Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Alphabet Review

Week 2:  Focus Skill: m/m/, Preview: s /s/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: a/a/, Preview i /i/

 

High Frequency Words- I, like (Challenge: eat)

 

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Ask and Answer Questions to Learn about Animals and Their Needs, Identify Parts of a Book, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details, First Reading: Create Mental Images About How Plants Live and Grow, Use Pictures to Support the Meaning in a Text, Build Knowledge: Plants and Animals Have Needs.

 

Week 2: First Reading: Ask and Answer Questions about What Plants Need to Live and Grow, Identify Parts of a Book, Find Text Evidence: Describe the Relationship Between Illustrations and the Text, Recognize Informational Text Features: Photographs, Labels, and Captions, Recognize Informational Text Features: Illustrations, Captions, and Labels, Build Knowledge: Plants and Animals Have Needs.

 

Week 3: First Reading: Create Mental Images about Animals and Their Needs, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details, Find Text Evidence: Informational Text Features: Labels and Captions, Recognize Informational Text Features: Illustrations, Captions, and Labels, Demonstrate Knowledge: Plants and Animals Have Needs- Complete Knowledge Blueprint, Build Vocabulary: Relate Unknown Words to Background Knowledge

 

Communications

 

Week 1: Draw and Share a Message

Week 2: Draw, Write, and Share a Message

Week 3: Shared Writing: Draw, Write, and Share a Message

 

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 1 Assessment

 

• Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: s/s/, Preview: t /t/, r /r/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: t/t/, Preview: f /f/, h /h/, b /b/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: n/n/, Preview: w /w/, p /p/

 

High-Frequency Words

Week 1: the, we

Week 2: go see

Week 3: go, see, like, I, the, we (Challenge- was, her, down)

 

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Draw Inferences to learn about Characters’ Experiences in a Story, Describe the Main Characters in a Story, First Reading: Distinguish between Important and Unimportant Information About Characters, Build Vocabulary: Identify and Explain Descriptive Words in a Text, Use Main Characters and Important Events to Retell a Story, Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, Build Knowledge: Every Story Has Characters

 

Week 2: First Reading: Draw Inferences to learn about Characters’ Experiences in a Story, Describe the Main Characters in a Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Important Events in a Story, Build Vocabulary: Identify and Explain Descriptive Words in a Text, Explain the Roles of Author and Illustrator, Compare and Contrast Characters' Experiences in Stories, Build Knowledge: Every Story Has Characters

 

Week 3: First Reading: Distinguish Between Important and Unimportant Information About Characters, Describe Important Events in a Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Main Characters in a Story, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions About Unfamiliar Words in a Text, Explain the Roles of Author and Illustrator in a Story, Demonstrate Knowledge: Every Story Has Characters

 

Communications

Week 1-3: Shared Writing: Draw and Write a Narrative Text

 

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 2 Assessment

 

• Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: i/i/, preview o/o/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: f/f/, preview c/k/, j/j/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: p/p/, preview g/g/, d/d/,k/k/

 

Reading

Week 1: Make Connections to Understand Why Rules are Important, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Summarize and Synthesize Why Following Rules and Making Good Choices is Important, Describe Main Characters in a Story, Recognize that Text Conveys Meaning and Illustrations Support the Meaning.

 

Week 2: First Reading: Make Connections to Learn Why We Follow Rules at School, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Find Text Evidence-How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Recognize Informational Text Features: Table of Contexts, Identify the Topic of Details in a Text.

 

Week 3: First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Learn How Rules Help Us, Describe How the Illustrations Support the Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Story Characters, Compare and Contrast the Experiences of Characters in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Rules at Home and School

 

Communications

Week 1-3: Draw and Write an Expository Text

 

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 3 Assessment

 

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week.

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: i/i/, preview o/o/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: f/f/, preview c/k/, j/j/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: p/p/, preview g/g/, d/d/,k/k/

 

Reading

Week 1: Make Connections to Understand Why Rules are Important, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Summarize and Synthesize Why Following Rules and Making Good Choices is Important, Describe Main Characters in a Story, Recognize that Text Conveys Meaning and Illustrations Support the Meaning.

 

Week 2: First Reading: Make Connections to Learn Why We Follow Rules at School, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Find Text Evidence-How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Recognize Informational Text Features: Table of Contexts, Identify the Topic of Details in a Text.

 

Week 3: First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Learn How Rules Help Us, Describe How the Illustrations Support the Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Story Characters, Compare and Contrast the Experiences of Characters in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Rules at Home and School

 

Communications

Week 1-3: Draw and Write an Expository Text

 

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 3 Assessment

 

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week.

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: b/b/, review h/h/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: u/u/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: r/r/

 

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Draw Inferences to Learn about Technology, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Recognize How Photographs and Captions Support the Text, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Multiple-Meaning Words, First Reading: Distinguishing Between Important and Unimportant Information to Learn about Technology, Describe Characters, Setting, and Important Events.

 

Week 2: Recognize Informational Text Features: Illustrations and Captions, Find Text Evidence: Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Describe How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Use Topic and Details to Retell Informational Texts, Build Knowledge: Technology at Home and School (Add to Blueprint)

 

Week 3: Identify and Describe Characters, Setting, and Important Events, Describe How the Illustrations Support the Text, Build Vocabulary: Sort Words into Categories, Find Text Evidence: Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Technology at Home and School (Complete the Blueprint)

 

Communications

Week 1: Draw and Write an Expository Text

Week 2: Shared Writing: Brainstorm Ideas, Chose Topic and Draft, Revise and Expand Expository Text.

Week 3: Shared Writing: Focus on Writer’s Craft: Expository Text (Edit and Publishing)

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: e/e/, review r/r/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: g/g/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: d/d/

 

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Make Connections to Stories that Teach about Working Together, Retell a Story Using Characters, Setting, and Important Events, First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Understand the Importance of Working Together, Build Vocabulary: Identify and Explain Descriptive Words in a Text, Retell a Story Using Characters, Setting, and Important Events, Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, and Begin Knowledge Blueprint.

