Grade 2 • Unit 1 • Scope and Sequence

Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 1: Interactive “Maria Celebrates Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Visualize Week 1 Week 1 Respond to Reading Project: Food from
Read Aloud: Brazil” Big Red Lollipop Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Blending, Accuracy Other Countries
Weeks 1 and 2 “Dinner at Alejandro's” Genre: Realistic Fiction Genre: Realistic Fiction
Genre: Realistic Fiction
aside,
Plot: Beginning,
Categorization, Segmentation and
Writing Process
A: Music in My Family Middle, End Realistic Fiction Product: Poster
Lexile: 460L Lexile: 410L culture, Phonics/Spelling*: short a, short i Intonation
Essential Question: Lexile: 250L
fair, Main Story Structural Analysis: Plural Nouns with -s, -es
Expert Model: Realistic Fiction
Blast: “Welcome to
How are families around ELL Scaffolded Paired Selection O: Happy New Year! Week 2 Story
invited, Elements: High-Frequency Words: ball, blue, both, even, Our Home”
the world the same and Shared Read available “A Look at Families” Lexile: 350L Rate and Plan: Sequence
language, Character, for, help, put, there, why, yellow
Genre: Informational ELL: Happy New Year! Expression Draft: Descriptive Details
different? plead, Setting, Events
Text Lexile: 300L Week 2
scurries, Grammar and Mechanics
Lexile: 480L B: I'm Down Under Text Features: Phonological Awareness: Identify and Produce
Genre: Realistic Fiction Lexile: 560L
share Captions Rhyme
Week 1: Statements and
Questions; Sentence
Inflectional Phonemic Awareness: Isolation, Blending
Differentiated Genre Paired Selections Capitalization/Punctuation
Endings Phonics/Spelling*: short e, short o, short u
Passages available Genre: Informational Text Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings -s, -es Week 2: Commands and
Context Clues
A: “Making Music” (Nouns and Verbs) Exclamations; Sentence
O: “New Year's Eve” High-Frequency Words: could, find, funny, Capitalization/Punctuation
ELL: “New Year's Eve” green, how, little, one, or, see, sounds
B: “Perfect Pavlova”

Text Set 2: Interactive “Little Flap Learns Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Visualize Week 3 Week 3 Respond to Reading Project: We Depend
Read Aloud: to Fly” Help! A Story of Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, Expression on Friends
Weeks 3 and 4 “The New Kid” Genre: Fantasy Friendship
Genre: Fantasy
actions,
Story Elements:
Substitution, Blending
Writing Process
A: Cat and Dog Illustrations Week 4 Realistic Fiction Product: Poster
Lexile: 390L Genre: Fiction/Fantasy afraid, Phonics/Spelling*: Two-Letter Blends: r-blends
Essential Question: Lexile: 410L
Lexile: 230L
depend, Theme (br, cr, dr, fr, gr); s-blends (sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp,
Intonation Revise: Precise Language
Blast: “We Celebrate
How do friends depend ELL Scaffolded O: The Quest Peer Conferences; Edit and
nervously, st, sw); t-blends (tr, tw, -nt); l-blends (bl, cl, fl, gl, Our Friends”
on each other? Shared Read available Paired Selection Lexile: 340L Character Proofread; Publish, Present,
peered, pl, -lk, -lt)
“The Enormous Turnip” ELL: The Quest and Evaluate
perfectly, Structural Analysis: Closed Syllables
Genre: Folktale Lexile: 300L
Genre: Fantasy Lexile: 500L B: Class Pets
rescue, High-Frequency Words: boy, by, girl, he, here, Grammar and Mechanics
secret she, small, want, were, what Week 3: Subjects; Quotation
Lexile: 500L
Differentiated Genre Marks with Dialogue
Base Words Week 4
Passages available Paired Selections
Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation, Week 4: Predicates; Quotation
Prefixes
Genre: Poetry Categorization, Blending Marks with Dialogue
A: “Uncle Max and I” Phonics/Spelling*: short a; long a: a_e
O: “Together” Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing
ELL: “It Takes a Friend” High-Frequency Words: another, done, into,
B: “What Friends Do” move, now, show, too, water, year, your

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 3: Interactive “Families Work!” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Ask and Answer Week 5 Week 5 Respond to Reading Project: Interesting
Read Aloud: Genre: Expository Text Families Working Vocabulary: Questions Phonemic Awareness: Isolation, Jobs
Week 5 “Families Today” Lexile: 500L Together
Genre: Expository Text
checks, Categorization, Blending
Phrasing Writing Process
A: Families at Work Text Features: and Expository Essay Product: Job
Genre: Expository Text choose, Phonics/Spelling*: short i; long i: i_e
Essential Question: ELL Scaffolded
Lexile: 560L
Lexile: 300L
chores,
Charts
Structural Analysis: Possessives
Accuracy Expert Model: Expository Essay Description Sheet
What happens when Shared Read available O: Families at Work Plan: Generate Questions
cost, Central Topic and High-Frequency Words: all, any, goes, new, Blast: “A Job for
families work together? Paired Selection Lexile: 400L Draft: Sentence Types and
customers, Relevant Details number, other, right, says, understands, work Everyone”
“Can Kids Help at ELL: Families at Work Lengths
jobs, Author's Opinion
Home?” Lexile: 370L
Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Text B: Families at Work
spend, Grammar and Mechanics
tools Week 5: Expanding and
Lexile: 520L Lexile: 630L
Differentiated Genre Combining Sentences;
Synonyms
Passages available Paired Selections Commas in a Series
Genre: Expository Text
A: “A Family Sawmill”
O: “A Family Sawmill”
ELL: “A Family Sawmill”
B: “A Family Sawmill”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Connect to Content: Science Connect to Content: Social Studies Writing Presentation Options

