Visions Basic
Scope and Sequence
CHAPTER A
At School
Letters and Sounds
Language and Vocabulary
Reading And Writing
Consonants: b, g,
m, s, t
Vowel: a
Greetings
Introductions
page 2
CHAPTER B
In the
Classroom
Mr./Mrs./Miss/Ms.
Consonants: c, d, f,
n, p
Vowel: o
page 14
CHAPTER C
Classmates
page 28
Introductions
Where are you from?
The American Flag
Countries/Nationalities
Numbers 1–10
Colors
Consonants: h, j, l,
v, x
Vowels: i, u
Clothes
Sentences and Questions
Numbers 11–20
Parts of the Body
How old are you?
CHAPTER D
Around the
School
page 40
Consonants: k, q, r,
w, y, z
School Places, Objects,
and People
Vowel: e
Prepositions
School Workers
Asking For and Giving
Directions
Scope and Sequence
v
Visions Basic
Scope and Sequence
CHAPTER 1
In the
School
Office
Vocabulary
Listen, Speak, Build
Interact
Vocabulary
Grammar
Focus
Word
Study
Use Prior
Knowledge
In the
School
Office
Making
Requests
Subject
Pronouns
Short
Vowels: a,
e, i, o, u
Information
About You
The Calendar:
Days of the
Week
Months of the
Year
page 52
Possessive
Adjectives
Ordinal
Numbers
CHAPTER 2
About My
Family
Family
Members
Describing
People
Pets
Adjectives for
Describing
People
page 66
Simple Present
Tense of be
Simple Present
Tense of be:
Negative
Long
Vowels: a,
i, o, u
Describe a
Baby
Contractions
with be
CHAPTER 3
Activities
After
School
Talking About
Activities
Sports and
Arts Activities
Simple
Present
Talking About
Activities in
Different
Rooms
Furniture and
Objects in
Different
Rooms of a
Home
There is /
There are
Time and
Schedules
Present
Continuous
Long e
Sound: ee,
ea
Trying
Something
New
page 80
CHAPTER 4
Home
page 94
Homes
Rooms of a
Home
Community
Talking About
Places and
Community
The
Transportation Places and
Community
Transportation
page 108
CHAPTER 5
vi
Scope and Sequence
-ing Spelling
Rules
Compound
Words
Feelings
About Home
Newspapers
Digraphs:
ch, sh, th,
wh, ng
Visions Basic
Build
Background
Text
Structure
Reading
Beyond the
Reading
From Reading
to Writing
Projects
Parents and
Guardians
A Form
Student
Information
Form
Scan for
Information
Filling Out a
Form
Project 1: Make a Class
Birthday Book
Writing Dates
Project 2: Make a Class
Calendar
Writing Phone
Numbers
Writing
Addresses
Dimples
Roller
Skating
Petunias
Community
Service
Rhyming
Poem
Free Verse
Poem
Vignette
Newspaper
Article
“My Baby
Brother”
Find Words
That Rhyme
by Mary Ann
Hoberman
Shared
Reading
“74th Street”
Organize
Pictures
by Myra
Cohn
Livingston
Retell the Story
Think About
the Picture
by Sandra
Cisneros
Compare
with Words
Newspaper
Articles
Scan for
Information
Project 1: Family
Member Presentation
Project 2: Make and
Organize Rhyme Cards
Paragraph
About a
Favorite Activity
Project 1: Activities
Collage
Paragraph
About a Future
Home
Project 1: Create Your
Dream Home
Informational
Paragraph
Project 1: Make a
Transportation Graph
Act Out the
Poem
“A House
of My Own”
Who / What /
When /
Where / Why
Describing a
Family Member
Project 2: Favorite
Activity Presentation
Project 2: Find
Compound Nouns
Project 2: Create a
School Newspaper
Scope and Sequence
vii
Visions Basic
Scope and Sequence
Vocabulary
CHAPTER 6
Food
Listen, Speak, Build
Interact
Vocabulary
Grammar
Focus
Word Study
Use Prior
Knowledge
Breakfast,
Talking About
Lunch, and
Foods and
Dinner Foods Diet
Table Settings Count and
Noncount
Nouns
Plural Count
Nouns:
Spelling and
Pronunciation
What Foods
Are Healthy?
Coins and
Bills
Talking About
Money and
Prices
Ways to Pay
Comparative
Adjectives
The Prefix re-
What Do
You Wish
For?
Jobs
Talking About
Jobs
Job Tools
and Objects
Object
Pronouns
The Suffix -er
How Do You
Order Fast
Food?
Holidays
Talking About
Holidays
Holidays
Throughout
the Year
Past Tense:
Consonant
be and
Clusters: s
Regular Verbs Blends
Feelings
Talking About
Feelings
Verbs Related Future Tense
to Feelings
with will
page 122
CHAPTER 7
Money
page 136
CHAPTER 8
Jobs
page 150
CHAPTER 9
Holidays
Leaders
page 164
CHAPTER 10
Feelings
page 178
Future Tense
with will:
Negative
Contractions
with will
viii
Scope and Sequence
Long and
Short Vowel
Review
Feelings
About the
First Day of
School
Visions Basic
Build
Background
Text
Structure
Reading
Beyond the
Reading
From Reading
to Writing
Projects
Pyramids
Informational
Text
“The Food
Guide
Pyramid”
Analyze Your
Diet
Paragraph About
Diet
Project 1: Make a
Food Pyramid Poster
Compare Your
Diet to the
Food Guide
Pyramid
Topic Sentence
and Details
Project 2: Make a
Class Recipe Book
“King Midas
and the
Golden
Touch”
Make a Story
Timeline
Opinion
Paragraph
Project 1: Make a
Menu
Retell the Story
Phrases for
Expressing
Opinions
Project 2: Create a
Store
“How to Take
a Fast-Food
Order”
Illustrate the
Order of
Events
“How-To”
Paragraph
Project 1: Invite a
Guest Speaker to
Class
Gold
Cash
Registers
Myth
“How-To”
Narration
Sequence Words
Retell the
Sequence of
Events
Project 2: Give a
“How-To”
Presentation
Act Out the
Sequence of
Events
Peaceful
Protest
Monsters
Biography
Poem
“Martin Luther
King Jr.:
American
Leader”
Fill In a
Timeline
“Patti Bennett”
Compare and
Contrast
by Mel Glenn
Autobiography
Project 1: American
Holiday Presentation
Draw a Picture
Project 2: Timeline
of a Famous
American’s Life
Personal Letter
Project 1: Keep a
Diary
Greeting and
Closing
Project 2: Act It Out
