Unit 1
Skills Overview
Big Idea
When is money important, and
when does it affect our lives?
WEEK 2
WEEK 3
WEEK 4
WEEK 5
16–41
Boom Town/Mike's Teaching T-shirts
When would hard work be the way to strike it rich?
Boom Town
HISTORICAL
FICTION
46–63
What About Me?/Ben Franklin's
Little Words to
Live By
How would we get
what we need without money?
What About Me?
FABLE
68–85
Alexander, Who
Used to Be Rich
Last Sunday/Tips
for Saving Money
How can we use money wisely?		 Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
REALISTIC
FICTION
90–115
If You Made a Million/Money from Long Ago
How does money work?
If You Made a Million
NONFICTION
120–141
My Rows and Piles of Coins/Learning About Money
How do we learn the value of money?
My Rows and Piles of Coins
REALISTIC
FICTION
 
Tested Skill Target Skill Skill Realism/Fantasy
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Activate/Use Prior
Knowledge
Tested Skill REVIEW Skill Character
Tested Skill Target Skill Skill Sequence of Events
Target Skill Strategy Summarize
Tested Skill REVIEW Skill Author's Purpose
Tested Skill Target Skill Skill Sequence of Events
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Visualize
Tested Skill REVIEW Skill Draw
Conclusions/Make Inferences
Tested Skill Target Skill Skill Realism/Fantasy
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Monitor & Fix Up
Tested Skill REVIEW Skill Sequence of
 
Events
Tested Skill Target Skill Skill Character and Setting
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Story Structure
Tested Skill REVIEW Skill Realism/Fantasy
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Context Clues
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Word Structure
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Reference Sources
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Context Clues
Tested Skill Target Skill Strategy Word Structure
Accuracy
Appropriate Pace/Rate
Express Characterization
Expression/Intonation
Appropriate Phrasing
Short Vowels
Short Vowels VCCV
Plurals
Plurals -s, -es
Base Words and Endings
Adding -ed, -ing, -er, -est
Long Vowel Digraphs
Long Vowel Digraphs
Vowel Diphthongs
Vowel Sounds in out and toy
Why We Speak
Why We Listen
How to Be a Good Speaker
How to Be a Polite Listener
Narrate a Story
Identify Theme in Cartoons
Retell a Message
Listen for Main Idea and Details
Retell a Story
Connect Experiences and Ideas
Tested Skill Sentences
Tested Skill Subjects and Predicates
Tested Skill Statements and Questions
Tested Skill Commands and Exclamations
Tested Skill Compound Sentences
Describe a Character
Writing Trait: Word Choice
Write a Song
Writing Trait: Voice
Math Story
Writing Trait: Sentences
E-Mail
Writing Trait: Focus/Ideas
Narrative Paragraph
Writing Trait: Word Choice
Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative
Advertisement/Poster
Alphabetical Order
Skim and Scan
Parts of a Book
Graphs
Integrate Science and
Social Studies Standards
Economics,
Communities
Time for SOCIAL STUDIES
Economics Bartering
Economics Money Budgets Earning, Spending,
Saving
Time for SOCIAL STUDIES
Economics Money Earning, Spending,
Saving
Time for SOCIAL STUDIES
Geography Commerce
Cultures
 
Target Skill Target Skill
Tested Skill Tested Skill
 
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Fluency
Phonics
Spelling and Phonics
Speaking/Listening/
Viewing
Reading
Word Work
Oral Language
Language Arts
Grammar, Usage
and Mechanics
Weekly Writing
Unit Process Writing
Research and Study Skills
Time for SOCIAL STUDIES
Time for SOCIAL STUDIES
WEEK 1