Skills

(Fundations, Spelling)

Unit 1/Week 1

Ltr/Keyword/sound

for consonants t,b,f,n,m, c and short vowels, i, u, o

Unit 1/Week 2

Ltr./Keyword/Sound for a,g,d,s,e,r,p,j

Unit 1/Week 3 

Ltr/Keyword/Sound l,h,k,v,w,y,x,z,q

Unit 2/Week 1

Sound manipulation (initial, final, medial); blending/reading 3-sound short vowel words; segmenting/spelling 3-sound short vowel works; sentence dictation procedures; story retelling

Unit 2/Week 2 

Sound manipulation (initial, final, medial); blending/reading 3-sound short vowel words; segmenting/spelling 3-sound short vowel workds; sentence distation procedures; story retelling; Teach trick words: the, a, and, is, his, of

Unit 3/Week 1

Phoneme segmentation; Consonant digraph keywords wh, ch, sh, th, ck, Spelling of ck, narrative story form, reading with accuracy and prosody, retelling with pictures and visualization; teach trick words as, has, to, into

Unit 3/Week 2

Phoneme segmentation, Consonant digraph keywords wh, ch, sh, th, ck, Spelling of ck, narrative story form, reading with accuracy and prosody, retelling with pictures and visualization; teach trick words- we, he, she, be me, or, for 

Unit 4/Week 1

Bonus letter:  ff, ll, ss, zz;; narrative story form; punctuation; reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words: you, your, I, they

Unit 4/Week 2

Glued Sound: all;Bonus letter:  ff, ll, ss, zz; narrative story form; punctuation; reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words: was, one, said

Unit 5/Week 1

Glued sounds; am, an; reading with accuracy and prosody, proofreading; teach trick words: from, have, do, does

Unit 6/Week 1

Baseword and suffix with suffix s, pluralization; reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words:are, were

Unit 6/Week 2

Baseword and suffix with suffix s, pluralization; narrative fiction vs. informational books; teach reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words: who, what, when

Unit 6/Week 3

Baseword and suffix with suffix s, pluralization; narrative fiction vs. informational books; teach reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words: there, here

Unit 7/Week 1

Glued sounds and, ing, ong, ung; blending, reading words with ng, nk; segmenting and spelling words with ng, nk; narrative fiction vs. informational books, reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words: why, by, my, try

Unit 7/Week 2

Glued sounds ank, ink, onk, and unk; blending, reading words with ng, nk; narrative fiction vs. informational books, reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words: put, two

Unit 7/Week 3

Review glued sounds ak, ink, onk, and unk; blending, reading workds with ng, nk; segmenting and spelling words with ng, nk; narrative fiction vs. informational books, reading with accuracy and prosody; teach trick words: very, too, also

Literacy Learning

Units of Study for Teaching Reading

Unit 1, Building Good Reading Habits

Bend l: Habits for Reading Lond and Strong

Unit 1, Building Good Reading Habits (continued)

Bend ll: Habits for Tackling Even the Hardest Words

Bend lll:  Partners have Good Habits, Too

If...Then Curriculum/Supplemental (optional)

Unit 2, Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction

Bend l:  Getting Smart on Nonfiction Topics

Bend ll:  Tackling Super Hard Words in Order to Keep Learning

Unit 2, Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction (continued)

Bend lll:  Reading Aloud Like Experts

If...Then Curriculum/Supplemental (optional)

Unit 3, Readers Have Big Jobs to Do: Fluency, Phonics, and Comprehension

Bend l:  Readers Have Important Jobs to Do

Bend ll:  Readers Add New Tools to Read Hard Words

Writing

Writing Benchmark

Introduction to Writing/Lucy Calkins

All About Me

Small Moments. Writing with Focus, Detail, and Dialogue

Writing Small Moment Stories with Independence:

Lives are Full of Stories to Tell

Planning for Writing - Writers Touch and Tell, Sketch, Then Write

Using Pictures to Add-on

Stretching Words to Spell Them-Hearing and Recording All SOunds

Zooming In-Focusing on Small Moments

Partnerships and Storytelling

Reading and Writing Like We Read Our Books

Bringing Small Moment Stories to Life:

Unfreezing Our Characters and OUr Writing

Telling Stories in Itsy-Bitsy Steps

Bringing What's Inside Out-Making Characters Think and Feel

Using Drama to Bring Stories to LIfe

Using Familiar Words to Spell New Words

Editing-Capital Letters and End Marks Help Readers

Studying Other Writers Craft

Studying a Story to Learn Ways the Author Makes It Special

Trying Out a Craft Move from a Mentor Text-Writing with Exact Actions

Trying Out a Craft Move from a Mentor Text-Writing with Pop-Out Words

Turning to Other Mentor Texts

Fixing and Fancying Up Our Best Work

Using All We Know to Revise

Editing with a Checklist

A Celebration

From Scenes to Series: Writing Fiction

Fiction Writers Set Out to Write Realistic Fiction

Serious Fiction Authors Do Some Serious Pretending

Writer's Develop a "Can-Do," Independent Attitude

Writers Learn to Get Their Characters Out of Trouble

Serious Writers Get Serious About Spelling

Taking Stock-Writers Use Checklists to Set Goals

Fiction Writers Set Out to Write

Series Writers Always Have a Lot to Write Avout

Introducing Your Character in Book One of a Series-What Does your Reader Want to Know?

Writers Develop Their Dialogue

Saddle Up to the Revision Party-and Bring your Favorite Writer

Celebrating Our First Series

Becoming More Powerful At Realistic FIction-Studying the Genre and Studying Ourselves As Writers

Series Writers Investigate What Makes Realistic Fiction Realistic

Writers "Show, Not Tell", by Focusing on Tiny Realistic Details

Fiction Writers Included Chapters: Writing a Beginning, Middle and End

Patterns Help Writers Elaborate

Getting Ready to Publish Our Second Series

Punctuation Parties

Writers Use Illustrations to Tell Important Details

"Meet the Author" Page

Getting Ready for the Final Celebration

A Celebration of Series Writers-The Grand Finale!

