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2014 Edition - Unit 4.1.1 Because of Winn Dixie Genre: Realistic
Fiction
Vocabulary Words: Spelling Words:
1. grand – excellent; very good 1. admire
2. memorial – helping people to remember a person, thing, or event
3. peculiar – strange; unusual
2. magnet
4. positive – without doubt; sure 3. contest
5. prideful –overly proud of oneself 4. method
6. recalls – calls back to mind; remembers 5. custom
7. selecting – picking out; choosing
6. rally
More Words to Know: 7. soccer
1. kindness – being thoughtful and gentle
2. attention – focus on something
8. engine
3. teach – show or explain how to do something 9. sudden
4. understanding – know about it 10. finger
5. variety – a number of different kinds of things within the same group or category 11. accident
6. introduce – make it known to others
12. mitten
7. similar – alike
8. distinct – separate or not the same 13. intend
9. social – spending time with people 14. fabric
10. courteous – to be polite and show good manners

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Comprehension: Sequence, Summarize 15. flatten
Fluency: Appropriate Expression
Writing: Word Choice, Realistic Fiction 16. rascal
Spelling: Short Vowels VCCV 17. gutter
Grammar: Declarative and Interrogative Sentences 18. mammal
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes, Word Structure
Listening and Speaking: Dramatic Retelling 19. happen
20. cannon
21. dungeon
22. magnify
23. festival
24. thunderstorm
25. injury

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2014 Edition - Unit 5.1.2 Lewis and Clark and Me Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Words: Spelling Words:
1. docks – platforms built on the shore or out from the shore; wharves; piers 1. sigh
2. migrating – going from one region to another with the change in seasons 2. right
3. scan –to glance at; look over hastily
3. weigh
4. scent - a smell
5. wharf – platform built on the shore or out from the shore beside which ships can load or 4. eight
unload 5. detail
6. yearned – felt a longing or desire 6. height
More Words to Know: 7. spray
1. pioneer – a person who is among the first to enter or settle a region 8. braid
2. traveled – to move from one place to another 9. bait
3. settlers – people who move to an uninhabited area
4. territories – areas of land
10. grain
5. seek – to try and find or get 11. slight
6. fortune – someone’s riches 12. thigh
7. experiences – those things that happen to someone; what is seen, done, or lived 13. tight
through 14. raisin
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 8. prepared – to make ready or be ready 15. trait
9. foreign – not native; from another country or nation 16. highway
10. improve – make better 17. frighten
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose, Questioning
Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing: Punctuation Clues 18. dismay
Writing; Organization, Expository Composition 19. freight
Spelling: Words with Long a and i 20. sleigh
Grammar: Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences 21. eighteen
Vocabulary Strategy: Word Endings, Word Structure
Listening and Speaking: Introduction 22. mayonnaise
23. campaign
24. daylight
25. twilight

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2014 Edition – Unit 5.1.3 On the Banks of Plum Creek Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Words: Spelling Words:
1. badger – a burrowing, flesh-eating mammal 1. sweet
2. bank – the rising ground at the edge of a lake, river, or sea
3. bristled – stood up straight, as hair or fun 2. each
4. jointed – having one or more places where two things or parts come together 3. three
5. patched – mended with a scrip of material 4. least
6. ruffled – made to look as if trimmed with strips of material gathered together 5. freedom
7. rushes – marsh plants with hollow stems
6. below
More Words to Know:
7. throat
1. route – a regular line of passage or travel
2. coast – land along the sea 8. float
3. desert – a dry area of land where few plants grow 9. foam
4. valleys – areas of low land between mountains and hills 10. flown
5. landscape – the land and natural scenery that can be seen in one glance 11. greet
6. sights – things that are worth looking at
7. landmarks – large objects on land that are easy to see and can help a person find the 12. season
way to a place nearby 13. croak
8. enormous – very large 14. shallow
9. magnificent – to be impressive and splendid in appearance 15. eagle
10. navigate – to steer a ship or vehicle toward something
Comprehension: Literary Elements: Character, Setting, Plot
16. indeed
Fluency: Rate and Accuracy 17. rainbow
Writing: Voice, Parody 18. grown
Spelling: Words with Long e and o
Grammar: Complete Subjects and Predicates
19. seaweed
Vocabulary Strategy: Multiple-Meaning Words, Dictionary/Glossary 20. hollow
Listening and Speaking: Advertisement 21. Halloween
22. speedometer
23. underneath
24. seacoast
25. cocoa
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2014 Edition - Unit 5.1.4 The Horned Toad Prince Genre: Trickster Tales
Vocabulary Words: Spelling Words:
1. bargain –an agreement to trade or exchange; deal 1. prairie
2. favor- act of kindness 2. calorie
3. lassoed –roped; caught with a long rope with a loop on the end
3. honey
4. offended - hurt the feelings of someone; made angry
5. prairie - large area of level or rolling land with grass but few or no trees 4. valley
6. riverbed – channel in which a river flows or used to flow 5. money
7. shrieked – made a loud, sharp, shrill sound 6. finally
More Words to Know: 7. movie
1. frontier – an area of land that is at the edge of civilization 8. country
2. rodeo – a contest of skill in roping cattle and riding horses and bulls 9. empty
3. corral – a fenced-in area for animals such as horses and sheep 10. city
4. creeks – a small stream
11. rookie
5. plains – flat stretches of land
6. mesa – an elevated area with a flat top and steep sides 12. hockey
7. cacti – plants that grow in very hot, dry regions 13. collie
8. sagebrush – a type of plant that grows in desert areas 14. breezy
9. range – open land 15. jury
10. grassland - land with grass on it 16. balcony
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose, Story Structure 17. steady
Fluency: Expression 18. alley
Writing: Conventions, Friendly Letter 19. trolley
Spelling: Long e
Grammar: Compound Sentences 20. misty
Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms and Antonyms, Context Clues 21. frequency
Listening and Speaking: Oral Report 22. parsley
23. journey
24. chimney
25. attorney
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2014 Edition - Unit 4.1.5 Letters Home from Yosemite Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Words: Spelling Words:
1. impressive – able to impress the mind, feelings, conscience
2. naturalist - a person who studies living things
1. usual
3. preserve – to keep from harm or change; protect 2. huge
4. slopes- land that goes up or down at an angle 3. flute
5. species –a set of related living things that share certain characteristics and that can interbreed
6. wilderness –a wild region with few or no people living in it
4. mood
7. glacier – great mass of ice that moves very slowly down a mountain or along a valley 5. smooth
6. threw
More Words to Know:
1. earthquake – a violent shaking or shifting motion of the ground 7. afternoon
2. volcano – an opening in Earth’s crust where lava flows from 8. scooter
3. eruptions – something bursts out of another thing 9. juice
4. elk – a large, reddish deer with thin antlers 10. cruise
5. lava – hot, melted rock that flows from a volcano
6. sequoia – a very large evergreen tree found in California
11. truth
7. geyser – a hot spring of water that periodically shoots up into the sky 12. bruise
8. wildlife – plants and animals that live and grow in nature 13. cruel
9. wildflowers – flowering plants that grow in words or fields 14. excuse
15. pupil
Comprehension: Main Idea and Details, Text Structure 16. groove
Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing
Writing: Voice, Personal Narrative 17. confuse
Spelling: Long u 18. humor
Grammar: Clauses and Complex Sentences 19. duty
Vocabulary Strategy: Affixes: Suffixes –ist, -ive, -ness, Word Structure
Media Literacy: Travel Show 20. curfew
21. influence
22. aluminum
23. nutrition
24. accumulat
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