Skills

(Fundations, Spelling)

Literacy Learning

(Domains/Modules)

Module One:

Unit 2: Building the Power of Reading

Week 1: Lesson 15-16

• Inferring Theme (Ch. 7)
• Explaining Themes of Eagle Song (Ch. 8)

Week 2: Lesson 17

• Themes
• End of Unit Two Assessment: Evidence-Based Paragraph Writing

Week 4: Module 2A Building Background Knowledge: Life in Colonial America

Lesson 1-2

• Discovering the Topic: inferring and Confirming Using Evidence
• Inferring from a Primary Source: Close Reading of Colonial Times Inventory

Module 2A: Building Background Knowledge: Life in Colonial America

Week 1: Lesson 3-5

• Inferring: Who was John Allen?
• Learning about Farms in Colonial America:Explicit versus Inferred Information
• Mid-Unit Assessment: Inferring with Pictures and Text

Week 2 : Lesson 6-7

• Taking Notes Using a Graphic Organizer: Inferring about the Importance of Religion in Colonial America
• Paragraph Writing: The role of religion in Colonial America

Week 3: Lesson 8-9

• Taking Notes Using a Graphic Organizer: Inferring about Work and Play in Colonial America
• End of Unit Assessment: Inferring and Synthesizing from Two Texts about Life in Colonial America

Week 4: Unit 2 Case Study: Conducting Research on Colonial Traits

Lesson 1-2

• Building Background: Colonial Craftspeople
• Shared Reading: Learning about Colonial Traits

Module 2

Unit 2: Conducting Research on Colonial Times

Week 1 Lesson 3-4

• Writing to Inform: Colonial Trades
• Word Choice: Using Academic Vocabulary to Apply for a Colonial Trade Job

Week 2: Lesson 5-6

• Identifying Categories about the Wheelwright
• Documenting research: Sorting and Recording Information about the Wheelwright

Week 3: Lesson 7-8

• Mid-Unit Assessment: Inferring about the Silversmith Trade in Colonial Times
• Researching and Note taking on a Colonial Trade

Week 4: Lesson 8-9

• Researching and Note Taking: Building Expertise about a Colonial Trade
• Reading and Taking Notes on Colonial Trades

Week 1: Testing

Week 2: Lesson 10-11

• Reading and Taking Notes on Colonial Trades
• Listening Closely and Taking Notes: Colonial Trade Podcast about the Wheelwright

Week One: Module 2A; Unit 3

Culminating Project: Researched Based Narrative about an Event in Colonial America.

Lesson 1-2

• Preparing to Write Historical Fiction: Determining Caharateristics of the Genre
• Planning Ideas: Developing a Colonial Character Profile

Week 2: Lesson 3-4

• Practice Planning an Historical Narrative: The Wheelwright

Writing

Unit 6

Compare and Contrast

• Synthesize information from multiple texts
• Develop and strengthen writing, revising, and editing

Unit 7

Problem Solution

• Explain events based on a text, including what happened and why
• Based on specific information from the text

Unit 7

Elements of Poetry

• Refer to the structural elements of poems when writing or speaking about a text
• Create and present a poem in response to a particular author or theme studied in class

Unit 8

Personal Narratives Based on Historical Texts

• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events
• Use dialogue and description to develop the narratives
• Use concrete words and phases, sensory details to convey experiences, and events precisely 

Unit 10

Sequence

• Explain procedures based on specific information in the text
• Use a variety of words and phrases to manage the sequence of events

Vocabulary

Review 1-16

Lesson 17-18

Lesson 19-22

Lesson 23-24

Review 1-24

Vocabulary Review

Vocabulary Review

Grammar

• Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed
• Use words and phrases to convey ideas precisely

• Choose punctuation for effect
• Quotation marks in paragraphs

• Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
• Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meanings of a word

• Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors in context
• Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs

• Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms).

