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Theme: Take Action

ORAL LANGUAGE• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Rescue Teams

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Theme A Lost City

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WORD STUDY• Vocabulary

• Phonics/Decoding

Vocabularyintersection, engulf, abruptly, conscious,anxiety, cascade,procedure, souvenir

Dictionary: Multiple- Meaning Words

PhonicsShort Vowels

Vocabularyforetold, withstood, remote, interpreter,undergrowth, venomous,escort, vegetation

Word Parts: Compound Words

PhonicsLong Vowels

READING• Comprehension

• Fluency

• Leveled Readers/ELL Readers

ComprehensionStrategy: Analyze Story Structure

Skill: Character, Setting, Plot

Repeated Reading: Intonation/Pausing

APPROACHING The Lost Cave

ON LEVEL Rachel’s Choice

BEYOND Surprises in the Desert

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Rescue Team

ComprehensionStrategy: Analyze Story Structure

Skill: Character, Setting, Plot

Repeated Reading: Intonation/Pausing

APPROACHING I Discover Pompeii: or How I Spent My Summer Vacation

ON LEVEL Queen Pu-abi’s Royal Tomb

BEYOND The Ancient Secret of Cliff Canyon

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSA Great Discovery

LANGUAGE ARTS• Writing

• Grammar

• Spelling

Writing Personal Narrative

Grammar Sentence Types and Fragments

Spelling Short Vowel Words

Writing Friendly Letter

Grammar Subjects and Predicates

Spelling Long Vowel Words

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Theme Science for All

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Theme Sharing Traditions

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Theme Protecting Wildlife

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Vocabularyaltered, erode,absorb, concentrated,innovations

Context Clues:Definitions

Phonicsei or ie

Vocabularychameleon, rummaged,scrounging, pathetic,undetected, generosity,ricocheting, famine

Context Clues:Restatement

Phonicsr-Controlled Vowels

Vocabularyvital, analyzing,speculated, embedded,sedated, dehydrated,propelled, conserve

Analogies: Antonyms

PhonicsCompound Words

ComprehensionStrategy: Make Inferences and Analyze

Skill: Main Idea and Details

Repeated Reading: Punctuation

APPROACHING Technology and Nature: Water

ON LEVEL From Dragonflies to Helicopters: Learning from Nature

BEYOND Plants: An Amazing Resource

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSLearning to Fly from Nature

ComprehensionStrategy: Make Inferences and Analyze

Skill: Cause and Effect


APPROACHING The Art of Origami

ON LEVEL Arts of the Navajo

BEYOND The Tradition of Dance

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSNavajo Indian Art

ComprehensionStrategy: Make Inferences and Analyze Skill: Main Idea and Details

Repeated Reading: Tempo/Pacing

APPROACHING Saving Right Whales

ON LEVEL Saving Peregrine Falcons

BEYOND Saving Alligators

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe King of Birds

Writing Expository

Grammar Sentence Combining

Spelling ei or ie Words

Writing Poem

Grammar Clauses and Complex Sentences

Spelling r-Controlled Vowel Words

Writing Diary

Grammar Run-on Sentences

Spelling Compound Words

pages 102A–123Vpages 78A–101V

Comprehension

How can lizards, cockroaches,

and spiders help make life better

for humans?

H innovations?

WHAT MAKES GECKOS STICK?

Gecko Glue,Cockroach Scouts,

And

Spider Silk Bridges

Real World Reading

ComprehensionGenreA Nonfiction Article in a

newspaper or magazine

presents facts and

information.

Make Inferences and AnalyzeMain Idea and DetailsThe main idea is the most

important point an author

makes. Details give more

information about the main

idea.

The bottom of a gecko’s foot

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Test StrategyThink and Search

Writing WorkshopPersonal Narrative

Unit 1 Assessment, 7–24

ComprehensionCharacter, Setting, Plot; Main Idea and Details;Cause and Effect

Vocabulary StrategiesDictionary: Multiple-Meaning Words; Word Parts: Compound Words; Context Clues: Definitions, Restatement; Analogy: Antonyms

Text Features/Study Skills/Literary Elements

Photos and Captions; Textbook; Media Center; Time Line; Alliteration and Imagery

GrammarSentences

WritingPersonal Narrative

Fluency Assessment

Diagnose and PrescribeInterpret Assessment Results

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Theme: Saving the Day

ORAL LANGUAGE• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Team Spirit

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Theme The Solar System

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Vocabularyinscribed, resemblance, postmarked, enthralled, regulation, grouchy, embarrassment, pennant