Week 2: First Reading: Make Connections to Traditional Stories that Teach Lessons, Find Text Evidence: Describe Setting, Use Illustrations to Support Meaning in a Text, Describe Important Story Events, and add to the Knowledge Blueprint.

 

Week 3: First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Understand How to Accomplish Big Things, Retell Familiar Stories Including Details, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Unfamiliar Words, and Demonstrate Knowledge: Stories Have a Message (Complete the Blueprint)

 

Communications

Week 1-3: Opinion Process Writing

 

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 6 Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Week 3: Unit 6 Assessment

 

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: w/w/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: l/l/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: j/j/

 

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn about Holidays and Celebrations, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text, Describe Similarities Between Two Events, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Unfamiliar Words, First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Celebrating People, Text Features: Describe How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Begin the Blueprint.

Week 2: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About People We Celebrate, Find Text Evidence: Describe Similarities Between Two Individuals, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Unfamiliar Words In A Text, Explain the Difference Between Opinions and Facts, Find Text Evidence: Recognize How Images Support the Text, and Add to the Blueprint.

 

Week 3: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn about Holidays and Celebrations, Explain the Difference Between Opinions and Facts, Find Text Evidence: Recognize How Images Support the Text,

 

Communications

Week 1-3: Narrative Process Writing

 

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 7 Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Week 3: Unit 7 Assessment

 

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: k/k/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: y/y/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: v/v/, q/kw/

 

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Ask questions to Learn About Weather and Seasons, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text, First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Weather and Seasons, Describe How Pictures Support Meaning in a Story, Describe Main Characters, Setting, and Important Events in a Story.

Week 2: Recognize and Use Informational Text Features: Captions, Describe How Pictures Support Meaning In a Text, Find Text Evidence: Use Titles, Headings, and Illustrations to Confirm the Topic of a Text, Use Topic and Details to Retell Informational Texts.

 

Week 3: Use Main Characters, Setting, and Important Events to Retell a Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Main Characters, Setting, and Important Events in a Story, Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Weather and Seasons.

 

Communications

Week 1-3: Explanatory Writing

 

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 8 Progress Monitoring Assessments

• Week 3: Unit 8 Assessment

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: x/ks/, z/z/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: Long a (final -e)

Week 3:  Focus Skill: Long o (final -e)

 

Reading

Week 1:  First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn Why People Choose the Work They Do; Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text; Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text; First Reading: Apply Strategies to Describe Why People Work; Describe Story Characters, Setting, and Important Events. Begin Knowledge Blueprint.

Week 2: Apply Strategies to Distinguish Between Wants and Needs; Use Text Features: Captions, Labels, and Illustrations; Use Illustrations to Support the Meaning of a Text. Add to Knowledge Blueprint.

Week 3: First Read: Apply Strategies to Learn About Earning Money; Find Text Evidence: Compare and Contrast the Experiences of Characters in Stories; Describe How Illustrations Support Meaning; Demonstrate Knowledge: Meeting Our Wants and Needs-Complete Knowledge Blueprint.

 

Communications

Week 1-3: Opinion Process Writing

 

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 9 Progress Monitoring Assessments

• Week 3: Unit 9 Assessment

 

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: Long i (final -e)

Week 2:  Focus Skill: Long u (final -e)

Week 3:  Focus Skill: Long e (final -e, _e)

 

Reading

Week 1:  First Reading: Apply Strategies to Understand What Makes Things Move; Describe How Pictures Support Meaning in a Text; First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Forces and Motion; Describe How Pictures Support Meaning in a Text; Identify Topic and Details in Two Informational Texts.

Week 2: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Forces; Find Text Evidence: Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text; Use Text Features to Identify the Topic and Details in a Text; Retell Informational Text Using Topic and Details.

Week 3: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Objects in Motion; Find Text Evidence: Retell Informational Text Using Topic and Details; Demonstrate Knowledge: Forces and Motion-Complete the Blueprint.

 

Communications

Week 1-2: Poetry Process Writing

 

Week 3: Writing Reflection: Narrative, Expository, Opinion, Poetry, and Shared Writing.

 

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 10 Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Week 3: Unit 10 Assessment

 

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Unit 1 Overview

 

Foundations​

 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Ask Questions, Identify the Topic and Relevant Details, Retell the Text Using Topic and Relevant Details, Create Mental Images, Retell a Text by Using Story Elements

 

Week 2: Ask Questions, Identify the Topic and Relevant Details, Find Text Evidence: Use Text Features and Use Text Features to Retell a Text, Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic

 

Week 3: Creating Mental Images, Identify and Describe Main Story Elements and Moral, Find Text Evidence, Identify and Describe Main Story Elements

 

 

Communication​

Week 1: Write a Narrative, Write an Opinion;

                Grammar- Common and Proper Nouns

Week 2: Write an Expository Text, Write an Opinion, Write a Narrative;

                Grammar- Present-Tense Verbs and Past-Tense Verbs

Week 3: Write an Opinion, Write a Narrative;

                 Grammar- Singular and Plural Nouns, Future-Tense Verbs, Verb Tenses

 

 

Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly and Unit Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Cumulative Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3

Unit 2 Overview

 

Foundations​

 

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Reading​

Week 1: Use text evidence to identify and describe characters and sequence of events; relevant details in the text for charters and events.​

Week 2: Identify and describe characters and sequence of events using text evidence; retell using main story elements.​

Week 3: Identify and describe characters and sequence of events using text evidence; retell using main story elements.​

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Communication

Weeks 1-3: Write narratives that retell two or more appropriately sequenced events, including relevant details and a sense of closure.​

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Formal Assessments​

Weekly Assessments at the end of  Weeks 1 & 2​

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (This assessment is cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 3 Overview

 

Foundations​

 