Extend, Connect, Genre: Online Article Reader's Theater: Passages Passages Writing Process Reader's Theater
and Assess “Super Skiers” Room for More Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Genre: Expository Text Expository Essay
Writing
“Freddy the Rabbit” “Community Heroes” Revise: Descriptive Details
Genre: Expository Text Genre: Realistic Fiction Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread;
“Busy Bees” “Dad for Mayor!” Publish, Present, and Evaluate
Activity Activities
Write a Pet Owner Handbook Helping Your School Community
Letter to the Principal

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 1: Interactive “Eagles and Eaglets” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Reread Week 1 Week 1 Respond to Reading Project: Life Cycle
Read Aloud: Genre: Expository Text Baby Bears Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Addition, Substitution, Intonation Diagram
Weeks 1 and 2 “Wild Animal Families” (Temporal) Genre: Informational
Genre: Expository Text
adult,
Text Features:
Blending
Writing Process
A: Animal Families Diagrams and Week 2 Research Report Product: Diagram
Lexile: 520L Text alive, Phonics/Spelling*: short o; long o: o_e
Essential Question: How Lexile: 590L
Lexile: 320L
covered,
Labels
Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings
Accuracy Expert Model: Research Report
Blast: “Amazing Animal
are offspring like their ELL Scaffolded O: Animal Families and Plan: Generate Questions for
fur, Central Idea and -ed, -ing Parents”
parents? Shared Read available Paired Selection Lexile: 490L Phrasing Formal Inquiry
giant, Relevant Details High-Frequency Words: because, cold, family,
“From Caterpillar to ELL: Animal Families Draft: Order Ideas
groom, Text Features: friends, have, know, off, picture, school, took
Butterfly” Lexile: 390L
Genre: Informational Text Genre: Informational B: Animal Families
mammal, Diagrams Week 2
Grammar and Mechanics
offspring Week 1: Nouns; Commas in a
Text Lexile: 600L Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Segmentation,
Differentiated Genre Series and with Direct Address
Lexile: 600L Homographs Blending
Passages available Paired Selections
Phonics/Spelling*: short u; long u: u_e Week 2: Singular and Plural
Using a
Genre: Expository Text Structural Analysis: CVCe Syllables Nouns; Abbreviations
Glossary
A: “Tadpoles into Frogs” High-Frequency Words: change, cheer, fall,
O: “Tadpoles into Frogs” five, look, open, should, their, won, yes
ELL: “Tadpoles into Frogs”
B: “Tadpoles into Frogs”

