4th,treasures,unit plans,2011

1. Unit 1 Planner Theme: Growing Up
Unit 1 Award
Growing Up Winning
The Adventures of
Author
The Display Type: Coop OTF Condensed
Big Ali Baba Bernstein
Title Treatment revised 7/25 Design
Question
What experiences
can cause a person
to change? Display Type: Circus Dog Reg
Theme Video Growing Up
www.macmillanmh.com
Dav id (Al i Bab
2 3 a) Ber nst ein
Theme Opener, pp. xvi–4/5 pp. 10–29 pp. 42–57
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening Comprehension Theme Theme
Making a Move Changing
• Speaking/Viewing Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
opportunities, border, unions, curious, policy, ranged,
strikes, boycotts, citizen temporary, several, frequently
Dictionary: Word Origins Thesaurus: Synonyms
• Phonics/Word Study Phonics Phonics
Short Vowels Long a
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Short Vowels Long a
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Analyze Story Strategy: Analyze Story
Structure Structure
Skill: Make Inferences Skill: Character, Setting, Plot
• Fluency Fluency Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation and Expression Accuracy
• Leveled Readers Approaching Approaching
Lili Kiat The Mystery of the Lost
Glasses
On Level
Paolo On Level
The Case of the Missing Scarf
Beyond
Jin Beyond
The Trash Detectives
ELL
A New Home ELL
The Missing Scarf
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Trait: Ideas Trait: Ideas
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Sentences Subjects and Predicates
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2. Unit 1 Planner
Real World Reading
Comprehension
KID
REPORTERS
Genre
An Expository article in a
newspaper or magazine
AT WORK
tells a true story.
Analyze Text Structure
Compare and Contrast
When you look for
similarities, you compare
two or more things or
ideas. When you look for
differences, you contrast
two or more things or ideas.
How do kid reporters tell the story when the
news is about improving the lives of children?
Each year the news magazine Time Here’s a behind-the-scenes
For Kids selects several young people look at two TFK reporters and two
to serve as TFK kid reporters. These of the stories they covered for the
enterprising kids are not professional magazine. The reporters don’t have
journalists, but like adult reporters much in common, except that they
they still have to show they are are both determined to do a good job
qualified for the job. Three skills they as reporters covering an interesting
must have are persistence in tracking story. The stories seem quite different
down a story, good interviewing at first, too. However, they have some
skills, and the ability to write clearly strong similarities.
about complicated topics.
pp. 70–73 pp. 82–95 pp. 108–119
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Show What You Know
Kids at Work Mentors Friends of All Ages Spiral Review
Make Inferences
Build Background Build Background Build Background Character, Setting, Plot
Compare and Contrast
Synonyms
Map
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
identified, enterprising, endless, realistic, sensible, peculiar, positive, selecting,
persistence, venture protested, paralyzed, display consisted, advanced, aware
Thesaurus: Antonyms Using a Dictionary Dictionary: Connotation and Writing
Denotation
Personal Narrative
Phonics Phonics Phonics
Long e Long i Long o
Spelling Spelling Spelling Unit 1 Assessment,
Long e Long i Long o 131M–131N
Comprehension
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Make Inferences;
Strategy: Analyze Text Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Summarize Character, Setting, Plot;
Structure Skill: Character Skill: Sequence Compare and Contrast;
Skill: Compare and Contrast Sequence
Fluency Fluency Fluency Vocabulary Strategies
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Phrasing Dictionary: Word Origins,
Expression and Rate Rate and Rate Using a Dictionary,
Approaching Approaching Approaching Connotation and
Kids Work Elevator to Trouble The ABC Volunteer Denotation; Thesaurus:
Synonyms, Antonyms
On Level On Level On Level
Kids Work Summer in Space Drawing Highland Text Features/Literary
Elements/Study Skills
Beyond Beyond Beyond
Time Lines; Maps; Using a
Kids Work Back to School A Change of Weather Library; Recipe; Stanzas,
ELL ELL ELL Line Breaks, Similes
Kids at Work Space Adventure Pictures of Highland
Grammar
Sentences
Writing
Personal Narrative
Writing Writing Writing
Personal Narrative Trait: Ideas Trait: Ideas
Fluency Assessment
Grammar Grammar Grammar
Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Run-on Sentences Diagnose and Prescribe
Interpret Assessment Results
Growing Up ix

