1. Theme: Challenges
Unit 1 Planner
pages 16J–47V pages 48A–77V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
School Contests American Legends
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
capable, categories, advertisement, sauntered,
luminous, strands, credit, commenced, elected, wring,
soggy, slumped, gigantic impress, original, fireball
Context Clues: Synonym Word Parts: Compound
Words
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u Long Vowels, VCe
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Analyze Story Strategy: Analyze Story
Structure Structure
Skill: Character and Plot Skill: Plot and Setting
• Fluency Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation/Pausing Punctuation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers APPROACHING APPROACHING
What’s the Buzz About the Sluefoot Sue: An American
Geography Bee? Legend
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
Nadia Gomez Sees the Light Johnny Appleseed: An
American Legend
BEYOND
Car Wash Chronicles BEYOND
Old Stormalong: An
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS American Legend
Nadia and Her Science
Project ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Who Is Johnny Appleseed?
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Personal Narrative Personal Narrative
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Sentence Types Subjects and Predicates
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with Short Vowels Words with Long Vowels
16B
2. Forests
Unit 1 Planner
Comprehension
of the
WORLD
Genre
Text Structure
Compare and Contrast
H
ave you visited any biomes
lately? A biome is a large
community of plants and
animals that is supported by a
certain type of climate. Biomes
like the Arctic tundra—where
cold winds buffet anything
that appears on the barren
landscape—are treeless. Many
other areas in the world
are covered with different
kinds of trees. Here are three
types of forest biomes.
pages 78A–89V pages 90A–111V pages 112A–139V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Trees for Life Exploring Space Rescue Dogs Think and Search
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing
Personal Narrative
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
buffet, major, quest function, adjusted, cooperation, celebration
reduce, settings disasters, environment, fragrance, variety,
Dictionary: Homographs mission, maze, zone, gravity canceled, moistened, Unit 1 Assessment,
Context Clues: theory, transformed 7–24
Description or Explanation Thesaurus: Synonyms
Phonics Phonics Phonics Comprehension
•
Words with /ü/, /ū/, / u/ r-Controlled Vowels More r-Controlled Vowels Character, Setting, Plot;
Compare and Contrast;
Summarize;
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Cause and Effect
Strategy: Analyze Text Strategy: Generate Strategy: Generate
Structure Questions Questions Vocabulary Strategies
Skill: Compare and Contrast Skill: Summarize Skill: Cause and Effect Context Clues:
Synonym; Word
Parts: Compound
Words; Dictionary:
Homographs; Context
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Clues: Description or
Punctuation Pronunciation Pauses and Intonation Explanation; Thesaurus:
Synonyms
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING
Partners for Life On the Moon It’s Fun When Sam Listens Text Features / Literary
Elements / Study Skills
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Photos and Captions;
The Survival of Muir Woods Mission to Mars The Wag Brigade
Toolbar and Link; Using
BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND the Library or Media
Center; Rhyme Scheme
Wildfire! Space Station Rusty to the Rescue!
and Rhythm; Charts
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Grammar
How the Muir Woods Going to Mars Mai and Fred
Survived Punctuation
Writing
Personal Narrative
Writing Writing Writing
Research Report Friendly Letter Journal Entry
Fluency Assessment
Grammar Grammar Grammar
Sentence Combining More Sentence Combining Run-on Sentences Diagnose and Prescribe
Interpret Assessment
Spelling Spelling Spelling Results
•
Words with /ü/, /ū/, / u/ Words with /är/, /âr/, /ôr/ Words with /ûr/, /îr/
Challenges 16C
3. Theme: Discoveries
Unit 2 Planner
pages 144J–169V pages 170A–191V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
People Helping Animals Slithery Snakes!
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
decency, mournful, bulletin lunging, predators, prey,
board, delivering, shrieks, alert, surroundings,
injury, slurp, sympathy vibrates, survive, species
Dictionary: Idiom Context Clues: Look for
Restatement
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
Compound Words Plural Endings
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Monitor Strategy: Summarize
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Details
Skill: Make Inferences
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation Pauses and Intonation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
APPROACHING APPROACHING
The Habits of Rabbits Giants of the Snake World
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
The Elephant in the Room Sea Snakes
BEYOND BEYOND
Black Bear’s Backyard Alien: The Brown Tree
Snake Story
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Elephants in Africa Snakes in the Sea
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Radio/TV Advertisement Letter to the Editor
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Common and Proper Nouns Singular and Plural Nouns
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Compound Words Words with Plural Endings
144B
4. Real World Reading
Unit 2 Planner
Comprehension ARCHITECT OF MEMORY
Genre
A Nonfiction Article in a
newspaper or magazine
presents facts and
information.
