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January 2017


January 2017

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Contents

Print Concepts ............................................................................................. 4

Phonological Awareness ................................................................................. 14

Reading Lessons .......................................................................................... 23

Grammar ................................................................................................. 169

Phonics and Word Recognition ....................................................................... 184

Spelling ................................................................................................... 185

Comprehension ......................................................................................... 186

Basic Vocabulary ........................................................................................ 209

Academic Vocabulary .................................................................................. 235

Speaking and Listening ................................................................................ 270


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Print Concepts In Print Concepts, students are introduced to uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters. Imagine Learning interactive activities and songs, classroom activities, and printouts help reinforce these letter recognition skills.

Print Concept lessons are grouped by younger students (Pre-K – Grade 2) and older students (Grade 3 – 6)

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Pre-K – Grade 2

Lesson Details

1 Uppercase A, M

Includes these activities and skills:

• Sound Train: Review Letter Sounds

o Skills taught: alliteration with /a/ and /m/

• Letter Shapes & Sounds

o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase A, M

o Printouts included: Alphabet Flashcards, Letter Practice

• Build A Monster (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: identify uppercase A

• Free the Aliens (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: identify uppercase M

• Underwater Adventure

o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase A, M

• Art with a Purpose (K and Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)

o Skills taught: review uppercase A, M

2 Uppercase D, S, T, P



o Skills taught: alliteration with /d/, /s/, /t/, and /p/


o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase D, S, T, P

• Build a Monster (Pre-K and K)


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o Skills taught: identify uppercase D, T


o Skills taught: identify uppercase S, P


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase D, S, T, P

• Western ABC Song (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: letters of the alphabet

• Recognize Letters

o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase D, S, T, P

3 Uppercase B, O, N, H



o Skills taught: alliteration with /b/, /o/, /n/, and /h/


o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase B, O, N, H


o Skills taught: identify uppercase B, N


o Skills taught: identify uppercase O, H


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase B, O, N, H

• Space ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase B, O, N, H

4 Uppercase C, F, V, I



o Skills taught: alliteration with /c/, /f/, /v/, and /i/


o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase C, F, V, I


o Skills taught: identify uppercase C, V



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o Skills taught: identify uppercase F, I


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase C, F, V, I

• Jazz ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase C, F, V, I

5 Uppercase U, R, G



o Skills taught: alliteration with /u/, /r/, and /g/


o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase U, R, G


o Skills taught: identify uppercase U, G


o Skills taught: identify uppercase R


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase U, R, G

• Soup ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase U, R, G

6 Uppercase K, E



o Skills taught: alliteration with /k/ and /e/


o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase K, E


o Skills taught: identify uppercase E


o Skills taught: identify uppercase K



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o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase K, E

• Counting Song (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: numbers 1-10


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase K, E

7 Uppercase L, J, Y



o Skills taught: alliteration with /l/, /j/, and /y/


o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase L, J, Y


o Skills taught: identify uppercase J


o Skills taught: identify uppercase L, Y


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase L, J, Y

• Letter Sound Sing-Along (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: letter sounds


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase L, J, Y

8 Uppercase W, Z, Q, X



o Skills taught: alliteration with /w/, /z/, /q/, /x/, /ch/, and /sh/


o Skills taught: recognize and name uppercase W, Z, Q, X


o Skills taught: identify uppercase W, Q


o Skills taught: identify uppercase Z, X


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase W, Z, Q, X


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• AEIOU Song (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: vowel sounds


o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase W, Z, Q, X

9 Lowercase a, m



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase a, m


o Skills taught: identify lowercase a

• Free the Aliens

o Skills taught: identify lowercase m


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase a, m

• Circus ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify uppercase a, m

10 Lowercase d, s, t, p



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase d, s, t, p


o Skills taught: identify lowercase d, t


o Skills taught: identify lowercase s, p


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase d, s, t, p

• Western ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase d, s, t, p


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11 Lowercase b, o, n, h



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase b, o, n, h


o Skills taught: identify lowercase b, n


o Skills taught: identify lowercase o, h


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase b, o, n, h

• Space ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase b, o, n, h

12 Lowercase c, f, v, i



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase c, f, v, i


o Skills taught: identify lowercase c, v


o Skills taught: identify lowercase f, i


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase c, f, v, i

• Jazz ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase c, f, v, i

13 Lowercase u, r, g



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase u, r, g



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o Skills taught: identify lowercase u, g


