Earobics Reach Unit Table
Themes
Sub-theme
Underground
Unit
Code
A11
A12
A13
A21
Endangered
Flight
Storytellers
A22
A23
A31
A32
A33
A41
A42
A43
A51
Around the Galaxy
Celebrations
Going West
Oceans
Risk Takers
Inventions
A52
A53
A61
A62
A63
B11
B12
B13
B21
B22
B23
B31
B32
B33
B41
B42
B43
Journeys
Nature
Challenges
Creativity
Motion & Energy
Culture
Lexile Level
Unit Title
Exploring Lechuguilla
360
Rescue! (fiction)
Wild About Worms
370
380
Life in the Rainforest
Sea Turtle Night (fiction)
390
400
Rhino Man
Up in the Air
410
420
The Flight Contest (fiction)
Daredevils in Flight
430
440
A Picture of Peace
Captain Stormalong (fiction)
Bugs and Crime
The Sun’s Energy
Sun Power (fiction)
Mission to Mars
Celebrating a Neighborhood
Seth’s Birthday Party (fiction)
Light Up the Night
Into the Great Unknown
The Oklahoma Land Rush (fiction)
Bill Picket: Rodeo Cowboy
Treasures of the Deep
Jose’s Three Wishes (fiction)
Graham Hawkes: Pioneer of the Deep
Smokejumpers
Storm! (fiction)
Give Them Space
Accidental Foods
Greenwood’s Champion Ear Protectors (fiction)
Success at Last: Jan Matzeliger
450
460
470
480
480
490
500
500
500
510
520
530
540
550
560
570
580
590
600
610
620
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Sub-theme
Dance
Unit
Code
B51
B52
B53
B61
Cities
B62
B63
C11
Coming to America
Deep in the Earth
C12
C13
C21
C22
C23
C31
Disasters
Music
Racers
Let’s Talk
Freedom Fighters
Mountains
Taking a Stand
C32
C33
C41
C42
C43
C51
C52
C53
C61
C62
C63
D11
D12
D13
D21
D22
D23
D31
D32
D33
Lexile Level
Unit Title
The Power of Dance
630
Tattercoat (fiction)
Alvin Ailey: 1931-1989
630
640
Underneath a City
Deven in New York (fiction)
650
650
Venice: The Sinking City
Crossing to the New World (fiction)
650
660
La Amistad: A Child’s Journey (fiction)
Angel Island
660
670
What a Gem!
Wally’s Tale (fiction)
Point of View: Offshore Drilling
Buried in Ash
The Scariest Day of My Life (fiction)
The Hindenburg Tragedy
A Musical Wonder
The Great Jazz Quartet (fiction)
A Song of Hope and Power
The 1988 Jamaican Bobsled Team
Racing to Victory (fiction)
680
680
690
700
700
710
720
720
730
Remembering Dale Earnhardt
Writing with Symbols
Fitting In (fiction)
The Rosetta Stone
The Massachusetts 54th
The Boston Tea Party (fiction)
A Brave Soldier
Mount Everest
The Giant Rock: A Sierra Miwok Tale (fiction)
Sherpas: Living and Leading in the Mountains
Kenya James: A Teenage Inspiration
The Little Rock Nine (fiction)
Cesar Chavez: Uniting Farm Workers
Earobics Reach
740
740
740
750
750
750
760
760
770
780
780
790
800
800
810
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Sub-theme
Cool Art
Volcanoes &
Earthquakes
Amazing Structures
Unit
Code
Lexile Level
Unit Title
Cool Art
820
The Cartoonist (fiction)
Everyone: the Artist
820
830
Legendary Volcanoes
San Francisco’s Tragic Day (fiction)
840
840
D61
When Earthquakes Strike
The Great Wall of China
840
850
D62
D63
My Days at Mesa Verde (fiction)
The Skywalking Mohawks
850
850
D41
D42
D43
D51
D52
D53
Journeys
Nature
Challenges
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Creativity
Motion & Energy
Culture
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Light Up the Night (500L)
Seth’s Birthday Party (500L)
Celebrating a Neighborhood (500L)
Mission to Mars (490L)
Sun Power (480L)
The Sun’s Energy (480L)
Celebrations
Bugs and Crime (470L)
Around the Galaxy
Captain Stormalong (460L)
Storytellers
A Picture of Peace (450L)
Flight
Daredevils in Flight (440L)
Endangered
The Flight Contest (440L)
Underground
Up in the Air (430L)
