Scope and Sequence

BM2_BM3_CR20_TX_T2v1_EM_SS
Genre Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Leveled Readers Vocabulary
Anthology

Genre Study 1: Interactive Read “Maria Celebrates Anchor Text Main Selections Words: aside,
Weeks 1 and 2 Aloud: “Dinner at Brazil” Big Red Lollipop Genre: Realistic Fiction culture, fair, invited,
Alejandro’s” Genre: Realistic Genre: Realistic A: Music in My Family language, plead,
Genre: Realistic Fiction Genre: Realistic Fiction Fiction Lexile: 250L scurries, share
Essential Question: How are Fiction Lexile: 460L Lexile: 410L O: Happy New Year!
Lexile: 350L Strategy:
families around the world the Paired Selection Inflectional Endings
same and different? ELL Scaffolded ELL: Happy New Year!
Shared Read “A Look at Families” Lexile: 300L
Literary Elements: Beginning, available Genre: B: I’m Down Under
Middle, End Informational Text Lexile: 560L
Lexile: 480L
Differentiated Genre Passages Paired Selections
available Genre: Informational Text
A: “Making Music”
O: “New Year’s Eve”
ELL: “New Year’s Eve”
B: “Perfect Pavlova”

Genre Study 2: Interactive Read “Little Flap Learns Anchor Text Main Selections Words: actions,
Weeks 3 and 4 Aloud: to Fly” Help! A Story of Genre: Fantasy afraid, depend,
“The New Kid” Genre: Fantasy Friendship A: Cat and Dog nervously, peered,
Genre: Fantasy Genre: Fantasy Lexile: 390L Genre: Fantasy Lexile: 230L perfectly, rescue,
Essential Question: How do Lexile: 410L O: The Quest secret
friends depend on each other? ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 340L
Shared Read Paired Selection ELL: The Quest Strategy: Root
Literary Elements: Use available “The Enormous Lexile: 300L Words
Illustrations Turnip” B: Class Pets
Genre: Folktale Lexile: 500L
Differentiated Genre Passages Lexile: 500L
available Paired Selections
Genre: Poetry
A: “Uncle Max and I”
O: “Together”
ELL: “It Takes a Friend”
B: “What Friends Do”

Genre Study 3: Interactive Read “Families Work!” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: check,
Week 5 Aloud: Genre: Expository “Families Working Genre: Informational Text choose, chores,
“Families Today” Text Together” A: Families at Work cost, jobs,
Genre: Expository: Informational Genre: Expository Lexile: 500L Genre: Expository O: Families at Work customers, spend,
Text Text Text ELL: Families at Work tools
Essential Question: What ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 560L B: Families at Work
Shared Read Strategy:
happens when families work Paired Selections Synonyms
together? available
Genre: Informational Text
Text Features: Charts A: “A Family Sawmill”
O: “A Family Sawmill”
Differentiated Genre Passages ELL: “A Family Sawmill”
available B: “A Family Sawmill”

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Show What You Extend Your Writing Presentation
Learned Learning Options

Review, Extend, and “Super Skiers” Reader’s Theater: Passage 1 Focus on Genre Writing Process Reader’s Theater
Assess Genre: Online Article Room for More “Community Heroes” Synonyms Expository Essay
Genre: Expository Write a Book Report Research and
Text Respond to the Read Revise: Descriptive Inquiry
Aloud Details
Passage 2 Writing
“If Squirrels Were Connect to Content: Peer Conferences;
Rabbits” Create a Technology Edit and Proofread;
Genre: Fantasy Chart Publish, Present,
and Evaluate

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 Unit 1

Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and

Inquiry

Strategy: Visualize Week 1 Week 1: Intonation Respond to Reading Product: Poster

Phonemic Awareness: Blending, About Foods from
Skill: Character, Categorization, Segmentation Week 2: Expression Writing Process Around the World
Setting, Events Phonics/Spelling*: short a; short i Realistic Fiction
Structural Analysis: Plural Nouns with -s, -es Expert Model: Realistic Fiction Story Study Skill: Internet
Author’s Craft: Plan: Sequence Search Using
Captions High-Frequency Words: ball, blue, both, even,
for, help, put, there, why, yellow Draft: Descriptive Details Keywords
Handwriting: Manuscript Review Grammar and Mechanics Blast: “Welcome to
Week 2 Week 1: Statements and Questions; Our Home”
Phonological Awareness: Identify and Sentence Capitalization/ Punctuation
Generate Rhyme Week 2: Commands and Exclamations;
Phonemic Awareness: Isolation, Blending Sentence Capitalization/ Punctuation
Phonics/Spelling*: short e, short o, short u
Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings -s, -es
(Nouns and Verbs)
High-Frequency Words: could, find, funny,
green, how, little, one, or, see, sounds
Handwriting: Letter and Word Spacing

Strategy: Visualize Week 3 Week 3: Expression Respond to Reading Product: Illustrated

Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, list of How We
Skill: Key Details Substitution, Blending Week 4: Intonation Writing Process Depend on Friends
Phonics/Spelling*: two-letter blends: r-blends Realistic Fiction
Author’s Craft: Revise: Strong Openings Study Skill:
Theme (br, cr, dr, fr, gr); s-blends (sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp,
st, sw); t-blends (tr, tw, -nt); l-blends (bl, cl, fl, gl, Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread; Ask Questions
pl, -lk, -lt) Publish, Present, and Evaluate
Blast: “We
Structural Analysis: Closed Syllables Grammar and Mechanics Celebrate Our
High-Frequency Words: boy, by, girl, he, here, Week 3: Subjects; Quotation Marks with Friends”
she, small, want, were, what Dialogue
Handwriting: Manuscript to Cursive: Lowercase
Week 4: Predicates; Quotation Marks with
Week 4 Dialogue
Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation,
Categorization, Blending
Phonics/Spelling*: short a; long a: a_e
Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing
High-Frequency Words: another, done, into,
move, now, show, too, water, year, your
Handwriting: Manuscript to Cursive: Uppercase

Strategy: Ask and Week 5 Week 5: Phrasing Respond to Reading Product: Create
Answer Questions Phonemic Awareness: Isolation, a Job Description
Categorization, Blending Writing Process Sheet
Skill: Key Details Phonics/Spelling*: short i; long i: i_e Expository Essay
Structural Analysis: Possessives Expert Model: Expository Essay Study Skill:
Author’s Craft: Plan: Develop Questions Interview
Photos and Captions High-Frequency Words: all, any, goes, new,
number, other, right, says, understands, work Draft: Sentence Types and Lengths
Blast: “A Job for
Handwriting: Cursive Writing Position; Cursive Grammar and Mechanics Everyone”
Alphabet Week 5: Expanding and Combining
Sentences; Commas in a Series

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Scope and Sequence
Genre Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Leveled Readers Vocabulary
Anthology

Genre Study 1: Interactive Read “Eagles and Anchor Text Main Selections Words: adult, alive,
Weeks 1 and 2 Aloud: Eaglets” Baby Bears Genre: Expository Text covered, fur, giant,
“Wild Animal A: Animal Families groom, mammal,
Genre: Expository: Informational Families” Genre: Expository Genre: Expository Lexile: 320L offspring
Text Text Text O: Animal Families
Genre: Expository Lexile: 520L Lexile: 590L Lexile: 490L Strategy:
Essential Question: How are Homographs
offspring like their parents? Text ELL: Animal Families
Paired Selection Lexile: 390L
Text Features: Diagrams and “From Caterpillar to B: Animal Families
ELL Scaffolded Butterfly”
Labels Shared Read Lexile: 600L
Differentiated Genre Passages available Genre: Expository Paired Selections
available Text Genre: Informational Text
Lexile: 560L A: “Tadpoles Into Frogs”
O: “Tadpoles Into Frogs”
ELL: “Tadpoles Into Frogs”
B: “Tadpoles Into Frogs”

Genre Study 2: Interactive Read “The Boy Who Anchor Text Main Selections Words: believe,
Weeks 3 and 4 Aloud: Cried Wolf” Wolf! Wolf! Genre: Fable delicious, feast,
“The Fox and the A: The Cat and the Mice fond, lessons,
Genre: Fable Crane” Genre: Fable Genre: Fable Lexile: 200L remarkable,
Essential Question: What can Lexile: 460L Lexile: 580L O: The Dog and the Bone snatch, stories
animals in stories teach us? Genre: Fable Lexile: 440L
Paired Selection ELL: The Dog and the Bone Strategy:
Literary Elements: Story Structure: “Cinderella and Lexile: 320L Antonyms
ELL Scaffolded Friends”
Beginning, Middle, End Shared Read B: The Spider and the Honey Tree
available Lexile: 590L
Differentiated Genre Passages Genre: Expository
available Text Paired Selections
Lexile: 520L Genre: Poetry
A: “Beware of Tiger!”
O: “The Dingo and His Shadow”
ELL: “The Dingo and His Shadow”
B: “The Girl and the Spider”

Genre Study 3: Interactive Read “Cats and Kittens,” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: behave,
Week 5 Aloud: “Desert Camels,” “A “Beetles,” “The Genre: Fiction express, feathers,
“The Furry Alarm Bat is Not a Bird” Little Turtle” A: Amira's Petting Zoo flapping
Genre: Poetry Clock,” “Little Lexile: 250L
Crocodile” Genre: Poetry Genre: Poetry O: Alice's New Pet Strategy: Suffixes
Essential Question: What do we -ly, -y
love about animals? Lexile: NP Lexile: NP Lexile: 570L
Genre: Poetry ELL: Alice's New Pet
Literary Elements: Rhyme Paired Selection Lexile: 350L
“Gray Goose” B: Ava's Animals
Differentiated Genre Passages ELL Scaffolded
Shared Read Lexile: 570L
available Genre: Poetry
available Lexile: NP Paired Selections
Genre: Informational Text
A: “Sheep Season”
O: “Baby Joey”
ELL: “Four Little Ducklings”
B: “Nanook”

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Show What You Extend Your Writing Presentation
Learned Learning Options

Review, Extend, and “Under the Sea” Reader’s Theater: Passage 1 Focus on Genre Writing Process Reader’s Theater
Assess Genre: Online Article “The Secret Song” “Monarch Butterflies Homographs Rhyming Poem
on the Move” Connect to Content: Research and
Genre: Expository Write a Pet Owner Revise: Rhyme Inquiry
Text Book
Create a Habitat Peer Conferences; Writing
Passage 2 Poster Edit and Proofread;
“The Fox and the “Under the Sea” Publish, Present,
Grapes” and Evaluate
Genre: Fable

