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Week	Grade Unit	Weekly Theme	Main Selection Leveled Readers AL - Approaching Level OL - On Level BL - Beyond Level	Comprehension Strategy Skill	Phonics / Spelling Skill	Grammar Skill	Writing Mode	Writing Trait
9/13/2010	Gr. 4 Unit 1 Wk 2	Adapting to Survive	Walk in the Desert, A AL: Survival in the Great Sandy Desert OL: Survival in the Sahara Desert BL: Survival in the Great Basin Desert	Summarize Main Idea and Details	Words with Long a (date, tray, bail) 5/30/2005	Subjects and Predicates (simple, complete, and compound)	Poem Poem (cinquain)	Word Choice Precise Words (using a thesaurus)
9/20/2010	Gr. 2 Unit 1 Wk 3	Firefighters at Work	Fighting the Fire-TFK AL: Call 911! OL: How We Use Fire BL: Wildfires	Summarize (PE/TE) Main Idea and Details	short /a/a, long /a/a_e	Subjects	Personal Narrative Test Prep Writing: Personal Narrative	Voice Use of lively words that show enthusiasm Writing Strategy: Add words
9/20/2010	Gr. 4 Unit 1 Wk 3	Our National Parks	Animals Come Home to Our National Parks-TFK AL: The Animals of Isle Royal OL: The History of Acadia National Park BL: Preserving Unique Places: Our National Parks	Summarize Main Idea and Details	Words with Long e (sleek, heal) 5/30/2005	Simple and Compound Sentences [conjunctions]	TP: Extended Response to Literature; WW: Expository Writing TP: Write to a Prompt (1 page); WW: Newspaper Article
9/27/2010	Gr. 2 Unit 1 Wk 4	Being Yourself	Meet Rosina AL: Guide Dogs OL: Signing a Language BL: Technology that Helps	Summarize (PE/TE) Main Idea and Details	short /i/i, long /i/i_e	Predicates	Personal Narrative Personal Writing-- introducing self to a new friend	Ideas Adhering to the topic
9/27/2010	Gr. 3 Unit 1 Wk 3	Building Communities	Whose Habitat Is It?--TFK AL: A Year at the Pond OL: Saving the Rainforest BL: The Deep Green Forest	Summarize Main Idea and Details	Words with /a/ (long a) (ai, ay train, play)	Subjects	TP: Extended Response to Literature WW: Expository TP: Extended Response to Literature 1 page WW: Article (Report about Harlem in the 1920s)
10/4/2010	Gr. 3 Unit 1 Wk 4	Antarctic Life	Penguin Chick AL: The Blue Whales of Antarctica OL: The Weddell Seals of Antarctica BL: The Wandering Albatross	Summarize Main Idea and Details	Words with /o/ (long o) (o, ow, oa—grow, road)	Predicates	Poem Poem—about a wild animal—An acrostic poem—unrhymed	Word Choice Precise words
10/18/2010	Gr. 0 Unit 2 Wk 1	Animal Families	What Do You Like? AL: Little Lions OL: Little Bears BL: One Big Baby	Summarize Main Idea and Details	s (initial and final)		Sentence Frame
11/1/2010 required unit assessment	Gr. 0 Unit 2 Wk 3	Where Animals Live	Simon and Molly Plus Hester AL: In the Forest OL: Birds BL: Bears on Ice Writing Topic: Invite children to draw a picture of their favorite place to go with their friends. Use the sentence frame We like to______. Write two words on the blank line to complete the sentence. Gather their work to make a class book. (Unit 2 week 3 - Complete by end of Unit 2)	Summarize Main Idea and Details	Review Initial: s, p; Final: s, p		Sentence Frames
11/1/2010	Gr. 1 Unit 2 Wk 1	Animal Families	Animal Moms and Dads AL: Little Lions OL: Little Bears BL: One Big Baby	Summarize Main Idea and Details	short /o/o	Nouns	How-To (Modified Writing Process) Write 3 sentences telling how your family takes care of you	Organization
11/8/2010 OLSAT 8, Stanford 10	Gr. 5 Unit 2 Wk 2	Slithery Snakes!	Ranger Rick AL: Giants of the Snake World OL: Sea Snakes BL: Alien: The Brown Tree Snake Story	Summarize Main Idea and Details	Plurals (endings -s and -es, no change in spelling, and change y to i)	Singular and Plural Nouns (adding -es, y to i)	Persuasive Letter to the Editor (dangerous animals have their good points)	Voice Choose a topic you feel strongly about and include personal opinions
11/15/2010 last week of trimester 1	Gr. 1 Unit 2 Wk 3	Where Animals Live	A Prairie Dog Home-TFK AL: In the Forest OL: Birds BL: Bears on Ice	Summarize Main Idea and Details	digraphs /sh/sh, /th/th	Irregular Plural Nouns	Report (modified writing process) Report: sentences about other animal homes	Organization
11/15/2010 last week of trimester 1	Gr. 5 Unit 2 Wk 3	Remembering the Past	Maya Lin: Architect of Memory--TFK AL: The Oregon Trail: Westward Ho! OL: Ellis Island: The Golden Doors BL: The Erie Canal: Low Bridge, Everybody Down! 7/12/2005	Summarize Main Idea and Details	Inflected Endings –ed and –ing (double the final consonant: wrapping, grinning; change y to i: hurried, hurrying; drop final e: saving, joking)	More Plural Nouns	WW: Expository TP: Personal Narrative WW: Article TP: One-page Story	TP: Organization TP: Beginning, MIddle, Conclusion; Focus on Middle
1/17/2011	Gr. 1 Unit 3 Wk 3	Me and My Shadow	Short Shadows, Long Shadows--TFK AL: Shadows OL: The Groundhog's Shadow BL: The Sun	Analyze Text Structure Main idea and details	digraphs /ch/ch, -tch; /hw/wh-	Past-tense Verbs	Descriptive (Modified Writing Process) Write a description about daytime and nighttime.	Sentence Fluency
4/11/2011	Gr. 2 Unit 5 Wk 3	Exploration	Columbus Explores New Lands--TFK AL: Discovering Shipwrecks OL: Exploring the South Pole BL: Discovering Lost Cities	Summarize (PE/TE) Main Idea and Details	schwa /?/a	Possessive Pronouns	Extended Response to Literature Test Prep Writing: Extended Response to Literature	Conventions Punctuation and capitalization Writing Strateg: Use details