The Key to Building Strong Readers and Writers

Grade 1 • Unit 1 • Scope and Sequence

Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/ Literature Leveled Reader Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Getting to Know Us Big Book Writing Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
Workshop Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What makes you special? Paired
Comprehension A: Approaching Level
Selection
O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 1 Title: This School

Year Will Be the
Title: “School
Around the World”
Short Text: Jack Can Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Literature Big
Books: Organization,
Additional Domain
Words:
does
not
learn
subjects
Phonological/
Phonemic
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Ideas:
Focus on a Single
Weekly:
What kinds of
Genre: Realistic Skill: Key Details Skill: Key Details
Best! Connection of Ideas rules school common Awareness: Event activities do we
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction Fiction
Main Selection Title: Main Selections Genre: obey what object Identify Rhyme, do at school?
Genre: Realistic Writing Product:
At School Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Nat and Sam Realistic Fiction safety recognize Phoneme
Personal Narrative
Fiction
Isolation/ Blending/
Skill: Key Details Genre: Realistic A: A Fun Day Additional
Essential Question: Strategy: Visualize
Fiction O: We Like to Share Academic
Segmentation Grammar Skill:
What do you do at your Sentences
Concepts of Print: E: We Like to Share Vocabulary: Phonics/ Spelling
Paired Selection
school? Book Handling
Title: “Rules at B: Class Party events, Skill: short a Grammar
illustrations, Consonants reviewed Mechanics: Sentence
School” Paired Selection Genre:
punctuation throughout Unit 1 Capitalization
Genre: Nonfiction Nonfiction
Structural Analysis: Write About
Text Feature: Titles: Reading: Analyze
-s (inflectional ending)
Photographs A: “We Share” Key Details
O: “Look at Signs”
E: “Look at Signs”
B: “Our Classroom Rules”

Week 2 Title: Alicia’s Happy

Day
Title: “City Mouse
and Country Mouse”
Short Text: Six Kids Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Literature Big
Books: Organization,
Additional Domain
Words:
down
out
city
country
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Ideas:
Describing Details
Weekly:
How are places
Genre: Fantasy Skill: Key Details Skill: Key Details
Lack of Prior building up bored Alliteration, Phoneme in our community
Weekly Concept: Genre: Realistic Genre: Fable
Strategy: Visualize Main Selection Title: Main Selections Genre: Knowledge yard very feast Categorization/
Writing Product:
similar to, or different
Where I Live Fiction Descriptive
Strategy: Visualize Go, Pip! Fantasy playground scurried Blending/ from, places in other
Skill: Key Details Sentences About a
Strategy: Visualize Segmentation communities?
Essential Question: What Genre: Fantasy A: What Can We See? Additional Place
Concepts of Print: O: A Trip to the City Academic Phonics/ Spelling
is it like where Book Handling
Paired Selection
E: A Trip to the City Vocabulary: Skill: short i
Grammar Skill:
you live? Title: “I Live Here” Word Order
B: Harvest Time author Consonants reviewed
Genre: Nonfiction bold print throughout Unit 1 Mechanics:
Paired Selection Genre:
sequence Sentence
Text Feature: Bold Nonfiction Structural Analysis:
Punctuation (periods)
print double final
Titles:
consonants Write About
A: “My Home”
Reading: Analyze
O: “Where I Live”
Key Details
E: “Where I Live”
B: “Where We Live”

Week 3 Title: Cool Dog,

School Dog
Title: “Our Pets” Short Text: A Pig
for Cliff
Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Literature Big
Books: Sentence
Additional Domain
Words:
be,
come,
care,
train,
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Ideas:
Describing Details
Weekly:
What are the ways
Genre: Nonfiction Skill: Key Details Skill: Key Details
Structure, living things, good, groom, Contrast Vowel to care for pets?
Weekly Concept: Genre: Fiction
Strategy: Visualize
Genre: Fantasy
Main Selection Title: Main Selections Genre: Connection of Ideas need, pull companion, Sounds, Phoneme
Writing Product:
Our Pets Descriptive
Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Flip Fantasy cares popular Blending/
Sentences About an
Substitution/
Concepts of Print: Skill: Key Details Genre: Fantasy A: Mouse’s Moon Party Additional Animal
Essential Question: Track Print and O: Pet Show Academic
Segmentation
What makes a pet Paired Selection Grammar Skill:
Return Sweep E: Pet Show Vocabulary: Phonics/ Spelling
Title: “What Pets Statements
special? Need”
B: Polly the Circus Star consonant, Skill: beginning
label, consonant blends: Mechanics:
Paired Selection Genre:
Genre: Nonfiction publish l-blends Capitalization and
Nonfiction
Consonants reviewed Punctuation (periods)
Text Feature: Labels
Titles: throughout Unit 1 Write About
A: “A Mouse in the House”
Structural Analysis: Reading: Analyze
O: “Love That Llama!”
-s (plural nouns) Key Details
E: “Love That Llama!”
B: “Birds That Talk”

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Grade 1 • Unit 1 • Scope and Sequence

Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/Writing Literature Leveled Reader Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Getting to Know Us Big Book Workshop Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Comprehension Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What makes you Paired
A: Approaching Level
special? Selection
O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 4 Title: Friends All

Around
Title: “Games Long
Ago”
Short Text: Toss! Kick!
Hop!
Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature Big
Books: Organization,
Additional Domain
Words:
fun
make
cooperate
relationship
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait:
Organization:
Weekly:
What can we learn
Connection of Ideas poem they deliver Phoneme Compare and about our favorite
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction Skill: Key Details Skill: Key Details
too chore Categorization/ Contrast games or sports?
Let’s Be Friends Additional
Strategy: Ask and Strategy: Ask and Strategy: Ask and Main Selection Title: Main Selections Genre: collect Segmentation/
Academic Writing Product:
Answer Questions Answer Questions Answer Questions Friends Realistic Fiction Deletion, Rhyme,
Vocabulary: Personal Narrative
Essential Question: Concepts of Print: Skill: Key Details Genre: Nonfiction A: Friends Are Fun evaluate
Phoneme Blending
What do friends do Grammar Skill:
Book Handling and O: Friends Are Fun rhyme Phonics/ Spelling
Paired Selection Questions and
together? Labels
Title: “There Are E: Friends Are Fun Skill: short o
Exclamations
B: Friends Are Fun Consonants reviewed
Days and There Are
throughout Unit 1 Grammar
Days” Paired Selections Genre: Poetry Mechanics: Question
Structural Analysis:
Genre: Poetry Titles: and Exclamation
alphabetical order
A: “I Like to Play” Marks
(one letter)
O: “I Like to Play”
Write About
E: “I Like to Play”
Reading: Analyze
B: “I Like to Play”
Key Details

