6: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Silent Consonants Adjust Rate to Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Boy Who Saved Baseball Theme in Multisyllable Purpose The Power of Print phenomenal, showdown, fundamental, flair, Words with ie or ei Kinds of Verbs Argument Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Words lingered, savor, gloat, berate, reserve,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: brainwashed Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate Paraphrasing the different Basic Words: brief, field, reign, Response Paragraph
Persuading the Public perspectives set forth in Domain-Specific Vocabulary review, fiery, receipt, relieve,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills the text accountability, broadcasting, ethics, media conceited, neither, foreign, grief, Focus Trait
6 Metaphor
Understanding
bias, reliability veil, freight, belief, deceive, yield,
beige, perceive, seize, leisure
Voice
Characters Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: thief, view, niece, Write About Reading
Using Context pier, height Performance Task
Challenge Words: reprieve, wield,
feign, conceive, retrieve Research/Media Literacy Skills
Present Findings
Anchor Text Target Skill Schwa in Unstressed Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
“Do Knot Enter” from Math Trek: Text and Graphic Syllables Math All Around Us observe, raucous, looms, zany, gigantic, Final /∂r/ Verbs and Objects Argument Writing
Adventures in the MathZone Features impressive, phony, distinguish, intriguing,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking/Listening: Evaluating correspond Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy whether the author’s claim Basic Words: fiber, similar, regular, Argument Paragraph
Paired Selection Summarize is supported and providing Domain-Specific Vocabulary barrier, superior, grammar, rumor,
The Knot That Is Not details classify, dimensional, complexity, character, director, acre, consider, Focus Trait
7 Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills quantitative, tabulate junior, senior, solar, scholar, razor, Organization
Text Structure Speaking and Listening Skill surrender, particular, familiar, laser
Figurative Language Literature Discussion Vocabulary Strategies Review Words: calendar, weather, Write About Reading
Word Relationships mayor, laughter, popular Performance Task
Challenge Words: escalator, cursor,
geyser, perpendicular, maneuver
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Final Phrasing: Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Science Friction Conclusions and Syllables Punctuation The Family Fridge detached, principle, decomposition, Final /∂n/, /∂l/, and /∂r/ Coordinating Argument Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Generalizations specimens, reluctant, elegant, equations, Conjunctions
Speaking/Listening: Posing complex, compromise, shriveled Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Target Strategy questions about the story Basic Words: triangle, mental, error, Book Review
Growing Mold Infer/Predict Domain-Specific Vocabulary panel, litter, pollen, gallon, cancel,
Genre: Informational Text bacteria, elements, organic, pressure, spore abandon, rival, soldier, recycle, Focus Trait
Connotation/Denotation Vocabulary Strategies
salmon, counsel, rural, vehicle,
citizen, monitor, physical, oxygen
Ideas
Character’s Motivations Latin Roots and Affixes Review Words: common, dozen, Write About Reading
quarrel, proper, loyal Performance Task
Challenge Words: punctual,
endeavor, abdomen, kilometer, Research/Media Literacy Skills
dandelion Refocus an Inquiry

Grade 6: Unit 2
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Base Words and Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Kensuke’s Kingdom Cause and Effect Inflectional Finding North venture, defy, consequences, permeated, Words with -ed or -ing Subordinating Argument Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Endings poised, rigid, rudimentary, sparsely, array, Conjunctions
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Using story immaculately Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize details to elaborate Basic Words: happening, limited, Plan an Argument
Exploring Islands Domain-Specific Vocabulary forgetting, equaled, fitting,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill biosphere, cones, observation, ecosystem, reasoning, labored, permitting, Focus Trait
Style and Tone Persuasive Speech predator, restoration scrapped, tutoring, admitted, Ideas
9 Point of View honored, skidding, pardoned,
Vocabulary Strategies modeling, preferred, scarred, Write About Reading
Denotation and Connotation favored, glistening, shuddered Performance Task
Review Words: delivered, scanned,
bothering, listening, upsetting
Challenge Words: omitted, merited,
tapered, equipped, recurring
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Compare and Contrast Common Suffixes Climate Change Comes to lore, abundance, lush, teeming, altered, Endings and Suffixes Longer Sentences Argument Writing
Native Voices of Alaska Alaska sophisticated, retains, concept, cultural,
Genre: Literary Nonfiction Target Strategy heritage Spelling Words Writing Form
Question Speaking/Listening: Evaluating Basic Words: reserved, unlikely, Draft, Revise, Edit, and Publish an
Main Selection whether the author’s claim is Domain-Specific Vocabulary purposeful, adorable, amazement, Argument
Native American Poetry Second Read Skills supported, citing details ceremony, generation, indigenous, gentleness, sparkling, homeless,
Genre: Poetry Arguments and Claims traditional, tribal excitement, mileage, graceful, Focus Trait
10 Author’s Purpose Speaking and Listening Skill sincerely, advanced, usable, Sentence Fluency
Compare Poetry Vocabulary Strategies amusement, entirely, wireless,
Synonyms excluding, scarcely, changeable Write About Reading
Review Words: freezing, lately, Performance Task
forgiveness, settlement, damaged
Challenge Words: inspiring,
idleness, achievement
Trade Novel Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Monitor/Clarify segregation, grievances, boycott,
Extended
Reading
Montgomery Bus Boycott Summarize submission, galvanized, violating,

