Reading

Theme 2 -

wistful, grateful, grim, raspy, swarmed, revelers, irresistible, fret, assured, nudged, outlandish, ruckus, proclaimed, crucial, crisis, maneuvered, perseverance, enountered, persuading, appealed, destiny, scholars, specialized, gesture, envisioned, proportion, resisted, eminent, charity, modest, disgruntled, inadequate, aghast, dismayed, amends, absentminded, concoction

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Lesson 6 "Night of San Juan"
Theme

To recognize the theme of the story.

To understand how character's qualities and actions contribute to the theme.

To identify the distinguishing characterists of realistic fiction.

Lesson 6 Focus Skill
10/31/2011

Lesson 6 Robust Vocabulary
10/31/2011

Lesson 6 Selection Comprehension
10/31/2011

5.R.1.0 ~ Students can recognize and analyze words.

5.R.2.1 ~ Students can utilize comprehension strategies while constructing meaning.

5.R.2.2 ~ Students can apply fluency strategies to gain meaning from text.

5.R.3.1 ~ Students can distinguish literary genres based on characteristics, structures, and patterns.

5.R.3.2 ~ Students can interpret literary elements of character, setting, plot, theme, point of view, and mood.

5.R.4.0 ~ Students can interpret and respond to diverse, multicultural, and time period texts.

5.R.4.1 ~ Students can examine and compare texts from various cultures, time periods, and geographical locations.

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Theme 2 Continued

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Lesson 7 "When the Circus Came to Town"
Theme

Lesson 8 "When Washington Crossed the Delaware"
Sequence
Text Structure

Lesson 9 "Leonardo's Horse"
Text Structure
Sequence

To recognize the theme in a story.

To understand how characters qualities and actions contribute to the theme.

To identify distinguishing characteristics of realistic fiction.

To understand that sequence is one text structure authors use to organize text.

To use time clues to identify the sequence of events in a selection.

To idenitfy the distinguishing features of narrative non-fiction.

Lesson 7 Focus Skill
11/30/2011

Lesson 7 Robust Vocabulary
11/30/2011

Lesson 7 Selection Comprehension
11/30/2011

Lesson 8 Focus Skill
11/30/2011

Lesson 8 Robust Vocabulary
11/30/2011

Lesson 8 Selection Comprehension
11/30/2011

Lesson 9 Focus Skill
11/30/2011

Lesson 9 Robust Vocabulary
11/30/2011

Lesson 9 Selection Comprehension
11/30/2011

5.R.1.0 ~ Students can recognize and analyze words.

5.R.1.1 ~ Students can construct meaning by using word parts and categories.

5.R.2.0 ~ Students can comprehend and fluently read text.

5.R.2.2 ~ Students can apply fluency strategies to gain meaning from text.

5.R.3.0 ~ Students can apply knowledge of text structures, literary devices, and literary elements to develop interpretations and form responses.

5.R.3.1 ~ Students can distinguish literary genres based on characteristics, structures, and patterns.

5.R.3.2 ~ Students can interpret literary elements of character, setting, plot, theme, point of view, and mood.

5.R.4.0 ~ Students can interpret and respond to diverse, multicultural, and time period texts.

5.R.4.1 ~ Students can examine and compare texts from various cultures, time periods, and geographical locations.

5.R.5.0 ~ Students can access, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate informational texts.

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Theme 2 Continued

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Lesson 10 "The Secret Ingredient"

To identify the distinguishing of a cooking show.

To read aloud a cooking show as a Reader's Theater.

Lesson 10 Robust Vocabulary
12/31/2011

Lesson 10 Selection Comprehension
12/31/2011

Lesson 10 Reader's Theater
12/31/2011

5.R.1.0 ~ Students can recognize and analyze words.

5.R.1.1 ~ Students can construct meaning by using word parts and categories.

5.R.2.0 ~ Students can comprehend and fluently read text.

5.R.2.2 ~ Students can apply fluency strategies to gain meaning from text.

5.R.3.0 ~ Students can apply knowledge of text structures, literary devices, and literary elements to develop interpretations and form responses.

5.R.3.1 ~ Students can distinguish literary genres based on characteristics, structures, and patterns.

5.R.3.2 ~ Students can interpret literary elements of character, setting, plot, theme, point of view, and mood.

5.R.4.0 ~ Students can interpret and respond to diverse, multicultural, and time period texts.

5.R.4.1 ~ Students can examine and compare texts from various cultures, time periods, and geographical locations.

5.R.5.0 ~ Students can access, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate informational texts.

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Theme 3 -

inflammable, dignified, rowdy, seldom, conducted, shatter, broached, adjust, residents, specimens, recoil, pesky, debris, internal, bellowing, outcast, reputation, betrayed, yearning, withered, escapades, unfathomable, elongates, elastic, rigid, accumulate, underlying, intricate, vanish, replenishing, recount, uninhabitable, sustain, monotonous, endeavor, dwell, brimming, teeming, parched, sorrowful

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Lesson 11
"Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea"
Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

Lesson 12
"Ultimate Field Trip 3: Wading into Marine Biology"
Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

Lesson 13
"Stormalong"
Cause and Effect

Lesson 14
"A Drop of Water"
Text Structure: Cause and Effect

Identify comparison and contrast in text.
Compare and contrast characters, events, and settings.

Identify cause-and-effect relationships between and among literary elements.

Use appropriate strategies when reading for different purposes.
To use graphic organizers to understand text.

Recognize that authors use different text structures to organize ideas.
Recognize cause-and-effect text organizations in expository nonfiction.