3. Theme: Take a Stand
Unit 2 Planner
pages 148H–175V pages 176A–207V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
Baseball New Places, New Faces
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
muttered, gaped, insult, overheard, opportunities,
snickering, legendary, boycotts, citizen, unions,
fluke, flinched strikes, border
Context Clues: Descriptions Dictionary: Word Origins
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
ch and tch th, sh, wh, ph
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Make Inferences Strategy: Generate
and Analyze Questions
Skill: Author’s Purpose Skill: Make Inferences
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation/Pausing Punctuation/Quotation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers Marks
APPROACHING
Wilma Rudolph APPROACHING
Lili Kiat
ON LEVEL
Determined to Win ON LEVEL
Paolo
BEYOND
Jackie Robinson BEYOND
Jin
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Champion Athlete ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
A New Home
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Persuasive Letter Radio or TV Ad
• Grammar Grammar Common and Grammar Singular and Plural
Proper Nouns Nouns
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with ch and tch Words with th, sh, wh, and
ph
148B

4. Real World Reading
Unit 2 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
A Nonfiction Article in a
newspaper or magazine
tells a true story.
Make Inferences and
Analyze
Fact and Opinion
A fact is something that
can be proved to be true. To whom do a country’s
An opinion is a belief
that does not have to be valuable objects from past
supported by facts. civilizations belong?
D
uring the day, the people of Xiaoli
(ZHOW•LEE), China, sit outside their mud-
brick shacks. Xiaoli is a poor village. Most
people in town are farmers. It has become
difficult to make a good living from farming,
however. So the farmers wait for darkness to fall.
That’s when Xiaoli comes alive. At night, tomb
raiders get to work.
Nearly 5,000 years of Chinese history lie
underground in Xiaoli. Fields contain tombs
of royalty of many dynasties. Valuable works
of art are buried in the tombs. Stealing these
treasures, called looting, can bring the poor
farmers of Xiaoli lots of money.
Little Su, a doctor in Xiaoli, paid for medical
This Buddha was nearly
smuggled out of Cambodia
school by selling stolen art. He was also able
by a tourist. to buy a big-screen TV. Over the past few
pages 208A–219V pages 220A–247V pages 248A–271V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Focus on China Bright Ideas Snakes Think and Search
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing
Persuasive
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
temples, dynasties, hilarious, dizzy, nowadays, apologize, genuine, harmless,
heritage, preserve, independence, convinced, cardboard, slithered,
overjoyed handy, whirlwind, mischief ambulance, weekdays
Unit 2 Assessment,
Word Parts: Plural Endings Dictionary: Idioms Word Parts: Base Words 25–42
Phonics Phonics Phonics Comprehension
Complex Consonant /är/ and /ôr/ /âr/ and /îr/ Make Inferences,
Clusters Author’s Purpose,
Fact and Opinion,
Problem and Solution
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Make Inferences Strategy: Generate Strategy: Generate Vocabulary Strategies
and Analyze Questions Questions Context Clues:
Skill: Fact and Opinion Skill: Problem and Solution Skill: Make Inferences Description; Dictionary:
Word Origins, Idioms;
Word Parts: Base Words,
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Tempo Repeated Reading: Plural Endings
Pronunciation Intonation/Pausing
APPROACHING Text Features/Literary
APPROACHING Clara Barton APPROACHING Elements/Study Skills
The Bamboo Eaters Snakes in the Rain Forest Table, Primary Sources,
ON LEVEL Toolbars, Parts of a Book,
ON LEVEL Thomas Alva Edison ON LEVEL Figurative Language, and
The Story of Silk Snakes in North America
BEYOND Alliteration
BEYOND Alexander Graham Bell BEYOND
Three Gorges Dam Snakes in Asia and Africa Grammar
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Nouns
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS A Great Inventor ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Silk North American Snakes Writing
Persuasive Writing
Writing Writing Writing
Personal Narrative Book Review Letter of Complaint
Fluency Assessment
Grammar Irregular Plural Grammar Possessive Nouns Grammar Plurals and Diagnose and Prescribe
Nouns Possessives
Interpret Assessment
Spelling Spelling Spelling Results
Complex Consonant Words with ar, or, and uar Words with air, are, ear, and
Clusters ere
Take a Stand 148C