Summarize
Main Idea and Details
The main idea of an article
is what the article is mostly
about. Details give more
information about the
main idea.
Maya Lin
s is her habit, architect Maya Lin stayed away from the
crowds—and the limelight. She stood behind the tinted
windows of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery,
Alabama. Outside, hundreds of visitors arrived at the site for the
opening of the Civil Rights Memorial, which Lin designed. ‘‘I like
standing back quietly,’’ Lin said. ‘‘You create your message, and
then it is out there on its own.’’
Lin’s message can be found in the memorial’s exhibits. This
memorial honors those who died fighting for equality during
the Civil Rights Movement. Some visitors reached out to touch
the names of loved ones carved into a black granite disk. Their
faces were wet with tears. ‘‘I’m so thankful,’’ said Sarah Salter,
whose husband, Willie Edwards, Jr., was killed in Montgomery in
1957. ‘‘At last he’s being recognized.’’
196
pages 192A–203V pages 204A–227V pages 228A–255V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Remembering the Past The Caribbean Islands Cowboys and Cowgirls Author and Me
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing
Persuasive
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
artifacts, dedicated, elegant, blared, forbidden, suspended, vastness,
equality, exhibits, site mischievous, reluctant, flickered, swerved,
Word Parts: Inflectional hesitation, irresistible, enthusiasm, presence, Unit 2 Assessment,
Endings gossiped horizon, ravine 25–42
Word Parts: Suffixes Analogies: Antonyms
Phonics Phonics Phonics Comprehension
Inflected Endings Words with /ô/, /ou/, /oi/ VCCV Pattern Make Inferences;
Problem and Solution;
Main Idea and Details
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Vocabulary Strategies
Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Monitor
Comprehension Dictionary: Idiom;
Skill: Main Idea and Skill: Problem and
Context Clues: Look
Details Solution Skill: Make Inferences
for Restatement; Word
Parts: Inflectional
Endings; Word Parts:
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Suffixes; Analogies:
Punctuation Intonation and Pausing Tempo Antonyms
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING Text Features / Literary
The Oregon Trail: Nothing Is Impossible Nat Love: A Man of the Old Elements / Study Skills
Westward Ho! and New West Photos and
Captions; Hero and
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Personification;
Ellis Island: The Golden Where We Belong Alice Greenough: A New Using the Internet;
Doors Woman of the Old West Chart; Repetition and
Assonance
BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND
The Erie Canal: Low Bridge, All or Nothing William F. Cody: Showman Grammar
Everybody Down! of the Old West Nouns
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Writing
Ellis Island The Family Farm Cowgirl Alice Greenough
Persuasive
Writing Writing Writing
Research Report Persuasive Essay TV/Movie/Book Review Fluency Assessment
Grammar Grammar Grammar
More Plural Nouns Possessive Nouns Plural and Possessive Nouns Diagnose and Prescribe
Interpret Assessment
Spelling Spelling Spelling Results
Words with Words with /ô/, /ou/, /oi/ Words with VCCV Pattern
Inflected Endings
Discoveries 144C
5. Theme: Turning Points
Unit 3 Planner
pages 260J–289V pages 290A–313V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
The American Revolution The Right to Vote
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
governor, instruct, attorney, colonel,
navigation, patriots, legislature, postpone,
spunk, stark, swagger, qualify, representative,
tyrant satisfactory, submit
Word Families Dictionary: Pronunciation
Key
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
V/CV and VC/V Patterns V/V Pattern
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Make Inferences Strategy: Evaluate
and Analyze Skill: Fact and Opinion
Skill: Draw Conclusions
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Punctuation Pronunciation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers APPROACHING APPROACHING
The Battle of Saratoga Let’s Vote
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
The Shot Heard Around the How Women Got the Vote
World
BEYOND
BEYOND The Story of African
The Battle of Bunker Hill American Voting Rights
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
The American Revolution The Right to Vote
Begins!