Week 5 Title: Move! Title: “Rabbit and

Coyote Race”
Short Text: Move and
Grin!
Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature Big
Books: Organization,
Additional Domain
Words:
down
out
city
country
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Ideas:
Describing Details
Weekly:
How are places
Genre: Nonfiction
Lack of Prior building up bored Alliteration, Phoneme in our community
Weekly Concept: Strategy: Ask and
Genre: Folktale Genre: Nonfiction Skill: Key Details Skill: Key Details
Knowledge yard very feast Categorization/
Writing Product:
similar to, or different
Descriptive
Let’s Move! Answer Questions Strategy: Ask and Strategy: Ask and Main Selection Title: Main Selections Genre: playground scurried Blending/
Sentences About a
from, places in other
Answer Questions Answer Questions Move It! Nonfiction Segmentation communities?
Concepts of Additional Place
Essential Question: Print: Special Text Skill: Key Details Genre: Nonfiction A: We Can Move! Academic Phonics/ Spelling Unit Level: Research
How does your body Grammar Skill:
Treatments O: We Can Move! Vocabulary: Skill: short i Skill: Selecting a
Paired Selection Word Order
move? Title: “Using
E: We Can Move! author Consonants reviewed Topic
B: We Can Move! bold print throughout Unit 1 Mechanics:
Diagrams” Unit Project: Self-
sequence Sentence
Paired Selections Genre: Structural Analysis: select and develop
Genre: Nonfiction Punctuation (periods)
Nonfiction double final from weekly
Text Feature: consonants Write About research projects.
Titles:
Diagram Reading: Analyze
A: “What’s Under Your Skin?”
Key Details
O: “What’s Under Your Skin?”
E: “What’s Under Your Skin?”
B: “What’s Under Your Skin?”

Week 6
Review and Assessment

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Grade 1 • Unit 2 • Scope and Sequence

Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/ Literature Leveled Reader, Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Our Community Big Book Writing Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Workshop Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What makes a Comprehension Paired A: Approaching Level
community? Selection O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 1 Title: Millie Waits for

the Mail
Title: “Jobs Around
Town”
Short Text: Good
Job, Ben!
Strategy: Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Make and Confirm
Predictions
Literature Big
Books: Sentence
Additional Domain
Words:
again
help
occupation
community
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait:
Organization: Focus
Weekly:
What can we learn
Structure, firefighter new equipment Phoneme on an Idea about jobs that help
Weekly Concept: Genre: Fiction Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Realistic Skill: Character, Skill: Character, Setting, Events
Organization siren there fortunately Blending/Isolation/ the community?
Fiction Setting, Events Writing Product:
Jobs Around Town Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Main Selections Genre: protect use astonishing Segmentation
Story
Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Strategy: Make and Main Selection Title: Realistic Fiction
Additional Phonics/ Spelling
Essential Question: Concepts of Print:
Confirm Predictions The Red Hat
A: Pick Up Day Academic Skill: short e spelled
Grammar Skill:
What jobs need to be Nouns
Ellipses and Dashes Skill: Character, Genre: Realistic O: Ben Brings the Mail Vocabulary: e and ea
done in a community? Setting, Events Fiction E: Ben Brings the Mail brainstorm
Structural Analysis:
Mechanics: Commas
B: At Work with Mom end in a Series
Paired Selection inflectional ending
middle Write About
Title: “Firefighters at Paired Selections Genre: -ed (no spelling
Work” nonfiction change) Reading: Analyze
Character, Setting,
Genre: Nonfiction Titles:
Events
A: “The Recycling Center”
Text Feature: Labels
O: “At the Post Office”
E: “At the Post Office”
B: “Tools for the School Nurse”

Week 2 Title: The 3 Little

Dassies
Title: “The Three
Little Pigs”
Short Text: Cubs in
a Hut
Strategy: Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Make and Confirm
Predictions
Literature Big
Books: Vocabulary
Additional Domain
Words:
could
live
shelter
materials
Phonemic
Awareness:
Expression Writing Trait:
Organization:
Weekly:
What can we learn
homes one collapsed Rhyme, Phoneme Beginning, Middle, about the buildings
Weekly Concept: Genre: Fantasy Genre: Folktale Genre: Fantasy Skill: Character, Skill: Character, Setting, Events
build then furious Identity/Blending/ End in our community?
Buildings All Around Setting, Events
Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Main Selections Genre: Fantasy shelter three refused Segmentation What are they made
Writing Product:
Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Main Selection Title: of?
A: What a Nest! Additional Phonics/ Spelling Story
Essential Question: Concepts of Print: Skill: Character,
The Pigs, the Wolf,
O: Staying Afloat Academic Skill: short u
What buildings do you and the Mud Grammar Skill:
Quotations Setting, Events E: Staying Afloat Vocabulary:
Structural Analysis:
know? What are they Genre: Fantasy B: City Armadillo, Country apostrophe
contractions with ’s
Singular and Plural
Armadillo dialogue Nouns
made of? Paired Selection
presentation
Title: “Homes Paired Selections Genre: Mechanics: Adding
Around the World” Nonfiction -s and -es to form
plural nouns
Genre: Nonfiction Titles:
A: “Stone Castles” Write About
Text Feature:
O: “A Day on a Houseboat” Reading: Analyze
Captions
E: “A Day on a Houseboat” Character, Setting,
B: “City or Country?” Events

Week 3 Title: Babies in the

Bayou
Title: “Animals in the
Desert”
Short Text: The Best
Spot
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Literature Big
Books: Purpose,
Additional Domain
Word:
eat
no
habitat
depend
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Ideas:
Main Idea
Weekly:
What can we learn
Skill: Main Topic and Skill: Main Topic and Key Details
Organization poem of hibernate Phoneme about a habitat?
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction Key Details
Main Selections Genre: under tranquil Categorization/
Writing Product:
What kinds of
Additional Sentences That
A Community in Nature Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Main Selection Title: Nonfiction who tolerate Blending/
Explain
creatures live there?
Academic
At a Pond Substitution/
Concepts of Skill: Main Topic and A: Meerkat Family Vocabulary: Possessive Nouns
Essential Question: Print: Distinguish Key Details Genre: Nonfiction O: Meerkat Family draft
Segmentation
Where do animals live Mechanics:
Sentences E: Meerkat Family repetition Phonics/ Spelling
Paired Selection Apostrophe with
together? Title: “Way Down
B: Meerkat Family rhythm Skill: ending
Possessive Nouns
consonant blends nd,
Deep” Paired Selections Genre: Poetry
nk, nt, st, sk, mp Write About
Genre: Poetry Titles: Reading: Analyze
Structural Analysis:
A: “I Live in a House!” Main Topic and Key
inflectional ending
O: “I Live in a House!” Details
-ing (no spelling
E: “I Live in a House!”
change); first
B: “I Live in a House!”
introduction to two-
syllable words