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 Unit 2

Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and

Inquiry

Strategy: Reread Week 1 Week 1: Intonation Respond to Reading Product: Diagram

Phonemic Awareness: Addition, Substitution, About an Insect's
Skill: Main Topic and Blending Week 2: Phrasing Writing Process Life Cycle
Key Details Phonics/Spelling*: Short o, Long o: o_e Expository Essay
Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing Expert Model: Expository Text Study Skill: Identify
Author's Craft: Plan: Research: Generate Questions and Gather Sources
Diagrams High-Frequency Words: because, cold, family,
friends, have, know, off, picture, school, took Draft: Organization: Order Ideas
Blast: "Amazing
Handwriting: Strokes that Curve Up: e, l; i, t Animal Parents"
Week 2 Grammar and Mechanics
Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Segmentation, Week 1: Nouns; Commas in a Series
Blending
Phonics/Spelling*: Short u, Long u: u_e Week 2: Singular and Plural Nouns;
Structural Analysis: CVCe Syllables Abbreviations
High-Frequency Words: change, cheer, fall,
five, look, open, should, their, won, yes
Handwriting: Strokes that Curve Down: o, a;
c, d

Strategy: Make, Week 3 Week 3: Expression Respond to Reading Product: Diagram

Confirm, Revise Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation, About the Wolf Food
Predictions Substitution, Blending Week 4: Phrasing Writing Process Chain
Phonics/Spelling*: Words with Soft c and g Expository Essay
Skill: Character, Structural Analysis: Prefixes Revise: Sentence Fluency Study Skill:
Setting, Plot: High-Frequency Words: almost, buy, food, out, Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread; Cite Sources
Problem and pull, saw, sky, straight, under, wash Publish, Present, and Evaluate
Solution Blast: “Creatures as
Handwriting: Strokes that Curve Over: m, n Teachers: Aesop’s
Grammar and Mechanics
Author's Craft: Text Week 4 Week 3: Kinds of Nouns: Common Nouns, Fables”
Structure: Compare Phonological Awareness: Identify and Proper Nouns, Collective Nouns; Capital
and Contrast Generate Rhyme Letters
Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation, Blending
Phonics/Spelling*: Digraphs and Trigraphs ch, Week 4: Irregular Plural Nouns; Quotation
tch, sh, ph, th, ng, wh Marks with Dialogue
Structural Analysis: Suffixes
High-Frequency Words: baby, early, eight, isn't,
learn, seven, start, these, try, walk
Handwriting: Joining Letters

Literary Elements: Week 5 Week 5: Expression Respond to Reading Product: Animal

Rhythm Phonological Awareness: Identify and Habitat Cards
Generate Rhyme Writing Process
Skill: Key Details Phonemic Awareness: Substitution, Blending Rhyming Poem Study Skill:
Phonics/Spelling*: Three-Letter Blends scr, spr, Expert Model: Rhyming Poem Generate Questions
Author’s Craft: Plan: Word Choice: Precise Language
Structures and str, thr, spl, shr Blast: "Dogs on the
Structural Analysis: Compound Words Draft: Ideas: Specific Details
Patterns Job"
High-Frequency Words: bird, far, field, flower,
grow, leaves, light, orange, ready, until Grammar and Mechanics
Handwriting: u, w; b, f Week 5: Possessive Nouns; Apostrophes

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Scope and Sequence
Genre Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Leveled Readers Vocabulary
Anthology

Genre Study 1: Interactive Read “Lighting Lives” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: across,
Weeks 1 and 2 Aloud: “Color Your Genre: Biblioburro: A Genre: Narrative Nonfiction borrow,
Community” Informational Text True Story from A: City Communities countryside, ideas,
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction Lexile: 650L Columbia Lexile: 290L insists, lonely,
Essential Question: How can Narrative Genre: Narrative O: City Communities solution, villages
ELL Scaffolded Nonfiction Lexile: 470L
people help out their community? Shared Read Strategy:
Lexile: 700L ELL: City Communities
Text Features: Photos and available Lexile: 400L Synonyms
Captions Paired Selection B: City Communities
“Landing on Your Lexile: 620L
Differentiated Genre Passages Feet”
available Genre: Personal Paired Selections
Narrative Genre: Folktale
Lexile: 610 A: “Magic Anansi”
O: “Magic Anansi”
ELL: “Magic Anansi”
B: “Magic Anansi”

Genre Study 2: Interactive Read “Starry Night” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: adventure,
Weeks 3 and 4 Aloud: Genre: Fiction Mr. Putter and Genre: Fiction delighted,
“The Hidden Sun” Lexile: 540L Tabby See the Stars A: A Special Sunset dreamed, enjoy,
Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Lexile: 200L grumbled,
ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 580L O: A Different Set of Stars moonlight,
Essential Question: What can we Shared Read
see in the sky? Lexile: 390L neighbor, nighttime
available Paired Selection ELL: A Different Set of Stars
Literary Elements: Point of View “Day to Night” Lexile: 330L Strategy:
(third person) Genre: Expository B: Shadows in the Sky Compound Words
Text Lexile: 540L
Differentiated Genre Passages Lexile: 550L
available Paired Selections
Genre: Expository Text
A: “Shadows and Sundials”
O: “Stars”
ELL: “Stars”
B: “Eclipses”

