Month
September
Reading
Comprehension
Strategies
* Picture Walk
* Making
predictions
* Literal
comprehension
* Character and
Setting
October
* Story
Mapping
* Search and
find
information
* Retelling
* Literal
comprehension
Writing
lessons
* Launching
Writing
Workshop
Genre:
Writing (and
Read-alouds
where
applicable)
* Personal
Narratives
* Developing
ideas for small
moments
(telling a story
across your
fingers)
* Composing
small
moments
* Organization
Essential
Questions/
Big Ideas
* How can
pictures
help us
understand
a book?
* How can
we make
predictions
about a
book?
* Personal
Narratives
* How can
we tell
stories?
* What are
the
important
story
elements?
* How are
books
organized?
Classroom
publications
/
Organizers
* Reading
Street
prediction
chart
Phonics
* short vowels
sounds
* CVC(e)
(“Bossy” e)
* Story Map
* Story map
* Retell
organizer
* Consonant
blends
* Inflected
endings (-s, ed, -ing) (two
weeks)
* Consonant
digraphs
Vocabulary
Resources
IRA Themes
* Prediction
* Personal
Narrative
*Retell
* Types of
Punctuation
* Fluency
* Character
* Setting
* Memoirs/
Personal
Narratives
* Problem
* Solution
*Beginning,
Middle, End
* Organization
* Family
* Mem Fox
(author study)
* Memoirs/
Personal
narratives
November
December
* Retelling
* Visualizing
* Inferring
* Making
connections
* Retelling
* Non-fiction
text features
* Main-idea and
details
* Search and
find
information
* Revising
* Using
outline for
“how to
respond to a
writing
prompt” to
respond to a
prompt.
* Personal
Narratives
* Responding
to a prompt
* How can
visualizing
help us
understand
a story?
* Personal
Narratives
* r-controlled
vowels (ar, or,
ore)
*contractions
(n’t, ‘s, ‘ll, ‘m)
* How can
we tell how
characters
feel?
* r-controlled
vowels (ir, er,
ur)
* How can
we revise
our writing?
* Plurals (-s, es, -ies) (two
weeks)
* How can
we relate to
books?
* How can
we explain
our ideas?
* How are
books
organized?
* How can
we learn
from books?
* Outline for
how to
respond to a
prompt
* Plurals (-s, es, -ies)
* long a: a, ai,
ay
* long e: e, ee,
ea, y
* Visualize
* Inference
* Revise
* Text-to-self
* Text-toworld
* Text-to-text
* Connections
* Memoirs/
Personal
Narratives
* Prompt
* Text features
* Contents,
glossary, index,
captions,
headings
* main idea/
details
* head,
abdomen,
thorax
(entomological
terms)
* Author study
– Kevin
Henkes
* Circular
Stories
* Memorable
language
* Insects
(fiction/nonfiction)
January
February
* Retelling
* Non-fiction
text features
* Searching and
using
information
* Main-idea and
details
* Analyzing
* Non-fiction
text features
* Main idea and
details
* Searching and
using
information
* Analyzing
* Retelling
* Making
connections
* Lessons
learned
* Organizing a
text across
five pages
* Non-fiction
animal texts
* Using text
features to
create
structure
* Revising
non-fiction
texts
* Adding
information
and text
features to
non-fiction
texts
* How can
we organize
a non-fiction
book?
* Non-fiction
animal texts
* compound
words
* How can
we learn
from books?
* Non-fiction
animal texts
* How can
we revise
non-fiction
texts?
* How can
we present
books?
* Why did
cultures tell
folktales?
* long o: o, oa,
ow
* Text features:
headings,
captions,
glossary, index
* Animals
(Jenkins)
* Animals
(Gail Gibbons)
* folktales
* pourquoi
* wishes
* trickster
* biography
* Folktales
(pourquoi/
wishes/
trickster)
* long i: i, igh,
ie, y
* Non-fiction
animal texts
* comparative
endings (-er/est) (two
weeks)
* Syllables
C + le
* Pinkney
biographies
(Author
study/AfricanAmerican
history
makers)
March
April
* Non-fiction
text features
* Main idea and
details
* Making
connections
* Theme
* Lessons
learned
* Analyzing
* Non-fiction
text features
* Main idea and
details
* Analyzing
* Theme
* Lessons
learned
* Adding text
features to
biographies
* All about
me texts
* Crafting
effective lead
sentences
* Adding
details with
voice
* Planning a
letter
* Drafting
letters
* Persuasive
writing
* How can
we write
about our
lives?
* All about
me texts
* Vowels (oo,
u)
* All about
me page and
detail
planner
* Diphthongs
(ou/ow)
* How can
* Persuasive
we persuade letters
someone to
trust our
ideas?
* How can
we compose
letters?
* lead sentence
* voice
* Author study
(Jan Brett)
* Challenges
* Diphthongs
(oi/oy)
* Vowels (oo,
ue, ew, ui)
* Suffixes (-ly,
- ful, -er,- or)
* Persuade
* Salutation
* Body
* Prefixes (un- * Closing
, re-, pre-, dis- * Signature
)
* Concession
* silent
consonants
(kn, wr, g, b)
* Letters,
Journals,
Cards
* Friendship
* Conflict
May
June
* Analyzing
* Summarizing
* Non-fiction
text features
* Main idea and
details
* Summarizing
* Editing
letters
* Making
concessions
* Persuasive
writing
* Poetry
* Biopoems
* Poetry
* Acrostic
poems
* Haikus
* Color poems
* Sensory
poems
* Using a
thesaurus to
find words
with shades of
meaning.
* How can
we write
poetry?
* Reviewing
year’s
curriculum
* Persuasive
letter
* Biopoems
* Acrostic
poems
* Haikus
* Color
poems
* Sensory
poems
* ph, gh /f/
* Biopoems
* Acrostic
poems
* Haikus
* Color
poems
* Sensory
poems
* syllables (ture, -tion)
* Vowels (aw,
au, augh, al)
* Contractions
(‘t,’d, ‘re, ‘ve)
* Inflected
endings (-ed, ied, -ing)
* suffixes (ness, -less)
* pre-fixes
(mis-, mid-)
* Persuade
* Salutation
* Body
* Closing
* Signature
* Concession
* Poem
* Biopoem
* Acrostic
poem
* Haiku
* Imagery
* Poetry
* Poem
* Biopoem
* Acrostic
poem
* Haiku
* Imagery
* Poetry
* Legends/Tall
Tales
* Communities