| week | Word Study | Vocabulary | Reading Comprehension Strategies & Skills | Language and Writing | Main Text | Math | Social Studies | Science |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | none | none | none | • Writing Your Name • Introducing Yourself • Following Directions |
Teacher’s Choice | Classroom Rules and Expectations | Classroom Rules and Expectations | Classroom Rules and Expectations |
| Week 2 | Suffixes Word Structure | memorial, prideful, selecting, grand, peculiar, positive, recalls | • Sequence • Summarize |
• Declarative & Interrogative Sentence • Retelling a story from a new point of view • Using Vivid Words |
Because of Winn-Dixie | Place Value | In Social Studies | In Science |
| Week 3 | Word Endings Word Structure | docks, migrating, scent, scan, wharf, yearned | • Author’s Purpose • Questioning | • Imperative & Exclamatory Sentence • Introduction • Organizing Around a Main Idea |
Lewis and Clark and Me | Place Value | Land and Regions | In Science |
| Week 4 | Multiple-Meaning Words Dictionary | badger, jointed, rushes, bank, bristled, patched, ruffled | • Character, Setting, and Plot • Background Knowledge |
• Complete Subject & Predicate • Speaking to inform • Using Voice |
On the Banks of Plum Creek | Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction | Weather and Climate | Forms of Energy |
| Week 5 | Synonyms & Antonyms Context Clues | lassoed, prairie, riverbed, bargain, favor, offended, shrieked | • Author’s Purpose • Story Structure |
• Compound Sentence • Speaking in front of an audience • Comma Use |
The Horned Toad Prince | Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction | Regions and Resources | Sound |
| Week 6 | Suffixes -ist, -ive, -ness | glacier, slopes, wilderness, impressive, naturalist, preserve, species | • Main Idea and Details • Text Structure |
• Complex Sentences • Inform and Entertain • Using voice to establish the speaker |
Letters Home from Yosemite | Multiplying by 1-Digit Numbers | People and the Land | Light |
| Week 7 | Review | Review | Review | Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Multiplying by 1-Digit Numbers | Economy | Light Model |
| Week 8 | Prefixes and Suffixes | hoop, jersey, rim, fouled, marveled, speechless, swatted, unbelievable | • Cause and Effect • Background Knowledge |
• Common & Proper Nouns • Describing action • Figurative Language |
What Jo Did | Multiplying by 2-Digit Numbers | Trade and Markets | Types of Thermal Energy |
| Week 9 | Unknown Words Dictionary | coyote, roundup, spurs, bawling, dudes | • Draw Conclusions • Story Structure |
• Regular Plural Noun • Speaking to inform • Writing to inform |
Coyote School News | Multiplying by 2-Digit Numbers | People and Economy | Transferring Energy |
| Week 10 | Prefixes Word Structure | argument, descendants, script, advice, arrangements, dishonest, snag | • Draw Conclusions • Questioning |
• Irregular Plural Nouns • Readers’ Theater • Using Descriptive Language |
Scene Two | Multiplying by 2-Digit Numbers | A Global Economy | Waves Model |
| Week 11 | Unknown Words Dictionary | infested, landslide, roamed, ambition, quicksand, resistance, rickety, vast | • Fact and Opinion • Monitor and Clarif |
• Singular Possessive Noun • Interview • Introduction Paragraph |
Horse Heroes | Dividing by 1-Digit Numbers | Principles of Government | Transfer of Energy Review |
| Week 12 | Unknown Words Dictionary | Constitution, howling politics, humble, responsibility, solemnly, vain | • Main Idea and Details • Inferring |
• Plural Possessive Nouns • Discussion • Using Transition Words |
So You Want to Be President | Dividing by 1-Digit Numbers | How Government Works | Mass and Motion |
| Week 13 | Review | Review | • Review | • Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Review | Rights and Responsibility | Patterns and Speed |
| Week 14 | Multiple-Meaning Words Context Clues | atmosphere, chemical, scales, apprentice, club, manufacturing, pressure, essay | • Graphic Sources • Important Ideas |
• Action and Linking Verbs • Persuasive Speech • Poem Organization |
The Man Who Named the Clouds | Solving Word Problems | Land of the Northeast | Speed and Energy |
| Week 15 | Multiple-Meaning Words Context Clue | bluff, lagoon, tropical, biologist, massive, rumbling | • Fact and Opinion • Text Structure |
• Main & Helping Verbs • Interview • Voice |
Adelina’s Whales | Solving Word Problems | Resources in the Northeast | Force and Motion Review |
| Week 16 | Unfamiliar Words Context Clues | brilliant, chorus, shimmering, coward, gleamed | • Generalize • Visualize |
• Subject-Verb Agreement • Readers’ Theater • Using a Variety of Sentences |
How Night Came from the Sea | Factors and Multiples | Birthplace of the USA | Electricity Introduction |
| Week 17 | Root Words Word Structure |
destruction, shatter, surge, expected, forecasts, inland | • Cause and Effect • Predict and Set Purpose |
• Past, Present, Future, Tenses • Weather Broadcast • Formal Letter |
Eye of the Storm | Extend Understanding of Fractions | Growth and Change in the Northeast | Electricity Changing to Light and Heat |
| Week 18 | Suffixes Word Structure | harness, lumberjacks, thaw, announcement, feature, requirements, unnatural, untamed | • Generalize • Inferring |
• Irregular Verbs • How-to • Using a variety of sentences |
Paul Bunyan | Extend Understanding of Fractions | The Northeast Today | Converting Energy |