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Grade 1 • Unit 2 • Scope and Sequence

Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/Writing Literature Leveled Reader Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Getting to Know Us Big Book Workshop Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Comprehension Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What makes you Paired
A: Approaching Level
special? Selection
O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 4 Title: The Story of

Martin Luther King Jr.
Title: “Luis’s Library” Short Text: Thump
Thump Helps Out
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Literature Big
Books: Genre, Prior
Additional Domain
Words:
all
call
leadership
admire
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait:
Organization:
Weekly:
How can we make
Genre: Nonfiction Skill: Character, Skill: Character, Setting, Events
Knowledge neighborhood day enjoy Phoneme Isolation/ Beginning, Middle, our classroom a
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction/
Strategy: Reread
Genre: Fantasy Setting, Events
Main Selections Genre: Fantasy garden her rely Categorization/ End better place?
Let’s Help Biography
Strategy: Reread Main Selection Title: recycle want connections Blending/
A: The Sick Tree Writing Product:
Strategy: Reread Nell’s Books Segmentation
Skill: Character, O: Squirrels Help Additional Academic Story
Essential Question: Concepts of Setting, Events Genre: Fantasy Vocabulary: Phonics/ Spelling
E: Squirrels Help Grammar Skill:
How do people help Print: Special Text B: Wow, Kitty! highlight Skill: consonant
Paired Selection Common and Proper
out in the community? Treatments
Title: “Kids Can Paired Selections
imaginary digraphs th, sh, -ng
Nouns
stress
Help!” Genre: Poetry Structural Analysis:
Mechanics:
closed syllables
Genre: Nonfiction Titles: Capitalize Proper
A: “Beach Clean-Up” Nouns (people, pets,
Text Feature: List
O: “Food Drive” places, and things)
E: “Food Drive”
Write About
B: “Sharing Skills”
Reading: Analyze
Character, Setting,
Events

Week 5 Title: Me on the Map Title: “Map It” Short Text: Which
Way on the Map?
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Literature Big
Books: Purpose,
Additional Academic
Vocabulary:
around
by
locate
route
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Ideas:
Supporting Detailss
Weekly:
What can we learn
Genre: Realistic Genre: Nonfiction Skill: Main Topic and Skill: Main Topic and Key Details
Organization blog many height Phoneme about maps?
Weekly Concept: Fiction
Strategy: Reread
Genre: Nonfiction Key Details
Main Selections Genre: landmark place model Segmentation/
Writing Product:
Sentences That Unit Level: Research
Follow the Map Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Main Selection Title: Nonfiction various walk separate Addition/ Blending
Skill: Collecting
Explain
Fun with Maps
Concepts of Print: Skill: MAin Topic and A: How Maps Help Phonics/ Spelling Information
Essential Question: Reading Sentences Key Details Genre: Nonfiction O: How Maps Help Skill: consonant
Grammar Skill:
How can you find your Irregular Plural Unit Project: Self-
across Pages E: How Maps Help digraphs ch, -tch,
Paired Selection Nouns select and develop
way around? Title: “North, East,
B: How Maps Help wh, ph
from weekly
Mechanics: Capital
South, or West?” Paired Selections Genre: Structural Analysis: research projects
Letters and Periods
Nonfiction -es (plural nouns)
Genre: Nonfiction (in sentences))
Titles:
Text Feature: Map Write About
A: “On the Map”
Reading: Analyze
O: “On the Map”
Main Topic and Key
E: “On the Map”
Details
B: “On the Map”

Week 6
Review and Assessment

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Grade 1 • Unit 3 • Scope and Sequence

Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/ Literature Leveled Reader, Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Our Community Big Book Writing Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Workshop Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What can happen over Comprehension Paired A: Approaching Level
time? Selection O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 1 Title: A Second Is a

Hiccup
Title: “Measuring
Time”
Short Text: Nate the
Snake Is Late
Strategy: Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Make and Confirm
Predictions
Literature Big
Books: Purpose,
Additional Domain
Words:
away
now
schedule
immediately
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Word
Choice: Sensory
Weekly:
What are the
Organization clock, some weekend Phoneme Details different ways to
Weekly Concept: Genre: Fiction Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Fantasy Skill: Character, Skill: Character, Setting, Plot
sundial, today calendar Identity/ Addition/ measure time?
Setting, Plot Writing Product:
What Time Is It? Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Main Selections shadow way occasion Substitution/
Poem
Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Main Selection Genre: Fantasy why Blending/
Additional
Essential Question: Concepts of Print: Skill: Character,
Title: On My Way to
A: Busy’s Watch Academic
Segmentation Grammar Skill:
How do we measure School Verbs
Capitalization and Setting, Plot O: Kate Saves the Date! Vocabulary: Phonics/ Spelling
time? Punctuation Genre: Fantasy E: Kate Saves the Date! capitalization, Skill: long a: a_e Mechanics: Commas
B: Uncle George Is Coming flare, in Series
Paired Selection Structural Analysis:
rubric, Write About
Title: “It’s About Paired Selections Genre: contractions with not
timetable Reading: Analyze
Time” Nonfiction (isn’t, aren’t, wasn’t,
weren’t, hasn’t, Character, Setting,
Genre: Nonfiction Titles:
haven’t, can’t) Plot
A: “Make a Clock”
Text Feature: Bold
O: “Use a Calendar”
print
E: “Use a Calendar”
B: “So Many Clocks!”

Week 2 Title: Mystery Vine Title: “The Great Big,

Gigantic Turnip”
Short Text: Time to
Plant!
Strategy: Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Make and Confirm
Predictions
Literature Big
Books: Prior
Additional Domain
Words:
green
grow
bloom
sprout
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Word
Choice: Use Specific
Weekly:
How do plants
Genre: Informational
Knowledge, seed prettty grasped Alliteration, Words change as they
Weekly Concept: Fiction Genre: Folktale Genre: Drama Skill: Plot: Sequence Skill: Plot: Sequence
Vocabulary root should assist Phoneme Deletion/ grow?
Writing Product:
Watch It Grow! Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Main Selection Title: Main Selections sprout together spied Segmentation/
Opinion About a
Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions The Big Yuca Plant Genre: Play water Blending
Additional Topic
Essential Question: Concepts of Print: Skill: Plot: Sequence Genre: Play A: Corn Fun Academic Phonics/ Spelling
How do plants change Grammar Skill:
Punctuation Within O: Yum, Strawberries! Vocabulary: Skill: long i: i_e
Paired Selection
as they grow? Sentence E: Yum, Strawberries! audience
Structural Analysis:
Present-Tense Verbs
Title: “How Plants B: A Tree’s Life harvest
plurals (with CVCe Mechanics:
Grow” vegetables
Paired Selections Genre: words) Capitalize and
Genre: Nonfiction Nonfiction Underline Titles of
Plays
Text Feature: Titles:
Diagram A: “Ear of Corn” Write About
O: “Strawberry Plant” Reading: Analyze
E: “Strawberry Plant” Plot: Sequence
B: “Inside Trees”