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Reading​

Week 1: Identify topic and relevant details in an informational text; make connections to relevant details.​

Week 2: Identify topic and relevant details in an informational text; use text features to understand the text.​

Week 3: Identify topic and relevant details in an informational text; retell using topic and important details.​

 

Communication

Weeks 1-3: Write expository texts about a topic, using a source, providing facts and a sense of closure; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.​

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Formal Assessments​

Weekly Assessments (end of  Weeks 1 & 2​)

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 4 Overview

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling)

 

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Reading​

Week 1: Identify and describe main elements of a story; asking questions; creating mental images.​

Week 2: Identify and describe main elements of a story; using text evidence; explain who is telling the story.​

Week 3: Identify and describe main elements of a story; create mental images; use descriptive words.​

 

Communication

Weeks 1-3:

Writing- Write opinions about a topic or text with at least one supporting reason from a source and a sense of closure; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.​

 

Grammar- Form plurals -y t -ies; Commas in a series

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Formal Assessment Opportunities

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 5 Overview                                                                                                                   

 

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling)

 

Reading​

Week 1:  Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words in an informational text; identify and describe main story elements.

Week 2:  Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words.

Week 3: Identify and describe the main story elements in a story; find text evidence.

 

Communication

Weeks 1-3:

Writing- Write an explanation/expository piece about a topic with at least one supporting reason from a source and a sense of closure; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.​

 

Grammar- Using Interjections; Form and Use Past-Tense Irregular Verbs

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Formal Assessment Opportunities

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 6 Overview                                                                                                                   

 

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling)

 

Reading​

Week 1:  Identify and explain the moral of a story; Identify and describe the main characters, setting, and sequence of events; Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic.

Week 2:  Identify and describe the main characters, setting, and sequence of events; Identify and explain the moral of a story.

Week 3: Identify and describe the main characters, setting, and sequence of events; Identify and explain the moral of a story.

 

Communication

Weeks 1-3:

Writing- Write opinions about a topic or text with at least one supporting reason from a source and a sense of closure; Improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.; share writing orally.

 

Grammar- Proper Nouns; Form Simple Sentences

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Formal Assessment Opportunities

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; use text features to understand a text; retell an informational text using topic and important details.

Week 2: Use text features to understand a text; identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words.

Week 3: Use text features to understand a text; identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words.

 

Communication​ 

Weeks 1-3:  

Writing-Write expository texts about a topic, using a source, providing facts and a sense of closure.; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising; share writing orally. 

 

Grammar- Possessive Nouns; Noun-Verb Agreement 

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Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Apply strategies to learn about observing the sky; identify and describe main story elements- sequence of events; apply strategies to learn about moon observation and exploration; explain similarities and differences between information in visuals and text; compare and contrast two texts on the same topic.

Week 2: Apply strategies to learn about the sky; explain similarities and differences between information in visuals and text; find text evidence-use text features to demonstrate understanding; find text evidence-identify topic and relevant details.

Week 3: Draw inferences to learn about the night sky; identify and describe main story elements-sequence of events; find text evidence-identify and explain the moral of a story; find text evidence-compare and contrast two texts on the same topic; demonstrate knowledge-observing the night sky.

 

Communication​ 

Weeks 1-3  

Writing- Opinion Process Writing

Grammar- Pronouns (Personal, Possessive, and Indefinite)

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Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Apply strategies to learn how people use goods and services; Identify the topic and relevant details in a text; Retell a text using the topic and important details; Apply strategies to learn how people use goods and services; Identify an author's opinion about a topic.

Week 2: Apply strategies to learn how people use goods and services; Identify the topic and retell relevant details; Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic; Identify an author's opinion about a topic; Compare and contrast two text on the same topic.

Week 3: Apply strategies, Identify and explain the moral of a story; Identify and describe main story elements;  Complete the Blueprint.

 

Communication​ 

Weeks 1-3  

Writing- Expository Research Report Process Writing  

Grammar- Use comas in a series; Use plural possessives

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Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

 

 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Apply Strategies to Understand Sound, Light, and Heat-Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text,

Identify and Explain Descriptive Words and Phrases, Use Context Clues to Explain Who Is Telling the Story, Use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts.

 

Week 2: Apply Strategies to Understand Sound, Light, and Heat-Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text, Identify and Explain Descriptive Words and Phrases, Identify and Describe Main Story Elements (Characters), Make Inferences and Describe Main Story Elements (Setting), Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic.

 

Week 3: Apply Strategies to Understand Sound, Light, and Heat-Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text, Use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts, Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic, Demonstrate Knowledge.

 

Communication​

 

Weeks 1 and 2: Writing a Narrative Poem and Acrostic Poem

Week 3: Writing Reflection

 

Grammar:

Week 1- Irregular Plural Nouns

Week 2- Past-Tense Irregular Verbs

Week 3- Subject Verb Agreement

 

Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Cumulative Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 that includes weeks 1-3

Foundations

• Week 1: Short Vowels, Blends, Consonant Digraphs
• Week 2: Words with Closed and Open Syllables
• Week 3: Words with Long a

 

Reading

• Week 1: Two passages – quick look at central idea and relevant details, touch on text features & main story elements.
• Week 2: One passage – closer look at central idea and relevant details – day 5 compares important details in multiple passages.
• Week 3: One passage – focus on plot structure and main story elements

 

Communications

• Weeks 1-3: Researching, drafting, writing and editing an expository essay. Essay is not published at the end of the unit.  

 

Formal Assessments

• Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2
• Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

 

Foundations 

• Week 1: Long o: oa, o, oe, ow, o_e 
• Week 2: Long e:  ee, ea, e, y, ey, ie, e_e 
• Week 3: Long i: ie, I, y, igh, i_e 

 

Reading 

• Week 1: Two passages – quick look at characters (describing and perspective), touch on theme. 
• Week 2: One passage – closer look at character perspective 
• Week 3: One passage – focus on character – day 4 compares character perspective in multiple passages. 