Culture
Rhino Man (410L)
Motion & Energy
Life in the Rainforest (390L)
Creativity
Sea Turtle Night (400L)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary words
Inference
Synonyms
Antonyms
Homophones
Idioms
Inflectional endings: -s, -es
Inflectional ending: -ed
Inflectional ending: -ing
Multiple meaning words
Prefix: rePrefix: unSuffix: -y
Suffixes: -ly, -ily
Inflectional endings: -er, -est
Suffix: -ful
Suffix: -less
Prefix: prePrefix: postPrefix: non-
Challenges
Wild About Worms (380L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Nature
Rescue! (370L)
Subtheme
Journeys
Exploring Lechuguilla (360L)
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Short vs. long vowels
Consonant blends with l, r, s
Double final consonants
Vowel pairs
Consonant digraphs
Letter Y as a vowel
M and n in blends and digraphs
Final /k/: ck, ke, k
Long i
Long o
Inflectional endings -s, -es, -ed,
-ing (no changes to base word)
R-controlled vowels: or, ore, ar,
er, ir
Inflectional endings -ed, -ing
with changes to base word
Final Y
Inflectional endings -er, -est
with changes to base word
/aw/ sound
Long u
3-letter consonant clusters
Contractions
Long a
Long e
Diphthongs
R-controlled vowels: ur, ure
R-controlled vowels: ir, ire
Final /j/
Final /ch/ -ch, -tch
Soft vs. hard c and g
Final -ce, -ve, -se
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R-controlled vowel: ear
R-controlled vowel: air
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Light Up the Night (500L)
Seth’s Birthday Party (500L)
Mission to Mars (490L)
Celebrating a Neighborhood (500L)
Sun Power (480L)
The Sun’s Energy (480L)
Celebrations
Bugs and Crime (470L)
Around the Galaxy
Captain Stormalong (460L)
Storytellers
A Picture of Peace (450L)
Flight
Daredevils in Flight (440L)
Endangered
The Flight Contest (440L)
Underground
Up in the Air (430L)
Culture
Rhino Man (410L)
Motion & Energy
Sea Turtle Night (400L)
Creativity
Life in the Rainforest (390L)
Phonics
High-frequency words
Challenges
Wild About Worms (380L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Nature
Rescue! (370L)
Subtheme
Journeys
Exploring Lechuguilla (360L)
Theme
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Fluency
Modeled reading
Assisted reading
Repeated reading
Independent reading
Rate
Prosody
Accuracy
Reading of expository text
Reading of narrative text
High-frequency phrases
Venice: The Sinking City (650L)
Deven in New York (650L)
Underneath a City (650L)
Alvin Ailey: 1931-1989 (640L)
Tattercoat (630L)
Dance
The Power of Dance (630L)
Culture
Cities
Motion & Energy
Success at Last: Jan Matzeliger (620L)
Greenwood’s Champion Ear Protectors (610L)
Accidental Foods (600L)
Creativity
Inventions
Give Them Space (590L)
Storm! (580L)
José’s Three Wishes (550L)
Smokejumpers (570L)
Challenges
Risk Takers
Graham Hawkes: Pioneer of the Deep (560L)
Questioning
Answer questions
Inference
Summarize
Main idea
Identify text organization
Description
Sequence
Cause and effect
Compare and contrast
Classification
Treasures of the Deep (540L)
Activate background knowledge
Nature
Oceans
Bill Picket: Rodeo Cowboy (530L)
Comprehension
Non-fiction
Fiction
Predict
The Oklahoma Land Rush (520L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Journeys
Going West
Into the Great Unknown (510L)
Theme
Subtheme
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Venice: The Sinking City (650L)
Deven in New York (650L)
Underneath a City (650L)
Cities
Alvin Ailey: 1931-1989 (640L)
Dance
The Power of Dance (630L)