Week 3 Title: Interrupting

Chicken
Title: “The Foolish,
Timid Rabbit”
Short Text: The Nice
Mitten
Strategy: Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Make and Confirm
Predictions
Literature Big
Books: Organization,
Additional Domain
Words:
any
from
tale
hero
Phonemic
Awareness: Rhyme,
Expression Writing Trait: Word
Choice: Use Strong
Weekly:
What can we learn
Connection of Ideas poem happy timid Phoneme Blending/ Verbs about folktales?
Weekly Concept: Genre: Fiction Genre: Folktale Genre: Folktale Skill: Plot: Cause and Skill: Plot: Cause and Effect
once foolish Segmentation
Effect Additional Writing Product:
Tales Over Time Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Strategy: Make and Main Selections Genre: Folktale so eventually
Academic Phonics/ Spelling Poem
Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Confirm Predictions Main Selection upon
A: How Coquí Got Her Voice Vocabulary: Skill: soft c; soft g,
Essential Question: Concepts of Print: Skill: Plot: Cause and Title: The O: The Magic Paintbrush element dge
Grammar Skill:
What is a folktale? Past- and Future-
Quotation Marks/ Effect Gingerbread Man E: The Magic Paintbrush puppet
Structural Analysis: Tense Verbs
Text Styles B: The Storytelling Stone style
Genre: Folktale inflectional endings
Mechanics: Commas
Paired Selections: Genre: -ed and -ing (drop
Paired Selection in Series
Poetry/Song final e)
Title: “Mother Goose
Write About
Rhymes” Titles:
Reading: Analyze
A: “El Coquí/The Coquí”
Genre: Rhyme Plot: Cause and
O: “Make New Friends”
Effect
E: “Wanted: A Friend”
B: “Family Stories”

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Grade 1 • Unit 3 • Scope and Sequence

Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/Writing Literature Leveled Reader Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Getting to Know Us Big Book Workshop Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Comprehension Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What can happen over Paired
A: Approaching Level
time? Selection
O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 4 Title: The Last Train Title: “Pioneers” Short Text: Life at
Home
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Literature Big
Books: Prior
Additional Domain
Words:
ago,
boy,
century,
past,
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Ideas:
Give Reasons for an
Weekly:
How has our way of
Genre: Fiction Genre: Nonfiction Skill: Connections Skill: Connections Within Text:
Knowledge, transportation, girl, present, Phoneme Opinion life changed over
Weekly Concept: Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread
Genre: Nonfiction Within Text: Compare Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary engines how, future, Segmentation/ time?
and Contrast Writing Product:
Now and Then Concepts of Print:
Strategy: Reread Main Selections invented old, entertainment Isolation/ Blending
Opinion About a
Main Selection Title: Genre: Nonfiction people
Reading Sentences Skill: Connections Additional Academic Phonics/ Spelling Topic
Essential Question: Across Pages Within Text: Compare
Long Ago and Now
A: Schools Then and Now Vocabulary: Skill: long o: o_e;
How is life different Grammar Skill:
and Contrast Genre: Nonfiction O: Schools Then and Now confusion long u: u_e; long
Is and Are
than it was long ago? Paired Selection
E: Schools Then and Now frontier e: e_e
B: Schools Then and Now proofreader’s marks Mechanics: Commas
Title: “From Horse to Structural Analysis:
in Dates
Plane” Paired Selections Genre: CVCe syllables
Nonfiction Write About
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading: Analyze
Titles:
Text Feature: Connections Within
A: “School Days”
Captions Text: Compare and
O: “School Days”
Contrast
E: “School Days”
B: “School Days”

Week 5 Title: Where Does

Food Come From?
Title: “The Little Red
Hen”
Short Text: A Look at
Breakfast
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Literature Big
Books: Purpose,
Additional Academic
Vocabulary:
after
buy
delicious
nutritious
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Ideas:
Give Reasons for an
Weekly:
Where does food
Skill: Connections Skill: Connections Within Text:
Genre advantages and done responsibility Phoneme Opinion come from? How is
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Folktale Genre: Nonfiction Within Text: Sequence
disadvantages every enormous Segmentation/ food produced?
From Farm to Table Sequence Writing Product:
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Main Selections Genre: process soon delighted Blending/Deletion
Opinion About a Unit Level:
Main Selection Title: Nonfiction product work
Concepts of Skill: Connections Phonics/ Spelling Topic
Essential Question: Print: Special Text Within Text:
From Cows to You
A: Apples from Farm to Table Skill: variant vowel
Research Skill:
How do we get our Grammar Skill: Using Different
Treatments Sequence Genre: Nonfiction O: Apples from Farm to Table spellings with
Contractions with Resources
food? Paired Selection
E: Apples from Farm to Table digraphs: oo, u
Not
B: Apples from Farm to Table Unit Project: Self-
Title: “A Food Chart” Structural Analysis:
Mechanics: select and develop
Paired Selections Genre: inflectional endings
Genre: Nonfiction Apostrophes in from weekly
Nonfiction -ed and -ing (double
Contractions research projects
Text Feature: Chart final consonant)
Titles:
Write About
A: “A Dairy Treat”
Reading: Analyze
O: “A Dairy Treat”
Connections Within
E: “A Dairy Treat”
Text: Sequence
B: “A Dairy Treat”

Week 6
Review and Assessment

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Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/ Literature Leveled Reader, Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Animals Everywhere Big Book Writing Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Workshop Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What animals do you Comprehension Paired A: Approaching Level
know about? What are Selection O: On Level
they like E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 1 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “The
Elephant’s Child”
Short Text: A Tale
of a Tail: “How the
Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature
Anthology: Prior
Vocabulary Words:
special
about
animal
feature
appearance
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Word
Choice: Figurative
Weekly:
What can we
Beaver Got Its Flat Knowledge splendid carry determined Rhyme, Phoneme Language learn about animal
Weekly Concept: Genre: Fantasy
Tail”
Skill: Plot: Sequence Skill: Plot: Sequence
eight predicament Categorization/ features?
Additional Domain Writing Product:
Animal Features Strategy: Ask and Main Selection Title: Main Selections give relief Blending/
Story
Lexile: 430L Words:
Answer Questions How Bat Got Its Genre: Folktale our Segmentation
mammal
Essential Question: Genre: Folktale Wings
A: The King of the Animals bird Phonics/ Spelling
Grammar Skill:
How do animals’ bodies Was and Were
Strategy: Ask and Genre: Folktale O: Fly to the Rescue! hunt Skill: long a: a, ai, ay
help them? Answer Questions
Lexile: 410L
E: Fly to the Rescue!
Additional Structural Analysis:
Mechanics:
B: Hummingbird’s Wings Apostrophe with
Skill: Plot: Sequence Academic alphabetical order
Paired Selection Contractions
Paired Selections Vocabulary: (two letters)
Title: “Bats! Bats!
Genre: Nonfiction image Write About
Bats!”
traditions Reading: Analyze
Titles:
Genre: Nonfiction unusual Plot: Sequence
A: “Lions and Elephants”
Lexile: 400L O: “Animal Traits” Vocabulary
E: “Animal Traits” Strategy: Use a
Text Feature: Chart
B: “What Is a Hummingbird?” Dictionary