 

Communications 

• Weeks 1-3: Researching, drafting, writing and editing an opinion essay.  Essay is not published at the end of the unit. 

 

Formal Assessments 

• Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 
• Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3) 

Foundations                                          

• Week 1: Long /u/: u, ew, ue, u_e
• Week 2: r-controlled vowel ar
• Week 3: r-controlled vowels er, ir, ur

Reading

• Week 1: Two passages –informational and literary– central idea and relevant details/perspective
• Week 2: One passage – closer look at central idea and relevant details ~day 5 compares texts
• Week 3: One passage – focus on character – describing and perspective ~day 5 is a poem.

Communications

▪Weeks 1-3: Researching, drafting, writing, editing, and publishing an expository essay.

Formal Assessments

• Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2   
• Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 1 Mapping: Reading and Communications   

 

Foundations

Week 1: Short Vowels

Week 2: Review Long a (VCe, ai, ay, a)

Week 3: Review Long o (VCe, oa, ow, o)  Long u (VCe, ue, ew, u)

Reading

Week 1: Two passages – introduction to identifying central idea/explaining relevant details and identifying text structure, model comparing text structures.

Week 2: One passage – using relevant details to identify text structure and comparing relevant details between multiple passages.

Week 3: One passage – use central idea and relevant details to summarize and compare relevant details between multiple passages – day 5 introduces the poetry genre.

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Use context clues to determine meaning.

Communications

Weeks 1-3: Analyze a mentor text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing an expository.  Essay is not published at the end of the unit.

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly Assessment Week 1

Week 2: Weekly Assessment Week 2

Week 3: Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3), End of Unit 1 Writing Assessment

Unit 2 Mapping: Reading and Communications   

Foundations

Week 1: Review Long e (VCe, ea, ee, ey, y, ie, e)

Week 2: Review Long i (i_e, igh, y, ie, i)

Week 3: Review Compound Words

Reading

Week 1: Two text sets; fables and poetry – introduction to how characters develop through the plot and summarizing a literary text for comprehension and to find the theme. Comparing plots.

Week 2: One passage; myth – Close read mini-lessons focus on making inferences about characters and how they develop. Close read mini-lessons focus on summarizing for comprehension and to find theme.  Comparing plots.

Week 3: One passage; folktale - Close read lessons focus on how characters develop and how their actions contribute to the theme – day 5 poetry; analyze poetic structure and language.

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Identify and explain figurative language - similes.

Communications

Weeks 1-3: Analyze a mentor text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing an opinion essay.  Essay is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – simple modifiers and irregular past and future tense verbs.

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly Assessment Week 1

Week 2: Weekly Assessment Week 2

Week 3: Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3), End of Unit 2 Writing Assessment

Unit 3 Mapping: Reading and Communications   

 

Foundations

Week 1: Review r-Controlled Vowels (/ӓr/, /ôr/)

Week 2: Review r-Controlled Vowels (-er, -ir, -ur)

Week 3: Review Closed Syllable Pattern

Reading

Week 1: Two texts; informational social studies – introductory lessons focus on distinguishing between important and unimportant information to summarize and synthesize.  Identifying text structure (cause/effect), explaining how text features contribute to meaning, and identifying/using chronological text features (timelines).

Week 2: One text set; biography – Close read mini-lessons focus on identifying cause/effect text structures, explaining how text features contribute to meaning, identifying central idea and relevant details, summarizing, and comparing how two authors present information on the same topic.

Week 3: One text; informational social studies - Close read lessons focus on explaining how text features contribute to meaning, identifying text structures (chronological/timelines), and comparing and contrasting how two authors present information on the same topic. – Day 5 poetry; identify and explain metaphor in a free verse poem.

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in an informational text.

Communications

Weeks 1-3: Analyze a mentor text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing an expository essay.  Grammar lessons – Irregular verbs, using commas and quotation marks for direct quotations, regular verbs/verb tenses, pronouns/pronoun-antecedent agreement, and editing for fragments and run-ons.

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly Assessment Week 1

Week 2: Weekly Assessment Week 2

Week 3: Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3), End of Unit 3 Writing Assessment

Unit 4 Mapping: Reading and Communications   

 

Foundations 

Week 1: Review Open Syllable Pattern 

Week 2: Review -le Syllable Pattern  

Week 3: Review Vowel Team Syllable Pattern (oo, oa, ou, ai, ea) 

 

Reading 

Week 1: Three texts; diary entry, trickster tale, and play – introduction to explaining characters’ perspectives, and summarizing plot and theme. 

Week 2: One passage; trickster tale – Close read mini-lessons focus on explaining characters’ perspectives, and explaining how characters develop through the plot 

Week 3: One passage; play - Close read lessons focus on explaining characters’ perspectives, summarizing plot and theme, and comparing and contrasting how two authors present information on the same topic or theme – day 5 poetry; explaining characters’ perspectives in a poem. 

 

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. 

 

Communications 

Weeks 1-3: Analyze a mentor/source text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing a narrative diary entry.  The narrative is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – use simple modifiers, and use commas to indicate direct address. 

 

Formal Assessments 

Week 1: Weekly Assessment Week 1 

Week 2: Weekly Assessment Week 2 

Week 3: Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3), End of Unit 4 Writing Assessment 

Unit 5 Mapping: Reading and Communications         

 

Foundations 

Week 1: Review VCe Syllable Pattern 

Week 2: Review Vowel -r Syllable Pattern 

Week 3: Review Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing 

 

Reading 

Week 1: Two texts; biography and informational social studies – Introduction to author’s purpose, claims, and evidence. Introduction to how text features contribute to meaning in informational text.  Identification of the text structures of cause/effect and chronology. 

Week 2: One passage;  biography – Review of how text features contribute to meaning in an informational text.  Close Read – Identifying text structure.  Close reading – Explaining author’s purpose, claims, and evidence.  Close reading – Comparing and contrasting how two authors present information on the same topic related to technology. 