The 100 Most Frequently Used English Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Learning Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Grammar Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Skills Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Scope and Sequence
ix
Tviii
Scope and Sequence
Identify
Words
About
Setting
5. “Sadako and
the Thousand
Paper Cranes”
by Eleanor Coerr
p. 54
Capitalization:
Names and titles
Spelling: Plurals
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Reading Key
Phrases
Rapid Word
Recognition
Build
Reading
Fluency
View and Think: Compare and Contrast Cultures
Recognize
Root Words
and the
Suffix -ish
Analyze the
Suffix -ful
Use a
Thesaurus or
Synonym
Finder to Find
Synonyms
Identify
Compound
Words
Word
Study
Understand
Recognize
Characterization Adjectives
Ending in -ed
Instructions
Identify Rhyme
Understand
Author’s
Purpose
Recognize
First-Person
Point of View
Elements of
Literature
Write a Personal Narrative About a Trip
Writer’s Workshop
p. 70
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
for
Quotations
Reading
Chunks of
Words
Present a Narrative About Your
Favorite Holiday
Spelling: Adverbs
ending in -ly
Punctuation:
Apostrophes with
contractions
Capitalization:
Titles
Capitalization:
Towns, cities,
and countries
Spelling:
Abbreviations of
measurements
Viewing Workshop
p. 69
Identify Cause
and Effect
Compare Text
Events with
Your Own
Experiences
Describe
Capitalization:
Echo Read
Mental Images Holidays
Aloud
Spelling:
To/Two/Too
Spelling: Plurals for
words ending in -fe
Capitalization: I
Read Aloud to Punctuation:
Show
Periods at the end
Understanding of sentences
Spelling: Irregular
plural nouns
Compare and
Contrast
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 68
Apply and Expand
Personal
Narrative
Identify
Words That
Show Time
4. “Turkish
Delight” by
Hamdiye Çelik
p. 42
Novel Based
on a True
Story
Poem
3. “Thanksgiving” Learn
by Miriam Nerlove Words for
p. 26
Foods
Poem and
Personal
Narrative
Text
Structure
Folktale
Learn
Words for
Family
Members
Build
Vocabulary
2. “Coyote” by
Learn
Andrew Matthews Words for
p. 14
Animal
Sounds
1. “Family Photo”
by Ralph Fletcher,
and “Birthday
Barbecue” by
Carmen Lomas
Garza
p. 2
Chapter
Unit 1: Traditions and Cultures
Write a
Fictional
Narrative
Write a
Personal
Narrative
Write a
Narrative
About a
Holiday
Write a
Narrative
Write a
Personal
Narrative
From
Reading to
Writing
Math: Learn
Geometric
Shapes and
Vocabulary
The Arts:
Design a
Turkish Rug
Social Studies:
Read a Map
Science: Learn
About Food
Chains
Math: Analyze
a Bar Graph
Across
Content
Areas
2. Give a Cross-Cultural Presentation
1. Create a Poster About a New Tradition
Projects
p. 72
Recognize
Possessive
Nouns
Use the Verb
To Be with
Complements
Use Subject
Pronouns
Identify
Subjects and
Verbs in
Sentences
Use Present
Continuous
Tense Verbs
Grammar
Focus
Visions A
Scope and Sequence
Build
Reading
Fluency
Read Silently
View, Compare, and Contrast: Respond to Media
Perform an Interview
Examine Visual
Features
Discuss the
Theme
Review
Personification
Understand
Character
Motivation
Recognize
Free Verse
Elements of
Literature
Write Rules
Writer’s Workshop
p. 146
Punctuation:
Adjust Your
Exclamation points Reading Rate
Spelling: Consonant to Scan
before -le
Capitalization:
Audio CD
Titles of people
Reading
and books, names Practice
of countries,
peoples, languages
Punctuation: Italics
Spelling: I before e
Punctuation:
Quotation marks
for dialogue
Punctuation:
Semicolons
Spelling: It’s vs. its Repeated
Punctuation: Italics Reading
for emphasis
Spelling: Schwa
sound and rcontrolled vowels
Spelling:
Echo Read
desert/dessert
Aloud
Spelling: Long
vowel sounds and
the -ed suffix
Spelling: Ou sound
Capitalization: First
word in a sentence
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Viewing Workshop
p. 145
Outline
Information to
Understand
Reading
Draw
Conclusions
Identify Main
Idea and
Details
Distinguish
Facts From
Opinions
Describe
Images
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 144
Apply and Expand
5. “Rain Forest
Use Text
Creatures” by
Features
Will Osborne and
Mary Pope
Osborne
p. 132
Informational
Text
Narrative
Fiction
4. “Gonzalo” by
Paul Fleischman
p. 118
Use Word
Squares to
Remember
Meanings
Fable
3. “Why the
Understand
Rooster Crows at Words in
Sunrise” by
Context
Lynette Dyer
Vuong
p. 106
Interview
Take Notes
as You
Read
2. “Subway
Architect” by
Patrick Daley
p. 92
Text
Structure
Use Context A Poem
to
Understand
Vocabulary
Build
Vocabulary
1. “Here Is the
Southwestern
Desert” by
Madeleine
Dunphy
p. 76
Chapter
Unit 2: Environment
Learn Word
Origins
Use the
Dictionary
Learn About
Words with
Multiple
Meanings
Learn About
the Prefix
Sub-
Recognize
Word Origins
Word
Study
Write a
Personal
Narrative
Write a Poem
About the
Environment
From
Reading to
Writing
Write an
Informational
Report
Write
Narrative
Fiction
Social Studies:
Read Pie
Charts
Science: Learn
About Plants
Science:
Learn About
Conservation
The Arts:
Design a Mural
Science: Learn
About Types
of Climate
Across
Content
Areas
2. Prepare and Present a News Report
1. Make a Poster of a Special Environment
Projects
p. 148
Identify the
Subject and
Verb of a
Sentence
Recognize
and Use
Comparative
Adjectives
Identify Object Write a Fable
Pronouns
Identify and
Punctuate
Questions
Identify the
Simple
Present Tense
Grammar
Focus
Visions A
Scope and Sequence
Tix
Tx
Scope and Sequence
Use
Synonyms
to Find
Meaning
Learn
Words
Related to
Stress in
Context
4. “Talking in
the New Land”