Week 2 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Animals
Working Together”
Short Text: A Team
of Fish
Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature
Anthology: Purpose,
Vocabulary Words:
partner
because
blue
behavior,
beneficial
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait:
Organization:
Weekly:
How can animals
Connection of Ideas danger into dominant Phoneme Identity/ Introduce the Topic help one another?
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction Lexile: 340L Skill: Main Idea and Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
or instinct Segmentation,
Key Details Additional Domain Writing Product:
Animals Together Strategy: Ask and Genre: Nonfiction Main Selections Words: other endangered Rhyme, Phoneme
Report
Answer Questions Main Selection Title: Genre: Nonfiction small Blending
Strategy: Ask and worker
Essential Question: Answer Questions
Animal Teams
A: Penguins All Around honey Phonics/ Spelling
Grammar Skill:
How do animals help Genre: Nonfiction queen Has and Have
O: Penguins All Around Skill: long e: e, ee,
Skill: Main Idea and
each other? Key Details
Lexile: 480L E: Penguins All Around Additional ea, ie Mechanics:
B: Penquins All Around Academic Capitalization and
Text Feature: Structural Analysis:
Text Feature: Vocabulary: End Punctuation
Captions Paired Selections prefixes re-, un-, pre-
Captions accomplish
Paired Selection Genre: Nonfiction Write About
cooperate Reading: Analyze
Title: “Busy As a Titles: investigate Main Idea and Key
Bee” A: “Animals Work Together!” logical order Details
Genre: Nonfiction O: “Animals Work Together!”
Vocabulary
Lexile: 500L E: “Animals Work Together!”
Strategy: Context
B: “Animals Work Together!”
Text Feature: Clues: Sentence
Captions Clues

Week 3 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Animals in
Winter”
Short Text: Go Wild! Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
search
find
food
survive
provide
Phonemic
Awareness:
Expression Writing Trait:
Organization:
Weekly:
How do animals
Lexile: 530L
Organization, seek more wilderness Phoneme Write a Concluding survive in their
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction
Genre: Nonfiction
Skill: Main Idea and Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Sentence Structure over communicate Categorization/ Sentence habitats?
In the Wild Key Details Additional Domain
Strategy: Ask and Main Selections start superior Blending, Contrast
Strategy: Ask and Words: Writing Product:
Answer Questions Main Selection Title: Genre: Nonfiction warm Sounds, Phoneme
Answer Questions poem Report
Essential Question: Vulture View
A: Go, Gator!
Segmentation
How do animals survive Skill: Main Idea and Lexile: 70L Additional Grammar Skill:
O: Go, Gator! Phonics/ Spelling
Key Details Academic Go and Do
in nature? Genre: Nonfiction E: Go, Gator!
Vocabulary:
Skill: long o: o, oa,
Text Feature: Text Feature: B: Go, Gator! ow, oe Mechanics:
diorama
Illustrations/ Illustrations/ Capitalize Proper
Paired Selections experience Structural Analysis:
Photographs Photographs Nouns
Genre: Poetry scene open syllables
Paired Selection survive Write About
Titles:
Title: “When It’s Reading: Analyze
A: “Ducklings” Vocabulary
Snowing” Main Idea and Key
O: “Ducklings” Strategy: Word
Genre: Poetry Details
E: “Ducklings” Categories
Lexile: NP (Non- B: “Ducklings”
Prose)

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Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/Writing Literature Leveled Reader Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Getting to Know Us Big Book Workshop Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Comprehension Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What can happen over Paired
A: Approaching Level
time? Selection
O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 4 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Insect Hide
and Seek”
Short Text: Creep
Low, Fly High
Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
beautiful
caught
flew
flutter
different
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait:
Organization:
Weekly:
What can we learn
Skill: Point of View Skill: Point of View
Organization fancy know resemble(s) Phoneme Write a Concluding about insects?
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction Lexile: 290L
Main Selection Title: Main Selections laugh protect(s) Categorization/ Statement
Insects! Additional Domain
Strategy: Visualize Genre: Fantasy Hi! Fly Guy Genre: Fantasy listen imitate Identity/
Words: Writing Product:
were Segmentation/
Strategy: Visualize Genre: Fantasy A: Where Is My Home? body Opinion about a
Essential Question: O: The Hat protects
Substitution
Story
What insects do you Skill: Point of View Lexile: 200L
E: The Hat senses Phonics/ Spelling
Grammar Skill:
know about? How are Paired Selection B: Come One, Come All
Additional Academic
Skill: long i: i, y, igh, ie
See and Saw
Title: “Meet the
they alike and different? Insects”
Paired Selections Words: Structural Analysis:
Mechanics:
Genre: Nonfiction alike inflectional endings
Underline Titles of
Genre: Nonfiction edit (change y to i)
Titles: Books
Lexile: 420L narrator
A: “Wings”
Write About
O: “Let’s Look at Insects!” Vocabulary Strategy:
Text Feature: Reading: Analyze
E: “Let’s Look at Insects!” Context Clues:
Headings Point of View
B: “Compare Insects” Sentence Clues