Text Set 2: Interactive “The Boy Who Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Make, Confirm, Week 3 Week 3 Respond to Reading Project: Food Chain
Read Aloud: Cried Wolf” Wolf! Wolf! Vocabulary: Revise Predictions Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation, Expression Diagram
Weeks 3 and 4 “The Fox and Genre: Fable Genre: Fable
Genre: Fable
believe, Substitution, Blending
Writing Process
A: The Cat and the Mice Main Story Week 4 Research Report Product: Diagram
the Crane” Lexile: 460L Lexile: 580L delicious, Phonics/Spelling*: Words with Soft c and g
Essential Question: What Lexile: 200L
feast,
Elements:
Structural Analysis: Prefixes re-, un-, dis-
Phrasing Revise: Vary Sentence
Blast: “Creatures as
can animals in stories ELL Scaffolded Paired Selection O: The Dog and the Bone Character and Rate Types/Lengths
fond, High-Frequency Words: almost, buy, food, out, Teachers: Aesop's
teach us? Shared Read available “Cinderella and Lexile: 440L Peer Conferences; Edit and
lessons, Plot: Sequence of pull, saw, sky, straight, under, wash Fables”
Friends” ELL: The Dog and the Bone Proofread; Publish, Present,
remarkable, Events
Genre: Informational Lexile: 320L Week 4 and Evaluate
Genre: Fable Text B: The Spider and the
snatch, Author's Purpose Phonological Awareness: Identify and Produce
stories Grammar and Mechanics
Lexile: 520L Honey Tree Rhyme
Differentiated Genre Week 3: Kinds of Nouns:
Lexile: 590L Antonyms Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation, Blending
Passages available Common Nouns, Proper Nouns,
Phonics/Spelling*: Consonant Digraphs
Paired Selections Base Words Collective Nouns; Capital Letters
Structural Analysis: Suffixes -ful, -less
Genre: Poetry High-Frequency Words: baby, early, eight, isn't, Week 4: More Plural Nouns:
A: “Beware of Tiger!” learn, seven, start, these, try, walk Irregular Plural Nouns; Quotation
O: “The Dingo and His Marks with Dialogue
Shadow”
ELL: “The Dingo and His
Shadow”
B: “The Girl and the Spider”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 3: Interactive “Cats and Kittens,” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Figurative Week 5 Week 5 Respond to Reading Project: Animal
Read Aloud: “Desert Camels,” “Beetles,” Vocabulary: Language: Phonological Awareness: Identify and Produce Expression Information Cards
Week 5 “The Furry “A Bat Is Not a Bird” “The Little Turtle”
Genre: Fiction
behave, Alliteration Rhyme
Writing Process
A: Amira's Petting Zoo Rhyming Poem Product:
Alarm Clock” Genre: Poetry Genre: Poetry express, Phonemic Awareness: Substitution, Blending
Essential Question: Lexile: N/A Lexile: N/A
Lexile: 250L
feathers,
Rhyme Schemes
Phonics/Spelling*: Three-Letter Blends scr, spr,
Expert Model: Rhyming Poem Information Cards
What do we love about O: Alice's New Pet Plan: Precise Language
flapping Theme str, thr, spl, shr Blast: “Dogs on the Job”
animals? ELL Scaffolded Paired Selection Lexile: 570L Draft: Specific Details
Poetry: Lines and Structural Analysis: Compound Words
Shared Read available “Gray Goose” ELL: Alice's New Pet Suffixes -ly, -y
High-Frequency Words: bird, far, field, flower, Grammar and Mechanics
Genre: Poetry Lexile: 350L Line Breaks
Genre: Poetry Lexile: N/A B: Ava's Animals
grow, leaves, light, orange, ready, until Week 5: Possessive Nouns;
Apostrophes
Lexile: 570L
Differentiated Genre
Passages available Paired Selections
Genre: Informational Text
A: “Sheep Season”
O: “Baby Joey”
ELL: “Four Little Ducklings”
B: “Nanook”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Connect to Content: Science Connect to Content: Social Studies Writing Presentation Options

Extend, Connect, Genre: Online Article Reader's Theater: Passages Passages Writing Process Reader's Theater
and Assess “Under the Sea” The Secret Song Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Genre: Expository Text “Florida Panther Rhyming Poem
Writing
“A Prairie Guard” National Wildlife Refuge” Revise: Rhyme
Genre: Realistic Fiction Genre: Expository Text “Monarch Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread;
“A Visit to the Desert” Butterflies on the Move” Publish, Present, and Evaluate
Activities Activity
Habitat Poster Map of Your School Neighborhood
Informative Paragraph

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 Grade 2 • Unit 3 • Scope and Sequence
Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 1: Interactive “Lighting Lives” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Ask and Answer Week 1 Week 1 Respond to Reading Project: History Picture
Read Aloud: Genre: Narrative Biblioburro: A True Vocabulary: Questions Phonological Awareness: Identify and Produce Accuracy Book
Weeks 1 and 2 “Color Your Nonfiction Story from Columbia
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
across, Rhyme and
Writing Process
A: City Communities Text Features: Personal Narrative Product: Flipbook
Community” Lexile: 650L Genre: Narrative borrow, Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, Expression
Essential Question: How Nonfiction
Lexile: 290L
countryside,
Photos and
Blending
Expert Model: Personal Narrative
Blast: “Making Our
can people help out their ELL Scaffolded O: City Communities Captions Week 2 Plan: Sequence
Lexile: 700L ideas, Phonics/Spelling*: long a: a, ai, ay, ea, ei, Lives Better...Together”
community? Shared Read available Lexile: 470L Phrasing Draft: Focus on an Event
insists, Author's Purpose eigh, ey
Paired Selection ELL: City Communities
lonely, Structural Analysis: Contractions with 's, 're, 'll, Grammar and Mechanics
“Landing on Your Lexile: 400L
Genre: Narrative Feet” B: City Communities
solution, 've Week 1: Action Verbs; Book
Nonfiction Genre: Personal Lexile: 620L
villages High-Frequency Words: about, around, good, Titles
great, idea, often, part, second, two, world Week 2: Present Tense Verbs;
Narrative Synonyms
Differentiated Genre Paired Selections
Lexile: 610L Week 2 Commas in a Series
Passages available Homophones
Genre: Folktale Phonemic Awareness: Isolation, Blending,
A: “Magic Anansi” Substitution, Categorization
O: “Magic Anansi” Phonics/Spelling*: long i: i, y, igh, ie
ELL: “Magic Anansi” Structural Analysis: Open Syllables
B: “Magic Anansi” High-Frequency Words: also, apart,
begin, either, hundred, over, places, those,
which, without