Infer/Predict momentous, eminent, oppression,
Visualize advocating, compromise, commitment,
Analyze/Evaluate perpetuate, vagrancy, indicted, appeal,
Question injunction, landmark, suppressed, creed

Grade 6: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Great Fire Sequence of Events Common Word A Firefighting Uncle stifling, ambled, intense, smolder, ornately, Suffixes: -ion or -ation Subject and Object Informative Writing
Genre: Literary Nonfiction Parts proclaimed, hazards, unrelenting, flared, Pronouns
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Citing alleviate Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Summarize details to support an Basic Words: correct, correction, Procedural Essay
Fire: Friend or Enemy? evaluation of the main Domain-Specific Vocabulary explore, exploration, admire,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills character combustible, flammable, ignite, precaution, admiration, subtract, subtraction, Focus Trait
Figurative Language volatile examine, examination, separate, Word Choice
11 Arguments and Claims separation, alter, alteration,
Vocabulary Strategies preserve, preservation, reflect, Write About Reading
Suffixes -ion, -ation, -ism reflection, substitute, substitution Performance Task
Review Words: confess, confession,
contribute, contribution Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: irritate, irritation, Refocus an Inquiry
coordinate, coordination
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Airborn Story Structure Common Prefixes An Unexpected Adventure jostled, careening, relishing, falter, supple, Prefix: in-, im-, ir-, il- Using Pronouns Informative Writing
Genre: Fantasy taut, frail, engulf, frayed, undulating Correctly
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Sharing Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict thoughts about the theme Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: illegal, indent, Classification Essay
Riding on Air and reflecting on different acceleration, altitude, navigation, velocity, imperfect, irregular, inability,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills opinions wind currents immobile, inaudible, impatient, Focus Trait
Personification individual, insecure, impolite, Voice
12 Point of View Vocabulary Strategies illegible, irresistible, impartial,
Prefixes en-, ad- illogical, inappropriate, improper, Write About Reading
ineffective, immovable, irrational Performance Task
Review Words: informal, indirect,
improve, incomplete, impress Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: immerse, Multimedia Presentation
impartial, illustrious, infer, irrelevant
Anchor Text Target Skill Consonant Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Onward: A Photobiography of African- Main Idea and Details Alternations Discovering the Northwest sacrificed, frigid, equivalent, participants, More Words with -ion Simple and Perfect Informative Writing
American Polar Explorer Matthew Passage durable, expanse, deduced, affirmed, Verb Tenses
Henson Target Strategy culmination, prime Spelling Words Writing Form
Genre: Biography Monitor/Clarify Speaking/Listening: Basic Words: circulate, circulation, Definition Essay
Paraphrasing a key aspect of Domain-Specific Vocabulary conclude, conclusion, instruct,
Paired Selection Second Read Skills the story and reflecting on its cartography, compass, frontier, sextant, instruction, possess, possession, Focus Trait
The Pole! Connotation significance territories introduce, introduction, except, Organization
13 Genre: Memoir Domain-Specific exception, discuss, discussion,
Vocabulary Speaking and Listening Skill Vocabulary Strategies collide, collision, oppose, Write About Reading
Give a Speech Figures of Speech opposition, estimate, estimation Performance Task
Review Words: educate, education,
elect, election
Challenge Words: detect, detection,
procrastinate, procrastination