Word Parts: Inflectional Endings

PhonicsPlurals

Vocabularyspicy, undone, vigil, ravaged, marveled, broadcast, unsatisfactory,calculations

Dictionary: Pronunciation Key

PhonicsInflected Endings


• Fluency


ComprehensionStrategy: Generate QuestionsSkill: Make Inferences

Repeated Reading:Intonation and Pausing

APPROACHING A Sound Move

ON LEVEL The Right Move

BEYOND A Good Move

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Tryout

ComprehensionStrategy: Generate QuestionsSkill: Make Inferences

Repeated Reading:Punctuation

APPROACHING Around the Sun: Our Solar System

ON LEVEL Stargazers: Astronomers in Ancient Times

BEYOND Stargazing: The History of the Telescope

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS


• Grammar

• Spelling

Writing Business Letter

Grammar Common and Proper Nouns

Spelling Plurals

Writing Editorial

Grammar Singular and Plural Nouns

Spelling Inflected Endings

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Theme Helping Hands

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Theme Tales of Old

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Theme Sled Dogs as Heroes

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Vocabularycalamities, mitigate, devastating, evacuate,administer

Context Clues

PhonicsWords with /ô/, /ou/, /oi/

Vocabularycoincidences, sweeten,phase, hobbled, sheepishly, sumptuous, mufflers, prospered

Dictionary: Idioms

PhonicsVCCV and VCCCV Patterns

Vocabularyoutskirts, quarantine, intercept, pedestrians, plight, epidemic, rendezvous, unbearable

Thesaurus/Dictionary:Synonyms

PhonicsV/CV and VC/V Patterns

ComprehensionStrategy: Generate QuestionsSkill: Make Generalizations

Repeated Reading: Pronunciation

APPROACHING The Wildfires of 2000

ON LEVEL The Great Flood of 1993

BEYOND Waiting for Rain: Drought in Ethiopia

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Flood of 1993

ComprehensionStrategy: Summarize Skill: Problem and Solution

Repeated Reading: Tempo and Pacing

APPROACHING Peter Humbug and the White Cat

ON LEVEL The Princess and the Gnome

BEYOND The Two Sinbads

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Sad Prince

ComprehensionStrategy: Summarize Skill: Sequence of Events

Repeated Reading:Pronunciation

APPROACHING Rescue Dog Heroes

ON LEVEL Sled Dog Heroes

BEYOND Canine War Heroes

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSSled Dogs

Writing Expository

Grammar More Plural Spellings

Spelling Words with /ô/, /ou/, /oi/

Writing Point of View Essay

Grammar Possessive Nouns

Spelling VCCV and VCCCV Words

Writing Essay

Grammar Appositives

Spelling V/CV and VC/V Words


3p9Real World Reading

Zoo StoryWhat happens when a fierce

hurricane nearly destroys a zoo?

SAVING THE KOALAS



presents facts and

information.

Generate QuestionsMake GeneralizationsA generalization is a way

of describing a subject

or situation in broad

statements, without giving

a lot of details or specifics.

Hurricane Andrew was a devastatingnatural disaster for South Florida. In

terms of property damage, it is one of

the worst calamities ever to hit the

United States. When Andrew swept

ashore with wind gusts of 175 miles

per hour, thousands of people lost their

homes. The storm also nearly destroyed

Miami’s Metrozoo, home to thousands

of wild animals. Setting their own losses

aside, 100 dedicated men and women

worked frantically to take care of the

needs of the dazed and helpless animals

roaming through the wreckage of the

zoo. For some creatures whose habitats

were destroyed, survival was a race

against time.

The zoo’s three koalas lost their only

source of food—a eucalyptus grove—

and the roof of their air-conditioned

enclosure. They were suffering in

dangerously high heat and humidity.