by Edite Cunhã
p. 190
5. “Plain Talk
About Handling
Stress” by Louis
E. Kopolow, M.D.
p. 206
Build
Reading
Fluency
Reading
Silently
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
to Memorize
View, Compare, and Contrast: Learn About
the Civil Rights Movement
Use Headings
to Find
Information
Analyze
Characters
Recognize
Problems and
Resolutions
Identify Tone
Recognize
Repetition
Elements of
Literature
Locate
Meanings,
Pronunciations, and
Origins of
Words
Learn the
Prefix Dis-
Identify
Homophones
Form
Contractions
Recognize
Homographs
Word
Study
Response to Literature: Write a Review
of Literature
Writer’s Workshop
p. 224
Punctuation: Colon Adjust Your
to introduce a list
Reading Rate
to Scan
Spelling: Ph➞/f/
and silent p
Punctuation:
Quotation marks
Capitalization:
Headings
Spelling:
Rapid Word
Abbreviations of
Recognition
addresses
Punctuation: Italics
for words from
other languages
Spelling: Silent gh
before t
Capitalization:
Family members’
names
Literary Response: Report Your Favorite
Selection
Identify Main
Idea and
Details
Summarize to
Recall Ideas
Viewing Workshop
p. 223
Informational
Text
Personal
Narrative
Punctuation:
Commas in dates
Spelling: There,
they’re, their
Capitalization:
Letter greetings
and closings
Punctuation:
Comma between
city and state
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Analyze Cause Punctuation: Colon Read Aloud
and Effect
to Engage
Spelling: Silent w
Listeners
before r
Punctuation:
Comma for direct
address
Recognize
Sequence of
Events
Make
Inferences
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 222
Apply and Expand
Define
Words
Related to
Nature
3. “The Peach
Boy” by Suzanne
Barchers
p. 176
Play
Find
Diary
Antonyms in
a Thesaurus
2. “Zlata’s Diary”
by Zlata Filipović
p. 162
Text
Structure
Learn Words Song Lyrics
About
Freedom
Build
Vocabulary
1. “We Shall
Overcome”
p. 152
Chapter
Unit 3: Conflict and Cooperation
Write an
Informational
Text
Write to Solve
a Problem
Write a
Summary
2. Present a Radio Program
1. Create a Storyboard
Projects
p. 226
Recognize
Complex
Sentences
with If
Use Could
and Couldn’t
Use
Compound
Sentences
With and
Across
Content
Areas
Language Arts:
Learn Different
Meanings of
Conflict
Language Arts:
Learn About
Graphic
Features
Science:
Classify Fruits
and Vegetables
Social Studies:
Learn the
Points of the
Compass
Write Lyrics for The Arts: Learn
a Song About About Types of
the Future
Songs
From
Reading to
Writing
Use Verbs with Write Your
Opinion
Infinitives
Talk About the
Future Using
Will and Shall
Grammar
Focus
Visions A
View and Think: Compare and Contrast Biographies
Give a Descriptive Presentation
Word
Study
Grammar
Focus
Understand
the Prefix un-
Recognize
Imagery
Write a Biography
Identify the
Suffix -er
Analyze Style in Identify the
a Speech
Suffix -ion
Recognize
Third-Person
Point of View
Write a Poem
Write a
Persuasive
Speech
Write a
Biography
Write a
Legend
From
Reading to
Writing
2. Be a Hero
1. Interviews About Heroes
Projects
p. 284
Recognize
Reported
Speech
Recognize
Commands
with Let
Identify
Prepositional
Phrases
of Time
Determine Main Use the Suffix Use
and Minor
Prepositional
-ly to Form
Characters
Phrases
Adverbs
Elements of
Literature
Writer’s Workshop
p. 282
Audio CD
Reading
Practice
Viewing Workshop
p. 281
Compare and
Contrast
Echo Read
Aloud
Reading
Chunks of
Words
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 280
Apply and Expand
Poem
Spelling: Ui for the
long /u/ sound, ch
for the /k/ sound
Punctuation:
Commas to
separate
dependent
adjective clauses
Spelling: Silent t
before ch
Spelling:
Abbreviations
4. “My Father Is
a Simple Man”
by Luis Omar
Salinas, and
“Growing Up” by
Liz Ann Báez
Aguilar
p. 266
Use Word
Squares to
Remember
Meaning
Build
Reading
Fluency
Punctuation: Italics, Repeated
hyphen, and
Reading
exclamation point
Spelling: Silent k
in kn
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Spelling: Ew for
long /u/
Punctuation:
Hyphens in
numbers
Punctuation:
Ellipses
Use
Chronological
Order to
Recall and
Locate
Information
Make
Predictions
Reading
Strategy
3. “Nelson
Infer Meanings Biography
Draw
Mandela” by Jack of Homonyms and Speech Inferences
L. Roberts, and
“The Inaugural
Address, May 10,
1994” by
Nelson Mandela
p. 252
Biography
Recognize
Baseball
Terms
2. “Roberto
Clemente”
p. 242
Text
Structure
Evaluate Your Legend
Understanding
of Words
Build
Vocabulary
1. “The Ballad
of Mulan”
p. 230
Chapter
Unit 4: Heroes
Social Studies:
Read
Advertisements
for Jobs
Social Studies:
Read a
Timeline
Science:
Learn About
Earthquakes
Social Studies:
Use Map
Features to
Read a Map
Across
Content
Areas
Visions A
Scope and Sequence
Txi
Txii
Scope and Sequence
Use Different
Resources to
Find Meaning
4. “The Solar
System”
p. 326
Rapid Word
Recognition
View and Think: Discuss What People Are Exploring
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
to Scan
Give an Oral Report About Your Community
Capitalization:
Planets
Spelling:
Abbreviations for
temperature
Spelling: Irregular
plurals
Punctuation:
Apostrophe for
possession
Spelling: Ea for the
long /e/ sound
Punctuation:
Read Aloud
Periods for
to Engage
vertical lists
Listeners
Punctuation:
Colon for times
Spelling: Qu for the
/kw/ sound
Capitalization:
Months
Spelling: Gh for
the /f/ sound
Spelling: Silent t
and silent l
Viewing Workshop
p. 345
Informational Summarize
Text
Information
Build
Reading
Fluency
Spelling: Oa for the Read Silently
long /o/ sound
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 344
Apply and Expand
Use a
Informational Recognize
Dictionary
Text
Cause and
to Locate
Effect
Meanings and
Relationships
Pronounce
Words
3. “Using the
Scientific
Method” by
Stephen Kramer
p. 312
Make
Inferences
from Text
Evidence
Science
Fiction
Explore
Multiple
Meaning
Words
2. “The Fun
They Had” by
Isaac Asimov
p. 298
Draw
Conclusions
Reading
Strategy
Personal
Narrative
Text
Structure
Use Context
to Identify
Correct
Homophones
Build
Vocabulary
1. “Eye to Eye”
by Sylvia Earle
p. 288
Chapter
Unit 5: Explorations
Recognize
Compound
Adjectives
Word
Study
Recognize
Words and
Sounds with
the Spelling
oo
Use Greek
Word Origins
Write a Research Report
Writer’s Workshop
p. 346
Explore
Graphic Aids
Recognize the
Style of Direct
Address
From
Reading to
Writing
Outline an
Informational
Text
Write an
Informational
Text
Science:
Compare
Planet Orbits
Science: Learn
About Sleep
2. Give a Presentation About an Explorer
1. Explore Sources to Answer
Science Questions
Projects
p. 348
Identify
Superlative
Adjectives
Use Might
to Show
Possibility
Science:
Identify Types
of Scientists
Across
Content
Areas
Write an
Science: Define
Ending to a
Internet Terms
Science Fiction
Short Story
Recognize and Write a
Use the Simple Personal
Past Tense
Narrative
Grammar
Focus
Analyze Setting Use the Latin Use
Root Words to Dependent
Find Meaning Clauses with
Because
Analyze
Figurative
Language
Elements of
Literature
Visions A
Informational Paraphrase to
Text
Recall Ideas
Read Silently
and Aloud
Build
Reading
Fluency
View and Think: Compare Presentations of Technology
Give a Persuasive Speech
Reading