Grade 6: Unit 3
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Prefixes and Word Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Any Small Goodness Theme Roots Coach Dad veered, anonymous, bland, motive, Word Parts: com-, con- Subject-Verb Informative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction skeptical, reception, understatement, Agreement
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask and emulate, aim, fanatic Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize answer questions Basic Words: contrast, contact, Plan an Informational Essay (Prewrite)
The Ball Is in Their Court Domain-Specific Vocabulary compound, concentrate, combine,
Genre: Literary Nonfiction Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill volunteerism, civic pride, citizen, patriot, comment, conference, compete, Focus Trait
Hyperbole Participate in a Debate social work community, convert, conversation, Ideas
Author’s Word Choice commute, constitution, conduct,
14 Vocabulary Strategies consumer, continent, composition, Write About Reading
Word Relationships communicate, compliment, Performance Task
condition
Review Words: combat, commotion,
complex, contain, connect
Challenge Words: confidential,
commission, compatible,
combustion, comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Final Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Text and Graphic Syllables -ise, -ize, Moon Machines lunar, hovering, ascent, likelihood, Final /iz/, /iv/, /ij/ Regular and Irregular Informative Writing
Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon Features -ive, -age impending, perilous, option, presumably, Verbs
Genre: Literary Nonfiction Speaking/Listening: unpredictability, random Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy Paraphrasing key details Basic Words: revise, advantage, Write an Informational Essay (Draft,
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate Domain-Specific Vocabulary memorize, active, organize, Revise, Edit, and Publish)
The Woman in the Moon Speaking and Listening Skill atmosphere, booster rocket, orbit, payload, criticize, shortage, advertise,
Genre: Play Second Read Skills Compare Presentations satellite attractive, college, explosive, Focus Trait
15 Domain-Specific
Vocabulary Vocabulary Strategies
exercise, encourage, summarize,
wreckage, recognize, positive,
Voice
Style and Tone Reference Sources percentage, sensitive, heritage Write About Reading
Review Words: storage, relative, Performance Task
average, language, televise
Challenge Words: utilize, mortgage,
merchandise, aggressive,
compromise

Grade 6: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Comparing Related Phrasing: Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Real Vikings: Craftsmen, Traders Compare and Contrast Words Punctuation Viking Goddess: The Legend majestic, ruthless, ancestral, saga, destiny, Suffixes: -ent, -ant Principal Parts of Informative Writing
and Fearsome Raiders of Freya recreational, artistry, unearthed, forge, Verbs
Genre: Informational Text Target Strategy embodied Spelling Words Writing Form
Summarize Speaking/Listening: Citing text Basic Words: confident, confidence, Compare-Contrast Essay
Paired Selection evidence to support an Domain-Specific Vocabulary fragrant, fragrance, excellent,
Poems That Boast Second Read Skills evaluation of the main idea colonies, foragers, invasion, navigation, tale excellence, decent, decency, Focus Trait
Genre: Poetry Author’s Purpose truant, truancy, brilliant, brilliance, Word Choice
16 Main Ideas and Details Speaking and Listening Skill Vocabulary Strategies resident, residence, evident,
Compare Stories Greek Roots evidence, occupant, occupancy, Write About Reading
reluctant, reluctance Performance Task
Review Words: distant, distance,
frequent, frequency
Challenge Words: inconvenient,
inconvenience, buoyant, buoyancy
Anchor Text Target Skill More Common Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Emperor’s Silent Army Fact and Opinion Suffixes Qin’s Brain: The Man Behind archaeologists, dignified, mythical, precede, Suffixes: -able/-ible, -ate More Kinds of Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text the Emperor elaborate, replicas, temperaments, Pronouns
Target Strategy distinct, lustrous, excavate Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Question Speaking/Listening: Discussing Basic Words: visible, enjoyable, Problem-Solution Essay
Ancient China: Visual Arts the relationships between Domain-Specific Vocabulary celebrate, incredible, horrible,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills the characters; cite text afterlife, artifact, dynasty, unearth, legacy desperate, cooperate, valuable, Focus Trait
Figurative Language evidence appreciate, considerate, audible, Organization
17 Text Structure Vocabulary Strategies
Word Families (includes Greek and Latin
delicate, washable, graduate,
capable, miserable, sensible, Write About Reading
Roots) fortunate, noticeable, responsible Performance Task
Review Words: terrible, portable,
possible, dictate, honorable Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: evacuate, Inquiry Project
irritable, exaggerate, improbable,
elaborate
Anchor Text Target Skill The /sh/ and /zh/ Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Hero and the Minotaur Story Structure in Final Syllables The Flight of Icarus steadfast, somber, labyrinth, rash, unravels, Spelling /sh/ Adjectives and Informative Writing
Genre: Myth fury, bitterly, massive, embrace, abandon Adverbs
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Discuss Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict main characters’ traits Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: section, shallow, Cause-Effect Essay
The Ancient News hero, mythology, odyssey, oral tradition, direction, musician, rash, position,
Genre: Newspaper Article Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill ritual astonish, pressure, attention, Focus Trait
Analyze Setting Tell a Pourquoi Tale impression, crucial, official, Sentence Fluency
18 Author’s Word Choice Vocabulary Strategies
Suffixes -ful, -less, -ly, -ness, -ment, -ship
emotion, bashful, delicious,
establish, ancient, situation, Write About Reading
suspicion, permission Performance Task
Review Words: nation, expression,
connection, ashamed, imitation
Challenge Words: diminish,
beneficial, efficient, potential,
compassion