Suffixes: -ion, -tion, -ation, -ition
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Culture
Tattercoat (630L)
Success at Last: Jan Matzeliger (620L)
Greenwood’s Champion Ear Protectors (610L)
Accidental Foods (600L)
Give Them Space (590L)
Inventions
Storm! (580L)
Risk Takers
Smokejumpers (570L)
Oceans
Graham Hawkes: Pioneer of the Deep (560L)
Going West
Treasures of the Deep (540L)
Creativity
José’s Three Wishes (550L)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary words
Inference
Synonyms
Antonyms
Homophones
Idioms
Multiple meaning words
Prefix: rePrefix: unSuffix: -y
Suffixes: -ly, -ily
Inflectional endings: -er, -est
Prefix: prePrefix: postPrefix: nonCompound words
Prefix: disSuffix: -en
Suffix: -ness
Suffix: -ist
Prefixes: in-, im-, ir-, ilPrefix: mis-
Challenges
Bill Picket: Rodeo Cowboy (530L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Nature
The Oklahoma Land Rush (520L)
Subtheme
Motion &
Energy
Journeys
Into the Great Unknown (510L)
Theme
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“ie” pronounced long e or long i
Decoding VCCV words
Syllabication of VCCV
doublets
Syllable patterns: VCCV,
V/CV, VC/V
“ph” as /f/
Homophones
Stressed/unstressed syllables
Schwa
R-controlled vowels
Decoding bases + affixes
Final -cle
Irregular past tense
Irregular plurals
Venice: The Sinking City (650L)
Deven in New York (650L)
Culture
Cities
Underneath a City (650L)
Alvin Ailey: 1931-1989 (640L)
Tattercoat (630L)
Motion & Energy
Dance
The Power of Dance (630L)
Success at Last: Jan Matzeliger (620L)
Greenwood’s Champion Ear Protectors (610L)
Creativity
Inventions
Accidental Foods (600L)
Give Them Space (590L)
Storm! (580L)
Smokejumpers (570L)
Challenges
Risk Takers
Graham Hawkes: Pioneer of the Deep (560L)
Bill Picket: Rodeo Cowboy (530L)
José’s Three Wishes (550L)
Nature
Oceans
Treasures of the Deep (540L)
Phonics
High-frequency words
Vowel Pairs
/aw/ sound
Long u
Contractions
Diphthongs
Blends
Digraphs
Inflectional endings (with and
without changes to base words)
Compound words
/k/ vs. /kw/
/j/ sound
Soft c
Adding suffixes to words
ending in Y
The Oklahoma Land Rush (520L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Journeys
Going West
Into the Great Unknown (510L)
Theme
Subtheme
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Fluency
Modeled reading
Assisted reading
Repeated reading
Independent reading
Rate
Prosody
Accuracy
Reading of expository text
Reading of narrative text
High-frequency phrases
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The Rosetta Stone (750L)
Fitting In (750L)
Writing with Symbols (750L)
Remembering Dale Earnhardt (740L)
Racing to Victory (740L)
The 1988 Jamaican Bobsled Team (740L)
Let’s Talk
A Song of Hope and Power (730L)
Racers
Music
The Great Jazz Quartet (720L)
Disasters
A Musical Wonder (720L)
Culture
The Scariest day of My Life (700L)
Wally’s Tale (680L)
Motion & Energy
The Hindenburg Tragedy (710L)
Questioning
Answer questions
Inference
Summarize
Main idea
Identify text organization
Description
Sequence
Cause and effect
Compare and contrast
Classification
Creativity
Buried in Ash (700L)
Activate background knowledge
Challenges
Point of View: Offshore Drilling (690L)
Comprehension
Non-fiction
Fiction
Predict
What a Gem! (680L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Crossing to the New World (660L)
Subtheme
Nature
Deep in the
Earth
Angel Island (670L)
Journeys
Coming to
America
La Amistad: A Child’s Journey (660L)
Theme
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Suffixes: -ion, -tion, -ation, -ition