Week 3: One passage; informational social studies - Close read lessons focus on Identifying text structures, explaining how text features contribute to meaning, and comparing and contrasting how two authors present information on the same topic – day 5 poetry; identifying and analyzing limericks and rhymed verse poems. 

 

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. 

 

Communications 

Weeks 1-3: Analyze a mentor/source text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing an opinion essay.  The essay is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – use simple modifiers, and use commas to indicate direct address. 

 

Formal Assessments 

Week 1: Weekly Assessment Week 1 

Week 2: Weekly Assessment Week 2 

Week 3: Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 6 Mapping: Reading and Communications   

Foundations

Week 1: Review Irregular Plurals

Week 2: Review Long oo and Short oo

Week 3: Review /ou/ as in How and Out

Reading

Week 1: Two texts; realistic fiction – Introduction to how characters develop through the plot in a literary text. Introduction to how the elements of plot and theme can be used to summarize a text.  Introduction to explain the theme of a text and how it develops using details.

Week 2: One passage;  realistic fiction – Review of how to use the elements of plot and theme to summarize a text.  Introduction of how to explain different characters’ perspectives.  Close Reading – Explaining how characters develop through a plot.  Close reading – Explaining a theme and how it develops.  Close reading – Explaining how characters develop in two stories.

Week 3: One passage; realistic fiction - Close read lessons focus on explaining how characters develop through the plot, a theme and how it develops, and explaining how the same theme develops in two stories – day 5 poetry; explain the theme of a rhymed verse poem.

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words.

Communications

Week 1: Analyze a mentor/source text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing narrative writing.  The narrative essay is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – review irregular plurals, and form and use irregular plural nouns.

Week 2: Analyze a mentor/source text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing expository writing.  The expository essay is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – use simple modifiers.

Week 3: Analyze a mentor/source text. Planning, drafting, writing, and editing opinion writing.  The opinion essay is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – interpret figurative language.

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly Assessment Week 1

Week 2: Weekly Assessment Week 2

Week 3: Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3), End of Unit 6 Writing Assessment

Unit 7 Mapping: Reading and Communications                      

 

Foundations

Week 1: Review Suffixes -er, -or in context

Week 2: Review Homophones

Week 3: Review Variant Vowel /ô/

Reading

Week 1: Two texts; personal narrative, realistic fiction – Introduction on how to identify an author’s claim and explain evidence. Introduction on explaining the development of an author’s purpose.  Introduction to explain how characters develop throughout a plot.

Week 2: One passage;  personal essay – Review of identifying author’s claim and explaining evidence.  Introduction of explaining how text features contribute to meaning.  Close Reading – Explaining how text features contribute to meaning.  Close reading – Identifying an author’s claim and explaining evidence to support it.  Close reading – Comparing and contrasting how two authors present information on the same topic.

Week 3: One passage; historical fiction - Close read lessons focus on explaining how characters develop through plot, a theme and how it develops, and comparing and contrasting how two authors present information on the same theme – day 5 poetry; identify and explain metaphor in a rhymed verse poem.

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words.

Communications

Week 1: Analyze a mentor text. Analyzing a mentor text to begin planning a historical fiction narrative writing.  The narrative is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – maintain consistent verb tense across paragraphs, and form and use progressive tenses.

Week 2: Analyze a mentor text. Planning and drafting a historical fiction narrative writing.  The essay is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – form and use possessives, form and use perfect verb tenses.

Week 3: Analyze a mentor text. Drafting, revising, and editing a historical fiction narrative.  The essay is not published at the end of the unit. Grammar lessons – Using quotation marks with dialogue in realistic fiction.

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly Assessment Week 1

Week 2: Weekly Assessment Week 2

Week 3: Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3), End of Unit 6 Writing Assessment

Foundations

Week 1:  Review Long a (VCe, ai, ay, ei, ea) and Short a

Week 2:  Review Long e (VCe, ea, ee, ey, and y, ie, e) and Short e

Week 3:  Review Long o (Vce, oa, ow, oe, o) and Short o

 

Reading

Week 1 : One personal essay and one realistic fiction text– Reread to explain how relevant details support the central idea, similes and metaphors, perspectives in text.

Week 2: One personal essay- Identify relevant details and explain how they support the central idea, summarize the text, similes and metaphors, author’s perspective towards a topic, summarize multiple texts.

Week 3: One realistic fiction text- Similes and metaphors, perspectives in texts, structures and meaning in poetry.

 

Communications

Week 1: Write an Expository Essay -Read a Mentor Text, Find Relevant Details and Elaboration, Listen and View to Find Details and Elaboration, Plan and Organize Your Ideas, Order Adjectives within Sentences. Grammar- order adjectives within sentences.

Week 2: Write an Expository Essay- Analyze the Prompt, Find Details in a Print Source, Gather Information from Digital Sources, Plan and Organize Ideas, Recognize and Correct Inappropriate Fragments and Run-Ons. Grammar- recognize and correct inappropriate fragments and run-ons.

Week 3: Write an Expository Essay- Introduce the Topic Clearly, Incorporate Relevant Information and Provide a Conclusion, Order Adjectives to Add Detail, Edit to Correct Inappropriate Fragments and Run-Ons, Evaluate and Reflect on Writing.

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Unit 1 Week 1 Assessment, Writing Interim Assessment 1 (if using as a baseline)

Week 2: Unit 1 Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Unit 1 Assessment, Writing Assessment

Foundations

Week 1:  Long i (VCe, igh, y, ie, i) and Short I

Week 2:  Long u (VCe, ue, ew, u) and Short u

Week 3:  Closed Syllable Patterns  

 

Reading 

Week 1: One drama and one fantasy text- Draw inferences about characters’ actions, summarize text, character actions and contribution to plot, figurative language with contribution to meaning. 