Grade 6: Unit 4
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill VV Syllable Pattern Adjust Rate to Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
The Princess Who Became a King Cause and Effect Purpose The Scribes of Ancient Egypt fragments, pondered, ceremonial, divine, Plurals Punctuation Informative Writing
Genre: Informational Text supportive, erected, mission, prosperity,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Discuss emerge, depicted Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify main idea Basic Words: echoes, halves, solos, Plan a Research Report
Kush Domain-Specific Vocabulary leaves, heroes, cliffs, scarves,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill delta, hieroglyphics, monarchy, papyrus, potatoes, pianos, volcanoes, Focus Trait
Analyze Historical Literature Discussion sarcophagus sheriffs, calves, tomatoes, cellos, Organization
19 Characters wolves, ratios, stereos, yourselves,
Conclusions and Vocabulary Strategies studios, bookshelves Write About Reading
Generalizations Greek Roots and Affixes Review Words: abilities, duties, Performance Task
scissors, memories, strategies
Challenge Words: vetoes,
mosquitoes, avocados, wharves,
sopranos
Anchor Text Target Skill More Common Intonation Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death Main Idea and Details Prefixes Vesuvius: Tales from an tremors, subjected, dormant, outlying, Prefixes: dis-, ex-, inter- Prepositions; Informative Writing
in Ancient Pompeii Eyewitness salvage, unaffected, opulent, meager, Prepositional
Genre: Informational Text Target Strategy luxurious, imprints Spelling Words Phrases Writing Form
Visualize Speaking/Listening: Ask and Basic Words: disobey, explosion, Draft, Revise, Edit, and Publish a
Paired Selection answer questions Domain-Specific Vocabulary dislike, interview, disapprove, Research Report
Since Vesuvius Second Read Skills crust, igneous rock, landslide, sediment, interoffice, Internet, disallow,
Genre: Informational Text Style and Tone seismic disappear, international, disrespect, Focus Trait
20 Analyze Events
exchange, exclaim, dissolve,
disconnect, interact, distaste,
Ideas
Prefixes un-, re-, in-, im-, ir-, il- export, disappoint, interstate Write About Reading
Review Words: disrupt, excite, Performance Task
dishonest, disturb, expected
Challenge Words: exterminate, Research/Media Literacy Skills
interrupt, intermediate, intercept, Present Information in Various Formats
disproportion
Trade Novel Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

A Wrinkle in Time Monitor/Clarify uncanny, vulnerable, resentment,
Summarize moderation, tractable, essence, tangible,
Extended
Infer/Predict corporeal, incomprehensible, nondescript,

Reading
Visualize apprehension, malignant, arrogance,

Analyze/Evaluate obliquely, tenacity, primitive, sadist,
Question emanate, dais, omnipotent, pungent,
despondency, dwindled, prevail,
permeating