Week 5 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Ming’s
Teacher”
Short Text: Time for
Kids: From Puppy to
Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
clever
found
hard
career
soothe
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Word
Choice: Words That
Weekly:
How do people
Skill: Connections Skill: Connections Within Text:
Guide Dog Organization, Genre signal near remarkable Phoneme Tell Order and animals work
Weekly Concept: Genre: Folktale Within Text: Sequence
woman advice Categorization/ together?
Working with Animals Lexile: 680L Sequence Additional Academic Writing Product:
Strategy: Visualize Main Selections would trust Deletion/ Blending/
Words: How-to Sentences Unit Level:
Genre: Nonfiction Main Selection Title: Genre: Nonfiction write Addition
graphic organizer Research Skill:
Essential Question: Strategy: Visualize
Time for Kids: Koko
A: Teach a Dog! guide dog Phonics/ Spelling
Grammar Skill:
Asking Questions
How do people work and Penny Adverbs That Tell
O: Teach a Dog! series tasks Skill: long e: y, ey Unit Project: Self-
Skill: Connections When
with animals? Within Text:
Genre: Nonfiction E: Teach a Dog!
Vocabulary Strategy: Structural Analysis:
select and develop
B: Teach a Dog! Mechanics: Commas from weekly
Sequence Lexile: 370L Root Words compound words
in a Series research projects.
Paired Selections
Text Feature: Paired Selection
Genre: Nonfiction Write About
Captions Title: “Saving
Reading: Analyze
Mountain Gorillas” Titles:
Connections Within
A: “Working with Dolphins”
Genre: Nonfiction Text: Sequence
O: “Working with Dolphins”
Lexile: 450L E: “Working with Dolphins”
B: “Working with Dolphins”
Text Feature:
Captions

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Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/ Literature Leveled Reader, Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Figure It Out Big Book Writing Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Workshop Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
How can we make Comprehension Paired A: Approaching Level
sense of the world Selection O: On Level
around us? E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 1 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Goldilocks” Short Text: A Barn
Full of Hats
Strategy: Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Make and Confirm
Predictions
Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
trouble
four
large
distinguish
classify
Phonemic
Awareness: Contrast
Phrasing Writing Trait:
Sentence Fluency:
Weekly:
How do we classify
Genre: Folktale
Organization, whole none organize Sounds, Phoneme Use Complete and categorize
Weekly Concept: Strategy: Make and
Lexile: 320L Skill: Point of View Skill: Point of View
Connection of Ideas only entire Categorization/ Sentences objects?
See It, Sort It Additional Domain
Confirm Predictions Genre: Fantasy Main Selection Title: Main Selections put startled Blending/
Words: Writing Product:
A Lost Button (from Genre: Fantasy round Segmentation
Strategy: Make and alike Directions to a Place
Essential Question: Confirm Predictions
Frog and Toad Are
A: Nuts for Winter different Phonics/ Spelling
How can we classify Friends) Grammar Skill:
O: Dog Bones sort Skill: r-controlled
Skill: Point of View Words That Join
and categorize things? Genre: Fantasy E: Dog Bones
Additional
vowel ar
B: Spark’s Toys Mechanics:
Lexile: 340L Academic Words: Structural Analysis:
Capitalize Proper
Paired Selections categorize plurals (irregular)
Paired Selection Nouns (places)
Genre: Nonfiction directions
Title: “Sort It Out”
errors Write About
Titles:
Genre: Nonfiction revision Reading: Analyze
A: “Sort by Color!”
Point of View
Lexile: 210L O: “Sorting Balls” Vocabulary
E: “Sorting Balls” Strategy: Context
Text Feature:
B: “Sorting Fruit” Clues: Multiple
Photographs
Meanings

Week 2 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Why the Sun
and Moon Are in the
Short Text: A Bird
Named Fern
Strategy: Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Make and Confirm
Predictions
Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
leaped
another,
climb
observe
vast
Phonological
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Word
Choice: Describing
Weekly:
What can we see in
Sky” Connection of Ideas, stretched full thoughtful Rhyme, Phoneme Adjectives the sky?
Weekly Concept: Lexile: 360L Skill: Plot: Cause and Skill: Plot: Cause and Effect
Sentence Structure great certain Substitution/
Genre: Folktale Effect Additional Domain Writing Product:
Up in the Sky Genre: Fantasy Main Selections poor remained Blending/Deletion/
Description of a
Main Selection Title: Words:
Strategy: Make and Genre: Fantasy through Segmentation
Strategy: Make and earth, Place
Essential Question: Confirm Predictions
Confirm Predictions
Kitten’s First Full
A: Little Blue’s Dream telescope Phonics/ Spelling
Moon Grammar Skill:
What can you see in the O: Hide and Seek astronaut Skill: r-controlled
Skill: Plot: Cause and Genre: Fantasy Adjectives
sky? Effect
E: Hide and Seek
Additional
vowels er, ir, ur, or
Lexile: 550L B: The Foxes Build a Home Mechanics:
Academic Words: Structural Analysis:
Capitalization and
Paired Selection Paired Selections enthusiasm inflectional ending -er
End Marks
Title: “The Moon” Genre: Nonfiction excitement
bserve Write About
Genre: Nonfiction Titles:
Reading: Analyze
A: “Hello, Little Dipper!” Vocabulary
Lexile: 400L Plot: Cause and
O: “Our Sun Is a Star!” Strategy: Shades of
Text Feature: effect
E: “Our Sun Is a Star!” Meaning/ Intensity
Captions B: “Sunrise and Sunset”

Week 3 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Great
Inventions”
Short Text: The Story
of a Robot Inventor
Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
idea
began
better,
curious,
improve
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Word
Choice: Time-Order
Weekly:
What can we learn
Genre, Purpose, unusual guess, complicated Phoneme Words about an invention?
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction Lexile: 420L Skill: Connections Skill: Connections Within Text:
Organization learn imagine Categorization/
Within Text: Problem Problem and Solution Additional Domain Writing Product:
Great Inventions Strategy: Ask and Genre: Nonfiction/ right device Substitution/
Personal Narrative
and Solution Words:
Answer Questions Biography Main Selections sure Blending/Addition
poem
Essential Question: Strategy: Ask and
Main Selection Title: Genre: Biography
Phonics/ Spelling
Grammar Skill:
What inventions do you Thomas Edison, Additional Adjectives That
Answer Questions A: The Wright Brothers Skill: r-controlled
Inventor Academic Words: Compare
know about? Skill: Connections
O: The Wright Brothers
alliteration,
vowels or, ore, oar
(-er and -est)
Genre: Nonfiction/ E: The Wright Brothers
Within Text: Problem change Structural Analysis:
Biography B: The Wright Brothers Mechanics:
and Solution robot abbreviations
Capitalize Days,
Lexile: 510L Paired Selections
Vocabulary Months, and
Genre: Poetry
Paired Selection Strategy: Prefixes Holidays
Title: “Windshield Titles:
Write About
Wipers” and A: “Fly Away, Butterfly”
Reading: Analyze
“Scissors” O: “Fly Away, Butterfly”
Connections Within
E: “Fly Away, Butterfly”
Genre: Poetry Text: Problem and
B: “Fly Away, Butterfly”
Lexile: NP Solution

