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Reading Workshop

Reading Workshop Units of Study:

  • Living a Reader’s Life
  • Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes
  • Argument and Advocacy: Researching 
  • Debatable Issues
  • Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction
  • Learning through Reading: Biography Study
  • Fantasy Book Clubs

Writing Workshop

Writing Workshop Units of Study:

  • Developing a Writing Life
  • Narrative Craft
  • Research Based Argument Essays
  • Information Writing: Feature Articles on Topic of Personal Expertise
  • Lens of History: Biography 
  • Fantasy
  • Literary and Comparative, Informational Essays

Math

Math:

  • Fluency with whole numbers and decimals
    • Addition
    • Subtraction
    • Multiplication
    • Division
  • Operations with fractions
    • Addition
    • Subtraction
    • Multiplication
    • Division
  • Geometry and Measurement
    • Patterns
    • Graphing
    • Converting units of measurement
    • Geometry and volume

Social Studies

Social Studies:

  • New World Rising
  • European Explorers
  • Geography in Western Hemisphere
  • Government in Western Hemisphere
  • Economy in Western Hemisphere
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Various topics integrated with Teacher’s College reading and writing

Science

Science:

  • Introductions to Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics
  • The Living Environment and The Scientific Method