This document contains a unit planner for a reading curriculum. It outlines the weekly themes, skills, and lessons for a 6-week unit. The main skills covered are phonemic awareness, spelling, vocabulary, comprehension strategies, and grammar. It also includes assessments to measure student progress.

2. Real World Reading
Fighting the Fire
Unit 1 Planner
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Genre into
A Nonfiction Article
many
gives information
live
about real people,
out
things, or events.
this
Summarize
Main Idea and Details
The main idea is
the most important
idea in an article.
Details give more
information.
What happens when a fire breaks out
in a forest?
One day the sky over the forest in LaVerne,
California, filled with smoke. The people who
lived nearby knew what it meant. They knew
a fire was close. The smoke made it hard to
see and to breathe. People were afraid they
would choke.
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pages 74–77 pages 86–106 pages 116–142
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Firefighters at Work Being Yourself Coming to America Think and Search
Writing Workshop
Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness Personal Narrative
Short /a/a, long /ā/a_e Short /i/i, long /ī/i_e Short /o/o, long /ō/o_e
Short /a/a, long /ā/a_e Short /i/i, long /ī/i_e Short /o/o, long /ō/o_e Unit 1 Assessment,
153M–153N
Spelling Spelling Spelling
Short a, long a Short i, long i Short o, long o
Comprehension
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary Character and Setting,
flames, forest, heat, safe, celebrate, cultures, deaf, cuddle, favorite, patient, Plot, Main Idea and
tell language, relatives, signing practiced, settled, wrinkled Details, Make and
Confirm Predictions
Strategy: Word Parts Strategy: Use a Dictionary Strategy: Word Parts
Phonics
short /a/a, /i/i, /e/e, /o/o,
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension /u/u; long /ā/a_e, /ī/i_e,
Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Summarize /ō/o_e
Skill: Identify Main Idea Skill: Identify Main Idea Skill: Make and Confirm
and Details and Details Predictions Vocabulary
Dictionary: Word Parts:
Inflected Verbs, Word
Families
Word Automaticity Word Automaticity Word Automaticity
Echo-Read Echo-Read Echo-Read Text Features/
Timed Reading Timed Reading Timed Reading Study Skills
Repeated Reading Repeated Reading Repeated Reading Photos, Captions, Lists,
Parts of a Book, Graphs
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING
Call 911! Guide Dogs Remember Me Grammar
Sentences
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL
How We Use Fire Signing a Language Daniel’s New Home Writing
BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND Personal Narrative
Wildfires Technology That Helps Eva’s Journey
Fluency Assessment
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
We Use Fire Talking Hands The New Americans Diagnose and Prescribe
Interpret Assessment
Results
Grammar Grammar Grammar
Subjects Predicates Sentence Combining
Writing Writing Writing
Report Personal Introduction Journal Entry
Relationships 10C

8. Real World Reading
A Way to Help
Unit 4 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
A Nonfiction Article
Planet Earth
gives information What can everyone do to
about real people,
things, or events.
help keep Earth clean?
Keeping Earth healthy is an important job.
Ask Questions
Description That’s what environmental conservation is all
A description gives about. People who do that job are working to
information about keep the air, land, and water clean. They are
what something
also working to keep endangered plants and
is like.
animals from becoming extinct.
One of the hardest jobs is solving the
problem of trash. The trouble with trash is
that it keeps piling up. We could run out
Plastic bottles are piled high of places to put it.
at recycling centers.
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pages 84–87 pages 96–118 pages 128–148
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Helping Planet Earth Wild Weather Habitats and Homes Think and Search
Writing Workshop
Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness Report
Variant vowel /u/oo
 Variant vowel /ü/oo, ui, ew, Variant vowel /ô/au, aw
oe, ue
Unit 4 Assessment,
Variant vowel /u /oo, ou
 Variant vowel /ü/oo, ui, ew, Variant vowel /ô/au, aw
oe, ue 159M–159N
Spelling Spelling Comprehension
Variant vowel oo, ou Spelling Variant vowel au, aw Compare and Contrast,
Variant vowel oo, ui, ew Cause and Effect, Text
Vocabulary Vocabulary Structure: Description,
conservation, extinct, Vocabulary beloved, glanced, gleamed, Make and Confirm
hardest, remains, trouble beware, destroy, grasslands, noble, promised, wiggled Predictions, Make
Strategy: Context Clues prevent, uprooted, violent Strategy: Word Parts Inferences
Strategy: Word Parts
Phonics
r-controlled vowels
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension /ûr/er, ir, ur, /är/ar, /ôr/or;
Strategy: Generate Strategy: Reread Strategy: Adjust Reading variant vowels /ô/au, aw,
Questions Skill: Make and Confirm Rate /ü/oo, ui, ew, /u/oo, ou

