Reading
This year we will be using the Mc-Graw Hill Reading series for our reading instruction. Every week we will be focusing on one specific class story and digging deeper into various aspects of its components. Below is a list of those stories and the focus skills that are used throughout the story.
Unit 1 Theme - Time of My Life
Week 1 - The Wise Old Woman
Focus Skills - Problem and Solution, Make Inferences, Antonyms and Synonyms
Week 2 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Focus Skills - Story Elements, Make Inferences, Context Clues
Week 3 - Wilma Unlimited
Focus Skills - Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Context Clues
Week 4 - The Wreck of the Zephyr
Focus Skills - Story Elements, Make Inferences, Antonyms and Synonyms
Week 5 - Tornadoes!
Focus Skills - Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Antonyms and Synonyms
Focus Skills - Problem and Solution, Make Inferences, Antonyms and Synonyms
Week 2 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Focus Skills - Story Elements, Make Inferences, Context Clues
Week 3 - Wilma Unlimited
Focus Skills - Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Context Clues
Week 4 - The Wreck of the Zephyr
Focus Skills - Story Elements, Make Inferences, Antonyms and Synonyms
Week 5 - Tornadoes!
Focus Skills - Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Antonyms and Synonyms
Unit 2 Theme - Building Bridges
Week 1 - The Gold Coin
Focus Skills - Make Prediction, Form Generalizations, Compound Words
Week 2 - John Henry
Focus Skills - Fact and Nonfact, Form Generalizations, Inflectional Endings
Week 3 - It's Our World, Too!
Focus Skills - Main Idea, Fact and Nonfact, Inflectional Endings
Week 4 - Dear Mr. Henshaw
Focus Skills - Make Predictions, Form Generalizations, Compound Words
Week 5 - Digging Up the Past
Focus Skills - Main Idea, Form Generalizations, Compound Words, Inflectional Endings
Focus Skills - Make Prediction, Form Generalizations, Compound Words
Week 2 - John Henry
Focus Skills - Fact and Nonfact, Form Generalizations, Inflectional Endings
Week 3 - It's Our World, Too!
Focus Skills - Main Idea, Fact and Nonfact, Inflectional Endings
Week 4 - Dear Mr. Henshaw
Focus Skills - Make Predictions, Form Generalizations, Compound Words
Week 5 - Digging Up the Past
Focus Skills - Main Idea, Form Generalizations, Compound Words, Inflectional Endings
Unit 3 Theme - Imagine That
Week 1 - The Marble Champ
Focus Skills - Steps in a Process, Summarize, Multiple-Meaning Words
Week 2 - The Paper Dragon
Focus Skills - Sequence of Events, Summarize, Figurative Language
Week 3 - Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon
Focus Skills - Steps in a Process, Sequence of Events, Figurative Language
Week 4 - Going Back Home
Focus Skills - Author's Purpose, Point of View, Summarize, Multiple-Meaning Words
Week 5 - A Mountain of a Monument
Focus Skills - Sequence of Events, Author's Purpose, Point of View, Multiple-Meaning Words, Figurative Language
Focus Skills - Steps in a Process, Summarize, Multiple-Meaning Words
Week 2 - The Paper Dragon
Focus Skills - Sequence of Events, Summarize, Figurative Language
Week 3 - Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon
Focus Skills - Steps in a Process, Sequence of Events, Figurative Language
Week 4 - Going Back Home
Focus Skills - Author's Purpose, Point of View, Summarize, Multiple-Meaning Words
Week 5 - A Mountain of a Monument
Focus Skills - Sequence of Events, Author's Purpose, Point of View, Multiple-Meaning Words, Figurative Language
Unit 4 Theme - Investigate!
Week 1 - Carlos and the Skunk
Focus Skills - Judgments and Decision, Draw Conclusions
Week 2 - How to Think Like a Scientist
Focus Skills - Important and Unimportant Information, Draw Conclusions
Week 3 - An Island Scrapbook
Focus Skills - Fact and Nonfact, Important and Unimportant Information
Week 4 - The Big Storm
Focus Skills - Judgments and Decisions, Draw Conclusions
Week 5 - Catching up with Lewis and Clark
Focus Skills - Fact and Nonfact, Important and Unimportant Information
Focus Skills - Judgments and Decision, Draw Conclusions
Week 2 - How to Think Like a Scientist
Focus Skills - Important and Unimportant Information, Draw Conclusions
Week 3 - An Island Scrapbook
Focus Skills - Fact and Nonfact, Important and Unimportant Information
Week 4 - The Big Storm
Focus Skills - Judgments and Decisions, Draw Conclusions
Week 5 - Catching up with Lewis and Clark
Focus Skills - Fact and Nonfact, Important and Unimportant Information