Unit

Content

Assessment

Teeny, Tiny, Tinny Visitors

Inferences

Context Clues

Teeny, Tiny Tinny Visitors

Using a Telephone Directory

Classification

 

The Mad Puppet

Multiple Meanings

Comparisons

Dictionary Skills

 

Arthur's Thanksgiving Emergency

Sequencing

Using Maps

Long Word Decoding

 

Laughing Gas

Fantasy

Context clues

Suffixes -en, -ous

Cause and Effect

 

Aboriginal Dreaming Stories

The Creation story of Ngiyaampaa country

 

Eaglehawk and Crow

The Story of Emu and Jabiru

 

How the Kookaburra got their Laugh

 

Special Effects in Movies

Identifying Main Ideas

Using Synonyms / Antonyms

Homophones

 

Tucker's Life Savings

Inferences

Analogies

Summarizing skills

 

The Day Nothing Happened

Malapropisms

Homographs

Predicting Outcomes

 

Two Big Bears

Context clues

Alphabetical Order

Suffixes -en, -ous

 

Animal Lookalikes

Context clues

Identifying Main Ideas

Characterization

Animal Lookalikes

Comparison words

Summarizing Details

 

Petranella

Predicting Outcomes

Figurative Language

Cause and Effect

 

I'm in Charge of Celebrations

Forms of Poetry

Figurative Language

Multiple Meanings of words

 

Green Fun Activities

Cause / Effect

Following Directions

 

The Mountain the loved a Bird

Figurative Language

Using Charts

 

Jabberwocky

Prefixes in-, pre-, re-

 

Pig Latin and other Secret l

Languages

Following Directions

Malapropisms

Identifying Details / Main Ideas

 

The Pirates of Sandy Harbor

Drawing Conclusions

Analogies

Summarizing Information

 

Pippi finds a Spink

Characterization

Drawing Conclusions

Long Word Decoding

 

'10 Words'

Main Ideas

Synonyms

Homographs

 

The Most Fearsome Thing

Synonyms / Antonyms

Characterizations

Prefixes

 

Juan Gets Home

Predicting Outcomes

Multiple Meanings

Following Directions

 

A Grain of Wheat

Autobiographies

Synonyms / Antonyms

 

A Grain of Wheat

Homophones

 

The Glorious Whitewasher

Analogies

The Bicycle Racer

Facts or Opinion

Analogies

Drawing Conclusions

 

Nellie Bly

Identify Main Ideas

Using an Encyclopedia

Prefixes in-, pre-, re-

 

The Gift

Figurative Language

Parts of a Newspaper

 

The Lizard Letdown

The Setting of a story

Using mid-

Predicting Outcomes

 

 

A Zookeepers's Challenge

Cause / Effect

Finding Definitions

 

A Zookeepers's Challenge

Prefix extra-

Using an Encyclopedia

 

Young Pele, Soccer Player

Fact / Opinion

Word Referents

 

Young Pele, Soccer Player

Words mid-

Connotations

Characterization