Unit 1 & 2
UNIT 1: Week 1: Iris and Walter
Phonics: Short Vowels; Short e: ea and Character, Setting, and Making Predictions
High Frequency Words: beautiful, country, friend, front, someone, somewhere Vocabulary Words: amazing, ladder, meadow, and roller-skate
Week 2: Exploring Space with an Astronaut
Phonics: Long Vowels CVCe; c/s/, g/j/, s/z/ AND Main Idea, Details, & Text Structure
High Frequency Words: everywhere, live, machines, move, woman, work, and world Vocabulary Words: astronaut, experiement, gravity, shuttle, and telescrope
Week 3: Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night
Phonics: Consonant Blends and Character AND Setting, Monitor & Fix Up
High-Frequency Words: bear, build, couldn't, father, love, mother, and straight Vocabulary Words: drooled, lanterns, shivered, snuggled
Week 4: A Walk in the Desert
Phonics: Base Words and Endings -s, -ed, and -ing AND Main Idea & Details and Text Structure
High-Frequency Words: animals, early, eyes, full, water, and warm Vocabulary Words: cactus,climate, coyote, desert, and harsh
Week 5: The Strongest One
Phonics: Consonant Digraphs AND Realism & Fantasy and Monitor & Fix-It
High-Frequency Words: gone, learn, often, pieces, though, together, and very Vocabulary Words: dangerous, gnaws, narrator, and relatives
Week 6: Benchmark Testing Unit 1
UNIT 2: Week 1 Tara and Tire
Phonics: r-controlled ar, or, ore AND syllables vccv; Narrative Nonfiction, Sequence, and Predict
High-Frequency Words: family, once, pull, listen, heard, break Vocabulary: collar, slipped, brave
Week 2: Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat
Phonics: contractions; Realistic Fiction, Realism and Fantasy, and Prior Knowledge
High-Frequency Words: laugh, great, you're, either, certainly, second, worst Vocabulary: cluttered, terrific, spirit
Week 3: Turtle's Race With Beaver
Phonics: r-controlled er, ir, ur; Folk Tale, Sequence, and Summarize
High Frequency Words: enough, toward, above, ago, word, whole Vocabulary: buried, dam, lodge, challenge, halfway, embarrassed
Week 4: The Bremen Town Musicians
Phonics: Plurals; Fairy Tale, Author's Purpose, and Story Structure
High-Frequency Words: people, sign, shall, bought, probably, pleasant, scare Vocabulary: mill, musician, excitement, robbers, monsters
Week 5: A Turkey for Thanksgiving
Phonics: Long a: a, ai, ay; Animal Fantasy, Draw Conclusions, and Visualize
High-Frequency Words: door, behind, brought, minute, promise, sorry, everybody Vocabulary: Thanksgiving, hooves, riverbank, lumbered
Week 6: Benchmark Mark Testing Unit 2
Unit 3 & 4
UNIT 3: Week 1: Pearl and Wagner
Phonics: Long e: e, ee, ea, and y Genre and Comprehension: Animal Fantasy, Author's Purpose, and Story Structure
High Frequency Words: science, shoe, won, guess, village, pretty, watch Vocabulary Words: electricity, robot, trash, wad
UNIT 3: Week 2: Dear Juno
Phonics: Long 0: o, oa, ow Genre and Comprehension: Realistic Fiction, Draw Conclusions, and Visualize
High Frequency Words: picture, school, answer, wash, parents, company, faraway Vocabulary Words: persimmons, photograph, envelope, smudged
UNIT 3: Week 3: Anansi Goes Fishing
Phonics: Compound Words Genre and Comprehension: Folk Tale, Cause and Effect, Monitor and Fix Up
High Frequency Words: today, whatever, caught, believe, been, finally, tomorrow Vocabulary Words: lazy, justice, weave, delicious
UNIT 3: Week 4: Rosa and Blanca
Phonics: Long i: i, ie, igh, and y Genre and Comprehension: Realistic Fiction, Theme and Plot, and Predict
High Frequency Words: their, many, alone, buy, half, youngest, daughters Vocabulary Words: tortillas, chiles, luckiest
UNIT 3: Week 5: A Weed is a Flower:
Phonics: Comparative Endings Genre and Comprehension: Biography, Cause and Effect, and Monitor and Fix Up
High Frequency Words: only, question, clothes, money, hours, neighbor, taught Vocabulary Words: laboratory, greenhouse, agriculture, college
UNIT 3: Week 6: REVIEW WEEK
Unit 3 Benchmark Test
Unit 5 & 6
UNIT 5: Week 1: Firefighter
Phonics: Suffixes -ly, -ful, -er, -or Genre and Comprehension: Narrative Nonfiction, Main Idea and Supporting Details, and Text Structure
High Frequency Words: station, quickly, tightly, masks, burning, building, roar
Vocabulary Words: station, building, roar, masks, quickly, tightly, burning
UNIT 5: Week 2: One Dark Night
Phonics: Prefixes un-, re-, pre-, dis- Genre and Comprehension: Realistic Fiction, Sequence, Graphic Organizer
High Frequency Words: lightning, thunder, storm, flashes, rolling, pounds, pours
Vocabulary: (same) lightning, thunder, storm, rolling, pounds, pour
Unit 5: Week 3: Bad Dog Dodger
Phonics: Silent Consonants Genre and Comprehension: Realistic Fiction, Plot and Theme, Prior Knowledge
High Frequency Words: treat, chewing, dripping, practice, wagged, grabbed, chased
Vocabulary: (same) practice, grabbed, chewing, chased, treat, wagged, dripping
Unit 5: Week 4: Horace and Morris but mostly Dolores
Phonics: ph, gh/f/ Genre and Comprehension: Fantasy, Author's Purpose, Ask Questions
High Frequency Words/Vocabulary: adventure, wondered, exploring, climbed, clubhouse, greatest, truest
Unit 5: Week 5: The Signmaker's Assistant
Phonics: Vowels aw, au, augh, al Genre and Comprehension: Humorous Fiction, Realism and Fantasy, Monitor and Fix Up
High Frequency/Vocabulary: idea, important, blame, signmaker, townspeople, afternoon
Unit 6: Week 6: Benchmark Testing
Unit 6: Week 1: Just Like Josh Gibson
Phonics: Contractions 're, 've, 'd Genre and Comprehension: Realistic Fiction, Compare and Contrast, and Visualize
Vocabulary: you're, gone, watch, guess, early, once, guess, pretty, science, shoe, village, watch, won
Unit 6: Week 2: Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag
Phonics: Inflected Endings Genre and Comprehension: Narrative Nonfiction, Fact and Opinion, and Monitor and Fix Up
Vocabulary: won, very, people, early, together, answer, company, faraway, parents, picture, school, wash
Unit 6: Week 3: A Birthday Basket for Tia
Phonics: Syllables -tion, -ture Genre and Comprehension: Realistic Fiction, Draw Conclusions, Summarize
Vocabulary: birthday, today, door, family, laugh, believe, been, caught, finally, today, tomorrow, whatever
Unit 6: Week 4: Cowboys
Phonics: Suffixes -ness, -less Genre and Comprehension: Narrative Nonfiction, Cause and Effect, Graphic Organizer
Vocabulary: stars, money, clothes, caught, marry, buy, daughters, half, many, their, youngest
Unit 6: Week 5: Jingle Dancer
Phonics: Prefixes mis-, mid- Genre and Comprehension: Realistic Fiction, Character, Setting, and Plot, Prior Knowledge
Vocabulary: enough, animals, aunt, above, family, clothes, hours, money, neighbor, only, question, taught
Unit 6: Week 6: Benchmark Testing