Genre Study 3: Interactive Read “They’ve Got the Anchor Text Main Selection Words: cheered,
Week 5 Aloud: Beat!” “Many Ways to Genre: Expository Text concert, instrument,
“Why People Drum” Genre: Expository Enjoy Music” A: The Sounds of Trash movements, music,
Genre: Expository: Informational Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Lexile: 410L rhythm, sounds,
Text Text Lexile: 620L Text O: The Sounds of Trash understand
Essential Question: How do you Lexile: 680L Lexile: 530L
ELL Scaffolded ELL: The Sounds of Trash Strategy: Prefixes
express yourself? Shared Read Paired Selection Lexile: 380L
Text Features: Bar Graph available “A Musical B: The Sounds of Trash
Museum” Lexile: 590L
Differentiated Genre Passages Genre: Expository
available Text Paired Selections
Lexile: 640L Genre: Expository Text
A: “Talking Underwater”
O: “Talking Underwater”
ELL: “Talking Underwater”
B: “Talking Underwater”

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Show What You Extend Your Writing Presentation
Learned Learning Options

Review, Extend, and “Antarctica Bound!” Reader’s Theater: Passage 1 Focus on Genre Writing Process Reader’s Theater
Assess Genre: Online Article “I’ll Be the Dragon” “Landing the Eagle” Sequence of Events Expository Essay
Genre: Narrative Prefixes Research and
Nonfiction Write a Personal Revise: Strong Inquiry
Narrative Openings
Passage 2 Respond to the Read Writing
“A Shower in the Sky” Aloud Peer Conferences;
Genre: Fiction Connect to Content: Edit and Proofread;
Write an Ad for Publish, Present,
Community Helpers and Evaluate

BM6 SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

 Unit 3

Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and

Inquiry

Strategy: Ask and Week 1 Week 1: Expression Respond to Reading Product: History
Answer Questions Phonological Awareness: Identify and Picture Book
Generate Rhyme Week 2: Phrasing Writing Process
Skill: Author’s Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, Personal Narrative Study Skill: Primary
Purpose Blending Expert Model: Personal Narrative and Secondary
Phonics/Spelling*: Long a: a, ai, ay, ea, ei, Plan: Organization: Sequence Sources
Author’s Craft: Time Draft: Focus on an Event
Words eigh, ey Blast: “Making
Structural Analysis: Contractions with ‘s, ‘re, Grammar and Mechanics Our Lives Better…
‘ll, ‘ve Week 1: Action Verbs; Book Titles Together”
High-Frequency Words: about, around, good,
great, idea, often, part, second, two, world Week 2: Present-Tense Verbs; Commas in
Handwriting: h, k; g, q a Series
Week 2
Phonemic Awareness: Isolation, Substitution,
Blending, Categorization
Phonics/Spelling*: Long i: i, y, igh, ie
Structural Analysis: Open Syllables
High-Frequency Words: also, apart, begin, either,
hundred, over, places, those, which, without
Handwriting: j, p; r, s

Strategy: Reread Week 3 Week 3: Intonation Respond to Reading Product: Moon

Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Substitution, Phase Report
Skill: Sequence Addition, Blending Week 4: Expression Writing Process
Phonics/Spelling*: Long o: o, oa, ow, oe Personal Narrative Study Skill: Develop
Author’s Craft: Revise: Conclusion a Research Plan
Heads Structural Analysis: Contractions with not
High-Frequency Words: better, group, long, Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread;
Publish, Present, and Evaluate Blast: “When the
more, only, our, started, three, who, won’t Night Sky Dances“
Handwriting: y, z, v, x
Week 4 Grammar and Mechanics
Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Week 3: Past- and Future-Tense Verbs;
Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, Letter Punctuation
Blending
Week 4: Subject-Verb Agreement;
Phonics/Spelling*: Long e: e, ee, ea, ie, y, ey, e_e Abbreviations
Structural Analysis: Plurals with -s, -es (change
y to i)
High-Frequency Words: after, before, every,
few, first, hear, hurt, old, special, would
Handwriting: Letter and Word Spacing

Strategy: Ask and Week 5 Week 5: Intonation Respond to Reading Product: Patriotic
Answer Questions Phonological Awareness: Identify and Song Collage
Generate Alliteration Writing Process
Skill: Main Idea and Phonemic Awareness: Addition and Deletion, Expository Essay Study Skill: Relevant
Key Details Blending Expert Model: Expository Essay Information
Author’s Craft: Phonics/Spelling*: Long u: u_e, ue, u, ew Plan: Research: Choose and Evaluate Blast: “Show
Text Features: Structural Analysis: Comparative Endings -er, Sources Yourself Through
Diagrams -est Draft: Paragraphs Your Art”
High-Frequency Words: America, beautiful,
began, climbed, come, country, didn’t, give, Grammar and Mechanics
live, turned Week 5: The Verb have; Sentence
Handwriting: Review lower case letters Punctuation

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE BM7

Scope and Sequence
Genre Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Leveled Readers Vocabulary
Anthology