Prefix: overRoot words: vis, vid
Suffix: -ish
Prefix: teleRoot words: gram, graph
Prefix: interPrefix: autoSuffixes: -er, -or
Root word: port
Suffix: -ment
Prefix: en-, emPrefix: exPrefixes: bi-, triPrefix: interPrefix: transSuffix: -ic
The Rosetta Stone (750L)
Fitting In (750L)
Let’s Talk
Writing with Symbols (750L)
Racers
Remembering Dale Earnhardt (740L)
Music
Racing to Victory (740L)
Disasters
The 1988 Jamaican Bobsled Team (740L)
Culture
A Song of Hope and Power (730L)
Point of View: Offshore Drilling (690L)
Motion & Energy
The Great Jazz Quartet (720L)
Wally’s Tale (680L)
Creativity
A Musical Wonder (720L)
What a Gem! (680L)
Challenges
The Hindenburg Tragedy (710L)
Angel Island (670L)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary words
Inference
Synonyms
Antonyms
Homophones
Idioms
Inflectional endings: -s, -es
Multiple meaning words
Prefix: rePrefix: unSuffix: -y
Suffixes: -ly, -ily
Inflectional endings: -er, -est
Prefix: preSuffix: -ness
Prefixes: in-, im-, ir-, ilPrefix: mis-
La Amistad: A Child’s Journey (660L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Crossing to the New World (660L)
Subtheme
Nature
Deep in the
Earth
The Scariest day of My Life (700L)
Journeys
Coming to
America
Buried in Ash (700L)
Theme
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The Rosetta Stone (750L)
Fitting In (750L)
Writing with Symbols (750L)
Remembering Dale Earnhardt (740L)
Let’s Talk
Racing to Victory (740L)
Racers
The 1988 Jamaican Bobsled Team (740L)
Music
A Song of Hope and Power (730L)
Disasters
The Great Jazz Quartet (720L)
Culture
A Musical Wonder (720L)
Motion & Energy
The Hindenburg Tragedy (710L)
Creativity
The Scariest day of My Life (700L)
Challenges
Buried in Ash (700L)
Point of View: Offshore Drilling (690L)
Wally’s Tale (680L)
Phonics
High-frequency words
Long u
/k/ vs. /kw/
Homophones
Irregular past tense
Irregular plurals
Patterns VCCCV, VCCV,
V/CV, VC/V
Effect of W on vowel that
follows
Adding inflectional endings to
words that end in -y and -Vy
Ge and ce at the end of a word
/k/ spelled ch, c
/ch/ spelled ch
VV words
Soft and hard c and g in initial
position.
Final syllables -cle, -el, -al, -il
Final -er, -or
Words with silent consonants
mb, gn, t, kn, wr
Review /ow/, /aw/, /oy/
Effect of R on vowel that
follows
La Amistad: A Child’s Journey (660L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Crossing to the New World (660L)
Subtheme
Nature
Deep in the
Earth
What a Gem! (680L)
Journeys
Coming to
America
Angel Island (670L)
Theme
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Fluency
Modeled reading
Assisted reading
Repeated reading
Independent reading
Rate
Prosody
Accuracy
Reading of expository text
Reading of narrative text
High-frequency phrases
Earobics Reach
The Skywalking Mohawks (850L)
My Days at Mesa Verde (850L)
Culture
Amazing
Structures
The Great Wall of China (850L)
When Earthquakes Strike (840L)
San Francisco’s Tragic Day (840L)
Legendary Volcanoes (840L)
Everyone: The Artist (830L)
Cool Art
Volcanoes &
Earthquakes
The Cartoonist (820L)
Motion & Energy
Cool Art (820L)
Creativity
Cesar Chavez: Uniting Farm Workers (810L)
The Giant Rock: A Sierra Miwok Tale (780L)
Kenya James: A Teenage Inspiration (800L)
Questioning
Answer questions
Inference
Summarize
Main idea
Identify text organization
Description
Sequence
Cause and effect
Compare and contrast
Classification
Challenges
Taking a
Stand
Sherpas: Living & Leading in the Mountains (790L)
Activate background knowledge