Text Set 2: Interactive “Starry Night” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Reread Week 3 Week 3 Respond to Reading Project: Seasons
Read Aloud: Genre: Fiction Mr. Putter and Tabby Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Substitution, Intonation
Weeks 3 and 4 “The Hidden Sun” Lexile: 540L See the Stars
Genre: Fiction
adventure,
Character
Addition, Blending
Writing Process Product: Report
A: A Special Sunset Perspective Week 4 Personal Narrative
Genre: Fiction delighted, Phonics/Spelling*: long o: o, oa, ow, oe Blast: “When the Night
Essential Question: What ELL Scaffolded
Lexile: 580L
Lexile: 200L
dreamed, Plot: Sequence Structural Analysis: Contractions with not
Rate and Revise: Conclusion
Sky Dances”
can we see in the sky? Shared Read available O: A Different Set of Stars Expression Peer Conferences; Edit and
enjoyed, of Events High-Frequency Words: better, group, long,
Paired Selection Lexile: 390L Proofread; Publish, Present,
grumbled, Text Features: more, only, our, started, three, who, won't
Genre: Fiction “Day to Night” ELL: A Different Set of Stars and Evaluate
moonlight, Headings
Genre: Expository Text Lexile: 330L Week 4
neighbor, Grammar and Mechanics
Lexile: 550L B: Shadows in the Sky (Subheadings) Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables
Differentiated Genre Lexile: 540L
nighttime
Phonemic Awareness: Categorization,
Week 3: Past and Future Tense
Passages available Verbs; Letter Punctuation
Compound Blending
Paired Selections
Words Phonics/Spelling*: long e: e, ee, ea, ie, y, ey, Week 4: Subject-Verb
Genre: Expository Text e_e Agreement; Abbreviations
Multiple-
A: “Shadows and Sundials” Structural Analysis: Plurals with -s, -es (change
Meaning Words
O: “Stars” y to i)
ELL: “Stars” High-Frequency Words: after, before, every,
B: “Eclipses” few, first, hear, hurt, old, special, would

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 3: Interactive “They've Got the Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Ask and Answer Week 5 Week 5 Respond to Reading Project: National
Read Aloud: Beat!” Many Ways to Enjoy Vocabulary: Questions Phonological Awareness: Identify and Intonation Symbols
Week 5 “Why People Drum” Genre: Expository Text Music
Genre: Expository Text
cheered, Generate Alliteration
Writing Process
A: The Sounds of Trash Figurative Expository Essay Product: Collage
Lexile: 620L Genre: Expository Text concert, Phonemic Awareness: Addition and Deletion,
Essential Question: Lexile: 680L
Lexile: 410L
instrument,
Language: Idioms
Blending
Expert Model: Expository Essay
Blast: “Show Yourself
How do you express ELL Scaffolded O: The Sounds of Trash Plan: Choose and Evaluate
movements, Central Idea and Phonics/Spelling*: long u: u_e, ue, u, ew Through Art”
yourself? Shared Read available Paired Selection Lexile: 530L Sources
music, Relevant Details Structural Analysis: Comparative Endings -er,
“A Musical Museum” ELL: The Sounds of Trash Draft: Paragraphs
rhythm, sounds, Text Features: -est
Genre: Expository Text Lexile: 380L
Genre: Expository Text Lexile: 640L B: The Sounds of Trash
understand Diagrams High-Frequency Words: America, beautiful, Grammar and Mechanics
began, climbed, come, country, didn't, give, live, Week 5: The Verb have;
Lexile: 590L Prefixes
Differentiated Genre turned Sentence Punctuation
Passages available Paired Selections
Genre: Expository Text
A: “Talking Underwater”
O: “Talking Underwater”
ELL: “Talking Underwater”
B: “Talking Underwater”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Connect to Content: Science Connect to Content: Social Studies Writing Presentation Options

Extend, Connect, Genre: Online Article Reader's Theater: Passages Passages Writing Process Reader's Theater
and Assess “Antarctica Bound!” I'll Be the Dragon Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Text Expository Essay
Writing
“Electric Cars” “Flying Firsts” Revise: Strong Opening
Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Text Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread;
“Powering Homes” “Landing the Eagle” Publish, Present, and Evaluate
Activities Activity
Lab: Learn More About the Sun's Create a Timeline
Energy
Write About Your Results