Skill: Text Structure: Prediction Skill: Make Inferences
Description Vocabulary
Word Parts: Inflected
Nouns, Comparatives
Word Automaticity Word Automaticity Word Automaticity and Superlatives,
Echo-Read Echo-Read Echo-Read Compound Words,
Choral Reading Choral Reading Choral Reading Inflected Verbs; Context
Repeated Reading Repeated Reading Repeated Reading Clues: Comparatives and
Superlatives
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING
What Happens to Your Trash? The Snowed-Under Sled The Rainforest Text Features/
Study Skills
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Maps, Changes in Print,
Spoiled by a Spill That’s Wild! The Coral Reef Parts of a Book, Use
Resources and References
BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND
Simple Ideas to Save the Earth Storm Riders Grasslands
Grammar
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS More Verbs
Oil Spills A Wild Picnic All About Coral Reefs
Writing
Grammar Grammar Grammar Fluency Assessment
Irregular Verbs Irregular Verbs Contractions
Diagnose and Prescribe
Writing Writing Writing Interpret Assessment
Nonfiction Article Compare/Contrast Book Report Results
Paragraph
Land, Sea, Sky 10C

10. Real World Reading
Unit 5 Planner
Comprehension
Genre
A Nonfiction Article
gives information
about real people,
places, and events.
Summarize
Main Ideas and Details
Columbus
The main idea is what
Explores New Land s
Lands
an article is mostly What was Columbus looking for when
about. Details give
more information
he set sail across the Atlantic Ocean?
about the main idea. What did he find?
Today our planet may not seem vast.
People vacation all over the world. Flying
across oceans can take just a few hours.
But it was a different story 500 years ago.
Christopher Columbus gets
ready to sail from Spain.
pages 222–225 pages 234–256 pages 268–288
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
Theme Theme Theme Test Strategy
Discoveries In the Garden Our Moon Think and Search
Writing Workshop
Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness Fictional Narrative
Schwa /ә/a Silent consonants /n/gn, Hard/soft consonants
kn; /r/wr; /m/mb /k/c, /g/g; /s/c, /j/g
Schwa /ә/a Silent consonants /n/gn, Hard/soft consonants Unit 5 Assessment,
kn; /r/wr; /m/mb /k/c, /g/g; /s/c, /j/g 297M–297N
Spelling Spelling Spelling Comprehension
Schwa /ә/a Silent consonants gn, kn; Hard/soft consonants
Author’s Purpose,
wr; mb c, g
Problem and Solution,
Main Idea and Details,
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary Sequence, Classify
areas, oceans, planet, aroma, blooming, muscles, discovered, footprint, lunar, and Categorize
vast, voyage prickly, scent, trade spacecraft, surface, visible
Strategy: Context Clues Strategy: Context Clues Strategy: Word Parts Phonics
diphthongs /ou/ow, ou,
Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension /oi/oi, oy; schwa /ә/a;
Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Summarize Strategy: Summarize silent consonants /n/gn,
Skill: Main Idea and Details Skill: Sequence of Events Skill: Classify and kn, /r/wr, /m/mb; hard/
Categorize soft consonants /k/c,
/g/g, /s/c, /j/g
Word Automaticity Word Automaticity Word Automaticity Vocabulary
Echo-Read Echo-Read Echo-Read Word Parts: Context Clues;
Inflected Endings;
Choral Reading Choral Reading Choral Reading Compound Words
Repeated Reading Repeated Reading Repeated Reading
Text Features/
APPROACHING APPROACHING APPROACHING Study Skills
Discovering Shipwrecks All About Pumpkins Let’s Visit Space! Charts, Interviews,
ON LEVEL ON LEVEL ON LEVEL Media Center, Written
Exploring the South Pole All About Tomatoes Star Sailor Directions
BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND Grammar
Discovering Lost Cities All About Corn Watching the Stars Pronouns
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
The South Pole Learn About Tomatoes Sail to the Stars Writing
Fluency Assessment
Grammar Grammar Grammar
Possessive Pronouns Pronoun-Verb Agreement Contractions Diagnose and Prescribe
Interpret Assessment
Writing Writing Writing Results
Report Realistic Story Description of an
Imaginary Place
Discoveries 160C