5. Theme: Making a Difference
Unit 3 Planner
pages 276J–303V pages 304A–329V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
Friend or Foe? People Who Made a
Difference
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
interfere, guardian, injustice, ancestors, unfair,
awkward, agile, avoided, numerous,
proclaimed, tottered unsuspecting, segregation
Thesaurus: Synonyms Word Parts: Prefixes
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
/ûr/ Silent Letters
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Evaluate Strategy: Evaluate
Skill: Author’s Purpose Skill: Author’s Purpose
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation/Pausing Punctuation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
APPROACHING APPROACHING
The Mud Monster Harriet Tubman
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
Three Tricky Tales Coretta Scott King
BEYOND BEYOND
Miki and the North Wind Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Fighting for Rights
Animal Tales
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Coretta Scott King
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Dialogue Poem
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Action Verbs Verb Tenses
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with /ûr/ Words with silent letters
276B

6. Real World Reading
KID
Unit 3 Planner
Comprehension
Genre REPORTERS
AT WORK
A Nonfiction Article in a
newspaper or magazine
tells a true story.
Summarize
Compare and Contrast
When you look for
similarities, you compare
two or more things or
ideas. When you look for
differences, you contrast
two or more things or ideas.
How do kid reporters tell the story when the
news is about improving the lives of children?
Each year, the news magazine Time Here’s a behind-the-scenes
For Kids selects several young people look at two TFK reporters and two
to serve as TFK kid reporters. These of the stories they covered for the
enterprising kids are not professional magazine. The reporters don’t have
journalists, but like adult reporters, much in common, except that they
they still have to show they are are both determined to do a good job
qualified for the job. Three skills they as reporters covering an interesting
must have are persistence in tracking story. The stories seem quite different
down a story, good interviewing at first, too. However, they have some
skills, and the ability to write clearly strong similarities.
about complicated topics.
334
pages 330A–341V pages 342A–373V pages 374A–405V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Kids Get It Done Great Plains Indians Precipitation Right There
Writing
Build Background Build Background Build Background Fictional Narrative
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
enterprising, persistence, patchwork, sores, midst, evaporate, inspire,
venture, identified mysterious, responsibility, foolishness, magnify,
loosened, amazement negatives, technique, Unit 3 Assessment,
Word Parts: Inflected Verb microscope, blizzard 43–60
Endings Dictionary: Homophones
Dictionary: Multiple- Comprehension
Meaning Words Compare and Contrast,
Sequence, Summarize,
Phonics Phonics Phonics Author’s Purpose
Soft c and g Plural Words Compound Words
Vocabulary Strategies
Thesaurus: Synonyms;
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Word Parts: Prefixes,
Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Evaluate Inflected Verb Endings;
Dictionary: Homophones,
Skill: Compare and Contrast Skill: Sequence Skill: Summarize Multiple-Meaning Words
Text Features/Literary
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Elements/Study Skills
Intonation/Pausing Intonation/Pausing Pronunciation Salutation and Body,
Links, Foreshadowing
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING and Symbolism, Imagery
Young Inventors Ojibwe Legends Hurricanes and Figurative Language,
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Using the Library
Dream Jobs for Kids Quileute Legends Tornadoes
Grammar
BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND Verbs
Kids Work Navajo Legends Extreme Weather
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Writing
Fun Jobs for Kids Three Legends Twisters Story
Fluency Assessment
Writing Writing Writing
Diagnose and Prescribe
Persuasive Writing Play Character Sketch
Interpret Assessment
Grammar Grammar Grammar Results
Main and Helping Verbs Linking Verbs Irregular Verbs Evaluate Small Groups
Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with soft c and g Words with plural endings Compound Words
Making a Difference 276C