o Skills taught: identify lowercase r


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase u, r, g

• Soup ABC Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase u, r, g

14 Lowercase k, e



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase k, e


o Skills taught: identify lowercase e


o Skills taught: identify lowercase k


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase k, e

• Counting Song (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: numbers 1 – 1 0


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase k, e

15 Lowercase l, j, y



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase l, j, y


o Skills taught: identify lowercase j


o Skills taught: identify lowercase l, y


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase l, j, y

• Letter Sound Sing-Along (Pre-K and K)


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o Skills taught: letter sounds


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase l, j, y

16 Lowercase w, z, q, x



o Skills taught: recognize and name lowercase w, z, q, x


o Skills taught: identify lowercase w, q


o Skills taught: identify lowercase z, x


o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase w, z, q, x

• AEIOU Song (Pre-K and K)



o Skills taught: recognize and identify lowercase w, z, q, x

Grades 3 – 6

Lesson Details

1 Letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff


• Alphabet Action

o Skills taught: Recognize and name letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff

• Alphabet Blackout

o Skills taught: Identify letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff

2 Letters assessment: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff


• Alphabet Quiz

o Skills taught: Identify letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff

3 Letters Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll



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• Alphabet Action

o Skills taught: Recognize and name letters Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll


o Skills taught: Identify letters Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll

4 Letters assessment: Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll


• Alphabet Quiz

o Skills taught: Identify letters Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll

5 Letters Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr


• Alphabet Action

o Skills taught: Recognize and name letters Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr


o Skills taught: Identify letters Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr

6 Letters assessment: Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr


• Alphabet Quiz

o Skills taught: Identify letters Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr

7 Letters Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx


• Alphabet Action

o Skills taught: Recognize and name letters Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx


o Skills taught: Identify letters Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx

8 Letters assessment: Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx


• Alphabet Quiz

o Skills taught: Identify letters Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx

9 Letters Yy, Zz


• Alphabet Action


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o Skills taught: Recognize and name letters Yy, Zz


o Skills taught: Identify letters Yy, Zz

10 Letters assessment: Yy, Zz


• Alphabet Quiz

o Skills taught: Identify letters Yy, Zz


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Phonological Awareness In Phonological Awareness, students are introduced to rhyme, phonemes, onset-rime blending, phoneme placement, and phoneme segmentation. Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum, as well as supplemental resources such as printouts and classroom activities, to help reinforce rhyming, blending, and other phonemic skills.


Sounds

Lesson Details

1 Sounds 1


• Discover Similar Sounds

o Skills taught: recognize same sounds

• Meet New Sounds

o Skills taught: recognize different sounds

2 Sounds 2

Includes these skills and activities:



• Meet New Sounds


3 Sounds 3

Includes these skills and activities:



• Meet New Sounds


4 Sounds 4




• Meet New Sounds


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5 Sounds 5




• Meet New Sounds


Syllables

Lesson Details

1 Syllables 1


• Syllable Fun: Learn to Count Syllables by Instructional Video

o Skills taught: syllable counting

• Syllable Count: Count and Pronounce Syllables in Spoken Words


2 Syllables 2






Rhyme

Lesson Details

1 Rhyme 1


• Introduction to Rhyme

o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –at and –oat, including word groups like cat, hat, and mat; and goat, coat, and boat

• Identify Rhyming Words

o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –an, –ell, –ate, –uck, and –in, including words like man and


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fan; bell and shell; gate and plate; duck and truck; and pin and fin

o Printouts included: Identify Rhyme Book 1

2 Rhyme 2



o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –ug and –ee, including word groups like bug, jug, and mug; and bee, tea, and sea


o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –ear, –ine, –omb, –ail, and –il, including words like bear and chair; vine and sign; comb and home; tail and pail; and pill and hill