| Week 19 | Review | Review | • Review | • Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Adding and Subtracting Fractions | Land and Water of the Southeast | Electricity Review |
| Week 20 | Synonyms and Antonyms | beakers, lecture, microscope, analysis, hollow, identity, precise, relentless | • Compare and Contrast • Visualize |
• Singular & Plural Pronouns • Creating Realistic Dialogue • Advertisement |
The Case of the Gasping Garbage | Adding and Subtracting Fractions | Climate of the Southeast | Classifying Plants and Animals |
| Week 21 | Multiple-Meaning Words | aquarium, dolphins, flexible, enchanted, glimpses, pulses, surface | • Compare and Contrast • Summarize |
• Kinds of Pronouns • Express an Opinion • Use vivid nouns and adjectives |
Encantado | Adding and Subtracting Fractions | A Land of Many Resources | Plant Reproduction |
| Week 22 | Unknown Words Dictionary | exhausting, intense, messages, advance, developed, impossible, headquarters, reveal | • Sequence • Important Ideas |
• Pronouns and Antecedents • Interview • Writing Instructions |
Navajo Code Talkers | Multiplication Concepts and Fractions | Settling in the Southeast | Plants Making Food |
| Week 23 | Greek and Latin Root Words | scholars, temple, uncover, ancient, link, seeker, translate, triumph | • Graphic Sources • Predict and Set Purpose |
• Possessive Pronouns • Retelling • Stating the Main Idea |
Seeker of Knowledge | Multiplication Concepts and Fractions | Southern Life | Structures and Functions Reviews |
| Week 24 | Synonyms and Antonyms | lizards, reptiles, salamanders, amphibians, crime, exhibit, reference, stumped | • Character and Plot • Monitor and Clarify |
• Contractions and Negatives • Idioms • Using Strong Active Verbs |
Encyclopedia Brown | Review | In the Heart of the Nation | Animals and Their Environment |
| Week 25 | Review | Review | • Review | • Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Line Plots | Resources and Farming | Animal Parts and Functions |
| Week 26 | Homographs | concentrating, parachute, underbrush, dedication, essential, method, steer, wind | • Author’s Purpose • Important Ideas | • Adjectives and Articles • Dramatization • Complete Sentences |
Smokejumpers | Understanding Decimals | Settling in the Midwest | Responding to an Environment |
| Week 27 | Greek and Latin Roots | ruins, terraced, thickets, curiosity, glorious, granite, torrent | • Compare and Contrast • Visualize |
• Adverbs • Informing listeners • Combining Sentences |
Lost City | Understanding Decimals | The Midwest on the Move | How Organisms Process Information Review |
| Week 28 | Unfamiliar Words Context Clues | coil, rappel, ridge, descent, foresaw, shaft, trekked, void | • Character, Plot, and Theme • Story Structure |
• Comparatives and Superlatives • How-to Demonstration • Using exact language |
Cliff Hanger | Comparing Decimals | Southwestern Land and Water | Fossil Formation |
| Week 29 | Greek and Latin Prefixes | continent, depart, icebergs, anticipation, convergence, forbidding, heaves | • Main Idea and Details • Text Structure |
• Time-order Words • Discussion • Showing Purpose |
Antarctic Journal | Unit Conversions | Climate of the Southwest | Analyzing Fossils |
| Week 30 | Synonyms | rille, runt, trench, loomed staggered, summoning, taunted, trudged | • Draw Conclusions • Monitor and Clarify |
• Prepositions • Listening attentively • Sentences |
Moonwalk | Unit Conversions | The Southwest’s Past | Weathering and Erosion Introduction |
| Week 31 | Review | Review | • Review | • Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Review | Growth of the Southwest | Weathering and Erosion Effects |
| Week 32 | Root Words Word Structure | generations, pulpit, shielding, avoided, ancestors, minister, numerous | • Cause and Effect • Questioning |
• Correlative Conjunctions • Defining new terms • Discussion |
My Brother Martin | Patterns | Life in a Dry Land | Weathering and Erosion Review |
| Week 33 | Multiple-Meaning Words | dormitory, endurance, manual, boarding school, reservation, society | • Fact and Opinion • Summarize |
• Capitalization and Abbreviations • Vary Sentence Beginning • How-to |
Bright Path | Angles | A Varied Land | Earth’s Features |
| Week 34 | Unfamiliar Words Context Clues | colonel, lurking, palettes, affords, glint, quaint, resemblance | • Sequence • Inferring |
• Commas • Debate • Word Choice |
How Tía Lola Came to Stay | Angles | Climate of the West | Natural Resources |
| Week 35 | Unfamiliar Words Context Clues | abundance, backdrop, graze, ceremonial, drought, shock | • Generalize • Predict and Set Purpose |
• Quotation and Quotation Marks • Unnecessary Words • Readers’ Theater |
A Gift From the Heart | Lines, Angles, and Shapes | Western Resources | Slow and Rapid Changes |
| Week 36 | Multiple-Meaning Words Context Clues | capsule, horizon, module, astronauts, hatch, lunar, quarantine | • Graphic Sources • Background Knowledge |
• Titles • Informational • Commas |
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon | Lines, Angles, and Shapes | Growth of the West | Building a Structure |
| Week 37 | Review | Review | • Review | • Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Review | The West Today | Earth Processes Review |
| Week 38 | Review | Review | • Review | • Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Review | Review | Review |