Chunks of
Words
Viewing Workshop
p. 405
Spelling: Oi vowel
sound
Spelling: Syllable
boundary patterns
Punctuation: Dash
Punctuation:
Repeated
Hyphens in
Reading
compound
adjectives
Spelling: Open and
closed syllables
Use a
Thesaurus
or Synonym
Finder
Distinguish
Denotative
and
Connotative
Meanings
Word
Study
Understand
the Past
Perfect Tense
Identify
Possessive
Adjectives
Grammar
Focus
Analyze Text
Evidence
Write a Persuasive Letter to the Editor
Learn
Adverbs of
Frequency
Write a
Persuasive
Essay
Write a
Biography
Write a
Paragraph
Write a
Fiction Story
From
Reading to
Writing
Across
Content
Areas
Science: Read
an FAQ Web
Page
Social Studies:
Identify
Symbols
Math: Use
Multiplication
Social Studies:
Learn About
Land Forms
2. Make an Advertisement of a Robot
1. Tell a Story About Your Culture
Projects
p. 408
Use Adverbs
of Frequency
Discuss
Recognize the Understand
Themes Across Suffix -ian
Modal
Cultures
Auxiliaries
Recognize
Style, Tone,
and Mood
Analyze
Characters
Elements of
Literature
Writer’s Workshop
p. 406
Spelling: Voiced vs. Rapid Word
unvoiced th
Recognition
Spelling:
Abbreviation
Capitalization:
Names of public
places
Spelling: Silent h
after w
Spelling: Silent u
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 404
Apply and Expand
Distinguish
Denotative
and
Connotative
Meanings
Identify Cause
and Effect
Identify the
Main Idea
and Details
4. “It Could Still
Be a Robot” by
Allan Fowler and
“High-Tech
Helping Hands”
by
Jane McGoldrick
p. 390
Fiction
Make
Inferences
Reading
Strategy
Biography
Learn Words
About
Emotion
2. “Honus and
Me” by
Dan Gutman
p. 362
Fiction
Text
Structure
3. “The Boy King” Look Up
by Andrea Ross Syllables and
p. 378
Meanings of
Words
Understand
Words in
Context
Build
Vocabulary
1. “Esperanza
Rising” by Pam
Muñoz Ryan
p. 352
Chapter
Unit 6: Connections
Visions A
Scope and Sequence
Txiii
Tviii
Scope and Sequence
Identify
Homonyms
Learn
Words
About
Emotions
4. “Yang the
Youngest” by
Lensey Namioka
p. 40
5. “The
Scholarship
Jacket” by
Marta Salinas
p. 54
Study
Complex
Sentences
with
Dependent
Clauses
Use Could and Write a Short
Couldn’t for
Story
Past Ability
Define Words
with a Latin
Root
Identify Root
Words
Analyze
Character
Motivation
Analyze
Characters
Write a
First-Person
Narrative
Science: Learn
About Nutrition
Social Studies:
Learn the
Meanings of
Culture
Social Studies:
Learn About
Bodies of
Land and
Water
Science:
Learn About
Combustion
Science:
Classify
Animals
Across
Content
Areas
Write to Narrate: Tell How Someone Faced a Challenge 1. Create a Poster About Meeting Challenges
2. Write a Magazine Article or a Web Article
Projects
p. 76
Use And to
Write a
Join Words
Historical
and Sentences Novel
Use Adverbs
Identify
Personification
Write a
Realistic
Adventure
Story
Use the Past
Tense of the
Verb Be
Use Figurative
Language
Write a Poem
From
Reading to
Writing
Understand
Compound
Words
Grammar
Focus
Study Past
Tense Verbs
Word
Study
Analyze the
Distinguish
Suffix -er
Sounds of
Rhyming Words
Elements of
Literature
Writer’s Workshop
p. 74
Reading
Chunks of
Words
Silently
Adjusting
Reading Rate
Rapid Word
Recognition
Reading
Chunks
Compare and Contrast Electronic Media with Written Stories
Punctuation:
Commas in
appositives
Punctuation: Use of
ellipses for omitted
text
Spelling: Words with
the long e sound
Spelling: Words
ending with the
sound /k/
Spelling: Words
ending with -l or -ll
Build
Reading
Fluency
Reading Key
Phrases
Make a Speech: News Report
Find the Main
Idea and
Details
Punctuation:
Apostrophes in
contractions
Capitalization:
Countries and
languages
Spelling: Use the
sound /au/
Spelling:
Abbreviations
Capitalization:
Days of the week
and months of the
year
Spelling: Rcontrolled vowels
Punctuation:
Periods at the end
of sentences
Punctuation:
Quotation marks
for direct quotes
Capitalization:
Names
Spelling:
Plural nouns
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Viewing Workshop
p. 73
Short Story
Compare a
Reading with
Your
Experiences
Predict
Identify Cause
and Effect
Make
Inferences
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 72
Apply and Expand
Identify
Historical
Words
Narrative
About Ships
3. “Antarctic
Adventure” by
Meredith Hooper
p. 28
First-Person
Narrative
Use Context Realistic
Adventure
Fiction
2. “Hatchet” by
Gary Paulsen
p. 14
Poem and
Fable
Text
Structure
Find
Synonyms
Using a
Reference
Build
Vocabulary
1. “The Race” by
Jennifer Trujillo
and “The Camel
Dances” by
Arnold Lobel
p. 2
Chapter
Unit 1: Challenges
Visions B
Scope and Sequence
Interview and Report
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 146
Apply and Expand
5. “The Journal
Find Root
of Jesse Smoke” Words
by Joseph
Bruchac and
“Ancient Ways”
by Elvania Toledo
p. 132
Draw
Conclusions
Determine the
Sequence of
Events
Summarize
Make
Inferences
Reading
Strategy
Build
Reading
Fluency
Spelling: Use ie
or ei
Spelling: Silent l
Spelling: Words
with sound /aw/
Spelling: Adverbs
with the suffix -ly
Punctuation:
Apostrophes for
possession
Spelling: Use the
prefix dis-
Spelling: Silent b
Spelling: Silent gh
Punctuation:
Question marks
Capitalization:
Place names
Punctuation:
Hyphens in
numbers
Understand
Metaphors
Recognize
Style in a
First-Person
Narrative
Understand
Scenes in a
Play
Identify
Flashbacks
Identify
Processes
Elements of
Literature
Write to Persuade:
Write a Letter to the Editor
Writer’s Workshop
p. 148
Read to
Memorize
Choral Read
Aloud
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
Rapid Word
Recognition
Spelling: Use ch
Repeated
for /k/ sound
Reading
Spelling:
Use c for /s/ sound
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Analyze Film or Video:
Tell How a Scene Is Effective
Viewing Workshop
p. 147
Historical
Understand
Fiction Journal the Sequence
of Events
Realistic
Fiction
Identify
Related
Words
4. “Tuck
Triumphant” by
Theodore Taylor
p. 118
Historical
Fiction Diary
Play
Use Varied
Word
Choices
2. “Elizabeth’s
Diary” by
Patricia Hermes
p. 92
Scientific
Informational
Text
Text
Structure
3. “And Now
Use the
Miguel” by
LINK
Joseph Krumgold Strategy
p. 102
Use a Word
Wheel
Build
Vocabulary
1. “Why Do
Leaves Change
Color in the
Fall?” from the
World Wide Web
p. 80
Chapter
Unit 2: Changes
Grammar
Focus
Language Arts:
Understand
Genres of
Literature
Science: Learn
About Trees
Across
Content
Areas
Write a Poem
Math: Use
Rank Order
2. Write a Magazine Article
About a Historical Site
1. Research Life in the United States
Since the Colonial Period
Projects
p. 150
Use the Suffix Use the
-ness
Present
Continuous
Tense
Social Studies:
Learn About
Families
Identify and
Write Dialogue Social Studies:
Use the Future for a Scene in Understand
Conditional
a Play
State Flags
Use the Future Write a Diary
Tense with Will Entry
Write a
Scientific
Informational
Text
From
Reading to
Writing
Use the Suffix Use Adjectives Write a
-less
Before Nouns Realistic Story
Contrast Its
and It’s
Understand
the Suffix -ty
Use
Identify and
Pronunciation Use the
in Context: ph Simple
Present Tense
Word
Study
Visions B
Scope and Sequence
Tix
Tx
Scope and Sequence
Use Multiple Speech
Reference
Aids