3 Rhyme 3



o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –am and –ape, including word groups like lamb, jam, and yam; and ape, cape, and tape


o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –eal, –ane, –um, –oot, and –est, including words like seal and wheel; plane and train; drum and plum; fruit and boot; and nest and vest


4 Rhyme 4



o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –ig and –og, including word groups like pig, wig, and fig; and dog, frog and hog


o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –oon, –eye, –ar, –ent, and –ouse, including words like spoon


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and moon; fly and eye; star and car; cent and tent; and mouse and house

o Printouts include: Identify Rhyme Book 4

5 Rhyme 5



o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –ox and –oon, including word groups like fox, ox, and box; and raccoon, moon, and balloon


o Skills taught: identify words that rhyme with word endings such as –oune, –ear, –orn, –ake, and –unk, including words like clown and crown; spear and deer; corn and horn; snake and flake; and skunk and trunk


Syllables

Lesson Details

1 Syllables 3






2 Syllables 4






Blending

Lesson Details

1 Blending 1


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• Monster Blend: Blend Word Parts

o Skills taught: blend word parts to create words such as can, van, hat, mop, and jam; jet, bed, pen, cape, and tie; and bus, bone, mud, net, and rug

2 Blending 2



o Skills taught: blend word parts to create words such as tire, mug, bell, dish, and nut; fan, cup, bag, sea, and box; and pot, map, sun, log, and hook

3 Blending 3



o Skills taught: blend word parts to create words such as moon, hose, book, leaf, and soap; doll, wall, cake, rake, and sail; and mail, nail, ring, coat, and hill

4 Blending 4



o Skills taught: blend word parts to create words such as ring, boat, rose, meat, and rain; lake, rice, ball, pie, and rope; tent, sink, bike, rock, and wing; and ship, sand, desk, book, and sock

5 Blending 5



o Skills taught: blend word parts to create words such as wig, kite, pan, dress, and rope; chip, fish, road, sack, and flag; and tree, lamp, seat, nest, and grass

Segmentation

Lesson Details

1 Segmentation 1


• Sound Check: Introduction to Phoneme Segmentation


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o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like zoo, bee, hat, and pen; tie, ice, bug, and bat; and toe, bus, cat, and tent

• Sound Play: Phoneme Segmentation Practice

o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like zoo, bee, hat, and pen; tie, ice, bat, and bug; and toe, bus, cat, and tent

• Sound Chase: Phoneme Segmentation Assessment

o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like car, key, pie, nose, mop, note, boy, vine, coat, and sea

• Sound Stretch: Phoneme Segmentation Remediation

o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like zoo, nose, ice, fan, worm, saw, rain, and moon; and sea, fair, snow, ear, sand, nine, vase, and math

2 Segmentation 2



o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like glue, rock, tree, and spoon; eight, man, shoe, and lamp; and book, fish, clock, and dress


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like glue, rock, tree, and spoon; eight, man, shoe, and lamp; and book, fish, clock, and dress


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like owl, toe, pot, rug, mail, soap, bee, cage, mice, and jar


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like hose, shoe, ran knee, five, owl, van, and moose; and ice, sail, fish, zoo, shell, mouth, eyes, and sun

3 Segmentation 3

Includes the following activities and skills:


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like knot, house, boots, and hand; soap, game, frog, and gift; and patch, leaf, lights, and smile


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o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like knot, house, boots, and hand; soap, game, frog, and gift; and patch, leaf, lights, and smile


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like fur, wash, room, bats, frown, saw, tub, rake, vest, and cart


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like rail, flea, fur, soil, sign, three, room, and fly; and arms, sea, smile, wave, mail, rose, zoo, leaf

4 Segmentation 4



o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like eyes, rose, sand, and truck; sock, dad, paint, and skate; and key, robe, plate, and steps


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like eyes, rose, sand, and truck; sock, dad, paint, and skate; and key, robe, plate, and steps


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like sea, mail, bowl, school, chairs, shirt, crib, lamb, frame, and ski


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like man, shoe, meal, shield, ice, shop, mouse, and light; and suit, sneeze, fence, wheels, shed, ear, food, and rooms