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Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/Writing Literature Leveled Reader Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Getting to Know Us Big Book Workshop Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Comprehension Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
What can happen over Paired A: Approaching Level
time? Selection O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 4 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “The Squeaky
Bed”
Short Text: Now,
What’s That Sound?
Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
suddenly
color
early
volume
senses
Phonemic
Awareness:
Expression Writing Trait:
Sentence Fluency:
Weekly:
What can we learn
Organization, scrambled instead squeaky Phoneme Use Complete
Weekly Concept: Genre: Folktale Lexile: 240L Skill: Plot: Problem Skill: Plot: Problem and Solution
Sentence Structure nothing nervous, Substitution/ Sentences
abou the sounds we
and Solution Additional Domain hear, specifically the
Sounds All Around Strategy: Ask and Genre: Realistic Main Selections oh distract Isolation/Blending
Writing Product: radio?
Words:
Answer Questions Fiction Main Selection Title: Genre: Realistic Fiction thought
pitch Phonics/ Spelling Opinion About a
Essential Question: Strategy: Ask and
Whistle for Willie
A: Thump, Jangle, Crash volume Skill: diphthongs Story
What sounds can you Answer Questions Genre: Realistic O: Down on the Farm instrument ou, ow
Grammar Skill:
hear? How are they Skill: Plot: Problem
Fiction E: Down on the Farm
Additional Academic Structural Analysis:
B: Going on a Bird Walk Using a, an, and the
made? and Solution Lexile: 520L Words: comparative
Paired Selections emphasis inflectional endings Mechanics:
Paired Selection
Genre: How-to favorite -er, -est Capitalize/
Title: “Shake! Strike!
realistic Underline Book
Strum!” Titles:
sound effect Titles
A: “How to Make Maracas”
Genre: Nonfiction
O: “How to Make a Rain Stick” Vocabulary Strategy: Write About
Lexile: 290L E: “How to Make a Rain Stick” Suffixes Reading: Analyze
B: “How to Make a Wind Chime”
Text Feature: Plot: Problem and
Directions Solution

Week 5 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “The Sheep,
the Pig, and the
Short Text: Time
for Kids: The Joy of
Strategy: Ask and
Answer Questions
Strategy: Ask and Answer
Questions
Literature
Anthology: Purpose
Vocabulary Words:
balance, section
above
build
structure
project
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation,
Appropriate Phrasing
Writing Trait:
Organization: Steps
Weekly: How are
things built?
Goose Who Set Up a Ship fall contented Phoneme Blending/ in Order
Weekly Concept: House”
Skill: Plot: Cause and Skill: Plot: Cause and Effect Additional Academic
knew intend Segmentation/
Unit Level:
Build It! Lexile: 560L Effect Vocabulary: Writing Product:
Main Selections money marvelous Categorization Research Skill:
Genre: Folktale demonstrate How-to Article
Genre: Nonfiction Main Selection Genre: Nonfiction toward Taking Notes
magazine Phonics/ Spelling
Essential Question: Strategy: Ask and
Strategy: Ask and
Title: Time for Kids:
A: What Is a Yurt? reorder Skill: diphthongs
Grammar Skill:
Unit Project: Self-
How do things get Answer Questions Building Bridges
Answer Questions O: What Is a Yurt? oi, oy Prepositions/ select and develop
Vocabulary Strategy:
built? Skill: Plot: Cause and
Genre: Nonfiction E: What Is a Yurt?
Inflectional Endings Structural Analysis: Prepositional
from weekly
B: What Is a Yurt? research projects.
Effect Lexile: 550L final stable syllables Phrases
Paired Selections
Text Features: Paired Selection Mechanics: Name
Genre: Nonfiction
Captions Title: “Small Joy” Titles (capitals and
Titles: periods with Mr.,
Genre: Nonfiction
A: “Treehouses” Mrs., Ms., Dr.)
Lexile: 490L O: “Treehouses”
Write About
E: “Treehouses”
Text Feature: Reading: Analyze
B: “Treehouses”
Captions Plot: Cause and
Effect

Week 6
Review and Assessment

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Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/ Literature Leveled Reader, Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Together We Can! Big Book Writing Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Workshop Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
How does teamwork Comprehension Paired A: Approaching Level
help us? Selection O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 1 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “The Cat’s Bell” Short Text: Super
Tools
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Literature
Anthology:
Vocabulary Words:
demand
answer
brought
fair,
conflict
Phonemic
Awareness:
Expression Writing Trait:
Sentence Fluency:
Weekly:
How can people
Genre: Fable Skill: Theme Skill: Theme
Organization, emergency busy shift Phoneme Identity/ Varying Sentence work together to
Weekly Concept: Strategy: Reread
Lexile: 430L
Main Selection Title: Main Selections Connection of Ideas, door risk Segmentation/ Length make things better?
See It, Sort It Additional Domain
Genre: Fantasy Click, Clack, Moo: Genre: Fantasy Specific Vocabulary enough argument Substitution, Rhyme,
Words: Writing Product:
Cows That Type eyes Syllable Deletion
Strategy: Reread A: Two Hungry Elephants rights Story
Essential Question: Genre: Fantasy O: What a Feast! protest Phonics/ Spelling
How can we classify Skill: Theme Grammar Skill:
E: What a Feast! improve Skill: variant vowel
Lexile: 380L Pronouns I, you, he,
and categorize things? B: Beware of the Lion!
Additional
spellings with
she, it, we, they
Paired Selection digraphs: oo, u, u_e,
Paired Selections Academic
Title: “March On!” ew, ue, ui, ou Mechanics:
Genre: Nonfiction Vocabulary:
Capitalize I
Genre: Nonfiction collaborate Structural Analysis:
Titles:
disagreement suffixes -ful and -less Write About
Lexile: 510L A: “Dogs Helping People”
length Reading: Analyze
O: “Helpers Bring Food”
Text Feature: reasonable Theme
E: “Helpers Bring Food”
Captions
B: “Pete Seeger” Vocabulary
Strategy: Synonyms

Week 2 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Anansi’s Sons” Short Text: All Kinds
of Helpers
Strategy: Make and
Strategy: Reread
Strategy: Reread Literature
Anthology: Purpose,
Vocabulary Words:
accept
brother,
father
inspire
respect
Phonemic
Awareness: Phonem
Intonation Writing Trait: Voice:
Use Your Own Voice
Weekly:
What are the
Genre: Folktale Skill: Author’s Purpose
Organization often friend, distance Categorization/ different parts of a
Weekly Concept: Strategy: Reread
Lexile: 530L Skill: Author’s
Main Selections love swiftly Reversal/Blending/
Writing Product:
newspaper?
My Team Purpose Additional Domain Thank-You Note
Genre: Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction mother decision Segmentation/
Main Selection Title: Words
picture Substitution Grammar Skill:
Strategy: Reread A: Helping Me, Helping You! poem
Essential Question: Meet Rosina
O: Helping Me, Helping You! Phonics/ Spelling
Possessive Pronouns
Who helps you? Skill: Author’s Genre: Nonfiction Additional
E: Helping Me, Helping You! Skill: variant vowel Mechanics:
Purpose Academic
Lexile: 420L B: Helping Me, Helping You! spellings with Capitalize Days,
Vocabulary:
digraphs: a, aw, au, Months, and
Paired Selection Paired Selections admire
augh, al Holidays
Title: “Abuelita’s Lap” Genre: Poetry interview
intonation Structural Analysis: Write About
Genre: Poetry Titles:
vowel-team syllables Reading: Analyze
A: “Fire!” Vocabulary
Lexile: NP Author’s Purpose
O: “Fire!” Strategy: Antonyms
E: “Fire!”
B: “Fire!