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Character Sketch Poem
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Action Verbs Verb Tenses
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with V/CV and Words with V/V Pattern
VC/V Patterns
260B
6. BEYOND
Unit 3 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
the
HORIZON
Evaluate
Fact and Opinion Can people around the world
improve their standard
of living and still protect
the environment?
pages 314A–325V pages 326A–355V pages 356A–387V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Protecting the Environment Desert Habitats Into the Future Author and Me
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing
Fictional Narrative
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
humanity, inevitable, brimming, gnarled, dangling, defective,
prevailing, enlightened, gushed, landscape, meteor, reversed, robot,
unheeded parched, progress, rotated, staggered, tokens
scorching, scrawny Unit 3 Assessment,
Word Parts: Prefixes Analogies: Synonyms
Thesaurus: Denotation 43–60
and Connotation
Comprehension
Phonics Phonics Phonics Draw Conclusions;
VCCCV Pattern Accented Syllables Final /ә r/ Fact and Opinion;
Compare and Contrast
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Vocabulary Strategies
Strategy: Evaluate Strategy: Make Inferences Strategy: Make Inferences Word Families;
Skill: Fact and Opinion and Analyze and Analyze Dictionary:
Skill: Compare and Contrast Skill: Draw Conclusions Pronunciation Key;
Word Parts: Prefixes;
Thesaurus: Denotation
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: and Connotation;
Punctuation Tempo Punctuation Analogies: Synonyms
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING Text Features / Literary
Garbage: Where Does It Go? Atacama Desert: The Driest Return to Planet Weird Elements / Study Skills
Place on Earth Meter and Alliteration;
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Time Line; Study
Animals in the ON LEVEL Me, Robot? Strategies; Process
Neighborhood Where Two Deserts Meet Diagram; Headline and
BEYOND
BEYOND BEYOND The Terrariums Byline
Farming for the Future: The Gobi Desert
How Do We Feed ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Grammar
Ourselves? ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS The Prize Verbs
Two Different Deserts
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Writing
Our Animal Neighbors Fictional Narrative
Writing Writing Writing
Research Report Dialogue Diary
Fluency Assessment
Grammar Grammar Grammar
Main and Helping Verbs Linking Verbs Irregular Verbs
Diagnose and Prescribe
Spelling Spelling Spelling Interpret Assessment
Words with VCCCV Pattern Words with Vowel Patterns Final /ә r/ Results
in Accented Syllables
Turning Points 260C
7. Theme: Experiences
Unit 4 Planner
pages 392J–419V pages 420A–447V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
Civil Rights Animal Defenses
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
autograph, blurted, arousing, arroyo, behavior,
chiseled, clenched, fare, glimpse, nestled, secluded,
permission, scald, stunned, unpleasant
spectacular Context Clues: Within a
Homophones: Recognize Sentence
Homophones
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
Final /ә l/ and /ә n/ More Accented Syllables
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Analyze Story Strategy: Evaluate
Structure Skill: Author’s Purpose
Skill: Plot Development
• Fluency
Repeated Reading Repeated Reading
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers APPROACHING APPROACHING
The Way It Should Be Survival Instincts: Insects
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
Gramma’s Garden Survival Instincts: Insects
BEYOND BEYOND
Sandy’s Song Survival Instincts: Insects
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Dreaming of a Garden How Insects Stay Safe
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
News Article Scientific Observation
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Pronouns and Antecedents Subject and Object
Pronouns
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with Final More Accented Syllables
Unaccented Syllables with Ambiguous Vowels
with /ә l/ and /ә n/
392B
8. Real World Reading
Getting
Unit 4 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
A Nonfiction Article in a
newspaper or magazine
Out the
presents facts and
FCAT
information.
Evaluate
Relevant Facts and Details
VOTE
A fact is information that can
be proven true. Recognizing
facts and details that are ?
relevant to the main idea
can help you understand the
selection.
?
ANYONE WHO IS:
18 years of age
a citizen of the United
States who meets the
residency requirements
of his or her state Voters wait in line to
cast their ballots.