5 Segmentation 5



o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like peach, duck, train, and cheese; arms, plant, stump, and ball; and knee, mouth, grapes, and street



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o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like peach, duck, train, and cheese; arms, plant, stump, and ball; and knee, mouth, grapes, and street


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like toast, birds, mouse, wheels, plates, scarf, pond, snow, nuts, and branch


o Skills taught: segment words into phonemes including words like saw, nails, sand, frown, snail, eyes, sock, and ship; and lamp, shells, shoe, frame, seed, mask, sound, and snake

Phoneme Position

Lesson Details

1 Phoneme Position 1


• Yakkity Yak: Find the Phoneme

o Skills taught: identify the position of phonemes in words like can, tag, jet, rib, and nut




o Skills taught: identify the position of phonemes in words like tub, mat, hen, lip, and pot




o Skills taught: identify the position of phonemes in words like fan, cup, pin, mop, and rug




o Skills taught: identify the position of phonemes in words like rat, log, sun, lid, and web



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o Skills taught: identify the position of phonemes in words like bag, jam, mud, net, and wig


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Reading Lessons Read-Along Books In Read-Along Books, students are introduced to early reading texts and basic comprehension questions. Students learn how to follow along while a read-along book is read aloud to them. Students also learn how to answer simple comprehension questions about what they learned from the read-along book.

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Read-Along Books

Lesson Details

1 Moving

Includes this book and supporting activities:

• How to Read a Story

• Read-Along Book: Moving

• First, Next, Last: Put Events in Sequential Order (Pre-K)

• Put It In Order: Put Story Events in Sequential Order (Pre-K)

• Read-Along Comprehension

2 No, No, Baby Sue!


• Read-Along Book: No, No, Baby Sue!




3 Let’s Go to Grandma’s House


• Read-Along Book: Let’s Go to Grandma’s House




4 The Pesky Mosquito


• Read-Along Book: The Pesky Mosquito


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5 Can You Do This?


• Read-Along Book: Can You Do This?


6 Fun with Fruit!


• Read-Along Book: Fun with Fruit!


7 Zoo Day


• Read-Along Book: Zoo Day




8 What Do I Like?


• Read-Along Book: What Do I Like?


9 New Baby


• Read-Along Book: New Baby




10 Dragon Flies (Pre-K)

Includes this book:

• Read-Along Book: Dragon Flies

11 Maggie’s Kite (Pre-K)

Includes this book:

• Read-Along Book: Maggie’s Kite


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12 Where is Tiny? (Pre-K)

Includes this book:

• Read-Along Book: Where is Tiny?

13 Is It a Monster? (Pre-K)

Includes this book:

• Read-Along Book: Is It a Monster?

14 Make your own Book (Pre-K)

Includes this book:

• Read-Along Book: Make your own Book

15 What If…


• Read-Along Book: What If…


16 Dragon Flies


• Read-Along Book: Dragon Flies




17 Maggie’s Kite


• Read-Along Book: Maggie’s Kite




18 Where is Tiny?


• Read-Along Book: Where is Tiny?




19 Is It a Monster?



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• Read-Along Book: Is It a Monster?




20 Make your own Book


• Read-Along Book: Make your own Book




21 Fire Escape


• Read-Along Book: Fire Escape


22 Stop the Fire


• Read-Along Book: Stop the Fire


23 April Fool’s!


• Read-Along Book: April Fool’s!


24 Fighting Kites


• Read-Along Book: Fighting Kites


25 Is It Alive?


• Read-Along Book: Is It Alive?


26 The Sunflower Cycle


• Read-Along Book: The Sunflower Cycle


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27 Your Amazing Sense of Hearing


• Read-Along Book: Your Amazing Sense of Hearing


28 Your Amazing Sense of Touch


• Read-Along Book: Your Amazing Sense of Touch


29 Your Amazing Sense of Smell


• Read-Along Book: Your Amazing Sense of Smell


30 Your Amazing Sense of Sight


• Read-Along Book: Your Amazing Sense of Sight


31 Your Amazing Sense of Taste


• Read-Along Book: Your Amazing Sense of Taste


Beginning Books In Beginning Books, students receive integrated reading lessons that teach letter sounds, decodable words, sight words, spelling, reading vocabulary, and reading comprehension skills. Students are introduced to beginning texts, reading vocabulary, and comprehension questions, but also receive instruction and support for individual letter sounds, phonics, short vowels, and vowel teams. Students also learn how to recognize and read regularly-spelled words, decodable words, and high-frequency words and understand them in context.


