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Reading Workshop
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
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
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
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
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