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 Grade 2 • Unit 4 • Scope and Sequence
Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 1: Interactive “Happy New Year!” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Visualize Week 1 Week 1 Respond to Reading Project: Celebrations
Read Aloud: Genre: Realistic Fiction Dear Primo: A Letter to Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Identity, Categorization, Intonation Around the World
Weeks 1 and 2 “My New School” Lexile: 590L My Cousin
Genre: Realistic Fiction
common,
Main Story
Blending
Writing Process
A: Sharing Cultures Elements: Week 2 Realistic Fiction Product: Chart
Genre: Realistic Fiction costume, Phonics/Spelling*: Silent Letters wr, kn, gn, mb,
Essential Question: How ELL Scaffolded
Lexile: 610L
Lexile: 350L
customs,
Setting
sc
Rate and Expert Model: Realistic Fiction
Blast: “What in the
are kids around the world Shared Read available O: A New Life in India Expression Plan: Details
favorite, Plot: Compare Structural Analysis: Prefixes re-, un-, dis-; World Is for Dinner?”
different? Paired Selection Lexile: 480L Draft: Compare and Contrast
parade, and Contrast Suffixes -ful, -less
“Games Around the ELL: A New Life in India
surrounded, High-Frequency Words: below, colors, don't, Grammar and Mechanics
World” Lexile: 440L Text Features:
Genre: Realistic Fiction Genre: Expository Text B: Akita and Carlo
travels, Maps down, eat, many, morning, sleep, through, very Week 1: Linking Verbs; Letter
wonder Punctuation
Lexile: 600L Lexile: 620L Week 2
Differentiated Genre Similes Phonemic Awareness: Substitution, Blending, Week 2: Helping Verbs; Book
Passages available Paired Selections
Addition Titles
Suffixes
Genre: Expository Text Phonics/Spelling*: r-controlled vowel /ûr/: er,
(-er, -est)
A: “Music Around ir, ur, or
the World” Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings -s, -es,
O: “Dress Around -ed, -ing
the World” High-Frequency Words: animal, away, building,
ELL: “Dress Around found, from, Saturday, thought, today, toward,
the World” watch
B: “Food Around
the World”

Text Set 2: Interactive “Into the Sea” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Reread Week 3 Week 3 Respond to Reading Project: Earth Changes
Read Aloud: Genre: Expository Text Volcanoes Vocabulary: Phonological Awareness: Identify and Produce Phrasing
Weeks 3 and 4 “Earth Changes” Lexile: 650L Genre: Expository Text
Genre: Expository Text
active,
Text Features:
Rhyme
Writing Process Product: Before and
A: Earthquakes Headings and Week 4 Realistic Fiction After Pictures of Earth
Lexile: 680L Earth, Phonemic Awareness: Substitution, Blending
Essential Question: How ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 350L
explode,
Bold Print
Phonics/Spelling*: r-controlled vowels /ôr/: or,
Intonation Revise: Point of View Changes
does Earth change? Shared Read available Paired Selection O: Earthquakes Peer Conference; Edit and
island, Author's Purpose ore, oar and /är/: ar Blast:
“To The Rescue” Lexile: 530L Proofread; Publish, Present,
local, Structural Analysis: Plurals (Irregular) “How Mountains Form”
Genre: Expository Text ELL: Earthquakes Text Features: and Evaluate
Genre: Expository Text properties, High-Frequency Words: ago, carry, certain,
Lexile: 750L Lexile: 430L Titles and
solid, everyone, heavy, outside, people, problem, Grammar and Mechanics
B: Earthquakes Headings
Differentiated Genre Lexile: 630L
steep together, warm Week 3: Irregular Verbs;
Passages available Capitalization of Proper Nouns
Sentence Week 4
Paired Selections
(Context) Clues Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Week 4: Progressive Tense;
Genre: Expository Text Phonemic Awareness: Blending Apostrophes
Homographs
A: “Glaciers” Phonics/Spelling*: r-controlled vowel /îr/: eer,
O: “Glaciers” ere, ear
ELL: “Glaciers” Structural Analysis: Abbreviations
B: “Glaciers” High-Frequency Words: again, behind,
eyes, gone, happened, house, inside,
neither, stood, young

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 3: Interactive “Snow Shape,” “Nature Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Figurative Week 5 Week 5 Respond to Reading Project: Water Cycle
Read Aloud: Walk,” “April Rain Song,” “Rain Vocabulary: Language: Similes Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Phrasing
Week 5 “Redwood National “In the Sky” Poem”
Genre: Fiction
drops, Phonemic Awareness: Categorization,
Writing Process Product: Diagram
A: A Hike in the Woods Poetry: Free Verse Free Verse Poem
Forest,” Genre: Poetry Genre: Poetry excite, Blending Blast: “From the
Essential Question: “The Amazing Lexile: N/A Lexile: N/A
Lexile: 340L
outdoors, Theme Phonics/Spelling*: r-controlled vowel /âr/: are,
Expert Model: Free Verse Poem
Oceans to the Skies”
What excites us about O: A Little World Plan: Sensory Words
Meadow,” pale Rhyme Schemes air, ear, ere
nature? ELL Scaffolded Paired Selection Lexile: 500L Draft: Visual Patterns
“The Sahara Desert” Structural Analysis: r-Controlled Vowel
Shared Read available “Helicopters,” ELL: A Little World Antonyms
Syllables Grammar and Mechanics
“Windy Tree” Lexile: 400L
Genre: Poetry Genre: Poetry B: Star Party
High-Frequency Words: among, bought, knew, Week 5: Forming Compound
never, once, soon, sorry, talk, touch, upon Sentences; Avoiding Run-Ons;
Lexile: N/A Lexile: 590L
Differentiated Genre Use Comma with Coordinating
Passages available Paired Selections Conjunction When Joining Two
Sentences
Genre: Poetry
A: “The Woods”
O: “See a Star”
ELL: “By the Sea”
B: “Moon”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Connect to Content: Science Connect to Content: Social Studies Writing Presentation Options