Use the
Dictionary
4. “Lance
Armstrong:
Champion
Cyclist” by
President
George W. Bush
p. 190
5. “Earthquake”
by Huynh Quang
Nhuong
p. 202
Build
Reading
Fluency
Reading
Chunks of
Words
Silently
Repeated
Reading
Recognize
Foreshadowing
Writer’s Workshop
p. 218
Rapid Word
Recognition
Identify Style,
Tone, and
Mood in a
Speech
Understand
Tone
Recognize
Chronological
Order and
Transitions
Compare and Contrast Visual and Electronic Media Response to Literature
with Written Stories: Compare Points of View
Spelling: Plurals
Spelling: Adding
-ed and doubling
final consonants
Spelling: Past
tense of words
ending in -y
Spelling:
Adjust Your
To/two/too
Reading Rate
Punctuation:
Colons and dashes
Punctuation:
Semicolons
Capitalization:
Opening and
closing a letter
or diary
Punctuation:
Commas in a
series
Capitalization:
Places and
abbreviations of
names
Present a Biographical Narrative
Draw
Conclusions
and Give
Support
Distinguish
Fact from
Opinion
Use
Chronology to
Locate and
Recall
Information
Find the Main
Idea and
Supporting
Details
Word
Study
Identify TwoWord Verbs
Use
Prepositional
Phrases
Grammar
Focus
Form
Compound
Words
Interpret
Figurative
Language
Across
Content
Areas
Write a Memoir
Write a Speech
Write a Diary
Write a Short
Biography
2. Design a Web Page or an Art Exhibit
Social Studies:
Read a Map
Social Studies:
Read a Chart
Social Studies:
Describe Social
Groups
Science:
Learn About
Temperature
Write a Poem
Science: Learn
About a Feeling About the
Respiratory
System
From
Reading to
Writing
1. Give a Speech
Projects
p. 220
Identify
Pronoun
Referents
Use
Superlative
Adjectives
Use the Suffix Use
-ion
Conjunctions
to Form
Compound
Sentences
Recognize
Proper Nouns
Identify
Identify
Rhyming Words Contractions
Elements of
Literature
Viewing Workshop
p. 217
Memoir
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Use Images to Capitalization:
Echo Read
Understand
Titles of poems
Aloud
and Enjoy
Spelling: It’s and its
Poetry
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 216
Apply and Expand
Use Context Diary
3. “Anne Frank:
The Diary of a
Young Girl” by
Anne Frank
p. 178
Biography
Learn
Synonyms
with
Reference
Aids
2. “Matthew A.
Henson” by
Wade Hudson
p. 166
Poem
Text
Structure
Preview
New
Vocabulary
Build
Vocabulary
1. “Life Doesn’t
Frighten Me” by
Maya Angelou
p. 154
Chapter
Unit 3: Courage
Visions B
Capitalization:
Proper nouns
Capitalization:
Acronyms as
proper nouns
Punctuation:
Parentheses for
information
Punctuation:
Commas within
quotes
Spelling: Silent k
Capitalization:
Proper adjectives
Spelling: Forming
words with double
consonants
Punctuation:
Commas within
large numbers
Capitalization:
Direct quotations
Spelling: Long
vowel sounds
Punctuation: Italics
for emphasis
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Report a Biographical Sketch About a Interpret Important Ideas from Maps: View a
Person’s Hobby
Historical Atlas
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 278
Find the Main
Idea and
Supporting
Details
Use Dialogue
to Understand
Character
Use Graphic
Sources of
Information
Compare and
Contrast
Reading
Strategy
Viewing Workshop
p. 279
Inductive
Organization
4. “Mae Jemison, Adjust
Space Scientist” Reading
by Gail Sakurai
Rate
p. 264
Apply and Expand
Folktale
3. “The Art of
Identify
Swordsmanship” Related
by Rafe Martin
Words
p. 252
Understand Nonfiction
Key Words
Narrative
and Related
Words
2. “Discovering
the Inca Ice
Maiden” by
Johan Reinhard
p. 238
Fiction and
Poem
Text
Structure
Use
Repetition
to Find
Meaning
Build
Vocabulary
1. “The Library
Card” by Jerry
Spinelli and “At
the Library” by
Nikki Grimes
p. 224
Chapter
Unit 4: Discoveries
Spell -ed
Forms of
Verbs
Understand
Historical
Influences on
English Words
Word
Study
Recognize
Flashbacks
Write to Inform: Write an E-mail
Identify Greek
and Latin
Word Origins
Examine
Find Word
Character Traits Origins and
and Changes
Prefixes
Understand
First-Person
Point of View
Recognize a
Writing Style
Elements of
Literature
Writer’s Workshop
p. 280
Reading
Silently
Repeated
Reading
Read to
Scan for
Information
Reading
Chunks of
Words
Silently
Build
Reading
Fluency
Write a Short
Biography
Write a
Folktale
Write a FirstPerson
Nonfiction
Narrative
Write a Story
From
Reading to
Writing
Science:
Understand
Gravity
The Arts: Learn
About Art in
Everyday
Objects
Social Studies:
Understand the
Atmosphere
and Altitude
Language Arts:
Use the Library
Across
Content
Areas
2. Make Discoveries About Your Community
1. Make a Future-Discovery Poster
Projects
p. 282
Use and
Punctuate
Dependent
Clauses with
Although and
When
Use Adverbs
to Show Time
Identify Be +
Adjective +
Infinitive
Identify
Sentences
with Relative
Clauses
Grammar
Focus
Visions B
Scope and Sequence
Txi
Txii
Scope and Sequence
Text
Structure
Identify
Science
Vocabulary
Learn
Words
About Art
3. “Hearing:
The Ear”
p. 316
4. “The Art of
Making Comic
Books” by
Michael Morgan
Pellowski
p. 328
Build
Reading
Fluency
Recognize
Writing Style
View and Think: Evaluate Visual Media
Present an Oral Summary of a
Reading
Write a Persuasive Editorial
Writer’s Workshop
p. 344
Repeated
Reading
Make
Inferences
Using Text
Evidence
Punctuation:
Hyphens
Spelling: Silent w
Capitalization:
Exclamations
Recognize
Descriptive
Language
Analyze Stage
Directions
Recognize
Point of View
Elements of
Literature
Represent Text Capitalization:
Read to
Information in Titles and headings Scan for
an Outline
Information
Spelling: Words
ending in -ing
Punctuation:
Adjust Your
Hyphens
Reading Rate
Punctuation:
Colons
Punctuation: Italics
for stage directions
Spelling: Words
Reading
with two spellings Silently
Capitalization:
Commas after
introductory time
clauses
Spelling: Their,
there, they’re
Punctuation: Italics
for words in other
languages
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Viewing Workshop
p. 343
Illustrated
“How-to”
Book
Textbook
Biography and Compare and
Contrast
Drama
Predict
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 342
Apply and Expand
Find
Synonyms
for Action
Verbs
Use Context Narrative
Clues
Build
Vocabulary
2. “Helen Keller”
by George
Sullivan and
“The Miracle
Worker” by
William Gibson
p. 302
1. “How Tía Lola
Came to Visit
Stay” by
Julia Alvarez
p. 286
Chapter
Unit 5: Communication
The Suffix
-ian
Write a
Narrative with
Dialogue
From
Reading to
Writing
Write an
Illustrated
“How-to”
Article
The Arts: Learn
About Art
Forms
2. Design Your Own Media
1. List Types of Foreign-Language
Communication
Projects
p. 346
Understand
the Present
Conditional
Science: Learn
About Some
Causes of
Diseases
Social Studies:
Read a
Weather Map
Across
Content
Areas
Write to Inform The Arts:
Learn About
the Voice
Recognize and Write a Scene
Use Past
from a Play
Progressive
Verbs
Recognize
the Present
Perfect Tense
Grammar
Focus
Identify Words Recognize
with Greek
Subject
Origins
and Verb
Agreement in
the Present
Tense
Use the
Suffix -ly
Use the
Prefixes
un- and im-
Word
Study
Visions B
Distinguish Speech
Denotative
and
Connotative
Meanings
Identify Key Biography
Words
About
Government
3. “I Have a
Dream” by
Martin Luther
King Jr.
