Reading Workshop Units of Study:

Unit 1:  Building a Reading Life

• Choose “just right” books
• Identify fiction genres
• Use context clues to figure out unknown words
• Retell and summarize fiction texts
• Make connections and predictions when reading
   

Unit 2:  Character Studies

• Identify story elements in fiction texts
• Identify character traits with evidence from the text
• Compare and contrast characters
• Evaluate life lessons and themes 
   

Unit 3:  Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures

• Tell facts from opinions
• Identify text features (table of contents, headings, captions, etc.)
• Identify main ideas and details of nonfiction texts
• Apply comprehension strategies to biographies
   

Unit 4:  Research Clubs: Elephants, Penguins, and Frogs, Oh My

• Work in groups to research specific animals
• Synthesize ideas across text sets
• Identify text structures (Description, Sequence, Compare/Contrast, Cause and Effect, etc.)
• Take notes in different ways
   

Unit 5:  Solving the Mystery Before the Detective

• Use clues from texts to make predictions
• Communicate with others using mystery vocabulary
• Make inferences based on evidence
   

Unit 6:  Fractured Fairy Tales

• Identify story elements of fairy tales
• Compare and contrast traditional and fractured fairy tales

Writing Workshop Units of Study:

Unit 1:  Crafting True Stories

• Write a personal narrative about a small moment in your life
• Use graphic organizers to plan and organize ideas
• Add descriptive details to bring the story to life

Unit 2:  Changing the World

• Write a persuasive letter about a chosen topic
• Write using the friendly letter format
• Using graphic organizers to plan and organize ideas
• Provide reasons and examples of why readers should agree with the argument
   

Unit 3:  The Art of Informative Writing

• Write a nonfiction book about a topic you are an expert on
• Use text structures to organize ideas
• Expand on the topic by including examples, observations, definitions, etc.
• Incorporate text features (table of contents, illustrations, diagrams, bold words etc.)

Unit 4:  Writing About Research

• Write an essay using research from a content area
• Organize researched notes into paragraphs
• Expand on the topic by including examples, statistics, descriptions etc.
   

Unit 5:  Poetry

• Write a collection of poetry
• Write poems in different styles of poetry including acrostic, haiku, cinquain, couplet, free verse, etc.
   

Unit 6:  Fractured Fairy Tales

• Write a fractured fairy tale based on a traditional fairy tale
• Change the original version by switching the protagonist and antagonist, changing the setting, adding new events, etc.
• Create characters, a problem, solution, and lesson learned
• Include dialogue among characters

   

Math Units of Study:

Unit 1: Three-Digit Numbers:  Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction

• Use place value to round numbers
• Add three-digit numbers within 1,000
• Subtract three-digit numbers within 1,000
   

Unit 2:  Multiplication and Division:  Concepts, Relationships, and Patterns

• Understand the meaning of multiplication
• Multiply with factors from 0 to 10
• Understand the meaning of division
• Understand how multiplication and division are connected
• Know multiplication and division facts
   

Unit 3:  Multiplication:  Finding Area, Solving Word Problems, and Using Scaled Graphs

• Understand area
• Use multiplication to find area
• Add areas
• Solve one-step problems using multiplication and division
• Solve two-step problems using the four operations
• Scaled Graphs
   

Unit 4:  Fractions:  Equivalence and Comparison, Measurement, and Data

• Understand what a fraction is
• Understand fractions on a number line
• Find equivalent fractions
• Use symbols to compare fractions
• Measure length and plot data on line plots

Unit 5:  Measurement:  Time, Liquid, Volume, and Mass

• Find time to the minute
• Find elapsed time
• Find liquid volume using liters
• Find mass using grams and kilograms
   

Unit 6:  Shapes:  Attributes and Categories, Perimeter and Area, and Partitioning

• Regular and irregular polygons
• Understand categories of shapes
• Classify quadrilaterals
• Area and perimeter of shapes
• Partition shapes into parts with equal areas

Social Studies Units of Study:
 

Unit 1:  Map Skills

• Compass rose
• Continents and oceans
• Me on the map
   

Unit 2:  United States

• Geography
• Symbols
• Important people and places
• Government
   

Unit 3:  World Communities

• Study of countries around the world such as China, Brazil, etc.
• Geography
• Important people and places
• Compare and contrast cultural similarities and differences between the United States and countries around the world

Science Units of Study:

Unit 1:  Forces in Physics

• Balanced and unbalanced forces
• Magnetism
• Friction
• Static Electricity
• Elastic Force
• Gravity
   

Unit 2:  Animal Adaptation and Survival

• Fossils and extinction
• Physical and behavioral adaptations
• Surviving in different habitats
   

Unit 3:  Life Cycle of a Butterfly

• Humane treatment of animals
• Metamorphosis
• Body parts of each stage of life
• Butterflies versus moths
• Make observations and take notes