Extend, Connect, Genre: Online Article Reader's Theater: Passages Passages Writing Process Reader's Theater
and Assess “Hope for the Everglades!” A Whale of a Story Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Text Free Verse Poem
Writing
“Tornado!” “Island of Hope” Revise: Strong Words/Precise Words
Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Text Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread;
“Landslides” “Lighting the Way” Publish, Present, and Evaluate
Activities Activity
Classifying Rocks National Monument Brochure
Write About Your Results

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 1: Interactive “Cesar Chavez” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Summarize Week 1 Week 1 Respond to Reading Project: American Hero
Read Aloud: Genre: Biography Brave Bessie Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Reversal, Substitution, Phrasing
Weeks 1 and 2 “A Hero On Lexile: 600L Genre: Biography
Genre: Biography
agree,
Text Features: Bold
Blending
Writing Process Product: Poster
A: Rudy Garcia-Tolson Print and Timelines Week 2 Write to Sources: Opinion Essay
and Off Skis” (Temporal) challenging, Phonics/Spelling*: Diphthongs ou, ow Blast: “What Makes
Essential Question: What ELL Scaffolded
Lexile: 650L
Lexile: 380L
discover, Author's Purpose Structural Analysis: Plurals (Irregular)
Accuracy Analyze the Rubric
a Hero?”
do heroes do? Shared Read available O: Rudy Garcia-Tolson and Rubric Minilesson: Opinion
heroes, Character High-Frequency Words: answer, been, body,
Paired Selection Lexile: 550L Intonation Statement
interest, Perspective build, head [body part], heard, minutes, myself,
Genre: Biography “The Prince's Frog” ELL: Rudy Garcia-Tolson Analyze the Student Model
perform, pretty, pushed
Genre: Fairy Tale Lexile: 490L
study, Grammar and Mechanics
Lexile: 650L B: Rudy Garcia-Tolson Week 2
Differentiated Genre Lexile: 640L
succeed
Phonemic Awareness: Blending, Substitution,
Week 1: Pronouns (Singular,
Passages available Plural); Capitalizing the pronoun I
Synonyms Segmentation, Deletion
Paired Selections
Phonics/Spelling*: Diphthongs oy, oi Week 2: Subjective, Objective,
Using a Print
Genre: Biography Structural Analysis: Consonant + le Syllables Possessive Pronouns; Commas
or Online
A: “The Unsinkable Molly (el, al, tion, sion) in Dates
Dictionary
Brown” High-Frequency Words: brought, busy, else,
O: “The Unsinkable Molly happy, I'll, laugh, love, maybe, please, several
Brown”
ELL: “The Unsinkable Molly
Brown”
B: “The Unsinkable Molly
Brown”

Text Set 2: Interactive “A Difficult Decision” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Make and Confirm Week 3 Week 3 Respond to Reading Project: Government
Read Aloud: Genre: Realistic Fiction Grace for President Vocabulary: Predictions Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Phrasing Leader
Weeks 3 and 4 “A Colorful Problem” Lexile: 510L Genre: Realistic Fiction
Genre: Realistic Fiction
champion, Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, Blending
Writing Process
A: Fixing the Playground Plot: Beginning, Week 4 Write to Sources: Opinion Essay Product: Pamphlet
Lexile: 580L determined, Phonics/Spelling*: Variant Vowels /ü/: oo, u,
Essential Question: What ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 340L
issues,
Middle, End
u_e, ew, ue, ui and /ů/: oo, ou, u
Expression Analyze the Prompt
Blast: “I Can Be a Good
do good citizens do? Shared Read available Paired Selection O: The Food Crew and Rate Analyze the Sources:
promises, Character Structural Analysis: Contractions with not Citizen, Too!”
“Helping to Make Lexile: 480L “Future Volunteers”;
responsibility, Perspective High-Frequency Words: air, along, always,
Genre: Realistic Fiction Smiles” ELL: The Food Crew “Kids Volunteer”
right, Text Features: draw, during, ever, meant, nothing, story, strong
Genre: Narrative Lexile: 430L Plan: Organize Ideas
volunteered, Graphic Features/
Nonfiction B: How Many Greats? Week 4 Draft: Relevant Evidence
Differentiated Genre Lexile: 520L Lexile: 620L
votes Callouts Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Revise: Peer Conferences
Passages available Suffixes -ful, Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Blending,
Paired Selections Grammar and Mechanics
-less Addition
Week 3: Pronoun-Verb
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Phonics/Spelling*: Variant Vowel /ô/: a, aw, au,
Idioms Agreement; Capitalization of
A: “Hero” augh, al, ough
Proper Nouns (days of week,
O: “A School Feeds Others” Structural Analysis: Vowel Team Syllables
months, locations, names,
ELL: “A School High-Frequency Words: city, father, mother,
holiday [Election Day], name of
Feeds Others” o'clock, own, questions, read, searching,
school)
B: “Freedom Walk” sure, though
Week 4: Possessive Pronouns
and Reflexive Pronouns; Letter
Punctuation