Genre Study 1: Interactive Read “Happy New Year!” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: common,
Weeks 1 and 2 Aloud: “My New Genre: Realistic Dear Primo: A Genre: Realistic Fiction costume, customs,
School” Fiction Letter to My Cousin A: Sharing Cultures favorite, parade,
Genre: Realistic Fiction Genre: Realistic Lexile: 590L Genre: Realistic Lexile: 350L surrounded,
Essential Question: How are kids Fiction Fiction O: A New Life in India travels, wonder
ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 610L Lexile: 480L
around the world different? Shared Read Strategy: Similes
ELL: A New Life in India
Literary Elements: Point of View available Paired Selection Lexile: 440L
“Games Around the B: Akita and Carlo
Differentiated Genre Passages World” Lexile: 620L
available Genre: Expository
Text Paired Selections
Lexile: 600L Genre: Expository Text
A: “Music Around the World”
O: “Dress Around the World”
ELL: “Dress Around the World”
B: “Food Around the World”

Genre Study 2: Interactive Read “Into the Sea” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: active,
Weeks 3 and 4 Aloud: Genre: Expository Volcanoes Genre: Expository Text Earth, explode,
“Earth Changes” Text Genre: Expository A: Earthquakes island, local,
Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Lexile: 650L Text Lexile: 350L properties, solid,
Essential Question: How does the Text Lexile: 680L O: Earthquakes steep
ELL Scaffolded Lexile: 530L
Earth change? Shared Read Paired Selection Strategy: Sentence
ELL: Earthquakes
Text Features: Subheads and Bold available “To The Rescue” Lexile: 430L Clues
Print Genre: Expository B: Earthquakes
Text Lexile: 630L
Differentiated Genre Passages Lexile: 750L
available Paired Selections
Genre: Expository Text
A: “Glaciers”
O: “Glaciers”
ELL: “Glaciers”
B: “Glaciers”

Genre Study 3: Interactive Read “Snow Shape,” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: drops,
Week 5 Aloud: Nature Walk,” “In “April Rain Song,” Genre: Fiction excite, outdoors,
“Redwood National the Sky” “Rain Poem” A: A Hike in the Woods pale
Genre: Poetry Forest,” “The Genre: Poetry Genre: Poetry Lexile: 340L
Amazing Meadow,” Lexile: NP Lexile: NP O: A Little World Strategy:
Essential Question: What excites Antonyms
us about nature? “The Sahara Lexile: 500L
Desert” ELL Scaffolded Paired Selection ELL: A Little World
Literary Elements: Free Verse, Genre: Poetry Shared Read “Helicopters,” Lexile: 400L
Repetition available “Windy Tree” B: Star Party
Genre: Poetry Lexile: 590L
Differentiated Genre Passages Lexile: NP
available Paired Selections
Genre: Poem
A: “The Woods”
O: “See a Star”
ELL: “By the Sea”
B: “Moon”

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Show What You Extend Your Writing Presentation
Learned Learning Options

Review, Extend, “Hope for the Reader’s Theater: Passage 1 Comparing Genres Writing Process Free Reader’s Theater
and Assess Everglades!” A Whale of a Story “Rivers of Ice” Antonyms Verse Poem
Genre: Online Genre: Expository Text Write a Thank You Revise: Word Choice Research and
Article Letter Peer Conferences; Inquiry
Passage 2 Connect to Content: Edit and Proofread;
“How to Wait,” “Against Game Guide Publish, Present, and Writing
the Wind” Reading Digitally Evaluate
Genre: Free Verse
Poems

BM8 SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

 Unit 4

Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and

Inquiry

Strategy: Visualize Week 1 Week 1: Intonation Respond to Reading Product:

Phonemic Awareness: Identity, Categorization, Celebrations Chart
Skill: Compare Blending Week 2: Expression Writing Process
and Contrast Phonics/Spelling*: Silent Letters wr, kn, gn, mb, sc Realistic Fiction Study Skill: Primary
Structural Analysis: Prefixes re-, un-, dis-; Suffixes Expert Model: Realistic Fiction and Secondary
Author’s Craft: Plan: Ideas: Develop Details Sources
Maps -ful, -less
High-Frequency Words: below, colors, don't, down, Draft: Compare and Contrast
Blast: “What in the
eat, many, morning, sleep, through, very Grammar and Mechanics World is for Dinner?”
Handwriting: Strokes for Cursive Writing; Size and Week 1: Linking Verbs; Letter
Shape Punctuation
Week 2
Phonemic Awareness: Substitution, Blending, Week 2: Helping Verbs; Book Titles
Addition
Phonics/Spelling*: r-Controlled Vowel /ûr/: er, ir, ur,
or
Structural Analysis: Inflectional Endings
High-Frequency Words: animal, away, building,
found, from, Saturday, thought, today, toward, watch
Handwriting: A, O; C, E

Strategy: Reread Week 3 Week 3: Phrasing Respond to Reading Product: Drawing of

Phonological Awareness: Identify and Generate Earth Changes
Skill: Text Rhyme Week 4: Intonation Writing Process
Structure: Cause Phonemic Awareness: Substitution, Blending Realistic Fiction Study Skill:
and Effect Phonics/Spelling*: r-controlled vowels /ôr/: or, ore, Revise: Voice Sequence
oar and /är/: ar Peer Conference; Edit and Proofread; Information
Author’s Craft: Publish, Present, and Evaluate
Text Structure Structural Analysis: Plurals (irregular) Blast: “How
High-Frequency Words: ago, carry, certain, Grammar and Mechanics Mountains Form”
everyone, heavy, outside, people, problem, together, Week 3: Irregular Verbs; Capitalization
warm of Proper Nouns
Handwriting: L, D; B, R
Week 4 Week 4: Contractions with not;
Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Apostrophes
Phonemic Awareness: Blending
Phonics/Spelling*: r-controlled vowel /îr/: eer, ere,
ear
Structural Analysis: Abbreviations
High-Frequency Words: again, behind, eyes, gone,
happened, house, inside, neither, stood, young
Handwriting: T, F; S, G