Lesson 11 Focus Skill
1/31/2012

Lesson 11 Robust Vocabulary
1/31/2012

Lesson 11 Selection Comprehension
1/31/2012

Lesson 12 Focus Skill
1/31/2012

Lesson 12 Robust Vocabulary
1/31/2012

Lesson 12 Selection Comprehension
1/31/2012

Lesson 13 Focus Skill
1/31/2012

Lesson 13 Rubust Vocabulary
1/31/2012

Lesson 13 Selection Comprehension
1/31/2012

Lesson 14 Focus Skill
1/31/2012

Lesson 14 Robust Vocabulary
1/31/2012

Lesson 14 Selection Comprehension
1/31/2012

5.R.1.0 ~ Students can recognize and analyze words.

5.R.2.2 ~ Students can apply fluency strategies to gain meaning from text.

5.R.3.0 ~ Students can apply knowledge of text structures, literary devices, and literary elements to develop interpretations and form responses.

5.R.3.1 ~ Students can distinguish literary genres based on characteristics, structures, and patterns.

5.R.3.2 ~ Students can interpret literary elements of character, setting, plot, theme, point of view, and mood.

5.R.4.0 ~ Students can interpret and respond to diverse, multicultural, and time period texts.

5.R.4.1 ~ Students can examine and compare texts from various cultures, time periods, and geographical locations.

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Theme 3 Continued

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Lesson 15
"How Prarie Became Ocean"
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect

Identify distinguishing characteristics of a myth.
Read aloud a myth as a Readers' Theater.

Lesson 15 Robust Vocabulary
2/28/2012

Lesson 15 Selection Comprehension
2/28/2012

Lesson 15 Readers' Theater
2/28/2012

5.R.1.0 ~ Students can recognize and analyze words.

5.R.2.0 ~ Students can comprehend and fluently read text.

5.R.2.1 ~ Students can utilize comprehension strategies while constructing meaning.

5.R.2.2 ~ Students can apply fluency strategies to gain meaning from text.

5.R.3.0 ~ Students can apply knowledge of text structures, literary devices, and literary elements to develop interpretations and form responses.

5.R.3.1 ~ Students can distinguish literary genres based on characteristics, structures, and patterns.

5.R.3.2 ~ Students can interpret literary elements of character, setting, plot, theme, point of view, and mood.

5.R.4.0 ~ Students can interpret and respond to diverse, multicultural, and time period texts.

5.R.4.1 ~ Students can examine and compare texts from various cultures, time periods, and geographical locations.

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Theme 4 -

tempted, insights, essence, indication, proposed, instinct, baffled, hiatus, embarked, unimaginable, extravagant, gourmet, throng, precarious, compartments, swayed, phobia, invasion, vetoed, wispy, tendency, feat, irrepressible, prestigious, device, industry, scours, appropriate, practical, portable, circulate, protrude, boisterous, deduction, fickle, measly

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Lesson 16 "The School Story"
Make Inferences

Lesson 17 "Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street"
Make Inferences

Lesson 18 "Project Mulberry"
Main Idea and Details

Lesson 19 "Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison"
Main Idea and Details

Lesson 20 "The Invention Convention"
Review: Make Inferences & Main Idea and Details

Make inferences and support inferences with text evidence and personal experience

Make inferences about text
Support inferences with text evidence and personal experience

Recognize the main idea of a text
Identify details that support the main idea

Identify the distinguishing characteristics of a game show
Read aloud a game show as a Readers' Theater

Lesson 16 Focus Skill
3/31/2012

Lesson 16 Robust Vocabulary
3/31/2012

Lesson 16 Selection Comprehension
3/31/2012

Lesson 17 Focus Skill
3/31/2012

Lesson 17 Robust Vocabulary
3/31/2012

Lesson 17 Selection Comprehension
3/31/2012

Lesson 18 Focus Skill
3/31/2012

Lesson 18 Robust Vocabulary
3/31/2012

Lesson 18 Selection Comprehension
3/31/2012

Lesson 19 Focus Skill
3/31/2012

Lesson 19 Robust Vocabulary
3/31/2012

Lesson 19 Selection Comprehension
3/31/2012

Lesson 20 Focus Skill
3/31/2012

Lesson 20 Robust Vocabulary
3/31/2012

Lesson 20 Selection Comprehension
3/31/2012

5.R.1.0 ~ Students can recognize and analyze words.

5.R.1.1 ~ Students can construct meaning by using word parts and categories.

5.R.1.2 ~ Students can determine word meaning using prior knowledge and context clues.

5.R.2.0 ~ Students can comprehend and fluently read text.

5.R.2.1 ~ Students can utilize comprehension strategies while constructing meaning.

5.R.2.2 ~ Students can apply fluency strategies to gain meaning from text.

5.R.3.0 ~ Students can apply knowledge of text structures, literary devices, and literary elements to develop interpretations and form responses.

5.R.4.0 ~ Students can interpret and respond to diverse, multicultural, and time period texts.

5.R.4.1 ~ Students can examine and compare texts from various cultures, time periods, and geographical locations.

5.R.5.0 ~ Students can access, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate informational texts.

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Theme 5 -

basking, sleek, vital, damage, analyzing, detect, somberly, stammers, monopolize, deflated, enraptued, enterprising, cumbersome, gouges, desolate, bustles, fervor, immaculate, assauge, excursions, giddy, pinnacle, gleeful, panic, turbulent, precious, loathe, bland, mentor, dilapidated, coordination, altruism, sensibility, advocacy, mistreated, compassionate

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