p. 380
4. “Lyndon
Baines Johnson:
Our Thirty-Sixth
President” by
Melissa Maupin
and “Speech to
the Nation: July 2,
1964” by Lyndon
Baines Johnson
p. 392
Punctuation:
Commas after
introductory
phrases
Spelling: th and t;
thr and tr
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Reading
Silently
Build
Reading
Fluency
View and Think: View Videos of Speeches
Give a Persuasive Speech
Spelling: qu for
the kw sound
Punctuation:
Commas in dates
Capitalization:
Proper names
Spelling: Irregular
plurals
Punctuation:
Apostrophes for
singular and plural
possessives
Viewing Workshop
p. 407
Distinguish
Fact from
Opinion
Draw
Conclusions
with Text
Evidence
Recognize
Repetition in
a Speech
Identify
Audience and
Purpose
Understand
Mood
Analyze
Characters
Elements of
Literature
Write a Research Report
Writer’s Workshop
p. 408
Choral Read
Aloud
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
Describe
Spelling: The f
Echo Read
Mental Images sound using f, ph, Aloud
gh
Spelling: Ordinal
numbers
Capitalization:
Titles
Spelling: Silent h
Punctuation: Italics
for emphasis
Use
Chronology to
Locate and
Recall
Information
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 406
Apply and Expand
Use Context Science
Clues
Fiction
2. “A Wrinkle in
Time” by
Madeleine
L’Engle
p. 362
Informational
Text
Text
Structure
Use a Word
Wheel
Build
Vocabulary
1. “The Lewis
and Clark
Expedition”
p. 350
Chapter
Unit 6: Frontiers
Grammar
Focus
Identify
Adjectives
Recognize
Figurative
Language
Understand
Prefixes un-,
in-, and im-
Write a
Biography
Write a
Persuasive
Speech
Write a
Science
Fiction
Narrative
Write an
Informational
Text
From
Reading to
Writing
Social Studies:
Learn About
the Branches
of Government
Social Studies:
Learn About the
United States
Constitution
Science: Learn
About the
Speed of Light
Social Studies:
Use Headings
as You Read
Across
Content
Areas
2. Write a Letter to the President
1. Make a Book About a New Place
Projects
p. 410
Use the
Conjunction
Yet to Show
Contrast
Use
Dependent
Clauses with
That
Identify the
Past Perfect
Tense
Use a
Use
Thesaurus
Appositives
and Synonym
Finder to Find
Synonyms
Word
Study
Visions B
Scope and Sequence
Txiii
Tviii
Scope and Sequence
Text
Structure
Learn
Words
Related to
Train Travel
Spell
Frequently
Misspelled
Words
4. “The Sneak
Thief” by
Falcon Travis
p. 38
5. “The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow”
by Washington
Irving, Adapted
by Jack Kelly
p. 50
View and Think: Analyze a Mystery Movie
Punctuation:
Apostrophes for
contractions
Punctuation:
Ellipses
Spelling: Irregular
plurals
Punctuation:
Apostrophes
for singular
possession
Punctuation:
Quotation marks
for direct
quotations
Spelling: You’re
vs. your
Capitalization:
People’s names
Punctuation:
Question marks
Spelling: Irregular
plurals
Describe an Animal
Identify
Imagery
Build
Reading
Fluency
Analyze
Setting and
Tone
Recognize
Problem and
Resolution
Recognize
Direct
Address
Write Quotes
Use Visuals
Elements of
Literature
Write
Dependent
Clauses
Identify Root
Words and the
Suffix -less
Math: Read a
Bar Graph
Social Studies:
Read a
Population Map
2. Make a Poster About a Mysterious Place
1. Dramatize “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Social Studies:
Read a Timeline
Write Dialogue Language Arts:
in a Mystery
Learn Words
About the Law
Write a
Paragraph
Using
Chronology
Use Pronoun Write a
Referents
Character
Description
Projects
p. 68
Across
Content
Areas
Write a
Math:
Paragraph
Understand
That Describes Length
From
Reading to
Writing
Use
Write an
Prepositional Informational
Phrases
Text
Understand
the
Conjunction
But
Grammar
Focus
Apply Knowledge Identify
of Letter-Sound
Simple,
Correspondences Compound,
and
Complex
Sentences
Write Using
Contractions
Root Words
and Suffixes
Analyze
Compound
Words
Word
Study
Response to Literature: Compare Two Texts
Writer’s Workshop
p. 66
Read Silently
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
for
Quotations
Rapid Word
Recognition
Read Silently
and Aloud
Capitalization: Titles Repeated
Reading
Punctuation:
Periods at the end
of sentences
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Viewing Workshop
p. 65
Legend
Use
Chronology to
Locate and
Recall
Information
Compare the
Text to
Your Own
Experiences
Find the Main
Idea and
Supporting
Details
Make
Inferences
Using Text
Evidence
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 64
Apply and Expand
Informational
Text
Identify
Antonyms
3. “Yawning” by
Haleh V. Samiei
p. 26
Mystery
Informational
Text
Use
Informational
Language
Text
Structure to
Find Meaning
Build
Vocabulary
2. “Mystery of
Learn
the Cliff Dwellers” Context
p. 14
Words by
Grouping
1. “The Loch
Ness Monster” by
Malcolm Yorke
p. 2
Chapter
Unit 1: Mysteries
Visions C
Scope and Sequence
Locate
Fiction
Pronunciations Based on a
of Unfamiliar
True Story
Words
Use a Word
Wheel
4. “Island of the
Blue Dolphins”
by Scott O’Dell
p. 116
5. “The Next
Great Dying” by
Karin Vergoth
and Christopher
Lampton
p. 130
Build
Reading
Fluency
Read Aloud
to Engage
Listeners
Read Silently
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
for
Quotations
View and Think: Describe How Pictures and
Diagrams Show Text Meaning
Role-Play an Interview
Analyze
Deductive and
Inductive
Organization
and
Presentation
Compare and
Contrast
Themes and
Ideas Across
Texts
Identify
Transition
Words
Recognize and
Analyze
Problem
Resolution
Analyze Plot
Elements of
Literature
Grammar
Focus
Identify the
Suffix -ion
Spell
Frequently
Misspelled
Words
Identify
Prefixes overand under-
Understand
the Suffix -ly
Write an
Informational
Text
Write
Instructions
Write an
Informational
Text
Write a Story
to Resolve a
Problem
Write Realistic
Fiction
From
Reading to
Writing
Social Studies:
Read a Timeline
The Arts: List
Game Rules
in Order
Science:
Learn About
Psychology
Social Studies:
Find Compass
Directions
Science:
Identify Food
Groups
Across
Content
Areas
Scope and Sequence
2. Summarize a Real-Life Survival Story
1. Research an Endangered Species
Projects
p. 148
Recognize
Dependent
Clauses
Identify the
Past and the
Past Perfect
Tense
Use Present
Tense and
Subject-Verb
Agreement
Use the
Future Tense
Identify Words Use
with Latin
Progressive
Roots
Tenses
Word
Study
Response to Literature: Write a Survival Manual
Writer’s Workshop
p. 146
Spelling: Au for short Rapid Word
/o/ sound
Recognition
Punctuation: Commas
for large numbers
Punctuation:
Comma for series
Spelling: To/two/too
Spelling: Long and
short sounds for /oo/
Spelling: Ee/ea for
long /e/ sound
Spelling: Plurals
ending in -ies
Punctuation: Periods
for abbreviations
Spelling: Plurals
ending in -s vs. -es
Punctuation:
Quotation marks for
dialogue
Punctuation:
Semicolons
Capitalization:
Name of a type of
transportation
Spelling: Voiced vs.