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Test Strategy Author and Me

Writing WorkshopPersuasive


ComprehensionMake Inferences; Make Generalizations;Problem and Solution; Sequence of Events

Vocabulary StrategiesWord Parts: Inflectional Endings; Thesaurus/Dictionary: Synonyms, Pronunciation Key, Idioms; Context Clues


Chart and Almanac; Graphs; Using the Internet; Moral and Hyperbole; Symbolism and Metaphor

GrammarNouns

WritingPersuasive

Fluency Assessment


Saving the Day 128C

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Theme: Great Ideas

ORAL LANGUAGE• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme The Old Southwest

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Theme Putting It in Writing

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Vocabularyflourish, foreman,employee, fulfill, gleefully,gloated, vigorously,gritted

Word Parts: Base Words

PhonicsAccented Syllables

Vocabularylimousine, embarked,promenade,unimaginable,sensational, extravagant,lamented, precarious

Dictionary: Word Origins

PhonicsFinal /

e

r/


• Fluency


ComprehensionStrategy: Analyze Story Structure Skill: Character, Setting, Plot

Repeated Reading: Intonation and Pausing

APPROACHING Searching for Gold

ON LEVEL The Secrets of Old Mesilla

BEYOND A Maidu Home

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Summer of Surprises

ComprehensionStrategy: Monitor ComprehensionSkill: Draw Conclusions

Repeated Reading: Pausing

APPROACHING How the Library Lost ItsBooks

ON LEVEL The Great AmericanHometown Homework

BEYOND Lazy Acres Wakes Up

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Hometown Homework


• Grammar

• Spelling

Writing Character Sketch

Grammar Action Verbs, Direct/Indirect Objects

Spelling Words with Accented Syllables

Writing Dialogue

Grammar Past and Future Tenses: Verbs

Spelling Words with Final /

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Theme Energy

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Theme Archaeology

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Theme Show Time

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Vocabularynonrenewable,renewable, adverse,generate, apparatus

Context Clues

PhonicsFinal /

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Vocabularysuperstitious, civilized,prolong, precede,trenches, steadfastly,excavate, utensils

Word Parts: Prefixes

PhonicsWords with Prefixes

Vocabularysponsoring, array,significance, charismatic,mimics, despondently,sleuthing, anonymous

Analogy: Synonyms

PhonicsAdding -ion, -ation

ComprehensionStrategy: Analyze Text StructureSkill: Cause and Effect


APPROACHING Energy: Powering OurWorld

ON LEVEL Energy: Problems andSolutions

BEYOND Energy: A Bright Future?

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSEnergy and Our World

ComprehensionStrategy: Monitor ComprehensionSkill: Summarize


APPROACHING Buried Palace Brought toLight

ON LEVEL Rock Art from the Stone Age

BEYOND Rediscovery: Cultures Lostand Found

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSCave Paintings

ComprehensionStrategy: Monitor ComprehensionSkill: Draw Conclusions


APPROACHING Starring Frankie Smithers

ON LEVEL Will the Show Go On?

BEYOND What Happened to theMusic?

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe School Play

Writing Expository

Grammar Main and Helping Verbs/Tenses

Spelling Words with Final /

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Writing Short Story

Grammar Linking Verbs, Predicate Nouns, and Adjectives

Spelling Words with Prefixes

Writing Scene from a Play

Grammar Irregular Verbs

Spelling Words with -ion, -ation


How can homes be made more environmentally friendly?

If Earth could talk, it might not call

everyone’s house “home sweet home.”

Instead, it would probably point out that

many of our houses are not so “sweet.”

They can actually have an adverse effect

on the health of the planet. Imaginative

builders are out to change that by

dreaming up new ways to make our

homes more “green,” a term that means

“ecologically friendly.”

HOME, GREEN HOMERecently, a new house built near

Houston, Texas, was so efficient that it

didn’t need a furnace. The hot-water

heater kept the house warm enough in

the relatively mild Texas winter. This,

combined with reduced air-conditioning

costs, saved enough money to offset the

cost of the house’s extra-thick insulation

and high-performance windows.

Real World Reading

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presents facts and

information.

Text StructureCause and EffectA cause is an action that

makes something else

happen. An effect is the

result of a cause.