Science

Sun, Moon and Planets

Investigation One Sun and Earth

• Shadow Shifting
• Sun Tracking
• Day and Night

Investagation Two: Earths's Moon

• Night Sky Observations
• Relative Size, Distance between Earth, Moon, and Sun
• Phases of the Moon

Sun, Moon, and Planets

Investagation Three: Solar System

• Interacting Parts of the Solar System
• Planetary Orbits

 Investagation Four: Patterns in the Sky

• Star Patterns
• Studying the Stars

Environments

Investigation 1: Environmental Factors

• Observing Meal Worms
• Designing an Isopod Environment
• Leaf-Litter Critters

Environments

Investigation 2: Ecosystems

• Designing and Aquarium
• Food Chains and Food Webs
• Population Stimulation
• Kelp Forest Food Web

Environments

Investigation 3: Brine Shrimp Hatching

• Setting Up the Environment
• Determining Range of Tolerance
• Determining Viability
• Variation in  a Population

Social Studies

Chapter 10: New York in the 20th Century

Week 1: Lesson 1-2

• The 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's
• World War II and the American Century

Week 2: Lesson 3-4

• A New Century
• Chapter 10 Review

Week 3: Unit 4 Review

• Review the Big Idea

Chapter 11

Week 1: Lesson 1-2

• Local Government
• The State Government

Week 2: Lesson 3-4

• Our National Government
• Chapter 11 Review

Week 3: Chapter 12: New York Today

Lesson 1-2

• The World of New York
• Leisure Time in New York

Week 4: Lesson 3-4

• Challenges
• Chapter 12 Review

The Story Of Immigration and Migration

• Week 1: Where People Came From
• Week 2: Immigration and New York City
• Week 3: immigration and Upstate New York
• Week 4: Life in New York State - Yesterday and Today

The Modern Metropolis

• Week 1: The Birth of Greater New York
• Week 2: Cities of New York State
• Week 3: Government: Your State
• Week 4: Government: County, City, Town, Village

Document Based Writing

• Synthesize Information from Multiple Resources
• Write a well organized essay describing events in New York State history

Mathematics

Weeks: 1-2

Topic 8: Developing Fluency: Multiplying by 2-Digit Numbers

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Week 4

Topic 9: Number Sense: Dividing by 1-digit Divisors

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Week 1-2

Topic: Developing Fluency: Diving by 1-Digit Divisors

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Week 3-4

Topic 11: Fraction Equivalence and Ordering

Domain: Number and Operations-Fractions

Week 1-2

Topic 12: Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers with Like Denominators

Domain: Number and Operations- Fractions

Week 3-4

Topic 13: Extending Fraction Concepts

Domain: Number and Operations-Fractions

Week 1-2

Topic 14: Measurement Units and Conversions

Domain: Measurement and Data

Weeks 1-2

Topic 16: Lines, Angles, and Shapes

Domain: Geometry

Mentor Texts

ELA-

Eagle Song, Joseph Bruchac

The Scoop on Clothes, Homes, and Daily Life in Colonial America

If You Lived in Colonial Times

Math-

Pearson Envisions

Science-

FOSS Energy and Electromagnetism

Social Studies-

New York, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

ELA-

The Scoop on Clothes, Homes, and Daily Life in Colonial America

If You Lived in Colonial Times

Math-

Pearson Envisions

Science-

FOSS Energy and Electromagnetism

Social Studies-

New York, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

ELA

The Scoop on Colonial Clothes, Homes, and Daily Lives in Colonial Times

If You Lived in Colonial Times

Math -

Pearson Envisions

Science-

FOSS Environments

Social Studies-

The New York State Story, Steck-Vaughn

ELA-

The Scoop on Clothes, Homes, and Daily Life in Colonial America

If You Lived in Colonial Times

Math-

Pearson Envisions

Science-

Foss Environments

Social Studies-

The New York State Story, Steck-Vaughn

ELA-

The Scoop on Clothes, Homes, and Daily Life in Colonial America

If You Lived in Colonial Times

Math-

Pearson Envision

Science-

FOSS Environments

Social Studies-

The New York State Story, Steck Vaughn