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 3: Interactive “The Problem with Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Summarize Week 5 Week 5 Respond to Reading Project: Recycling
Read Aloud: Plastic Bags” A Call to Compost Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Segmentation, Intonation
Week 5 “Towns Need Rules!” Genre: Persuasive Genre: Persuasive
Genre: Persuasive Text
exclaimed,
Text Features:
Reversal, Blending
Writing Process Product: Chart
A: Do People Need Rules? Charts Write to Sources: Opinion Essay
Text Text finally, form, Phonics/Spelling*: Short Vowel Digraphs /e/ea; Blast: “Rules of
Essential Question: Lexile: 560L Lexile: 660L
Lexile: 510L
history, public, Author's Purpose /u/ou; /i/y
Analyze the Rubric
Respect: Making
Why are rules important? O: Do People Need Rules? Rubric Minilesson:
rules, united, Structural Analysis: Alphabetical Order School Safe for All”
ELL Scaffolded Paired Selection Lexile: 620L Author's Opinion Transitional Words
writers High-Frequency Words: anything, children,
Genre: Persuasive Text Shared Read available “Should Students ELL: Do People Need Analyze the Student Model
everybody, instead, paper [piece of paper],
Wear Uniforms?” Rules? Multiple-
person, voice, whole, woman, words Grammar and Mechanics
Genre: Expository Text Lexile: 610L Meaning Words
Differentiated Genre Lexile: 600L B: Do People Need Rules?
Week 5: Contractions;
Passages available Contractions with Pronouns/
Lexile: 710L
Possessive Pronouns
Paired Selections
Genre: Expository Text
A: “Pool Rules”
O: “Pool Rules”
ELL: “Pool Rules”
B: “Pool Rules”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Connect to Content: Science Connect to Content: Social Studies Writing Presentation Options

Extend, Connect, Genre: Online Article Reader's Theater: Passages Passages Writing Process Reader's Theater
and Assess “Good Deeds Add Up” The Search for the Genre: Expository Essay Genre: Biography Write to Sources: Opinion Essay
Writing
Magic Lake “Compost: Food for Your Soil!” “George Washington Carver” Analyze the Prompt
Genre: Realistic Fiction Genre: Biography Analyze the Sources: “Smart Screens”;
“Spreading the Garden Love” “Jacqueline Cochran: American Flier” “No More Screen Time”
Plan: Organize Ideas
Draft: Supporting Reason
Revise: Peer Confererences

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 1: Interactive “The Life of Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Summarize Week 1 Week 1 Respond to Reading Project: Producers and
Read Aloud: a Dollar Bill” Money Madness Vocabulary: Phonological Awareness: Identify and Produce Intonation Consumers
Weeks 1 and 2 “Keep the Change!” Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Text
Genre: Expository Text
invented,
Text Features:
Rhyme
Writing Process
A: How to Be a Bar Graphs Week 2 Write to Sources: Expository Product: Flowchart
(Temporal) Lexile: 780L money, Phonemic Awareness: Addition, Blending,
Essential Question: Lexile: 660L
Smart Shopper
prices, Central Idea and Deletion
Phrasing Essay
Blast: “Making Dollars
How do we use money? Paired Selection Lexile: 450L and Analyze the Rubric
purchase, Relevant Details Phonics/Spelling*: Closed and Open Syllables and Cents”
ELL Scaffolded “King Midas and the O: How to Be a Accuracy Rubric Minilesson: Central Idea
record, Main Story Structural Analysis: Compound Words
Genre: Expository Text Shared Read available Golden Touch” Smart Shopper Analyze the Student Model
system, Elements: High-Frequency Words: door, front, order,
Genre: Myth Lexile: 540L
value, probably, remember, someone, tomorrow, Grammar and Mechanics
Lexile: 720L ELL: How to Be a Character and
Differentiated Genre Smart Shopper
worth Events what's, worry, yesterday Week 1: Adjectives (including
Passages available articles); Abbreviations
Lexile: 500L Paragraph Week 2
B: How to Be a Clues Phonemic Awareness: Addition, Segmentation, Week 2: Articles and this,
Smart Shopper Substitution, Blending that, these, and those;
Greek/Latin
Lexile: 680L Phonics/Spelling*: CVCe Syllables Commas in Dates
Roots
Structural Analysis: Review prefixes re-, un-,
Paired Selections
dis- and suffixes -ful, -less
Genre: Myth High-Frequency Words: alone, became,
A: “The Golden Fleece” beside, four, hello, large, notice, round,
O: “The Golden Fleece” suppose, surprised
ELL: “The Golden Fleece”
B: “The Golden Fleece”