Week 2: One drama text- Draw inferences about characters’ actions, summarize the text, context clues to determine meaning, character plot contribution, theme developed in two texts.  

Week 3: One fantasy text- Make connections to characters’ actions, summarize text, theme development, rhyme and structure in a poem. 

 

Communications 

Week 1: Write an Opinion Essay- Read a mentor text, read to find relevant facts and details, use text evidence to make a claim, analyze the writer’s conclusion, use conjunctions. Grammar-use conjunctions. 

Week 2: Write an Opinion Essay- Read and analyze the prompt, develop reasons based on relevant details, use text evidence to make a claim, plan and organize your opinion essay, Grammar- recognize and correct shifts in tense and number. 

Week 3: Write an Opinion Essay- Create an effective opening paragraph, incorporate text evidence/provide a conclusion, revise to insert words and phrases for effect, edit to insert words and phrases for effect, edit to ensure subject/verb agreement and clear pronoun reference, evaluate, and reflect on writing. 

 

Formal Assessments 

Week 1: Unit 2 Week 1 Assessment 

Week 2: Unit 2 Week 2 Assessment  

          Week 3: Unit 2 Assessment, Writing Assessment 

Foundations/Vocabulary

Week 1:  Review open syllables and reading big words strategy. Use context clues to determine the meaning of words and phrases in a story.

Week 2:  Review vowel teams and reading big words strategy. Review present progressive tense.

Week 3:  Closed Syllable Patterns, subject-verb agreement; correct pronoun reference

 

Reading

Week 1: One informational (social studies) text and one science fiction text- Distinguish between important and unimportant information, identify and explain how text structure/features contribute to meaning in a text, summarize and synthesize to build knowledge, use context clues to determine meaning of words and phrases, explain how character development contributes to plot.

Week 2: One informational social studies text- Distinguish between important and unimportant information to build knowledge, identify relevant details/determine central idea, use context clues to determine the meaning of words and phrases, explain how text structure/features contributes to meaning in a text, summarize information from two texts to enhance comprehension.

Week 3: One realistic fiction text- Summarize/synthesize to build knowledge, use context clues to determine the meaning of words and phrases, use details about characters in a text to make inferences, summarize multiple texts, identify a poem’s rhyme and scheme, and explain how it contributes to meaning.

 

Communications

Please Note: To provide students with an opportunity to write to a text-based prompt, revised Communication mini-lessons are provided. Revised lessons and related materials may be accessed through the Lesson Guidance for Unit 3. The revised lessons do not have a title which is reflected in the mapping below. Communication mini-lessons with titles listed will not be revised and should be taught as written in TRS. 

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Unit 3 Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Unit 3 Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Unit 3 Assessment

Foundations

Week 1:  Review compound words and reading big words strategy. 

Week 2:  Review Vowel-Consonant -e Syllable Patterns and the Reading Big Words Strategy.

Week 3:  Review Consonant -le Syllable Patterns and Reading Big Words Strategy.

 

Reading

Week 1: One realistic and one historical fiction text- Ask questions about characters and events to understand point of view, identify first-person/third person narrative point of view, drawing inferences, creating mental images to understand point of view, and drawing inferences about character experiences.

 Week 2: One historical fiction text- Ask questions about characters and events to understand point of view, summarize text, drawing inferences about character perspective, comparing point of view, and theme development in narratives.

 Week 3: One fantasy text- Create mental images of characters, comparing points of view and character perspective, drawing inferences about characters and plot contributions, compare/contrast character development, structure and point of view of a poem.

 

Communications

Week 1: Write a New Fictional Scene- Read a prompt and mentor text, analyze character and events, read to find character traits in sources, develop the character’s voice. Grammar-subject-verb agreement with intervening clauses and phrases.

Week 2: Write a New Fictional Scene-Read the prompt/checklist, find character details in source text, planning a scene. Grammar-review pronouns in the subjective, objective, and possessive case.

Week 3: Write a New Fictional Scene- Use dialogue to dramatize events, use description and transitional language to develop events, expand sentences with phrases and clauses, word relationships (homophones), and evaluating/reflecting on writing.

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Unit 4 Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Unit 4 Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Unit 4 Assessment

Unit 5 Mapping: Reading and Communications

Foundations

Week 1:  Review hard and soft c and g

Week 2:  Review r-Controlled Vowels (ar, or, oar, ore)

Week 3:  Review r-Controlled Vowels (er, ir, ur)

 

Reading

Week 1: Two informational texts - Draw inferences, use context clues, identify problem/solution and cause/effect text structures, and explain how an author supports a claim.

Week 2: One informational text – Draw inferences, summarize, use context clues, explain problem/solution text structure, and explain how an author supports a claim.

 Week 3: One informational text – Distinguish between important and unimportant information, explain problem/solution, explain how an author supports a claim, explain how metaphors contribute to meaning in poetry.

 

Communications (to be updated with information from REVISED Writing Cycle)

Week 1:

Week 2:

Week 3:

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Unit 5 Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Unit 5 Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Unit 5 Assessment and Unit 5 Writing Assessment

 

Phonics and Word Study

 

Week 1: Adverb Suffixes (-ly, -ily, -ways, -wise)

Week 2: Introduce /o̅ o̅/ and / o͝o / (oo, ew, ould, ull)

Week 3: Adjective Suffixes (-ful, -ous, -ible, -able, -some)

 

Reading

 

Week 1: Two texts; one Lenape legend and one folktale – Describe characters, settings, and events and explain how they contribute to the plot, determine theme

Week 2: One text; myth – Summarize, describe how character contribute to plot, infer theme

Week 3: Two texts; one folktale and one rhymed-verse poem – Summarize, describe how character contribute to plot, infer theme, explain development of theme, analyze structure, rhyme, and meter in a poem, identify theme in a poem

 

Vocabulary

 

Week 1: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words; Use word relationships to determine meaning.

