Unit 1- Making New Friends

Skills addressed: key details, asking and answering questions, nouns, initial and middle sounds

Sight Words: the, we, see

Vocabulary: Friend, Problem, Escape, Grasped, Rescue, Adventure, Movement, Arrived, Exciting, Exhausted, Explore, Sense, Feast, Finished, Kneads

Writing: making a picture web, opinion writing, narrative writing 

Unit 2- Let’s Explore

Skills addressed: key details, asking and answering questions, verbs, initial and final sounds

Sight Words: the, we, see, a, like

Vocabulary: tools, discover, defeated, fetch, rumble, materials, nature, decoration, games, world, curious, observe, attache, process, slender

Writing: writing an explanatory sentence, making a shape poster, writing a story sentence

Unit 3- Going Places

Skills addressed: key details, visualizing, story elements (character, setting, events), sentences, initial, final, and medial sounds

Sight Words: to, and, go

Vocabulary: rules, cooperate, guard, prank, responsible, listen, volume, chat, exclaim, familiar, local, routine, neighborhood, volunteer, intelligent

Writing: writing a sentence, writing a personal narrative sentence, writing an opinion sentence

Unit 4- Around the Neighborhood

Skills addressed: key details, asking and answering questions, adjectives, story elements (character, setting, events), initial and middle sounds, and final double letters 

Sight Words: to, and, go, you, do

Vocabulary: equipment, uniform, utensils, expect, remained, appreciate, culture, prefer, proud, tradition, community, improve, confused, harvest, quarrel

Writing: writing expository sentences, writing a menu, writing a descriptive sentence

Unit 5- Wonders of Nature

Skills addressed: main topic and key details, story elements (character, setting, events), plurals, pronouns, initial, medial, and final sounds, context clues, inflectional endings

Sight Words: are, my, with, he 

Vocabulary: require, plant, harmful, soak, crowd, develop, amazing, content, enormous, imagine, fresh, delicious, beneath, raise, special 

Writing: writing a poem, writing an opinion about a book, writing story sentences

Unit 6- Weather for All Seasons

Skills addressed: key details, visualizing, nouns, initial and final sounds, multiple-meaning words, shades of meaning, question words

Sight Words: are, he, is, little, my, she, was, with 

Vocabulary: safe, prepare, notice, celebration, enough, predict, temperature, drought, clever, storm, weather, seasons, migrate, active, spot

Writing: opinion writing, personal narrative writing, writing a weather report

Unit 7- The Animal Kingdom

Skills addressed: compare and contrast, rereading, story elements, cause and effect, compound words, verbs, shades of meaning, prepositions, l-blends, initial and final sounds 

Sight Words: for, have, of, they, said, want 

Vocabulary: habitat, wild, complain, join, stubborn, responsibility, train, depend, compared, social, appearance, behavior, exercise, wonder, plenty

Writing: writing an animal card, writing an explanatory piece, write questions and answers 

Unit 8- From Here to There

Skills addressed: main topic and key details, story elements, sentences with prepositions, similes, synonyms, context clues, initial and medial sounds,

Sight Words: this, for, they, have, of, said, want, here, me, what

Vocabulary: transportation, vehicle, journey, fierce, wide, country, travel, careful, purpose, connect, distance, recognize, space, challenge, surface

Writing: writing a counting book, a travel poster, and a personal narrative 

Unit 9- Things Change

Skills addressed: plot sequence, sequencing, and story elements, adjectives, context clues, prefixes and suffixes, strategy words, long vowels 

Sight Words: help, too, has, play, where, look

Vocabulary: chores, contribute, member, organize, accomplish, citizen, respect, tidy, necessary, hauled, natural resources, create, designs, weave, knowledge 

Writing: writing a recipe, a story, and an opinion about a book

Unit 10- Thinking Outside the Box

Skills addressed: plot, key details using illustrations, main topic and key details, pronouns, digraph -th, antonyms, context clues, prefixes and suffixes, 

Sight Words: help, too, play, has, where, look, who, good, come, does 

Vocabulary: decide, opinion, ragged, marvel, grateful, sort, similar, perfect, endless, experiment, environment, protect, recycle, wisely, encourage 

Writing: write a thank you note, write an opinion poster, write a story with a dialogue