Literary Elements: Week 5 Week 5: Phrasing Respond to Reading Product: Diagram

Repetition Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Water Cycle
Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, Blending Writing Process
Skill: Theme Phonics/Spelling*: r-controlled vowel /âr/: are, air, Free Verse Poem Study Skill: Develop
ear, ere Expert Model: Free Verse Poem and Follow a
Author’s Craft: Plan: Word Choice: Sensory Words Research Plan
Figurative Structural Analysis: r-controlled vowel syllables
High-Frequency Words: among, bought, knew, Draft: Visual Patterns
Language Blast: “From the
never, once, soon, sorry, talk, touch, upon Grammar and Mechanics Oceans to the
Handwriting: I, J; Punctuation Marks (cursive) Week 5: Using Conjunctions to Form Skies”
Compound Subjects and Predicates;
Sentence Punctuation

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE BM9

Scope and Sequence
Genre Focus Read Aloud Shared Read Literature Leveled Readers Vocabulary
Anthology

Genre Study 1: Interactive Read “César Chávez” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: agree,
Weeks 1 and 2 Aloud: Brave Bessie Genre: Biography challenging,
“A Hero On and Off Genre: Biography A: Rudy Garcia-Tolson discover, heroes,
Genre: Biography Skis” Lexile: 600L Genre: Biography Lexile: 420L interest, perform,
Essential Question: What do Lexile: 650L O: Rudy Garcia-Tolson study, succeed
heroes do? Lexile: 550L
Genre: Biography Paired Selection ELL: Rudy Garcia-Tolson Strategy:
ELL Scaffolded “The Princess Frog” Synonyms
Text Features: Boldprint and Shared Read Lexile: 490L
Timeline available B: Rudy Garcia-Tolson
Genre: Fairy Tale Lexile: 640L
Differentiated Genre Passages Lexile: 610L
Available Paired Selections
Genre: Biography
A: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”
O: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”
ELL: “The Unsinkable Molly
Brown”
B: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”

Genre Study 2: Interactive Read “A Difficult Anchor Text Main Selections Words: champion,
Weeks 3 and 4 Aloud: Decision” Grace for President Genre: Fantasy determined,
“A Colorful A: Fixing the Playground issues, promises,
Genre: Realistic Fiction Problem” Genre: Realistic Genre: Realistic Lexile: 340L responsibility,
Essential Question: What do good Fiction Fiction O: The Food Crew rights, volunteered,
citizens do? Lexile: 510L Lexile: 580L Lexile: 480L votes
Genre: Realistic ELL: The Food Crew
Literary Elements: Story Structure: Paired Selection Lexile: 430L Strategy: Suffixes
Fiction “Helping to Make -ful, -less
First Person ELL Scaffolded B: How Many Greats
Smiles” Lexile: 620L
Differentiated Genre Passages Shared Read
Available available Genre: Narrative Paired Selections
Nonfiction Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Lexile: 520L A: “Hero”
O: “A School Feeds Others”
ELL: “A School Feeds Others”
B: “Freedom Walk”

Genre Study 3: Interactive Read “The Problem with Anchor Text Main Selections Words: exclaimed,
Week 5 Aloud: Plastic Bags” “A Call to Compost” Genre: Persuasive Text finally, form, history,
A: Do People Need Rules? public, rules,
Genre: Persuasive Text “Towns Need Genre: Persuasive Genre: Persuasive Lexile: 510L united, writers
Rules!” Article Text O: Do People Need Rules?
Essential Question: Why are rules Lexile: 670L Strategy: Multiple-
important? Genre: Persuasive Lexile: 660L Lexile: 620L
ELL: Do People Need Rules? Meaning Words
Text Paired Selection
Text Features: Chart Lexile: 610L
ELL Scaffolded B: Do People Need Rules?
Differentiated Genre Passages Shared Read “American Symbols” Lexile: 710L
Available available
Genre: Expository Paired Selections
Text Genre: Expository Text
Lexile: 650L A: “Pool Rules”
O: “Pool Rules
ELL: “Pool Rules
B: “Pool Rules

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Show What You Extend Your Writing Presentation
Learned Learning Options

Review, Extend, and “Good Deeds Add Reader’s Theater: Passage 1 Comparing Genres Writing Process: Reader’s Theater
Assess Up” “The Search for the “George Washington Suffixes Persuasive essay
Genre: Online Article Magic Lake” Carver” Write a persuasive Research and
Genre: Biography letter Revise: Voice Inquiry
Respond to the Read
Passage 2 Aloud Peer Conferences; Writing
“Dad for Mayor!” Connect to Content: Edit and Proofread;
Genre: Realistic Create a Timeline Publish, Present,
Fiction and Evaluate