Mount Everest (780L)
Comprehension
Non-fiction
Fiction
Predict
Mountains
A Brave Soldier (770L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
The Massachusetts 54th (760L)
Subtheme
Nature
The Little Rock Nine (800L)
Journeys
Freedom
Fighters
The Boston Tea Party (760L)
Theme
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Suffixes: -ion, -tion, -ation, -ition
Root words: vis, vid
Root words: gram, graph
Suffixes: -er, -or
Prefix: transPrefix: forePrefix: dePrefix: superPrefix: sub-
Inflectional ending: possessives
Suffixes: -ure, -ture
Prefix: midPrefix: underPrefix: antiSuffixes: -ous, -eous, ious
Root words: spec, spect
Root words: trac, tract
Prefixes: com-, con-, col-, coRoot words: astro, aster
Suffixes: -al, -ial
Suffixes: -ity, -ty
Root word: rupt
Suffix: -logy
Prefix: semiPrefix: proSuffixes: -ance, -ence
Suffixes: -ant, -ent
Suffixes: -ive, -ative, -itive
Suffixes: -able, -ible
Root words: scrib, script
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The Skywalking Mohawks (850L)
My Days at Mesa Verde (850L)
Culture
Amazing
Structures
The Great Wall of China (850L)
When Earthquakes Strike (840L)
San Francisco’s Tragic Day (840L)
Legendary Volcanoes (840L)
Cool Art
Volcanoes &
Earthquakes
Everyone: The Artist (830L)
Motion & Energy
Cool Art (820L)
Creativity
The Cartoonist (820L)
Cesar Chavez: Uniting Farm Workers (810L)
Challenges
Taking a
Stand
The Little Rock Nine (800L)
Sherpas: Living & Leading in the Mountains (790L)
The Giant Rock: A Sierra Miwok Tale (780L)
A Brave Soldier (770L)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary words
Inference
Synonyms
Antonyms
Homophones
Idioms
Multiple meaning words
Prefixes: in-, im-, ir-, il-
The Boston Tea Party (760L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
Mountains
The Massachusetts 54th (760L)
Subtheme
Nature
Kenya James: A Teenage Inspiration (800L)
Journeys
Freedom
Fighters
Mount Everest (780L)
Theme
Earobics Reach Scope and Sequence
The Skywalking Mohawks (850L)
My Days at Mesa Verde (850L)
Culture
Amazing
Structures
The Great Wall of China (850L)
When Earthquakes Strike (840L)
San Francisco’s Tragic Day (840L)
Motion & Energy
Volcanoes &
Earthquakes
Legendary Volcanoes (840L)
Everyone: The Artist (830L)
Cool Art
The Cartoonist (820L)
Creativity
Cool Art (820L)
Cesar Chavez: Uniting Farm Workers (810L)
Sherpas: Living and Leading in the Mountains (790L)
Challenges
Taking a
Stand
The Little Rock Nine (800L)
The Giant Rock: A Sierra Miwok Tale (780L)
Mount Everest (780L)
Phonics
High-frequency words
Contractions
R-controlled vowels
Patterns VCCCV, VCCV,
V/CV, VC/V
VV words
VCCV words
Final /el/ spelled -le, -el, -al, -il
Possessives
Words ending in -ies, -ier, -iest
Final /en/ spelled -an, -en, -in,
-on, -ain
Final -ure
Words ending in -age, -ive,
-ice
Spelling-meaning
connection/no spelling change:
/t/ - /sh/, /d/- /zh/, /s/ - /ksh/
Spelling-meaning connections:
silent sounded consonant
alteration
Consonant doubling
Spelling-meaning connection
with prefix -in (im-, il-, ir-)
Suffixes: -ent/-ence/-ency;
-ant/-ance/-ancy
Plurals for words ending in o
Decoding ei, ie
Decoding/spelling root words:
spect, rupt, auto, tract, tele,
gram/graph
-able vs. -ible
Decoding/spelling root words:
ology, scrib, vis
Mountains
A Brave Soldier (770L)
Unit (Lexile Level)
The Massachusetts 54th (760L)
Subtheme
Nature
Kenya James: A Teenage Inspiration (800L)
Journeys
Freedom
Fighters
The Boston Tea Party (760L)
Theme
Earobics Reach
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