Week 3 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Paul Bunyan
and the Popcorn
Short Text: Wrapped
in Ice
Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Literature
Anthology: Prior
Vocabulary Words:
country
been
children
predict
cycle
Phonemic
Awareness:
Intonation Writing Trait: Voice:
Use Your Own Voice
Weekly:
What can we learn
Skill: Plot: Cause and Skill: Plot: Cause and Effect
Blizzard” Knowledge gathers month creative Phoneme about tornadoes?
Weekly Concept: Lexile: 320L Effect
Main Selections question frigid Categorization/
Writing Product:
Genre: Folktale Additional Domain Letter
Weather Together Genre: Realistic Main Selection Title: Genre: Realistic Fiction their scorching Segmentation/
Words:
Strategy: Visualize Fiction Rain School year Substitution Grammar Skill:
A: Snow Day storm
Essential Question: Strategy: Visualize Genre: Realistic O: Heat Wave damage Phonics/ Spelling
Special Pronouns
How can weather affect (anyone, everyone,
Fiction E: Heat Wave predict Skill: silent letters wr,
Skill: Plot: Cause anything, everything,
us? and Effect Lexile: 440L
B: Rainy Day Fun
Additional
kn, gn
nothing)
Paired Selections Academic Structural Analysis:
Paired Selection Mechanics: Commas
Genre: Nonfiction Vocabulary: compound words
Title: “Rainy in Dates and Letters
affect
Weather” Titles:
closing Write About
A: “ A Mountain of Snow”
Genre: Nonfiction tornado Reading: Analyze
O: “Stay Safe When It’s Hot”
Plot: Cause and
Lexile: 470L E: “Stay Safe When It’s Hot” Vocabulary
Effect
B: “Let’s Stay Dry!” Strategy: Similes
Text Feature:
Headings

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Big Idea: Literature Read Aloud Reading/Writing Literature Leveled Reader Access Vocabulary High-Frequency Oral Vocabulary Phonics Fluency Skill Writing Research
Together We Can! Big Book Workshop Anthology Main Selection, Complex Text Words Words Words
(Units 1-3 Only) Comprehension Main Selection, Paired Selection (ACT)
How does teamwork Paired A: Approaching Level
help us? Selection O: On Level
E: ELL
B: Beyond Level

Week 4 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Let’s Dance” Short Text: A Spring
Birthday
Strategy: Visualize Strategy: Visualize Literature
Anthology: Genre,
Vocabulary Words:
difficult
before,
front
tradition
effort
Phonemic
Awareness: Syllable
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait:
Sentence Fluency:
Weekly:
Why are traditions
Genre: Nonfiction Skill: Theme Skill: Theme
Connection of Ideas nobody heard ancient Addition, Phoneme Varying Sentence important?
Weekly Concept: Strategy: Visualize
Lexile: 380L
Main Selection Title: Main Selections push movement Segmentation/ Types
Sharing Traditions Additional Domain
Genre: Realistic Lissy’s Friends Genre: Realistic Fiction tomorrow drama Blending/
Words: Writing Product:
Fiction your Substitution
Genre: Realistic A: The Quilt origami Letter
Essential Question: Strategy: Visualize Fiction O: Latkes for Sam decorations Phonics/ Spelling
What traditions do you Grammar Skill:
E: Latkes for Sam holiday Skill: three-letter
Skill: Theme Lexile: 460L I and Me
know about? B: Patty Jumps!
Additional Academic
blends scr, spl, spr,
Paired Selection str, thr, shr Mechanics: Commas
Paired Selections Vocabulary:
Title: “Making Paper in Dates and Letters
Genre: How-to celebrate, Structural Analysis:
Shapes”
greeting, inflectional endings Write About
Titles:
Genre: Nonfiction signature -ed, -ing Reading: Analyze
A: “Making a Quilt Square”
Theme
Lexile: 510L O: “What Is a Taco?” Vocabulary Strategy:
E: “What Is a Taco?” Compound Words
Text Feature:
B: “How to Play Four Square”
Directions

Week 5 Transition to
Literature Anthology
Title: “Celebrate the
Flag”
Short Text: Time
for Kids: Share the
Strategy: Reread Strategy: Reread Literature
Anthology: Purpose,
Vocabulary Words:
nation
favorite
few
pride
display
Phonemic
Awareness:
Appropriate Phrasing Writing Trait: Ideas:
Main Idea and
Weekly:
What can we learn
Skill: Author’s Skill: Author’s Purpose
Harvest and Give Organization unite gone design Phoneme Reversal/ Details about national
Weekly Concept: Genre: Nonfiction
Thanks
Purpose
Main Selections surprise purpose Blending/ Deletion/ holidays in other
Celebrate America! Additional Academic Writing Product:
Strategy: Reread Main Selection Title: Genre: Nonfiction wonder represent Addition, Syllable countries?
Lexile: 680L Vocabulary: Report
Time for Kids: Happy young Deletion/Addition
A: It’s Labor Day! holiday Unit Level:
Essential Question: Genre: Nonfiction Birthday, U.S.A.!
O: It’s Labor Day! origins Phonics/ Spelling
Grammar Skill:
Research Skill:
Why do we celebrate Adverbs That Tell
Strategy: Reread Genre: Nonfiction E: It’s Labor Day! phrasing Skill: r-controlled Using Key Words
How
holidays? Skill: Author’s Lexile: 580L
B: It’s Labor Day!
Vocabulary Strategy:
vowels air, are, ear Unit Project: Self-
Mechanics: Name select and develop
Purpose Paired Selections Metaphors Structural Analysis:
Paired Selection Titles (capitals and from weekly
Genre: Nonfiction r-controlled vowel
Title: “A Young periods with Mr., research projects.
syllables
Nation Grows” Titles: Mrs., Ms., Dr.)
A: “Four Voyages”
Genre: Nonfiction Write About
O: “Four Voyages”
Reading: Analyze
Lexile: 390L E: “Four Voyages”
Author’s Purpose
B: “Four Voyages”
Text Feature: Map

Week 6
Review and Assessment

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