Week 2: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words

Week 3: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words

 

Communications

Please Note: Each week of instruction is a full writing cycle for a different writing genre. Students should have a completed essay on Day 5 of each week. Please note the revisions detailed below as they differ week by week. It is advised to have 120 minutes of independent writing time for each essay in Unit 6 to build students’ stamina and provide an opportunity for students to practice budgeting their time. If it is not possible to arrange 120 minutes for one day, track the time over multiple days to help students get used to completing their essays in the time frame provided on F.A.S.T. Writing Assessment. Suggestions are made throughout the lesson guidance each week to help identify opportunities for additional independent writing time.

 

Week 1 REVISED: Argumentative essay; new concepts: student created planning guide and budgeting time

• To provide students with an opportunity to write to an argumentative text-based prompt, revised Communication mini-lessons are provided for Week 1. Revised lessons and related materials may be accessed through the Lesson Guidance for Unit 6. The revised lessons do not have a title which is reflected in the mapping below.
• It is recommended that students become familiar with creating their own planning guides on blank paper to practice with F.A.S.T. Writing Assessment expectations. This procedure is explicitly taught in the revised lessons for Week 1. Additionally, students are introduced to the idea of budgeting time during formal writing assessments. An anchor chart with suggested times is presented in the revised lessons as well.

 

Week 2 REVISED: Expository essay using a primary and a secondary source

• Although there is no way to predict what type of text may be used for assessment purposes, it is suggested that the lesson be taught as presented in Benchmark Advance. The analyzation of primary and secondary texts on the same event supports the mastery of reading across genres (R.3.1-R.3.3), particularly R.3.3: Compare and contrast accounts of the same event using primary and/or secondary sources.
• REVISED mentor and student prompts are linked under Unit 6 Lesson Guidance to align with F.A.S.T. formatting expectations.

 

Week 3 REVISED: Argumentative essay

• To align with the B.E.S.T. Communication Benchmarks’ expectations, a second source text is provided.
• REVISED mentor and student prompts are linked under Unit 6 Lesson Guidance to align with F.A.S.T. formatting expectations.

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 5 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 5 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 5 Assessments (cumulative)

Phonics and Word Study

Week 1: Review /ou/ and /oi/ and Reading Big Words Strategy

Week 2: Prefixes trans-, pro-, sub-, super-, inter- and Reading Big Words Strategy

Week 3: Review Homophones and Reading Big Words Strategy

 

Reading

Week 1: Two informational texts– Explain how text features contribute to meaning, review chronological text structure, explain an author’s claim and the reasons/evidence used to support it; context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar words

Week 2: One informational text – Review chronological and comparison text structures, explain how details support an implied central idea, explain how text features contribute to meaning, compare and contrast accounts of the same event

Week 3: Two texts; one information text and one rhymed-verse poem – Identify and describe text structure, explain an author’s claim and the reasons/evidence used to support it, compare and contrast accounts of the same event, explain how rhyme and figurative language create meaning in a poem

 

Vocabulary

Week 1: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words

Week 2: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words

Week 3: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words

 

Communications

Please Note: Unit 7 has been revised to provide students with an equivalent experience for the FAST Writing Assessment. Two practice assessments, each followed by conferences and feedback, are supplied to administer over the three-week period allotted for Unit 7. A flexible framework is suggested to provide 120 minutes of independent writing time for each practice assessment in Unit 7. This will help to build students’ stamina and provide an opportunity for students to practice budgeting their time. If it is not possible to arrange 120 minutes for one day, track the time over multiple days to help students get used to completing their essays in the time frame provided on F.A.S.T. Writing Assessment.

 

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 7 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 7 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 7 Assessments (cumulative)

Phonics and Word Study

Week 1: Review Short Vowel Syllable Pattern

Week 2: Review Long Vowel Syllable Pattern

Week 3: r-Controlled Vowels /ur/, er, ir, ur

 

Reading

Week 1: Two informational texts – Explaining how relevant details support central idea, contributions to meaning through text features/text structure, and tracking an author’s argument

Week 2: One new informational text – Explaining how relevant details support central idea, author’s point of view, contributions to meaning through text structure

Week 3: One new informational text – Contributions to meaning through text features, author’s perspective and purpose; Poem on Day 5 – elements of poetry

Vocabulary

Week 2: Use context clues to determine meaning.

Communications

Week 1: Analyze mentor text (expository) with a focus on organization; Grammar- conjunctions

Week 2: Analyze expository prompt, gather notes, plan and organize expository essay; Grammar – combining sentences

Week 3: Draft, revise, edit expository essay

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 1 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 1 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 1 Assessments (cumulative); End of Unit 1 Writing Assessment: Expository

Phonics and Word Study

Week 1: Review r-Controlled Vowels /âr/, /är/, /ôr/ (air, are; ar; or, our, ore)

Week 2: Review Closed Syllable Pattern

Week 3: Review Open Syllable Pattern

 

Reading

The texts used in this unit are all excerpts from the same novel, As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds.

Week 1: Two realistic fiction texts – Exploring characters, their traits, and relationship dynamics, summarizing

Week 2: One new realistic fiction text – Exploring the development of characters’ relationships including the use of figurative language

Week 3: One new realistic fiction text and one poem– Analyzing characters’ relationships as they contribute to plot and development of theme

Vocabulary

Week 2: Use context clues to determine meaning.

Communications

Week 1: Analyze mentor text (opinion) with a focus on selecting relevant details for notes and writing a conclusion

Week 2: Analyze opinion prompt, gather notes relevant to stated opinion, plan and organize opinion essay; Grammar – varied transitions

Week 3: Draft, revise, edit opinion essay

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 2 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 2 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 2 Assessments (cumulative); End of Unit 2 Writing Assessment: Opinion

 

Phonics and Word Study 

Week 1: Vowel-r Syllable Patterns 

Week 2: Vowel Teams and Syllable Patterns 

Week 3: Consonant –le Pattern 

 

Reading 

Students will read selections from several informational social studies texts which may include primary documents. 