7. Theme: Viewpoints
Unit 4 Planner
pages 410J–443V pages 444A–469V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
Man’s Best Friend Creative Solutions
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
risks, desperate, obedience, fade, cautiously,
appreciated, bluffing, crisscrossed, jealousy,
neglected, endured, disguised, faint, wisdom
misunderstood
Word Parts: Word Families
Word Parts: Prefix
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
Inflected Endings Inflectional Endings
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Generate Strategy: Generate
Questions Questions
Skill: Draw Conclusions Skill: Draw Conclusions
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Punctuation Intonation/Pausing
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
APPROACHING APPROACHING
Hollywood Hounds Charles Drew
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
Presidential Pooches Marie Curie
BEYOND BEYOND
Canine Companions Dr. Jonas Salk
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
White House Dogs Marie Curie
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Explanatory Explanatory
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Pronouns and Pronouns
Antecedents
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with inflected Words that change y to i
endings
410B

8. Real World Reading
Unit 4 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
A Nonfiction Article in a
newspaper or magazine
tells facts about a person,
place, or event.
Evaluate
Persuasion
Persuasion is a method What makes oil
of getting other people
so valuable and also
to agree with your ideas
or opinions. so challenging?
W hat can you find deep
beneath Earth’s surface? Here’s
a hint: it’s shiny, sticky, slick, and very
powerful. It’s oil.
Oil field
Oil began forming hundreds of millions worker
of years ago as plant and animal remains
were covered with layers of rock. Over the
ages, those remains decayed. They turned
into a mighty black brew that we use to
make fuels. Fuels, such as gasoline, are
energy sources that are usually burned to
produce power.
Some nations sit atop huge
underground lakes of oil. Other places,
such as Japan and some European
countries, have little or no oil of their
own. The United States produces oil, but
it also buys about 59% of what it needs.
474
pages 470A–481V pages 482A–507V pages 508A–535V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Energy: Power Sources Whales The Sea Author and Me
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing Workshop
Explanatory
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
electrical, globe, fuels, dove, politicians, snoring, coral, reef, brittle,
decayed massive, tangles, rumbling, eventually, current,
unique partnership, suburbs
Context Clues: Definition Unit 4 Assessment,
Dictionary: Homographs Context Clues: Descriptions 61–78
Comprehension
Phonics Phonics Phonics Draw Conclusions,
·
/ü/, /ū/, and /u / /oi/ and /ou/ /ô/ Compare and Contrast,
Sequence, Persuasion
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Vocabulary Strategies
Strategy: Evaluate Strategy: Analyze Text Strategy: Analyze Text Word Parts: Prefixes, Word
Skill: Persuasion Structure Structure Families; Context Clues:
Skill: Sequence Skill: Compare and Contrast Definition, Descriptions;
Dictionary: Homographs
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Text Features/Literary
Pronunciation Tempo Punctuation Elements/Study Skills
Line Graphs; Glossary;
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING Meter and Rhyme
An Eye on Energy Saving the Whales The Arctic Ocean Scheme; Protagonist
and Hyperbole; Using
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Computers in the Media
Giant Dams: Waterpower Looking at Whales Tide Pools Center
Wonders
BEYOND BEYOND
BEYOND Gray Whales Hydrothermal Vents Grammar
The Power of Wind Pronouns
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS The World of Whales Tiny Oceans Writing
Waterpower! Explanatory Writing
Writing Writing Writing
Fictional Narrative Explanatory Explanatory Fluency Assessment
Grammar Grammar Grammar Diagnose and Prescribe
Pronoun-Verb Agreement Possessive Pronouns Pronouns and Interpret Assessment
Homophones Results
Spelling Spelling Spelling
·
Words with /ü/, /ū/, and /u/ Words with /oi/ and /ou/ Words with /ô/
Viewpoints 410C