452
pages 448A–459V pages 460A–481V pages 482A–509V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Spiral Review
Democracy Extreme Weather Trickster Tales Plot Development
Main Idea and Details
Build Background Build Background Build Background Compare and Contrast
Context Clues
Multiple-Meaning Words
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary Time Line
compelled, disrespectful, atmosphere, available, appreciation, burdens,
preoccupied, presidential, contact, damages, educate, merchandise, Writing Workshop
succeed, unenthusiastically destruction, hurricanes, riverbank, treasurer, Expository
Word Parts: Prefixes and property, surge unfortunate, wares
Suffixes: Dictionary: Multiple- Analogies: Relationships
Meaning Words Unit 4 Assessment,
111–144
Phonics Phonics Phonics
Accented Syllables in Words with /chә r/ and Words with -ance and
Homographs /zhә r/ -ence Comprehension
Plot Development;
Author’s Purpose;
Relevant Facts and
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Details; Recognize
Strategy: Evaluate Strategy: Analyze Text Strategy: Evaluate Organizational Patterns
Skill: Relevant Facts and Structure Skill: Author’s Purpose
Details Skill: Recognize Vocabulary Strategies
Organizational Patterns Homophones: Recognize
Homophones; Context
Repeated Reading Clues: Within a Sentence;
Choral Reading
Repeated Reading Word Parts: Prefixes
APPROACHING and Suffixes; Dictionary:
Political Debates: Lincoln APPROACHING Multiple-Meaning
Versus Douglas APPROACHING Coyote and the Rock
Words; Analogies:
Earthquake
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Relationships
Political Debates: Lincoln ON LEVEL Brer Rabbit and the Gizzard Text Features/Literary
Versus Douglas Earthquake Eater Elements/Study Skills
BEYOND BEYOND Time Line; Headings
BEYOND and Deck; Parts of a
Political Debates: Lincoln Earthquake How Thor Got His Hammer
Book; Personification,
Versus Douglas ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Imagery, and
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Earthquake Brer Rabbit’s Ride Onomatopoeia; Moral
Lincoln and Douglas Speak and Metaphor
Grammar
Pronouns
Writing Writing Writing
Research Report Magazine Article Interview Writing
Grammar Grammar Grammar Expository
Pronoun-Verb Agreement Possessive Pronouns Pronouns and Homo-
phones; Contractions and
Homophones Fluency Assessment
Spelling Spelling Spelling Diagnose and Prescribe
Accented Syllables in Words with /chәr/ and /zhәr/ Words with -ance and -ence Interpret Assessment
Homographs Results
Experiences 392C
9. Theme: Achievements
Unit 5 Planner
pages 514J–541V pages 542A–565V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
North Pole, South Pole Fantastic Foods
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
abandon, dismantled, bedlam, civilization,
expedition, frigid, labor, complex, outcast, reflected,
treacherous, triumph, shortage, strategy,
uninhabited traditional
Word Parts: Base and Dictionary: Word Origins
Root Words
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
Soft g Homophones
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Generate Strategy: Make Inferences
Questions and Analyze
Skill: Problem and Solution Skill: Theme
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Tempo Intonation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
APPROACHING APPROACHING
Animals of the Poles Food Fight
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
The Lure of the Poles Fruit from Space
BEYOND BEYOND
Science in the Snow Land of the Peppertoes
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
The North and South Poles Space Fruit
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Introduction Speech Scene from a Play
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Adjectives and Articles
Demonstrative Adjectives
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with Soft g Homophones
514B
10. Real World Reading
A Historic
Unit 5 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
A Nonfiction Article in a
Journey
newspaper or magazine
presents facts and
information about real
people, places, and events.
Make Inferences
and Analyze
Cause and Effect
A cause is what makes
something happen. An effect
is the thing that happens.
How did the leaders of the
Lewis and Clark expedition
make history as both
explorers and scientists?
570
pages 566A–577V pages 578A–603V pages 604A–633V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Learning from Nature Talking in Codes Whales Author and Me
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing
Descriptive
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
combined, diverse, instill, corridor, creased, enlisted, attraction, discussions,
naturalist, vacant invasion, location, emerged, focused, inquire,
Thesaurus/Dictionary: reservation, sagged, shield sprawled, unreasonable,
Antonyms Context Clues ventured Unit 5 Assessment,
Word Parts: Latin Roots 79–96
Comprehension
Phonics Phonics Phonics Problem and Solution;
Prefixes dis-, in-, mis-, pre- Suffixes -less and -ness Adding -ion Theme; Cause and
Effect; Evaluate
Author’s Perspective;
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Summarize
Strategy: Make Inferences Strategy: Generate Strategy: Generate
and Analyze Questions Questions Vocabulary Strategies
Skill: Cause and Effect Skill: Evaluate Author’s Skill: Summarize Word Parts: Base and
Perspective Root Words; Dictionary:
Word Origins;
Thesaurus/Dictionary:
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Antonyms; Context