Week 1: Two informational texts- Distinguish between important and unimportant Information, explain how text structure contributes to meaning, and track development of an argument, and analyze author’s purpose 

Week 2: One new informational text – explain how relevant details support central idea, explain how text structure contributes to meaning, track the development of an argument, compare and contrast primary and secondary sources on the same topic 

Week 3: One text (persuasive speech) and one poem- explain how text structure contributes to meaning, track the development of an author’s argument, analyze author’s perspectives, explain how figurative language works with poetic elements and meaning 

Vocabulary 

Week 1: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words 

Week 2: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words 

 

Communications 

Please Note: To provide students with an opportunity to write to a text-based prompt, revised Communication mini-lessons are provided. Revised lessons and related materials may be accessed through the Lesson Guidance for Unit 3. The revised lessons do not have a title which is reflected in the mapping below. Communication mini-lessons with titles listed will not be revised and should be taught as written in TRS. 

 

Week 1 REVISED: Analyze mentor text (expository) with a focus on selecting relevant details/quotes and using a cause-and-effect organizational structure 

Week 2 REVISED: Draft expository essay with a focus on elaboration, transitions, and a conclusion 

Week 3 REVISED: Revise, edit, and publish expository essay; introduce state writing rubric 

Formal Assessments 

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 3 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment 

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 3 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment 

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 3 Assessments (cumulative); End of Unit 3 Writing Assessment: Expository 

Phonics and Word Study

Week 1: Vowel-Consonant-e Syllable Pattern

Week 2: Homographs

Week 3: Variant Vowels /oo  /and /oo/

 

Reading

Week 1: Three texts; two free verse poems and one historical fiction text (journal entry/personal narrative) - All three texts are used to explore perspective and figurative language. The historical fiction also connects headings in journal entries to text structure.

Week 2: One new realistic fiction text – summarize literary text, analyze figurative language, analyze elements that contribute to plot, deepen understanding of theme and perspective

Week 3: One new realistic fiction and one poem – character perspective, figurative language, theme

 

Vocabulary

Week 1: Use context clues to determine meaning in figurative language

Week 2: Use context clues to determine meaning

 

Communications

Week 1: Analyze mentor text and prompt (narrative) with a focus on analyzing character traits, developing your voice as a writer; Grammar- principal modals

Week 2: Analyze student prompt, gather notes from source text to describe events and develop characters; Grammar – principal modals

Week 3: Add dialogue, draft, revise, and edit narrative essay; use quotation marks correctly; Grammar-Correct inappropriate shifts in tense and number

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 4 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 4 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 4 Assessments (cumulative); Writing Interim Assessment 2

Reading

Week 1: Two texts; one informational social studies text and one informational social studies rhyming verse poem - Make inferences, explain how figurative language and other poetic elements work together in a poem, and explain how text structures and/or features contribute to the meaning of texts, explain how relevant details support the central idea(s), implied or explicit

Week 2: Collection of poems about the Industrial Age – Make inferences, explain the development of stated or implied theme(s) throughout a literary text, explain how figurative language and other poetic elements work together in a poem

Week 3: One new social studies informational text - Distinguish between important and unimportant information, explain how text structure contributes to meaning, explain how relevant details support the central idea(s) implicit or explicit, analyze how figurative language contributes to meaning in text

Vocabulary

Week 1: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words. Use word relationships to determine meaning.

Week 2: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words

Week 3: Use context clues to determine the meaning of words

Communications

Please Note: To provide students with an opportunity to write to a text-based prompt, revised Communication mini-lessons are provided. Revised lessons and related materials may be accessed through the Lesson Guidance for Unit 5. The revised lessons do not have a title which is reflected in the mapping below. Communication mini-lessons with titles listed will not be revised and should be taught as written in TRS.

Week 1 REVISED: Analyze mentor text (argumentative)

Week 2 REVISED: Draft argumentative essay

Week 3 REVISED: Revise, edit, and publish argumentative essay

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 5 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 5 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 5 Assessments (cumulative); End of Unit 5 Writing Assessment: Argumentative

Phonics and Word Study                               

Week 1: Variant Vowel /ô/ (al, alk, all, au, aw)

Week 2: Noun Suffixes: -tion, -ty, -sion, -ness, -ment 

Week 3: Compound Words (Hyphenated, Open)

 

Reading

Week 1: Two texts; a fable and a play. The fable is used to practice making connections and exploring characters’ perspectives. The play explores how story elements contribute to plot.

Week 2: One new realistic fiction text –This text includes lessons on how to make connections, analyze how story elements contribute to plot, describe how characters’ perspectives are developed, and deepen understanding of theme.

Week 3: One new first-person narrative and a poem -The narrative is used to practice summarizing, synthesizing, characterization, and deepening understanding of theme. The poem explores the analysis of how figurative language works together with other poetic elements.

 

Vocabulary

Week 1: Use cause and effect relationships as context clues to determine word meaning

Week 2: Use comparison and context clues to determine word meaning

 

Communications

Week 1: Analyze source texts and narrative prompts with a focus on selecting relevant details about characters, settings, and events; Draft, revise and edit a narrative in response to the prompt; Grammar- Sentence fragments used for effect

 

Week 2: Analyze source texts and expository prompts with a focus on selecting relevant evidence for an expository essay; Draft, revise and edit an expository essay in response to the prompt; Grammar – past-perfect verb tense

 

Week 3: Analyze source texts and opinion prompts with a focus on stating and supporting a claim with relevant evidence to produce an opinion essay; Draft, revise and edit an opinion essay in response to the prompt; Grammar-Review Prepositions

 

Formal Assessments

Week 1: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 6 Assessments: Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 6 Assessments: Week 2 Assessment

Week 3: Weekly & Unit Assessments: Unit 6 Assessments (cumulative); Writing Interim Assessment 2

Coming soon!