BUILDING

GREEN

Water-filled drums in a south-facing glass wall absorb heat from the sun and release it slowly at night to warm this New Mexico home in winter.

pages 302A–313V

Test StrategyAuthor and Me

Writing WorkshopFictional Narrative


ComprehensionCharacter, Setting, Plot; Draw Conclusions; Cause and Effect; Summarize

Vocabulary StrategiesWord Parts: Base Words, Prefixes; Dictionary: Word Origins; Context Clues; Analogy: Synonyms


Maps; Question and Answer Format; Study Strategies; Meter and Consonance; Tables

GrammarVerbs

WritingFictional Narrative

Fluency Assessment


Great Ideas 246C

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ORAL LANGUAGE• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Uncommon

Champions

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Theme Oceanography

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Vocabularysummit, awesome,specialists, deteriorated,maturity, guidance,peripheral, typical

Context Clues: Synonyms

PhonicsWords with -ion with spelling changes

Vocabularyformations, wreckageintact, severed, interior,hovering, edgy, clockwise

Word Parts: Suffixes

PhonicsWords with -ive, -age, -ize


• Fluency


ComprehensionStrategy: EvaluateSkill: Author’s Purpose


APPROACHING The Only Game in Town

ON LEVEL Marla Runyan: In It for the Long Run

BEYOND Seabiscuit: The Horse Nobody Wanted

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSRunner Marla Runyan

ComprehensionStrategy: EvaluateSkill: Fact and Opinion


APPROACHING Eugenie Clark

ON LEVEL Jacques Cousteau

BEYOND Robert Ballard: Underwater Adventurer

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Undersea World


• Grammar

• Spelling

Writing Interview

Grammar Pronouns and Antecedents

Spelling Words with -ion with spelling changes

Writing Scientific Observation

Grammar Subject and Object Pronouns

Spelling Words with -ive, -age, -ize

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Theme Helping Others

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Theme Cycling

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Theme Pieces from the Past

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Vocabularybewildering, moderate,hamper, prohibit,accessible

Dictionary: Homographs

PhonicsPrefixes, Suffixes, Base Words

Vocabularyspectators, demonstration,prominent, luxury, prevail, maneuvered, collective, adept

Analogy: Relationships

PhonicsVowel Alternation

Vocabularysymmetry, arid, benefit,deftly, eaves,furrowed, derision,ceramics

Homophones

PhonicsConsonant Alternation

ComprehensionStrategy: Make Inferences and AnalyzeSkill: Compare and Contrast


APPROACHING Achievements in Business: Amadeo Giannini

ON LEVEL Achievements in Education: Mary McLeod Bethune

BEYOND Achievements in Health: Annie Dodge Wauneka

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSA Great Leader: Mary McLeod Bethune

ComprehensionStrategy: Make Inferences and Analyze Skill: Fact and Opinion


APPROACHING Tony Hawk: A Skating Legend

ON LEVEL Lance Armstrong: Racing Into Bicycling History

BEYOND Jesse Owens: Racing Into History

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSLance Armstrong: Cyclist and Survivor

ComprehensionStrategy: EvaluateSkill: Author’s Perspective


APPROACHING Arts and Crafts in Feudal Japan

ON LEVEL Crafts in Medieval Europe

BEYOND Building a Cathedral

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSCrafts in the Middle Ages

Writing Expository

Grammar Possessive Pronouns

Spelling Prefixes, Suffixes, Base Words

Writing News Article

Grammar Indefinite Pronouns

Spelling Words with Vowel Alternation

Writing Magazine Article

Grammar Pronoun-Verb Agreement and more Pronouns

Spelling Words with Consonant Alternation


Real World Reading

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For most of her life, Oseola McCarty of

Hattiesburg, Mississippi, did laundry

for other people. It seems reasonable

to assume that the modest income of a

washerwoman would prohibit her from

becoming a philanthropist. What people

in Hattiesburg could not have guessed was

that McCarty would wind up donating a

small fortune to the local university. Large

donations usually come from wealthy

alumni. However, the University of Southern

Mississippi announced that Oseola McCarty,

then 87 years old, was giving the university

$150,000 to finance scholarships for African

American students. “I want them to have

an education,’’ said McCarty, who never

married and had no children of her own.

“I had to work hard all my life. They can

have the chance that I didn’t have.’’

SAVING GRACE

ComprehensionGenreA Nonfiction Article in

a newspaper or magazine

presents facts and

information.

Make Inferences and AnalyzeCompare and ContrastWhen you look for

similarities, you compare

things. When you look for

differences, you contrast

them.

How could a woman who spent her life doing laundry for others give $150,000 for university scholarships?