Text Set 2: Interactive “The Starry Asters” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Reread Week 3 Week 3 Respond to Reading Project: Plants
Read Aloud: Genre: Drama/Myth The Contest of Athena Vocabulary: Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Expression
Weeks 3 and 4 “The Queen of Lexile: NP and Poseidon
Genre: Drama/Myth
appeared,
Elements of
Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation,
Writing Process Product: Diagram with
A: The Apples of Idun a Drama Week 4 Write to Sources: Expository labels
Flowers” Genre: Drama/Myth crops, Blending, Addition, Deletion
Essential Question: ELL Scaffolded
Lexile: NP
Lexile: 400L
develop, Theme Phonics/Spelling*: Final Stable Syllables: words
Intonation Essay
Blast: “Plants and
What do myths help us Shared Read available O: Hercules and the and Rate Analyze the Prompt
edge, with consonant + le (el, al, tion, sion) Flowers That Grow into
understand? Paired Selection Golden Apples Figurative Analyze the Sources: “Meet Cara
golden, Structural Analysis: Contractions and Myths”
“Poseidon's Gift” Lexile: 550L Language from South Florida”; “America's
rustled, shining, Possessives
Genre: Myth ELL: Hercules and the Winter Salad Bowl”; “The
Genre: Drama/Myth Lexile: 600L Golden Apples
stages High-Frequency Words: above, brother, follow,
Business of Citrus”
listen, month, soft, something, song, who's, wind
Lexile: 440L Idioms Plan: Organize Ideas
Differentiated Genre B: Demeter and Week 4 Draft: Elaborative Techniques
Passages available Greek/Latin
Persephone Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation, Revise: Peer Conferences
Roots
Lexile: 630L Substitution, Reversal, Blending
Grammar and Mechanics
Phonics/Spelling*: Vowel Team Syllables
Paired Selections Week 3: Adjectives That
Structural Analysis: Comparative endings -er,
Compare; Apostrophes
Genre: Expository Text -est (with spelling changes)
A: “Tomatoes” High-Frequency Words: against, anymore, Week 4: Adverbs; Names
O: “Apples” complete, enough, river, rough, sometimes, and Titles
ELL: “Apples” stranger, terrible, window
B: “Pomegranates”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Text Set Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Anthology Leveled Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and Inquiry

Text Set 3: Interactive “A Box of Crayons,” Anchor Text Main Selections Academic Rhyme Schemes Week 5 Week 5 Writing Process Project: Authors and
Read Aloud: “What Story is This?,” “Books to the Ceiling,” Vocabulary: Phonemic Awareness: Addition, Substitution, Expression Write to Sources: Artists
Week 5 “Give Me a “The Ticket” “I've Got This Covered,”
Genre: Fiction
create,
Text Features:
Segmentation Expository Essay
A: Matt's Journey Stanzas Product: Oral Report
Brown Box,” Genre: Poetry “Eating While Reading” dazzling, Phonics/Spelling*: Words with r-Controlled Analyze the Rubric
Essential Question: “Music Sends Me” Lexile: NP Genre: Poetry (Lyrical)
Lexile: 430L
imagination, Character Vowel Syllables Rubric Minilesson: Conclusion Blast: “Set Your
Where can your O: A Fantastic Day!
Lexile: NP seconds Perspective Structural Analysis: Words with Three or More Analyze the Student Model Imagination Free!”
imagination take you? ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 560L
Poetry: Rhythm Syllables
Shared Read available Paired Selection ELL: A Fantastic Day! Metaphors Week 5
and Rhyme High-Frequency Words: afternoon, ahead,
“Clay Play,” Lexile: 470L Grammar Skill: Prepositions and
Genre: Poetry “Crayons” B: A Day in Ancient Rome
anyone, everything, pretended, scientist,
Prepositional Phrases
somehow, throughout, trouble, wherever
Genre: Poetry Lexile: 640L Grammar Mechanics: Quoting
Differentiated Genre Lexile: NP Sources
Passages available Paired Selections
Genre: Poetry
A: “Autumn Leaves”/
“The Orchestra”
O: “A Butterfly Life”/
“Circus Day”
ELL: “Pablo and I”/
“My Tiny Friend”
B: “Lost and Found”/
“My Magic Car”

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Connect to Content: Science Connect to Content: Social Studies Writing Presentation Options

Extend, Connect, Genre: Online Article Reader's Theater: Passages Passages Reader’s Theater Writing
and Assess “Whispering Whales” Mother Goose to the Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Text
Writing Process
Rescue “Galileo and the Telescope” “Building a Career”
Write to Sources: Expository Essay
Genre: Expository Text Genre: Historical Fiction
Analyze the Prompt
“The Shoulders of Giants” “The Busy Bee Bakery”
Analyze the Sources: “Otis Boykin”;
Activity Activities “Nikola Tesla”; “Lewis Latimer”
Gravity Experiment Role-Play an Interview Plan: Organize Ideas
Write a Magazine Article Draft: Academic Vocabulary
Revise: Peer Conferences

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