Grade 6: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill The Prefixes per-, Phrasing: Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
All Alone in the Universe Compare and Contrast pre-, pro- Punctuation Ninth-Grade Rules blurted, spiteful, scrounged, eventually, Prefixes: pre-, pro- Progressive Forms Argument Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction comprehension, abrupt, exhilaration,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: oracle, stable, jeopardy Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Infer/Predict Paraphrasing the main idea Basic Words: prediction, project, Opinion Essay
DNA Detectives Domain-Specific Vocabulary prevent, prepaid, prevail, proclaim,
Genre: Literary Nonfiction Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill advocate, clique, confidante, empathy, prehistoric, prejudge, preapprove, Focus Trait
Character’s Motivations Present an Argument networking pregame, precaution, preorder, Voice
21 Point of View
prescreen, preshow, pretreat,
prolong, process, protrude, Write About Reading
Word Relationships provision, production Performance Task
Review Words: prefer, prospect,
preview, performing, protect
Challenge Words: prologue,
proportion, prorate, preseason,
prearrange
Anchor Text Target Skill The Prefixes ad-, Stress Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Conclusions and ob-, af-, ap-, as- Flying Through Time decrepit, instinct, lurched, frustration, vertical, Words with Silent Letters Punctuation and Argument Writing
Wright Invented the Airplane Generalizations barren, arose, harsh, conditions, elusive Quotations
Genre: Literary Nonfiction Speaking/Listening: Discuss key Spelling Words Writing Form
Target Strategy idea and support claims with Domain-Specific Vocabulary Basic Words: aisle, align, island, Problem-Solution Essay
Paired Selection Monitor/Clarify evidence aerodynamic, altitude, entrepreneur, patent, crumbs, gnaw, design, knotty,
Young Pilot Sets Records wind currents bustle, shepherd, soften, sword, Focus Trait
22 Genre: Literary Nonfiction Second Read Skills
Personification Vocabulary Strategies
thistle, knock, wrestle, column,
autumn, knowledge, debt, numb,
Word Choice
Text Structure Denotation and Connotation raspberry Write About Reading

Review Words: half, answer, wreath, Performance Task
comb, wrinkle
Challenge Words: campaign, coup, Research/Media Literacy Skills
solemn, yacht, pneumonia Integrate Visuals and Text
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing More Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Number the Stars Cause and Effect Suffixes Denmark: A Nation of Heroes subsided, strident, intently, implored, Suffixes: -ic, -ure, -ous Contractions Argument Writing
Genre: Historical Fiction scornfully, warily, confronting,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Discuss exasperated, contempt, occupying Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Analyze/Evaluate main idea Basic Words: fantastic, culture, Persuasive Letter
Book Review: Number the Stars Domain-Specific Vocabulary curious, nervous, posture, jealous,
Genre: Opinion Essay Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill dictator, nationalism, political party, scientific, generous, signature, Focus Trait
Figurative Language Give a Speech occupation, propaganda dangerous, tragic, gigantic, Ideas
23 Understanding
Characters Vocabulary Strategies
sculpture, precious, lecture,
serious, specific, fracture, romantic, Write About Reading
Using Context ambitious Performance Task
Review Words: panic, future, comic,
furniture, frantic
Challenge Words: symbolic,
unanimous, authentic, nutritious,
legislature

Grade 6: Unit 5
Text-Based
Comprehension
Anchor Text Target Skill Recognizing Expression Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Author’s Purpose Common Prefixes An Important March intention, retorted, motioned, inexplicable, Prefixes: de-, trans- Making Comparisons Argument Writing
Underground Railroad legitimate, hoarding, gnarled, destination,
Genre: Literary Nonfiction Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Ask and inconsolable, guttural Spelling Words Writing Form
Question answer questions Basic Words: transform, deject, Plan an Argument
Paired Selection Domain-Specific Vocabulary destruct, detour, transmit, default,
Home of the Brave Second Read Skills abolitionist, Confederacy, emancipate, describe, defend, transplant, Focus Trait
Genre: Poetry Variations of English fugitive, segregation descend, derail, defrost, transcript, Ideas
24 Analyze Events
deploy, dethrone, deodorize,
transatlantic, decompose, Write About Reading
Prefixes con-, com-, pre-, pro- decrease, transaction Performance Task
Review Words: deserve, detective,
transport, define, departure Research/Media Literacy Skills
Challenge Words: degenerate, Create a Timeline
transition, dehydrate, transfusion,
translucent
Anchor Text Target Skill Common Word Accuracy Read Aloud Target/Academic Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Robotics Sequence of Events Parts Robo Dream inaccessible, literally, interaction, stimulus, Word Parts Proper Mechanics Argument Writing
Genre: Informational Text uncanny, ultimate, data, sensors,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Discuss domestic, artificial Spelling Words Writing Form
Paired Selection Visualize author’s purpose Basic Words: existence, refreshment, Draft, Revise, Edit, and Publish an
Dr. Sneed’s Best Friend Domain-Specific Vocabulary convention, intermission, Argument
Genre: Play Second Read Skills Speaking and Listening Skill database, diagnostics, encryption, mass uneventful, perfectly, completion,
Domain-Specific Compare and Contrast Media production, microchip, reboot improvement, information, Focus Trait
Vocabulary attendance, reversible, invention, Word Choice
Main Ideas and Details Vocabulary Strategies development, respectful,
25 Suffixes -able, -ible unhappiness, preparation, irrigate, Write About Reading
disagreement, unbelievable, Performance Task
concentration
Review Words: decoration,
promotion, comfortable,
appointment, reaction
Challenge Words: acquaintance,
prosecution, precision,
immeasurable, reputation

