Unit 1: Getting to Know
Main Characters and Theme
Assessment will be sometime the week of October 15th
Focus Skills for the Unit: Understanding story elements, characterization (both direct and indirect), and theme
Lesson 1 Vocabulary (Story: The Hot and Cold Summer)
- pact
- queasy
- foisted
- venture
- annoyed
- depriving
Lesson 2 Vocabulary (Story: Mighty Jackie: The Strike Out Queen)
- legendary
- gaped
- snickering
- glared
- stunned
- muttered
- flinched
- fluke
Lesson 18 Vocabulary (Story: Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life):
- bountiful
- vast
- stature
- relentless
- roused
- resourceful
- intentions
- inadvertently
Lesson 19 (Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn’t Tell a Lie):
- magnificent
- insisted
- declared
- confidently
- distressed
- gloated
- anxiously
Unit 2: Getting the Main Idea
Assessment will be sometime the week of November 19th
Focus Skills for the Unit: Identifying the main idea and details
Lesson 26 (Dragons and Dinosaurs):
- contraption
- roamed
- massive
- submerged
- elegant
- obstacles
- complicated
- eerie
Lesson 27 (Grand Canyon)
- ancient
- weary
- sentries
- glistens
- distant
- cascading
- embedded
- eroded
Unit 3: Understanding Elements of Non-fiction
Assessment will be sometime the week of January 14th
Focus Skills for the Unit: Identifying text features, distinguishing between fact and opinion, and identifying the text structure of a nonfiction passage
Lesson 16 (So You Want to Be an Inventor)
- tinker
- hoaxer
- trampled
- forged
- perfect
- quest
- barriers
Lesson 17 (Just Like Me) No Quiz on these words
- participate
- mischieveous
- ancestors
- brilliant
- exotic
- graceful
Lesson 11 (Mimicry and Camouflage)
- deceptive
- obvious
- traits
- predators
- avoid
- lure
- mimic
- resemble
Lesson 12 (Mountains)
- eruption
- depths
- gradually
- revealed
- contract
- constant
- immediate
Unit 4: Understanding Elements of Fiction
Assessment will be sometime the week of ____________________
Focus Skills for the Unit: _________________________________
Lesson 14 (The Stranger)
- hermit
- dashed
- occasionally
- peculiar
- fascinated
- trembling
- timid
- drab
Lesson 23 (A Cricket in Times Square)
- forlornly
- fidget
- pathetic
- resolved
- scrounging
- noble
- stingy
- suspicion
Lesson 21 (Because of Winn Dixie)
- intends
- recalls
- snatched
- prideful
- consisted
- select