FIFTH GRADE READING STREET ’08 LONG RANGE PLANS Unit Date Main Selection Genre 1.1 Frindle Humorous Fiction 1.2 Thunder Rose Tall Tale 1.3 Island of Blue Dolphins Historical Fiction 1.4 Satchel Paige Biography 1.5 Shutting Out the Sky Expository Nonfiction 2.1 Inside Out Realistic Fiction 2.2 Passage to Freedom Biography 2.3 The Ch’i-lin Purse Folk Tale 2.4 Jane Goodall’s Wildlife Expository Nonfiction 2.5 Midnight Ride Paul Revere Poem Birmingham City Schools Reading K-5 Skill/Strategy Character/Plot Use Prior Knowledge Word Structure Cause & Effect Monitor & Fix Up Context Clues Theme & Setting Visualize Dictionary/Glossary Sequence Ask Questions Context Clues Cause & Effect Summarize Context Clues Compare/Contrast Answer Questions Word Structure Author’s Purpose Monitor & Fix Up Dictionary/Glossary Compare/Contrast Predict Word Structure Fact and Opinion Ask Questions Context Clues Sequence Graphic Organizers Word Structure Grammar Writing Spelling 4 Kinds of Sentences Narrative Prewriting Short Vowels VCCV, VCV Subjects and Predicates Narrative Drafting Long Vowel VCV Narrative Revising Long Vowel Digraphs Narrative Editing Endings -ed, -ing Common & Proper Nouns Narrative Publishing Contractions Regular & Irregular Plural Nouns How-to Report Prewriting Digraphs th, sh, ch, ph Possessive Nouns How-to Report Drafting Irregular Plurals Action & Linking Verbs How-to Report Revising Vowel Sounds with r Main and Helping Verbs How-to Report Editing Final Syllables -en, -an, -el, -le, -il Subject-Verb Agreement How-to Report Publishing Final Syllables er, ar, or Ind. & Dependent Clauses Compound & Complex Sentences Unit Date Main Selection Genre 3.1 Wings for the King Play 3.2 Leonardo’s Horse Biography 3.3 Dinosaurs of W. Hawkins Biography 3.4 Mahalia Jackson Expository Nonfiction 3.5 Special Effects Film & TV Expository Nonfiction 4.1 Weslandia Fiction 4.2 Stretching Ourselves Expository Nonfiction 4.3 Exploding Ants Expository Nonfiction 4.4 The Stormi Giovanni Club Play 4.5 The Gymnast Autobiography Birmingham City Schools Reading K-5 Skill/Strategy Grammar Writing Author’s Purpose Story Structure Context Clues Main Idea Summarize Word Structure Past, Present, and Future Tenses Principal Parts of Regular Verbs Compare/ Contrast Prewriting Compare/ Contrast Drafting Fact and Opinion Predict Context Clues Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs Compare/ Contrast Revising Main Idea Graphic Organizers Context Clues Graphic Sources Prior Knowledge Word Structure Draw Conclusions Answer Questions Word Structure Generalize Predict Context Clues Graphic Sources Monitor and Fix Up Context Clues Generalize Story Structure Context Clues Draw Conclusions Visualize Word Structure Troublesome Verbs Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases Compare/ Contrast Editing Compare/ Contrast Publishing Spelling Schwa Compound Words Consonant Sounds /j/,/ks/,/sk/,/s/ One Consonant or Two Prefixes un-, de-, dis- Subject and Object Pronouns Story Prewriting Pronouns and Antecedents Story Drafting Possessive Pronouns Story Revising Homophones Indefinite and Reflexive Pronouns Story Editing Suffixes -ible, -able Using Who and Whom Story Publishing Negative Prefixes Words from Many Cultures Prefixes over-, under-, subsuper-, out- Unit Date Main Selection Genre 5.1 The Three-Century Woman Humorous Fiction 5.2 The Unsinkable Wreck Narrative Nonfiction 5.3 Talk with an Astronaut Interview 5.4 Journey to Center Earth Science Fiction 5.5 Ghost Towns American West Expository Nonfiction 6.1 At the Beach Realistic Fiction 6.2 Mystery St. Matthew Island Case Study 6.3 King Midas Golden Touch Myth 6.4 The Hindenburg Expository Nonfiction 6.5 Sweet Music in Harlem Realistic Fiction Birmingham City Schools Reading K-5 Skill/Strategy Character and Plot Prior Knowledge Word Structure Graphic Sources Ask Questions Dictionary/Glossary Author’s Purpose Monitor and Fix Up Context Clues Cause and Effect Summarize Context Clues Generalize Graphic Organizers Word Structure Draw Conclusions Visualize Dictionary/Glossary Main Idea Text Structure Word Structure Compare & Contrast Answer Questions Word Structure Fact and Opinion Ask Questions Context Clues Sequence Prior Knowledge Contest Clues Grammar Contractions and Negatives Adjectives and Articles This, That, These, and Those Comparative & Superlative Adjectives Adverbs Modifiers Writing Persuasive Prewriting Spelling Multisyllabic Words Persuasive Drafting Unusual Spellings Persuasive Revising Greek Word Parts Persuasive Editing Latin Roots Persuasive Publishing Related Words Research Prewriting Suffixes -ous, -sion, -ion, ation Final Syllable Conjunctions Research Drafting -ant, -ent, -ance, -ence Commas Research Revising Words with ei and ie Quotations and Quotation Marks Research Editing Compound Words Punctuation Research Publishing Easily Confused Words