9. Theme: Relationships
Unit 5 Planner
pages 540J–561V pages 562A–591V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
Going to the LIbrary Putting on a Play
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
snuffled, selecting, cranky, bumbling, selfish,
positive, consisted, exasperated, specialty,
peculiar, advanced famished, commotion
• Phonics/Decoding Dictionary: Connotation/ Thesaurus: Antonym
Denotation
Phonics Phonics
VCCV patterns V/CV and VC/V patterns
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Evaluate Strategy: Evaluate
Skill: Summarize Skill: Make Judgments
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation/Pausing Stress/Inflection
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
APPROACHING APPROACHING
The ABC Volunteer Hans and Greta
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
Drawing Highland The Dragon’s Dinner
BEYOND BEYOND
A Change of Weather Sleeping Beauty and the
Prince of Andequesta
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Pictures of Highland ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Dragon Stew
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Compare and Contrast Poster
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Adjectives Articles
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with the VCCV Words with VCV patterns
pattern
540B

10. Real World Reading
Unit 5 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
A Nonfiction Article gives
information about real
people, places, or things.
Evaluate
Fact and Opinion
A fact is something that
Why are scientists devoting
can be proved to be true. their lives to learning about
An opinion is a belief
that does not have to be the least explored territory on
supported by facts.
Earth—the ocean?
Off the coast of Hawaii
in 2000, Sylvia Earle
pilots a one-person
submarine designed by
a company she helped
found.
pages 592A–603V pages 604A–631V pages 632A–657V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Explorations Artists at Work Wild Horses Think and Search
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing Workshop
Descriptive
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
period, vessels, valuable, strutting, swarms, flicked, descendants, habitat,
documenting, estimated barbecue, skyscrapers, threatened, sanctuary,
glorious, collage coaxing, fragile, glistening
Unit 5 Assessment,
Analogies: Relationships Context Clues: Context Clues: Paragraph
Descriptions clues 79-96
Phonics Phonics Phonics Comprehension
Accented Syllables Final /ә r/ Final /ә l/ Summarize, Make
Judgments, Fact and
Opinion, Character,
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Cause and Effect
Strategy: Evaluate Strategy: Monitor Strategy: Monitor
Comprehension Comprehension Vocabulary Strategies
Skill: Fact and Opinion
Skill: Character Skill: Cause and Effect Dictionary: Connotation/
Denotation; Thesaurus:
Antonyms; Analogies:
Relationship; Context
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Tempo Repeated Reading: Tempo Clues: Paragraph Clues,
Pronunciation Descriptions
APPROACHING APPROACHING
APPROACHING Girl Arranging Her Hair Horses of the Plains Text Features/Literary
So Many Fish! Elements/Study Skills
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
ON LEVEL Beautiful or Not Cattle-Driving Horses of Interviews, Directions,
The (Really!) Great Barrier the Old West Onomatopoeia and
Reef BEYOND Simile, Hyperbole and
The Goldsmith’s Apprentice BEYOND Figure of Speech, Skim
BEYOND Full Gallop and Scan
Marco Polo ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Everyday Beauty ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Horses in the Old West Grammar
The Great Barrier Reef Adjectives
Writing
Writing Writing Writing Descriptive
Extended Response to Introduction Speech Scientific Observation
Literature
Grammar Grammar Grammar Fluency Assessment
Adjectives that Compare Comparing with More Comparing with Good
and Most and Bad Diagnose and Prescribe
Interpret Assessment
Spelling Spelling Spelling Results
Accented Syllables Words with Final /ә r/ Words with Final /ә l/
Relationships 540C