Grade 6: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Spelling Patterns in Stress Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Space Trash Main Idea and Details Words from Other Why Explore Space? pressuring, employed, miraculous, urgent, Words from Other Languages Titles and Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Languages void, tendency, tension, innovation, Abbreviations
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Expressing submitted, impaired Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Question an opinion about the Basic Words: opera, vague, antique, Narrative Poem
How the Milky Way Came To Be: A author’s claim Vocabulary Strategies drama, tornado, debut, stampede,
Cherokee Tale Second Read Skill Analogies gourmet, unique, academy, Focus Trait
Genre: Folktale Word Choice Speaking and Listening Skill sonnet, brochure, cocoon, fatigue, Word Choice
Compare Two Folktales mosquito, diploma, fiesta, debris,
Poetry cafeteria, quartet Write About Reading
Moon, Review Words: ballet, echo, essay, Performance Task
Satellites petite, bouquet
Challenge Words: bonanza,
Below Level rendezvous, et cetera, battalion,
Trade Book engage
26 Esperanza Rising
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
On Level
Trade Book
Brian’s Winter
Author: Gary Paulsen
Advanced
Trade Book
Tracking Trash
Author: Loree Griffin Burns
Long Article Target Skill Recognizing Word Rate Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Denali Dog Sled Journal Conclusions and Parts Living in the Far North: Alaska’s frigid, savor, reflect, impressive,venture, Greek Word Parts More Quotations Narrative Writing
Genre: Realistic Fiction Generalizations Athabaskans consequences, sparsely,lore, retains,
heritage Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Discuss key Basic Words: geography democracy, Field Notes
A Harsh Land of Beauty Summarize concept Vocabulary Strategies microbiology, technology, thermos,
Genre: Informational Text Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms automatic, mythology, democratic, Focus Trait
Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill thermometer, chronology, Ideas
Poetry Simile Analyze and Evaluate automobile, aristocrat, thermal,
Twelve Below, Presentations geology, aristocracy, geometry, Write About Reading
Desert Day anthology, apology, thermostat, Performance Task
psychology
Below Level Review Words: biology, telephone,
Trade Book photograph, biography, autograph
Esperanza Rising Challenge Words: archaeology,
27 Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan geographic, bureaucracy,
Genre: Realistic Fiction etymology, autocrat
On Level
Trade Book
Brian’s Winter
Advanced
Trade Book
Tracking Trash