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 Unit 5

Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and

Inquiry

Strategy: Week 1 Week 1 Phrasing Respond to Reading Product: Poster

Summarize Phonemic Awareness: Reversal, Substitution, About an American
Blending Week 2 Intonation Writing Process Hero
Skill: Connections Phonics/Spelling*: diphthongs ou, ow Biography
Within a Text: Structural Analysis: Plurals (irregular) Expert Model: Biography Study Skill:
Sequence High-Frequency Words: answer, been, body, Plan: Identify Primary and Secondary Paraphrase and
build, head [body part], heard, minutes, myself, Sources Understand
Author’s Craft: Draft: Sequence Information
Third Person Point pretty, pushed
of View Handwriting: N, M, H, K Blast: "What Makes
Week 2 Grammar and Mechanics a Hero?"
Phonemic Awareness: Blending, Substitution, Week 1: Pronouns (singular, plural);
Segmentation, Deletion Capitalizing the pronoun I
Phonics/Spelling*: diphthongs oy, oi
Structural Analysis: consonant + le syllables Week 2: Subjective, Objective, Possessive
(el, al, tion, sion) Pronouns; Commas in Dates
High-Frequency Words: brought, busy, else,
happy, I’ll, laugh, love, maybe, please, several
Handwriting: P, Q, V, U

Strategy: Make and Week 3 Week 3: Phrasing Respond to Reading Product: Make a
Confirm Predictions Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Pamphlet About
Phonemic Awareness: Categorization, Week 4: Expression Writing Process What Good Leaders
Skill: Point of View Blending Realistic Fiction Do
Phonics/Spelling*: variant vowel /ü/: oo, u, u_e, Revise: Strong Conclusion
Author’s Craft: Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread; Study Skill: Ask and
Graphic Features/ ew, ue, ui; Variant Vowel /ů/: oo, ou, u
Structural Analysis: Contractions with not Publish, Present, and Evaluate Answer Questions
Callouts
High-Frequency Words: air, along, always, Blast: "I Can Be a
draw, during, ever, meant, nothing, story, strong Good Citizen, Too!"
Handwriting: W, X,Y, Z Grammar and Mechanics
Week 3: Pronoun-Verb agreement;
Week 4 Capitalization of Proper Nouns
Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables
Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Blending, Week 4: Possessive Pronouns & Reflexive
Addition Pronouns; Letter Punctuation
Phonics/Spelling*: variant vowel /ô/: a, aw, au,
augh, al, ough
Structural Analysis: Vowel Team Syllables
High-Frequency Words: city, father, mother,
o’clock, own, questions, read, searching, sure,
though
Handwriting: Spacing: Letters and Words

Strategy: Week 5 Week 5: Intonation Respond to Reading Product: Make a

Summarize Phonemic Awareness: Deletion, Segmentation, Recycling Chart
Reversal, Blending Writing Process
Skill: Author’s Phonics/Spelling*: short vowel digraphs /e/ea; Persuasive Essay Study Skill: Find and
Purpose /u/ou; /i/y Expert Model: Persuasive Text Gather Sources
Structural Analysis: Alphabetical Order Plan: Voice: Persuasive Language
Author’s Craft: Draft: Ideas: Develop a Topic Blast: “Rules of
Print and Graphic High-Frequency Words: anything, children, Respect at School”
Features everybody, instead, paper [piece of paper], Grammar and Mechanics
person, voice, whole, woman, words Week 5: Contraction; Contractions with
Handwriting: Review of Lowercase and Pronouns/Possessive Pronouns
Uppercase

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available

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Scope and Sequence
Genre Focus Read Aloud Shared Reading Literature Leveled Readers Vocabulary
Anthology

Genre Study 1: Interactive Read “The Life of a Dollar Anchor Text Main Selections Words: invented,
Weeks 1 and 2 Aloud: “Keep the Bill” Money Madness Genre: Expository Text money, prices,
Change!” A: How to Be a Smart Shopper purchase, record,
Genre: Expository Text Genre: Expository Genre: Expository Lexile: 450L system, value,
Essential Question: How do we Genre: Expository Text Text O: How to Be a Smart Shopper worth
use money? Text Lexile: 660L Lexile: 780L Lexile: 540L
ELL: How to Be a Smart Shopper Strategy:
Text Features: Subheads and ELL Scaffolded Paired Selection Lexile: 500L Paragraph Clues
Graphs Shared Read “King Midas and the B: How to Be a Smart Shopper
available Golden Touch” Lexile: 680L
Differentiated Genre Passages
available Genre: Myth Paired Selections
Lexile: 720L Genre: Myth
A: “The Golden Fleece”
O: “The Golden Fleece”
ELL: “The Golden Fleece”
B: “The Golden Fleece”

Genre Study 2: Interactive Read “The Starry Asters” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: appeared,
Weeks 3 and 4 Aloud: “The Queen The Contest Genre: Drama/Myth crops, develop,
of Flowers” Genre: Myth of Athena and A: The Apples of Idun edge, golden,
Genre: Drama/Myth Lexile: NP Poseidon Lexile: 400L rustled, shining,
Essential Question: What do Genre: Myth O: Hercules and the Golden stages
myths help us understand? ELL Scaffolded Genre: Drama/Myth Apples
Shared Read Lexile: NP Lexile: 550L Strategy: Idioms
Literary Elements: Elements of a available ELL: Hercules and the Golden
Play Paired Selection Apples
“A Pumpkin Plant” Lexile: 440L
Differentiated Genre Passages B: Demeter and Persephone
available Genre: Expository Lexile: 630L
Text
Lexile: 600L Paired Selections
Genre: Expository Text
A: “Tomatoes”
O: “Apples”
ELL: “Apples”
B: “Pomegranates”

