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Language Arts
WONDERS
Unit 1 Weeks 1 & 2
Gary the Dreamer
Sharing Cultures
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Communities
Genre Focus: Narrative Nonfiction
Essential Question: How do people from different cultures contribute to a community?
Comprehension Skill: Sequencing
Writers tell stories in sequence, or in the order that events happened, from beginning to end.
Comprehension Strategy: Asking Questions
Good readers ask quesitons as they read, then they read the text again to make sure they understand.
Vocabulary Skill: Compound Words
Target Vocabulary Words:
admires classmate community contribute
practicing pronounced scared tumbled
Unit 1 Weeks 3 & 4:
Yoon and the Jade Bracelet
Family Traditions
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Traditions
Genre Focus: Realistic Fiction
Essential Question: What can traditions teach you about cultures?
Comprehension Skill: Sequencing
The sequence of a story tells what happens at the beginning, middle, and end.
Comprehension Strategy: Visualizing
Good readers make pictures in their minds as they read. Creating a mental image will help you better understand the characters and their actions.
Vocabulary Skill: Context Clues
Target Vocabulary Words:
celebrate courage disappointment precious
pride remind symbols tradition
Unit 1 Week 5:
Protecting Our Parks
5 Questions for George McDonald
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Landmarks
Genre Focus: Argumentative
Essential Question: How do landmarks help us understand our country's story?
Comprehension Skill: Main Ideas and Details
The main idea is the most important point that an author makes about a topic. The details are important pieces of information that support that idea.
Comprehension Strategy: Asking Questions
Good readers ask questions as they read, then they read the text again to make sure they understand.
Vocabulary Skill: Multiple Meaning Words
Target Vocabulary Words:
landmark carved clues grand
massive monument national traces
Unit 2 Weeks 1 & 2:
Vote!
A Plan for the People
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Government
Genre Focus: Expository Text
Comprehension Skill: Author's Point of View
To find the author's point of view, you can look for details in the text that show what the author thinks.
Comprehension Strategy: Rereading
Good readers reread something they don't fully understand.
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes
Target Vocabulary Words:
announced candiates convince decisions
elect estimate government independent
Unit 2 Weeks 3 & 4
The Castle on Hester Street
Next Stop, America!
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Immigration
Genre Focus: Historical Fiction
Essential Question: Why do people immigrate to new places?
Comprehension Skill: Identifying Theme
The theme of a story is the author's message. The theme is different than the topic.
Comprehension Strategy: Making Predictions
You can use story structure and clues to predict what will happen next.
Vocabulary Skill: Similes
Target Vocabulary Words:
arrived immigrated inspected moment
opportunity photographs valuable whispered
Unit 2 Week 5
The Inventor Thinks up Helicopter
Montgolfier's Brothers' Hot Air Balloon
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Target Skills:
Key Concept: Figure it Out
Genre Focus: Poetry
Essential Quesiton: How do people figure things out?
Comprehension Skill: Identifying Point of View
A reader must pay attention to details to find the narrator's thoughts, then ask, "How does my point of view compare to the narrator's?
Literary Elements: Alliteration and Rhyme
An example of alliteration is: Pelicans pecked peppers.
An example of rhyme is the following words: tree, mystery, and be
Vocabulary Skill: Similes
Target Vocabulary Words:
bounce imagine inventor observer
alliteration free verse limerick rhyme
Unit 3 Weeks 1 & 2:
Earth
Why the Sun Is Red
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Discoveries
Genre Focus: Expository Text
Essential Question: What do we know about Earth and it's neighbors?
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Details
The main idea is the most important point that an author makes about a topic. The details are important pieces of information that support that idea.
Comprehension Strategy: Summarizing
When you summarize, you state the most important ideas and details in a text.
Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes
Target Vocabulary Words:
amount astronomy globe solar system
support surface temperature warmth
Unit 3 Weeks 3 & 4:
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
Get a Backbone!
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Be Unique
Genre Focus: Folktale
Essential Question: What makes different animals unique?
Comprehension Skill: Problem and Solution
In a story, the plot often has a problem, which is the conflict, and a solution, which is how the problem is solved.
Comprehension Strategy: Visualizing
Good readers make pictures in their minds as they read. Creating a mental image will help you better understand the characters and their actions.
Vocabulary Skill: Context Clues
Target Vocabulary Words:
disbelief dismay fabulous features
offered splendid unique watchful
Unit 3 Week 5:
Birth of an Anthem
Discovering Life Long Ago
**Reread these selections at home to practice fluency.**
Target Skills:
Key Concept: Value the Past
Genre Focus: Expository
Essential Question: How is each event in history unique?
Comprehension Skill: Sequencing
The sequence of a story tells what happens at the beginning, middle, and end.
Comprehension Strategy: Summarizing
When you summarize, you state the most important ideas and details in a text.
Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes
Target Vocabulary Words:
agreeable appreciate boomed descendents
population resources transportation vehicles