Grade 6: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Recognizing Word Accuracy Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Vanishing Act Understanding Roots Working and Surviving Together distinguish, unrelenting, taut, frayed, Latin Word Roots Commas in Sentences Narrative Writing
Genre: Mystery Characters deduced, affirmed, motive, perilous,
Speaking/Listening: Discuss key unpredictability, random Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Target Strategy concept Basic Words: prescribe, contract, Radio Script
The Smart Swarm Analyze/Evaluate Vocabulary Strategies manufacture, progression, vocal,
Genre: Informational Text Speaking and Listening Skill Words Often Confused manual, audience, eject, impose, Focus Trait
Second Read Skill Hold a Debate management, Congress, expose, Voice
Poetry Point of View inject, audition, manuscript,
Bee, I’m Expecting You; vocabulary, objection, manicure, Write About Reading
Straight Talk proposal, extract Performance Task
Review Words: subject, audio,
Below Level tractor, object, suppose
Trade Book Challenge Words: manipulate,
28 Esperanza Rising
protractor, inscription, auditory,
advocate
On Level
Trade Book
Brian’s Winter
Advanced
Trade Book
Tracking Trash
Long Article Target Skill Recognizing Prefix Expression Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Elephants on the Savannah Persuasion Forms Animal Sports Stars majestic, destiny, temperaments, fury, Greek and Latin Word Parts More Commas Narrative Writing
Genre: Readers’ Theater massive, embrace, supportive, prosperity,
Target Strategy Speaking/Listening: Reviewing outlying, unaffected Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Monitor/Clarify a statement from the text Basic Words: pedal, peddler, Personal Narrative (Prewriting)
A Colossal Catch using details Vocabulary Strategies pedestrian, pedestal, centipede,
Genre: Informational Text Second Read Skill Greek and Latin Word Roots dental, dentist, dentures, vocalize, Focus Trait
Mood Speaking and Listening Skill vocalist, vocation, memoir, Ideas
Poetry Prepare a Storyboard memorial, tripod, podium,
The Elephant, memorable, manager, manifest, Write About Reading
Whale mortal, mortified Performance Task
Review Words: democracy, geology,
Below Level thermostat, automatic, technology
Trade Book Challenge Words: impede,
29 Esperanza Rising
pediatrician, pedometer,
mannequin, memorabilia
On Level
Trade Book
Brian’s Winter
Advanced
Trade Book
Tracking Trash

Grade 6: Unit 6
Text-Based
Comprehension
Long Article Target Skill Confusing Words Phrasing: Pauses Read Aloud Review Vocabulary Spelling Principle Grammar Skill Writing Mode
Storm Chasers Text and Graphic The Force of a Hurricane eventually, jeopardy, vertical, conditions, Words Often Confused Other Punctuation Narrative Writing
Genre: Informational Text Features subsided, intently, warily, stimulus, data,
Speaking/Listening: Literature sensors Spelling Words Writing Form
Short Article Target Strategy discussion; paraphrase main Basic Words: desert, dessert, hardy, Personal Narrative (Drafting/Revising)
Whiteout! The Great Blizzard of 1888 Visualize points Vocabulary Strategies hearty, moral, morale, laying, lying,
Genre: Informational Text Suffixes -ize, -ify, -ive, -ity personal, personnel, formally, Focus Trait
Second Read Skill Speaking and Listening Skill formerly, healthy, healthful, Organization
Poetry Flashback Give an Oral Multimedia precede, proceed, conscious,
Weather, In the Night, Snow, The Presentation conscience, immigrate, emigrate Write About Reading
Wind Review Words: loose, lose, Performance Task
homophone, homograph
Below Level Challenge Words: sympathy,
Trade Book empathy, imminent, eminent
Esperanza Rising
30 Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
On Level
Trade Book
Brian’s Winter
Advanced
Trade Book
Tracking Trash

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Week Selections Concepts of Print Phonemic Awareness Letter Names

Listen to Rhymes Concepts of Print Phonemic Awareness Letter Names

Listen to Rhymes Concepts of Print Phonemic Awareness Letter Names

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Paired Selection Ss Fluency Research/Media Literacy Skills

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Genre: Informational Text conversation

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Genre: Informational Text Research/Media Literacy Skills

Genre: Informational Text square

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

“Anansi and Grasshopper” Decodable Readers Write About Reading

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Celebration Blending Words Read with Expression Write About Reading

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Genre: Informational Text Wes Can Help Write About Reading

“Whistling” Roz the Vet Write About Reading

Phonological Awareness/ Concepts of Print, Fluency,

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Trade Book Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

From Seed to Pumpkin Summarize moist, energy, prickly, tends, attract,

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Trade Book Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

Amazing Whales! Visualize blue whale, basketball court, softballs,

Genre: Informational Monitor/Clarify mammal, sperm whale, mile, giant

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High- Speaking and

Trade Book Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

Owl at Home Infer/Predict winter, whirled, whooshed, guest,

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Decodable Readers Write About Reading

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Decodable Readers (punctuation and style of sentences) Write About Reading

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Trade Book Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

Poppleton in Winter Infer/Predict icicle, proud, picket, certainly, melted, bust,

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Genre: Informational Class Discussion Write About Reading

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Theater Challenge: nobody, everywhere Write About Reading

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Decodable Readers Write About Reading

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Trade Book Target Strategies Content Vocabulary Words

Live Question seaweed, fierce, extinct

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-

Text-Based Phonemic Fluency and High-