Lesson 1 A Fine, Fine School
Phonics: Short Vowels a, e, i, o, and u
Fluency: Accuracy: Word Recognition
Comprehension: Story Structure; Summarize; Repetition
Story Vocabulary: principal, proud, soared, fine, certainly, strolled, worried, announced
Vocabulary: Multiple Meaning Words
Grammar: Subjects and Predicates
Lesson 2 The Trial of Cardigan Jones
Phonics: Long Vowels a, e, i, o, u
Fluency: Phrasing: Punctuation
Comprehension: Conclusions; Infer/Predict; Word Choice
Story Vocabulary: convinced, jury, pointed, murmur, stand, trial, guilty, honest
Vocabulary: Compound Words
Grammar: Kinds of Sentences
Lesson 3 Destiny’s Gift
Phonics: Common Vowel Pairs ai, ay, ee, ea
Fluency: Accuracy: Words in Connected Text
Comprehension: Understanding Characters; Analyze/Evaluate; Mood
Story Vocabulary: raise, earn, contacted, afford, spreading, figure, block, customers
Vocabulary: Antonyms
Grammar: Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons
Lesson 4 Pop’s Bridge
Phonics: Long Vowel O (oa, o, ow)
Fluency: Expression
Comprehension: Compare & Contrast
Story Vocabulary: balancing, crew, foggy, excitement, cling, tide, disappears, stretch
Vocabulary: Multiple Meaning Words
Grammar: Common & Proper Nouns
Lesson 5 Roberto Clemente, Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Phonics: Long Vowel I (I, ie, igh)
Fluency: Intonation
Comprehension: Cause & Effect
Story Vocabulary: stand, fans, slammed, style, score, league, pronounced, polish
Vocabulary: Prefix mis-
Grammar: Plural Nouns with –s and -es
Lesson 6 Max’s Words
Phonics: Words with the VCV Pattern
Fluency: Rate
Comprehension: Sequence of Events
Story Vocabulary: collect, scrambled, sorted, rapidly, darted, continued, ragged, orders
Vocabulary: suffixes –er and -or
Grammar: What is a verb?
Lesson 7 What Do Illustrator’s Do
Phonics: Three- Letter Clusters (scr-, spr-, str-, thr-)
Fluency: Expression
Comprehension: Text and Graphic Features
Story Vocabulary: tracing, illustrate, sketches, textures, imagine, scribbles, research, tools
Vocabulary: Synonyms
Grammar: Verb Tenses
Lesson 8 The Harvest Birds
Phonics: Silent Letters kn, wr
Fluency: Stress
Comprehension: Conclusions
Story Vocabulary: harvest, ashamed, advice, patch, separate, borders, borrow, serious
Vocabulary: Multiple-Meaning Words
Grammar: Commas in a series
Lesson 9 Kamishibai Man
Phonics: Vowel Diphthongs ow, ou
Fluency: Intonation
Comprehension: Cause and Effect
Story Vocabulary: familiar, vacant, blurry, blasted, jerky, rickety, rude, applause
Vocabulary: Dictionary/Glossary Entry
Grammar: Simple Subjects and Simple Predictions
Lesson 10 Young Thomas Edison
Phonics: Words with au, aw, al, o
Fluency: Accuracy: Self-Correct
Comprehension: Main Ideas and Details
Story Vocab: signal, gadget, laboratory, occasional, electric, genius, intention, experiment
Vocabulary: Categorize and Classify
Grammar: Pronouns
Lesson 11 Jump!
Phonics: Vowel Dipthongs oi, oy
Fluency: Phrasing: Natural Pauses
Comprehension: Fact and Opinion; Question; Alliteration
Story Vocabulary: championship, professional, rooting, competitor, entire, power, athlete, court
Vocabulary: Suffixes –y; -ful; -ous
Grammar: More Plural Nouns
Lesson 12 The Science Fair
Phonics: Homophones Words Ending in –er -le
Fluency: Stress
Comprehension: Story Structure; Visualize; Dialogue
Story Vocabulary: report, presentation, educational, impressive, erupt, creative, certificate, charts
Vocabulary: Idioms
Grammar: More Proper Nouns
Lesson 13 Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend
Phonics: Contractions with n’t, ‘d, ‘ve
Fluency: Rate
Comprehension: Compare and Contrast; Analyze/Evaluate; Imagery/Symbols
Story Vocabulary: peak, fondly, rugged, mist, examined, steep, pausing, pleaded
Vocabulary: homophones/Homographs
Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
Lesson 14 Aero and Officer Mike
Phonics: Words with ar, or, ore
Fluency: Accuracy
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose; Summarize; Word Choice; Technical Jargon
Story Vocabulary: lying, partners, quiver, ability, loyal, shift, patrol, snap
Vocabulary: Prefixes in-, im-
Grammar: Pronouns and Verbs
Lesson 15 Extra Good Sunday (usually a short week)
Phonics: Words with er, ir, ur, or
Fluency: Expression
Comprehension: Understanding Characters; Infer/Predict; Metaphor
Story Vocabulary: anxiously, tense, recommended, festive, cross, degrees, ingredients, remarked
Vocabulary: Using a Thesaurus
Grammar: Forming the Past Tense
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