unvoiced /th/
Punctuation:
Audio
Exclamation point
Reading
Punctuation: Hyphens Practice
for compound
adjectives
Capitalization: Days
of the week
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Viewing Workshop
p. 145
Informational Identify
Text
Cause and
Effect
Paraphrase
to Recall
Information
Informational Distinguish
Text
Fact from
Opinion
Recognize
Tone and
Mood
Make
Inferences
Using Text
Evidence
and
Experience
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 144
Apply and Expand
Learn
Vocabulary
Through
Reading
3. “To Risk or
Not to Risk” by
David Ropeik
p. 102
Adventure
Story
Use
Reference
Sources
2. “The Voyage
of the Frog” by
Gary Paulsen
p. 86
Realistic
Fiction
Text
Structure
Use Precise
Wording
Build
Vocabulary
1. “How I
Survived My
Summer
Vacation” by
Robin Friedman
p. 72
Chapter
Unit 2: Survival
Visions C
Tix
Tx
Scope and Sequence
Predict
Punctuation:
Commas
Punctuation:
Dashes
Punctuation:
Single quotes
within a quotation
Punctuation:
Hyphens with
numbers
Spelling: Nouns
ending in -tion
Spelling: Adverbs
ending in -ly
Capitalization:
Nations and
nationalities
View and Think: Compare and Contrast Cultures
Exposition: Give a Presentation About a Place
Read Silently
Viewing Workshop
p. 219
Compare and
Contrast
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
to Scan
Repeated
Reading
Read Silently
and Aloud
Echo Read
Aloud
Build
Reading
Fluency
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 218
Apply and Expand
Nonfiction
and
Historical
Fiction
Spelling: Silent u
Capitalization:
Months
Spelling: Silent gh
Science
Fiction
Paraphrase
to Recall
Information
Spelling: Ai/ay for
long /a/ sound
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
5. “The California Study Words
Gold Rush” by
Systematically
Pam Zollman, &
“Dame Shirley and
the Gold Rush”
by Jim Rawls
p. 204
Use Context
to
Understand
New Words
3. “The Time
Bike” by
Jane Langton
p. 178
Historical
Fiction
Recognize
Figurative
Language
Reading
Strategy
Capitalization:
Names of planets
and stars
Spelling: C for /s/
sound
Learn Words
Related to
Emotions
2. “The Voyage
of the Lucky
Dragon” by Jack
Bennett
p. 162
Poem
Text
Structure
4. “Why We Can’t Apply
Informational Reread and
Get There From
Knowledge of Text
Record to
Here” by Neil de Root Words
Learn and
Grasse Tyson
Recall
p. 192
Identify
MultipleMeaning
Words
Build
Vocabulary
1. “I Have No
Address” by
Hamza El Din
p. 152
Chapter
Unit 3: Journeys
Identify the
Suffixes -er
and -est
Study the
Prefix bi-
Analyze the
Prefix un-
Recognize
the Suffix
-ity
Word
Study
Use
Comparative
and Superlative
Adjectives
Write Using
Contractions
Exposition: Write a Research Report
Writer’s Workshop
p. 220
Write a Poem
Using
Figurative
Language
From
Reading to
Writing
2. Plan a Time Capsule
Across
Content
Areas
Science: Learn
About Natural
Resources
Math: Solve a
Time Problem
Social Studies:
Learn About
Time Zones
Social Studies:
Describe
Countries on
a Map
Science:
Learn About
Migration of
Birds
1. Research an Explorer
Projects
p. 222
Compare and
Contrast Two
Reading
Selections
Use Multiple
Resources
to Write a
Research
Report
Write a
Description
Identify Subject Write to Solve
and Object
a Problem
Pronouns
Use
Apostrophes
with Possessive
Nouns
Grammar
Focus
Analyze
Learn Words Use Adverbs
Character Traits from Context
and Motivation and
Experience
Analyze
Organization
and
Presentation
of Ideas
Recognize
Foreshadowing
Recognize
Mood
Recognize
Style, Tone,
and Mood
Elements of
Literature
Visions C
Build
Vocabulary
Interpret Events from Media
Punctuation:
Colon for lists
Spelling:
Irregular plurals
Give an Oral Presentation
Find the
Main Idea
and
Supporting
Details
Viewing Workshop
p. 277
Informational
Text
Punctuation:
Italics for words
from other
languages
Punctuation:
Apostrophes
for time
Capitalization:
Languages
Spelling:
l before e
Spelling:
Silent b
Spelling: Vowelconsonant-e
long vowel
sounds
Spelling: Ou/ow
for /ou/ sound
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 276
Apply and Expand
4. “The Elements Learn Science
of Life” by
Terms
Paul Bennett
p. 264
Study Word
Origins and
Guess
Meaning
3. “The Circuit”
by Francisco
Jiménez
p. 250
Use
Chronology
to Locate
and Recall
Information
Describe
Mental
Images
Reading
Strategy
Autobiographical Compare
Short Story
Text to
Your Own
Knowledge
and
Experience
Use a
Myth
Dictionary
to Find
Definitions,
Pronunciations,
and
Derivations
Poem
Text
Structure
2. “Persephone
and the Seasons”
by
Heather Amery
p. 238
1. “Water Dance” Learn Vivid
by
Verbs
Thomas Locker
p. 226
Chapter
Unit 4: Cycles
Use Figurative
Language
Elements of
Literature
Recognize
Contractions
Distinguish
Denotative and
Connotative
Meanings
Word
Study
Write Using
Irregular Past
Tense Verbs
Use
Comparative
Adjectives
Grammar
Focus
Compare and Contrast Ideas, Themes, and Issues
Writer’s Workshop
p. 278
Study Word
Origins and
Roots
Write About
a Process
and Create
a Diagram
Write a
Letter to
an Author
Summarize
and
Paraphrase
to Inform
Write a
Poem
From
Reading to
Writing
Across
Content
Areas
Science:
Understand
Symbols for
Elements
Language Arts:
Understand
the Influence
of Other
Languages
and Cultures
on English
Language Arts:
Distinguish the
Meanings of