11. Theme: Discovery
Unit 6 Planner
pages 662J–687V pages 688A–717V
WEEK 1 WEEK 2
ORAL LANGUAGE
• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Theme
The Gold Rush Wild Visitors
Build Background Build Background
WORD STUDY
• Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
annoyed, prospectors, eavesdropping, scuffling,
circular, outstretched, wistfully, logical, jumble,
glinted, reference, scornfully, acquaintance
disappointment
Context Clues: Paragraph
Word Parts: Suffixes Clues
• Phonics/Decoding Phonics Phonics
Final /ә n/ Homophones
READING
• Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension
Strategy: Analyze Story Strategy: Analyze Story
Structure Structure
Skill: Cause and Effect Skill: Theme
• Fluency
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading:
Intonation/Pausing Punctuation
• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers
APPROACHING APPROACHING
There’s Gold in Those Hills! In the Land of the Giants
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
Towns of the West, from The Tiger-Stripe Potion
Boom to Bust
BEYOND BEYOND
The Story of San Francisco The Wood Sprite
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Towns of the Old West Jani and the Leopard
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Writing Writing Writing
Magazine Article News Article
• Grammar Grammar Grammar
Adverbs Comparing with Adverbs
• Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with Final /ә n/ Homophones
662B

12. Real World Reading
Comprehension
Unit 6 Planner
Genre
A Nonfiction Article gives
information about real
people, places or things.
Monitor Comprehension
Make Generalizations
A generalization is a broad
statement. It combines What does a paleontologist do next
facts in a selection with after she’s discovered the largest and
what a reader already
knows to tell what is true
most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex
in many cases. fossils ever found?
A T. rex named Sue,
on display at the
Field Museum in
Chicago
pages 718A–729V pages 730A–757V pages 758A–783V
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Discovering Nature’s Secrets Airplanes Ants Author and Me
Build Background Build Background Build Background Writing Workshop
Expository Writing
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
fossil, inspected, glider, assured, wingspan, overcome, territory,
stumbled upon, unstable, headlines, investigates, solitary,
paleontologist applauded, hoisting prehistoric, nutrients,
communication, Unit 6 Assessment,
Words Parts: Latin Roots Words Parts: Inflectional astronomer
Endings 97–114
Words Parts: Greek Roots
Comprehension
Phonics Phonics Phonics Cause and Effect, Theme,
Prefixes dis-, mis-, non-, un- Suffixes -less, -ly, -ness, /ûr/ and/ә r/ Make Generalizations,
-ful, -y Author’s Perspective,
Description
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Vocabulary Strategies
Strategy: Monitor Strategy: Monitor Strategy: Analyze Text Word Parts: Suffixes,
Comprehension Comprehension Structure Latin Roots, Inflectional
Skill: Make Generalizations Skill: Author’s Perspective Skill: Description Endings, Greek Roots;
Context Clues: Paragraph
Clues
Repeated Reading: Repeated Reading: Tempo Repeated Reading:
Punctuation Pausing Text Features/Literary
APPROACHING Elements/Study Skills
APPROACHING Riding the Wind: APPROACHING Time Lines, Advertisements,
Discovering Pompeii Amelia Earhart Butterflies and Moths Repetition and
Personification, Character
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL and Moral, Functional
Discovering Tutankhamen Against the Wind: Grasshoppers and Crickets Documents
James H. Banning
BEYOND BEYOND
Dinosaur Sue: Tale of a T. Rex BEYOND Beetles Grammar
Women in Flight Adverbs, Prepositions,
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Negatives
A Discovery in Egypt ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Grasshopper or Cricket?
Pilot James Banning Writing
Expository Writing
Writing Writing Writing
Personal Essay Interview Summary
Grammar Grammar Grammar Fluency Assessment
Negatives Prepositions Sentence Combining Diagnose and Prescribe
with Prepositions Interpret Assessment
Results
Spelling Spelling Spelling
Words with prefixes dis-, Words with suffixes -less, Words with /ûr/ and/ә r/
mis-, non-, un- -ly, -ness, -ful, -y
Discovery 662C