Oseola McCarty (third from the right) and her family in 1922

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Writing WorkshopExpository


ComprehensionEvaluate Author’s Purpose; Evaluate Fact and Opinion; Compare and Contrast; Identify Fact and Opinion; Evaluate Author’s Perspective

Vocabulary StrategiesContext Clues: Synonyms; Word Parts: Suffixes; Dictionary: Homographs; Analogy: Relationships; Homophones


Diagrams and Labels; Hyperbole and Dialogue; Parts of a Book; Assonance and Onomatopoeia; Typefaces

GrammarPronouns

WritingExpository

Fluency Assessment


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ORAL LANGUAGE• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Mentors

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Vocabularyreputation, uttered,migrant, illegally,ruptured, mistreated,wrath, quickened

Word Parts: Word Families

PhonicsHomophones

Vocabularyencounter, victorious,grimaced, participate,ordeals, nourishing,anticipated, dejectedly

Word Parts: Latin Roots

Phonics Latin Roots


• Fluency


ComprehensionStrategy: Evaluate Skill: Author’s Purpose


APPROACHING Rafi’s Secret

ON LEVEL Micaela Moves

BEYOND Abuela Sews

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSMicaela’s New Friend

ComprehensionStrategy: Monitor ComprehensionSkill: Compare and Contrast


APPROACHING Zach’s Best Shot

ON LEVEL Stacey’s Winning Move

BEYOND A Fair Trade

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSThe Big Decision


• Grammar

• Spelling

Writing Speech

Grammar Adjectives and Demonstrative Adjectives

Spelling Homophones

Writing Essay

Grammar Articles

Spelling Words with Latin Roots

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Theme Money Matters

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Theme Collections

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Theme Taking a Stand

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Vocabularyeconomists, continuous,chronology, debut,periodic

Word Parts: Greek Roots

PhonicsGreek Roots

Vocabularydilapidated, decades,rafters, instinctively,swiveled, auction,decrease, shakily

Thesaurus/Dictionary:Antonyms

PhonicsSuffixes -able, -ible

Vocabularyconvictions, oppression,evident, remedies,persistent, defiance,momentum, resonated

Context Clues: Examples

PhonicsSuffixes -ant, -ent, -ance, -ence

ComprehensionStrategy: EvaluateSkill: Techniques of Persuasion

Repeated Reading:Pronunciation

APPROACHING Money Talks

ON LEVEL Behind the Scenes at the Treasury

BEYOND The Stock Market Crash of 1929

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSMaking Money at the Treasury

ComprehensionStrategy: EvaluateSkill: Make Judgments

Repeated Reading: Intonation/Punctuation

APPROACHING 50 Quarters: One for Every State

ON LEVEL The Baseball Hall of Fame

BEYOND The Smithsonian: America’s Attic

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSAll About Baseball

ComprehensionStrategy: Monitor ComprehensionSkill: Summarize

Repeated Reading:Tempo and Pacing

APPROACHING Barbara Jordan: One Woman Taking A Stand

ON LEVEL César Chávez

BEYOND Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Champion

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSCésar Chávez

Writing Expository

Grammar Adjectives that Compare

Spelling Words with Greek Roots

Writing Poem

Grammar Comparing with More and Most

Spelling Words with Suffixes -able, -ible

Writing Eyewitness Account

Grammar Comparing with Good and Bad

Spelling Words with Suffixes -ant, -ent, -ance, -ence

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Writing WorkshopDescriptive


ComprehensionAuthor’s Purpose; Compare and Contrast; Techniques of Persuasion; Make Judgments; Summarize

Vocabulary StrategiesWord Parts: Word Families, Latin Roots, Greek Roots; Thesaurus/Dictionary: Antonyms; Context Clues: Examples


Schedules; Moral and Personification; Dictionary/Thesaurus; Photos and Captions; Rhyme, Simile, and Repetition

GrammarAdjectives

WritingDescriptive/Compare and Contrast

Fluency Assessment


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Theme: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

ORAL LANGUAGE• Listening, Speaking, Viewing Theme Great Designs Last

Forever

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VocabularyRenaissance, philosopher,elaborate, recommend,commissioned, miniature,envisioned, proportion

Word Parts: Greek Roots

PhonicsGreek and Latin Prefixes

Vocabularyimmigrated, honorable,tinkering, destination,fidget, formally, glumly,unsteady

Thesaurus/Dictionary:Synonyms

PhonicsAbsorbed Prefixes


• Fluency


ComprehensionStrategy: Generate Questions Skill: Generalizations

Repeated Reading: Pausing and Intonation

APPROACHING The Taj Mahal

ON LEVEL Stories on the Ceiling

BEYOND A New Pyramid for Paris

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSMichelangelo’s Ceiling

ComprehensionStrategy: Generate QuestionsSkill: Sequence of Events

Repeated Reading: Punctuation and Quotation Marks

APPROACHING Field Trip

ON LEVEL Speed Dial

BEYOND The Trees of Time Past

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSWhere Is Carter?


