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For a copy of the Year At-A-Glance for 2013-2014, please open the document below.



Unit 1 Establishing Reading and Writing Workshop

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Unit 2

Genre Focus: Fiction  ||

Unit 3

Genre Focus: Theme and Genre-Fiction-Fable-Folktale-Fairytale

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Unit 4

Genre Focus: Expository Culture and History Procedural

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Unit 5

Genre Focus: Expository Research

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Unit 6

Genre Focus: Fiction

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Unit 7

Genre Focus: Poetry

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Unit 8 Genre Focus: Expository Research

|| Unit 9 Genre Focus: True vs. Fantasy || Aug 26 - Sep 20 || 4 weeks Sep 23 - Oct 18 || 3 weeks Oct 21 - Nov 8 || 5 ½ weeks Nov 11- Dec 20 || 3 weeks Jan 6 - Jan 24 || 5 weeks Jan 27 - Feb 28 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 weeks <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 3 - April 4 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5 weeks <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">April 7 - May 9 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 weeks <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 12 - May 30 || __**Projects**__ || || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal Narratives <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Comments on Literary Texts || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fairy Tales Unit  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holidays Unit
 * __**Dates**__ || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 weeks
 * __**Special Activities/**__

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Letters <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Flat Stanley)  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Animal Research Projects <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Create visual or dramatization || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black History Month (MLK) and Presidents  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Unit  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">I Wanna Pet Research Project <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Create visual or dramatization || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Veggie Tales Fantasy Stories  || || Nouns and Verbs  ||  Nouns and Verbs <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adjectives <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alphabetize/Dictionary ||  Nouns and verbs <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adjectives ||  Compound Words  ||  Contractions  ||  Contractions  || || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Word Study:__ || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">and Punc. at end ||  Capitalize beginning of sentence, Names <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">and Punc. at end ||  Time order transitions  || || ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Conventions:__  || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TEK Goals:__  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify rules and laws that establish order, provide security, and manage conflict
 * __**Word Study Special Focus**__ ||
 * __**Conventions**__ || Conventions of Print  ||  Capitalize “I”  ||  Capitalize beginning of sentence, Names
 * __**TEK Goals**__ ||
 * __**Social Studies**__ || Explain the purpose for rules and laws in the home, school, and community

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Freedom Week of September 17 ||  Being a Good Citizen in Our Community: Citizenship  ||  15A describe and explain the importance of various beliefs, customs, language, and traditions of families and communities.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">ROTATIONS <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">explain the way __folktales__ and __legends__ (Aesop’s fables) reflect beliefs, customs, language, and traditions of communities.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oct. 28th through Dec 20 <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thinking Like a Geographer

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Tomie dePaola booksalic ||  Flat Stanley <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">(letters)

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rotations <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">1A describe the origins of customs, holidays, and celebrations of the community, state, and nation such as San Jacinto Day, Independence Day, and Veterans Day ||  2A – identify contributions of historical figures that have influenced the community, state, and nation like Inventors Bell, Edison, Garrett Morgan, Richard Allen  ||  2A – identify contributions of historical figures that have influenced the community, state, and nation like Washington, MLK, Lincoln <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">*create simple timeline ||  Goods and Services in Our Community <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.8A identify examples of goods and services in  <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">the home, school, and community <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.8B identify ways people exchange goods and <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">services ||  Tiger Market with Tiger Bucks <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.8C identify the role of markets in the exchange <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">of goods and services || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Chewy; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">SS <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">Economic Choices in Our Community <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.9A identify examples of people wanting more <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">than they can have <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.9B explain why wanting more than they can <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">have requires that people make choices <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.9C identify examples of choices families make <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">when buying goods and services. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.10A describe the components of various jobs <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">and the characteristics of a job well performed <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.10B describe how specialized jobs contribute <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">to the production of goods and services <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.16A describe how technology changes the <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">ways families live <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.16B describe how technology changes <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">communication, transportation, and recreation <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.16C describe how technology changes the <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">way people work ||