Punctuation Punctuation Tempo Clues; Word Parts: Latin
Roots
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING
The Adamsons: Living Braille and Beyond: Dan’s Whale Text Features / Literary
with Animals Inventions for the Blind Elements / Study Skills
ON LEVEL Primary Sources;
ON LEVEL Hyperlinks and
Animal Observers ON LEVEL Into the Depths of the Sea
Secret Languages Keywords; Dictionary/
BEYOND BEYOND Thesaurus; Consonance
Rachel Carson: Nature’s BEYOND Gold at Sunset Cove and Symbolism; Graphs
Champion Lost Languages
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Grammar
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Down in the Sea Adjectives
Animal Watchers Secret Messages
Writing
Descriptive
Writing Writing Writing
Persuasive Essay Compare-and-Contrast Essay Descriptive Poem
Grammar Grammar Grammar
Fluency Assessment
Adjectives that Compare Comparing with More Comparing with Good
and Most and Bad Diagnose and Prescribe
Spelling Spelling Spelling Interpret Assessment
Words with Prefixes dis-, Words with Suffixes Words Ending in -ion Results
in-, mis-, pre- -less, -ness
Achievements 514C
11. Theme: Great Ideas
Unit 6 Planner
pages 638J–667V pages 668A–697V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
Fairy Tales Camping Out
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
accompany, bridle, bundle, coordination, ease,
consented, delicacies, frustrated, fused, guaranteed,
descended, despair, scenery, supervise
dismiss, intentions Use a Dictionary: Multiple-
Homophones Meaning Words
Phonics
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Decode Words with
Greek Roots Latin Roots
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Monitor
Skill: Sequence Comprehension
Skill: Make Judgments
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation Punctuation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
APPROACHING APPROACHING
Graham the Kind-Hearted A Visit to Big Bend
National Park
ON LEVEL
Daisies in Winter ON LEVEL
A Visit to Grand Canyon
BEYOND National Park
The Three Sisters
BEYOND
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS A Visit to Yellowstone
Flowers in Winter National Park
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
The Amazing Grand Canyon
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Eyewitness Account How-To Paragraph
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Adverbs Adverbs that Compare
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with Greek Roots Words with Latin Roots
638B
12. A Dream
Unit 6 Planner
Comes True
Comprehension
Genre
Why do ALL kids
need a place to play?
Monitor Comprehension
Persuasion Most kids love recess, but for Hannah Kristan, it
was her least favorite part of the school day.
“I never got to do anything except sit there,”
she recalls.
Hannah was born with a disease that kept the
bones in her back from forming properly. She
uses a wheelchair. Sadly, for kids like her, most
playground equipment is off limits. In fact, Hannah
is one of 5 million kids in the United States who
cannot use traditional playground equipment
because of some type of disability.
pages 698A–709V pages 710A–735V pages 736A–759V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Improving Lives Balloon Flight Scientists at Work Author and Me
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing
Explanatory
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
elementary, interact, anchored, companion, biology, dormant, erupted,
physical, rigid, wheelchair dense, hydrogen, inflate, murky, observer, research,
Context Clues launched, particles, scoured, specimens Unit 6 Assessment,
scientific Word Parts: Latin and
97–114
Word Parts: Greek Roots Greek Word Parts
Comprehension
Phonics Phonics Phonics Sequence; Make
Words from Mythology Number Prefixes Words with -able, -ible Judgments; Persuasion;
Make Generalizations
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Vocabulary Strategies
Strategy: Monitor Strategy: Monitor Strategy: Summarize Homophones;
Comprehension Comprehension Skill: Sequence Dictionary: Multiple-
Skill: Persuasion Skill: Make Generalizations Meaning Words; Context
Clues; Word Parts: Greek
and Latin Roots
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Tempo Repeated Reading: Pauses Text Features / Literary
Punctuation and Intonation Elements / Study Skills
APPROACHING Venn Diagram;
APPROACHING The Sky’s the Limit APPROACHING Interview; Everyday
Everybody Is a Star: The Searching for Cures Communications;
Special Olympics Story ON LEVEL Simile and Metaphor;
Airships: Sailors of the Skies ON LEVEL Symbolism and
ON LEVEL Life on the Deep Sea Floor Figurative Language
Sports for Everyone! BEYOND
Up, Up, and Away: Science BEYOND Grammar
BEYOND in the Sky Searching for Tomorrow’s Adverbs; Comparisons;
Uplifted from the Dark: Energy Negatives; Prepositions
Helen Keller and ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Airships in the Skies ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS and Prepositional
Annie Sullivan Phrases; Sentence
Under the Sea
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Combining
Sports for Everyone
Writing
Explanatory and
Writing Writing Writing Expository Writing
Research Report Explain How Something Explanatory Review
Works
Grammar Grammar Grammar Fluency Assessment
Negatives Prepositions and Sentence Combining
Prepositional Phrases Diagnose and Prescribe
Spelling Spelling Spelling Interpret Assessment
Words from Mythology Number Prefixes Words with -able and -ible Results
Great Ideas 638C