Myth
Math: Calculate
Averages
2. Make a Poster About a Cycle
1. Explore Life Cycle Events
Projects
p. 280
Recognize
the Active
and Passive
Voices
Identify
Apply
Identify
Language Use
Letter-Sound
Dependent
to Show
Correspondences Clauses
Characterization
Adjust Your
Use a Diagram
Reading
Rate to Scan
Rapid Word
Recognition
Read Silently Recognize
and Aloud
Foreshadowing
Read Aloud
to Engage
Listeners
Build
Reading
Fluency
Visions C
Scope and Sequence
Txi
Txii
Scope and Sequence
Read Silently
and Aloud
Build
Reading
Fluency
Viewing Workshop
p. 343
View and Think: Compare and Contrast
Visual Media with a Written Story
Present an Autobiographical Narrative
Spelling: Silent w
Spelling: Ch for
/k/ sound
Read Aloud
to Engage
Listeners
Capitalization: Titles Repeated
before names
Reading
Spelling: Twosyllable words
with -ed ending
Spelling: Silent l
Recognize
Figurative
Language
Analyze
Character
Motivation
Analyze and
Evaluate the
Delivery of a
Speech
Recognize
Style
Elements of
Literature
Grammar
Focus
Write a
Biography
From
Reading to
Writing
Language Arts:
Identify Genres
Language Arts:
Use
Punctuation
and Intonation
Math: Use
Vocabulary to
Answer Math
Problems
Social Studies:
Learn About
Constitutional
Amendments
Across
Content
Areas
2. Start a Freedom Magazine
1. Investigate Service Learning
Projects
p. 346
Write a Poem
Use the
Write a
Conjunction
Historical
So That to
Fiction Story
Connect Ideas
Identify
Write a News
Clauses with
Article
Subject + Verb
+ Object
+ Infinitive
Learn Related Use
Words
Superlative
Adjectives
Identify the
Latin Root
Word Grat
Use the
Suffix -or
Recognize the Recognize
Suffix -ment
Regular and
Irregular
Simple Past
Tense Verbs
Word
Study
Response to Literature:
Write a Biographical Narrative
Writer’s Workshop
p. 344
Punctuation:
Adjust Your
Apostrophes for
Reading Rate
plural possession
to Memorize
Punctuation: Using
commas in dates
Capitalization:
Historical
documents
Spelling: Qu for
the /kw/ sound
Capitalization:
Institutions and
organizations
Punctuation:
Parentheses
Capitalization:
Street names and
public places
Punctuation:
Periods for initials
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 342
Apply and Expand
Spell
Frequently
Misspelled
Words
Predict
Summarize
and
Paraphrase
Poem and
Compare and
Autobiography Contrast Texts
Historical
Narrative
and Speech
Make
Inferences
Using Text
Evidence
4. “Alone” by
Samantha Abeel,
& “Samantha’s
Story” by
Samantha Abeel
p. 330
Use Word
Squares to
Remember
Meaning
2. “The
Gettysburg
Address” by
Kenneth Richards,
Including a
Speech by
Abraham Lincoln
p. 300
Biography
Reading
Strategy
Fiction Based
on a True
Story
Use Note
Cards to
Remember
Meaning
1. “Rosa Parks”
by Andrea Davis
Pinkney
p. 284
Text
Structure
3. “So Far from
Use Text
the Bamboo
Features To
Grove” by
Understand
Yoko Kawashima
Watkins
p. 316
Build
Vocabulary
Chapter
Unit 5: Freedom
Visions C
Identify
Antonyms
2. “The House
on Mango
Street” by
Sandra Cisneros
p. 364
Fiction
Play
Text
Structure
Put Words
into Groups
Build
Reading
Fluency
View and Think: Compare and Contrast a
Play and a Movie
Identify
Author’s
Purpose
Analyze Plot
and Problem
Resolution
Recognize
First-Person
Narratives
Recognize
Dialogue and
Stage
Directions
Elements of
Literature
Study the
Latin Prefix
co-
Learn Words
from Latin
Learn English
Words from
Other
Languages
Analyze
Contractions
Word
Study
From
Reading to
Writing
Social Studies:
Learn About
Bodies of Water
Science:
Learn About
Animal Habitats
Math: Answer
Math Questions
About Currency
Across
Content
Areas
Create a Form, Science:
Interview, and Learn About
Summarize
Acid Rain
Write a
Fiction Story
Write a
Description
Write a
Persuasive
Letter
2. Present “Vision for My Future”
1. Interpret Text Ideas in a Video
Projects
p. 408
Use Will to
Predict Future
Events
Use
Conjunctions
to Form
Compound
Sentences
Spell
Frequently
Misspelled
Words
Use the
Present
Perfect Tense
Grammar
Focus
Response to Literature:
Collaborate to Write a Persuasive Letter
Writer’s Workshop
p. 406
Adjust Your
Reading Rate
to Scan
Repeated
Reading
Write and Present a Persuasive Role Play
Capitalization:
Headings
Spelling: Y for long
/i/ sound
Spelling: Oy vowel
sound
Spelling: Ph for
/f/ sound
Spelling: Gh for
/f/ sound
Spelling: Silent k
Spelling: Their,
Read Aloud
there, they’re
to Engage
Punctuation: Italics Listeners
for emphasis
Punctuation: Colon Audio CD
to introduce
Reading
dialogue
Practice
Capitalization:
Holidays
Spelling: Lie or lay
Spelling/
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Viewing Workshop
p. 405
Informational Summarize
Text
Text to Recall
Ideas
Make
Inferences
Using Text
Evidence
Paraphrase to
Recall
Information
Use
Chronology
to Locate
and Recall
Information
Reading
Strategy
Listening and Speaking Workshop
p. 404
Apply and Expand
4. “What Will
Our Towns
Look Like?” by
Martha Pickerill
p. 392
3. “The Pearl” by Locate
Realistic
John Steinbeck
Pronunciations Fiction
p. 376
and
Derivations
Distinguish
Denotative
and
Connotative
Meanings
Build
Vocabulary
1. “Mr. Scrooge
Finds Christmas”
by Aileen Fisher,
Adapted from
“A Christmas
Carol” by
Charles Dickens
p. 350
Chapter
Unit 6: Visions
Visions C
Scope and Sequence
Txiii