Writers Use Their Superpowers to Work with Greater Independence

Vocabulary/Elements of Reading

Vocabulary/FOSS Science

Investigation 1:  First Rocks

basalt, bubble, color, dull, Earth material, flat. geologist, granite, group, minerl, pattern, pointed, property, rock, rough, round, sand, scoria, shape, sharp, shiny, size, smooth, sort, texture, tuff, weathering

Investigation 2: River Rocks

boulder, clay, cobble, gravel, layer, mixture, particle, pebble, screen, separate, settle, shake, silt, sink

Unit 1

Read-Aloud: Words Are Like Faces

Vocabulary:

comfort, fleet, glimmer, expression, lively, versatile

Unit 2

Read-Aloud: Big Al

Vocabulary:

delightful, clumsy, capture, fierce, rescue, suspense

Unit 3

Read-Aloud: One Good Turn Deserves Another

Vocabulary:

grateful, amble, plead, deceive, challenge

 Investigation 3: Using Rocks

asphalt, brick, change,coarse, concrete, fine, harden, matrix, medium, mortar, natural resources, sandpaper, sculpture, sidewalk

Investigation 4: Soil and Water

decay, fresh water, gas, humus, lake, liquid, ocean, pond, retain, river, salt water, soil, solid, stream

Investigations 1: Solids

bend, build, ceramic, color, curve, cylider, engineer, fabric, flat, flexible, gas, group, hard, human-made, leather, liquid, material, matter, metal, natural, object, observe, paper, plastic, pointy, property, properties, rigid, rough, rubber, shape, smooth, soft, solid, sort, straight, texture, tower,wood

Unit 4

Read-Aloud: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Vocabulary:

scrunched, invisible, scold, dreadful, complain, exaggerate

Unit 5

Read-Aloud: The Frogs Wore Suspenders

Vocabulary:

suspend, serenade, spangled, pride, ridiculous, perform

Unit 6

Read-ALoud: Mr. Bizbee and Miss Doolittle

Vocabulary:

tidy, irk, admire, shuckle, astonished, coincidence

Investigation 2: Liquids

bubbly, colorless, dish soap, fabric softener, flow, foamy, hand soap, has color, level, liquid,oil, pour, puddle, shake, starch, surface, syrup, thick, thin, translucent, transparent, viscous

Investigation 3

cornmeal, different, funnel, grain, largest, lima bean, mixture, mung bean, particle, pile, pinto bean, pour, powder, rice, same, scoop, screen, separate, size, smallest

Unit 7

Read-Aloud: One Small Garden

Vocabulary:

survive, shelter disturb, destroy, observe, dwell

Unit 8

Read-Aloud: The Hen and the Apple Tree

Vocabulary:

certain, quiver, outsmart, disguise, scrumptious, convince

Unit 9

Read-Aloud: Spaghetti! Spaghetti!

Vocabulary:

sprinkle, mound, squiggle, gobble, sloppy, tribute

Investigation 3: Bits and Pieces

cornmeal, different, funnel, grain, largest, lima bean, mixture, mung bean, particle, pile, pinto bean, pour, powder, rice, same, scoop, screen, separate, size, smallest

Investigation 4: Solids, Liquids, and Water

bigger, change, cold, crystal, dark, disappear, dissolve, evaporate, float, freeze, heat, hot, layer, melt, mix, mixture, oil, separate, sink, soft

Unit 10

Read-Aloud: The Lion and the Red Bird

Vocabulary:

wander, nibble, crouch, artistic, inquire, patient,

Unit 11

Read-Aloud: Herbert Glerbett

Vocabulary:

disslove, ghastly, sly, swift, preposterous, caution

Unit 12

Read-Aloud: Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice

tremendous, amazed, rearrange, sliver, palate, surplus

Grammar

Identify nouns in phrases

Identify proper nouns

Present tense verbs

Past tense verbs

Future tense verbs

Plural nouns

Identifying adjectives

Parts of sentences

Identifying predicates in sentences

Nouns and Pronouns

Alphabetizing

Quotation marks

Science

Introduction to Foss Science Program

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt/Investigation 1

First Rocks

Investigation 2

River Rocks

Investigation 3

Using Rocks (art)

 Investigation 3

Using Rocks

Investigation 4

Soil and Water

Liquids and Solids/Investigation 1

Solids

Solids and Liquids/Investigation 2 continued

Liquids

Solids and Liquids/Investigation 3

Bits and Pieces

Solids and Liquids/Investigation 3 continued

Bits and Pieces

Solids and Liquids/Investigation 4

Solids, Liquids, and Water

Liquids and Solids Wrap-up

Social Studies

Mathematics

Topic 1

Comparing/Ordering Numbers and Understanding Addition

Vocabulary

Topic 1

in all, inside, outside, part, whole, double, plus (+), add, sum, addition sentence, Equals (=), join, order, addend

Topic 2

Understanding Subtraction

Vocabulary

missing part, subtract, difference, subtraction sentence, minus sign, equal sign, take away, compare, same amount

Topic 3

Five and Ten Relationships

Topic 4

Addition and Subtraction Facts to 12

Topic 5

Addition Facts to 20

Topic 6

Subtraction Facts to 20 continued

Topic 7

Counting and Number Patterns to 120 

Topic 8

Tens and Ones

Mentor Texts

Pebbles, Sand and Silt

Pebbles, Sand and Silt

Solids and Liquids

Solids and Liquids

Solids and Liquids