Genre Study 3: Interactive Read “A Box of Crayons,” Anchor Text Main Selections Words: create,
Week 5 Aloud: “Give Me a “What Story is “Books to the Genre: Fiction dazzling,
Brown Box,” “Music This?,” “The Ticket” Ceiling,” “I’ve Got A: Matt’s Journey imagination,
Genre: Poetry Sends Me” This Covered,” Lexile: 430L seconds
Essential Question: Genre: Poetry “Eating While O: A Fantastic Day!
Genre: Poetry Lexile: NP Reading” Lexile: 560L Strategy:
Where can your imagination take Metaphors
you? ELL: A Fantastic Day!
ELL Scaffolded Genre: Poetry Lexile: 470L
Text Features: Stanza Shared Read Lexile: NP B: A Day in Ancient Rome
available Lexile: 640L
Differentiated Genre Passages Paired Selection
available “Clay Play,” Paired Selections
“Crayons” Genre: Poetry
Genre: Poetry A: “Autumn Leaves/The Orchestra”
Lexile: NP O: “A Butterfly Life/Circus Day”
ELL: “Pablo and I/My Tiny Friend”
B: “Lost and Found/My Magic Car”

Week 6 Reading Digitally Fluency Show What You Extend Your Writing Presentation
Learned Learning Options

Review, Extend, and “Whispering Whales” Reader’s Theater: Passage 1 Comparing Genres Poetry: Rhyming Reader’s Theater
Assess Genre: Online Article “Mother Goose to “Building a Career” Idioms Poem
the Rescue” Genre: Expository Write a How-To Research and
Text Guide Revise: Rhythm Inquiry
Connect to Content: Peer Conferences;
Passage 2 Write an online Writing
Genre: “The Edit and Proofread;
article Publish, Present,
Thunder Goddess” Reading Digitally:
Genre: Drama and Evaluate
“Whispering Whales”

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 Unit 6

Comprehension Word Work Fluency Writing and Grammar Research and

Inquiry

Strategy: Week 1 Week 1: Intonation Respond to Reading Product: Create a

Summarize Phonological Awareness: Identify and Flow Chart
Generate Rhyme Week 2: Phrasing Writing Process
Skill: Text Structure: Phonemic Awareness: Addition, Blending, Research Report Study Skill: Visual
Problem and Deletion Expert Model: Research Report Materials
Solution Phonics/Spelling*: Closed and open syllables Plan: Generate Questions for Research
Draft: Paraphrase Blast: “Making
Author’s Craft: Structural Analysis: Compound words Dollars and Cents”
Word Choice High-Frequency Words: door, front, order, Grammar and Mechanics
probably, remember, someone, tomorrow, Week 1: Adjectives including articles;
what’s, worry, yesterday Abbreviations
Handwriting: Abbreviations; Envelope
Week 2 Week 2: Articles and this, that, these, and
Phonemic Awareness: Addition, those; Commas in Dates
Segmentation, Substitution, Blending
Phonics/Spelling*: Words with CVCe Syllables
Structural Analysis: review prefixes re-, un-,
dis- and suffixes -ful, -less
High-Frequency Words: alone, became,
beside, four, hello, large, notice, round,
suppose, surprised
Handwriting: Letter punctuation marks; Letter
format

Strategy: Reread Week 3 Week 3: Expression Respond to Reading Product: Create a

Phonological Awareness: Identify Syllables Diagram of a Plant
Skill: Theme Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation and Week 4: Intonation Writing Process
Blending, Addition and Deletion Research Report Study Skill:
Author’s Craft: Revise: Sentence Fluency Diagrams
Instructions Phonics/Spelling*: Final stable syllables: words
with consonant + le el, al, tion, sion Peer Conferences; Edit and Proofread;
Publish, Present, and Evaluate Blast: “Plants and
Structural Analysis: Contractions, Possessives Flowers That Grow
High-Frequency Words: above, brother, song, Grammar and Mechanics into Myths”
follow, listen, month, soft, something, who’s, wind Week 3: Adjectives that Compare;
Handwriting: Form; Poster Apostrophes
Week 4
Phonemic Awareness: Segmentation, Week 4: Adverbs (including adverbs that
Substitution, Reversal, Blending convey time and adverbs that convey
Phonics/Spelling*: Vowel team syllables. place); Names and Title
Structural Analysis: Comparative endings
High-Frequency Words: against, anymore,
complete, enough, river, rough, sometimes,
stranger, terrible, window
Handwriting: Poem

Literary Elements: Week 5 Week 5: Expression Respond to Reading Product: Create an

Rhyme Phonemic Awareness: Addition, Substitution, Oral Report
Segmentation Writing Process
Skill: Point of View Phonics/Spelling*: Words with r-controlled Poetry Study Skill: Present
vowel syllables. Expert Model: Rhyming Poem Information
Author’s Craft: Plan: Word Choice
Rhythm and Rhyme Structural Analysis: three (or more) syllable Blast: “Set Your
words Draft: Rhyme and Rhythm
Imagination Free!”
High-Frequency Words: afternoon, ahead,
anyone, everything, pretended, scientist, Grammar and Mechanics
somehow, throughout, trouble, wherever Week 5: Prepositions and Prepositional
Handwriting: Story Phrases; Sentence Punctuation

*Differentiated Spelling Lists available.

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE BM13