• Grammar

• Spelling

Writing How-to

Grammar Adverbs

Spelling Words with Greek and Latin Prefixes

Writing Essay

Grammar Adverbs that Compare

Spelling Absorbed Prefixes

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Theme Keeping In Touch

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Theme Print, Past and Present

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Theme Volcanoes, Past and Present

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Vocabularyanthropologists,presumably, portable,nuisance, immense

Word Parts: Latin and Greek Word Parts

PhonicsGreek Suffixes

Vocabularyestablished, scribes,guilds, obstacles, alloy,penniless, privileged, manuscripts

Word Parts: Latin Roots

PhonicsWords from Mythology

Vocabularydwelling, ambitious,lounge, pondering,drowsy, revived,agonized, vapors

Dictionary: Multiple-Meaning Words

PhonicsWords from Around the World

ComprehensionStrategy: Summarize

Skill: Problem and Solution


APPROACHING Talking Pictures: Signs, Symbols, and Writing Systems

ON LEVEL Talking Pictures: A Mystery in Peru

BEYOND Talking Pictures: The Mayan Mystery

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSPictures in the Desert

ComprehensionStrategy: Generate Questions

Skill: Description


APPROACHING Stories Told Through the Ages

ON LEVEL Spread the Word—Become a Publisher

BEYOND From Papyrus to Paper

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSHow to Be a Publisher

ComprehensionStrategy: Summarize

Skill: Analyze Theme


APPROACHING River of Destruction

ON LEVEL Eruption of the Mountain

BEYOND Besieged by Lava

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERSEscape from the Volcano

Writing Expository

Grammar Negatives

Spelling Greek Suffixes

Writing Explanation

Grammar Prepositional Phrases

Spelling Words from Mythology

Writing Explanation

Grammar Sentence Combining

Spelling Words from Around the World


These Walls Can Talk

THESEWALLS

CAN TALKHow did the earliest human

beings express themselves

through art?

Real World Reading



presents facts and

information.

SummarizeProblem and SolutionA problem is a situation that

needs to be overcome. A

solution is how the problem

is overcome.

If you’re looking for archaeological

finds that really rock, you can travel

to Europe, Africa, and Australia to

find some of the earliest examples of the

human creative spirit.

EXPLORING EUROPE’S CAVESIn 1994, three people exploring a cliff in

southeastern France felt a breeze wafting

from a pile of rock and debris. “That

was a sign that there was a cave beneath

it,” recalls Jean-Marie Chauvet. With his

companions, Chauvet cleared away an

opening, then wriggled through a tunnel

into a complex of large caves.

Then, in the pale glow of their

headlamps, the explorers noticed two

red lines on a cavern wall. Chauvet

recognized the markings as “characteristic

of the Stone Age.’’ They had discovered

an immense archaeological trove

and, presumably, a clear window on

prehistoric life.

Six days later they returned with

portable lighting and plastic sheets that

they spread about to avoid disturbing

artifacts on the cavern floors. Probing

deeper into the cavern system, they

began coming upon exquisite, intricately

detailed wall paintings and engravings

of animals, as well as numerous images

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Test StrategyOn My Own

Writing WorkshopExplanatory


ComprehensionMake Generalizations;Sequence of Events; Problem and Solution; Text Structure: Description; Analyze Theme

Vocabulary StrategiesGreek Roots, Latin Roots, Latin/Greek Word Parts; Thesaurus/Dictionary: Synonyms, Multiple-Meaning Words


Primary Source; Hyperlink and Keyword; Functional Documents; Rhyme Schemes, Rhythmic Patterns, and Personification; Graphic Aids

GrammarAdverbs

WritingExplanatory

Fluency Assessment


Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 596C