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Additionally, students learn to recognize word family patterns and spell regularly spelled words, including how to use affixes to modify base words and create new words.


Beginning Books

Lesson Details

1 Where Am I?


• Making Music: Meet the Phoneme

o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /a/ and /m/

• Presenting Vowels: Introduction to Vowel Sounds

o Skills taught: recognize short and long vowel sounds, including /ă/, /ĕ/, /ĭ/, /ŏ/, and /ŭ/

• Sound Rap: Recognize Letter Sounds

o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ă/ and /m/

• Mega Mazels: Practice Word Identification

o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including am and Sam

• Word Maze: Practice Word Identification 2

o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including am and Sam

• Note This: Meet Sight Words

o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including I, where, here

• Blaster: Practice Sight Words

o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including I, where, here

o Printouts included: High Frequency Word Flashcards

• Word Survivor: Recognize the Word

o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including I, where, here, am


• Beginning Book: Where Am I?

o Printouts included: Where Am I? book text


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• Find The Word: Recognize Words

o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including where, here, I, am

• Look in the Book: Intro to Literal Questions

o Skills taught: literal comprehension

• Understand What I Read: Comprehension Questions

o Skills taught: literal comprehension and inferential comprehension

• Read and Record: Read Aloud

o Skills taught: phonics and high-frequency word recognition

2 Sam and Dad



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /s/ and /d/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /d/, /s/, /a/, and /m/

• Phonics Commercials: Phonics Rules

o Skills taught: vowels and consonants phonics rules

• Ready to Spell: Word Family Spelling (Grades 1 and 2)

o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ad, –ap, –at

• Mega Mazels: Practice Word Identification

o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including dad, sad, and Sam

• Word Maze: Practice Word Identification 2

o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including dad, sad, and Sam

• Spellball: Spelling Practice (Grades 1 and 2)

o Skills taught: spell words that end in –ad, –ap, and –at


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including is, good, not, and I’m; and now, and, and practice


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including is, good, not, and I’m; and now, and, and practice



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o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including is, good, not, I’m, dad, sad, Sam, now, and, and practice


• Beginning Book: Sam and Dad

o Printouts: Sam and Dad book text

• Find the Word: Recognize Words

o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including I’m, is, Dad, sad, practice, not, good, and Sam





3 Do Not Tap



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /p/ and /t/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /p/, /t/, /d/, and /s/



• Ready to Spell: Introduction to Spelling (Grades 1 and 2)

o Skills taught: spell words ending in –at and –ap

• Let’s Bounce: Identify and Blend Letter Sounds

o Skills taught: blending letter sounds to recognize and produce single-syllable words

• Mega Mazels: Word Identification

o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including map, pat, and tap; and Mat, Pam, and sat

• Word Maze: Word Identification 2

o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including map, pat, and tap; and Mat, Pam, and sat


o Skills taught: spell words that end in –at, –ap, and –am


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o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including that, what, do, or, we, and can


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including that, what, do, or, we, and can


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including map, pat, tap, mad, that, what, do, or, we, can, Mat, Pam, and sat


• Beginning Book: Do Not Tap

o Printouts: Do Not Tap printout


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including tap, that, pat, what, or, we, good, I’m





4 Stop, Bob, Stop!



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /o/ and /b/

• Vowel Explorer: Identifying Vowels

o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ă/ and /ŏ/

• Vowel Drop: Identifying Vowels Reteach

o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ă/ and /ŏ/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /b/, /o/, /t/, and /p/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ob and –op


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o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including Bob, bad, stop, Tom, and sob


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including Bob, bad, stop, Tom, and sob


o Skills taught: spell words that end in –ob and –op


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including then, too, and no


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including then, too, and no


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including then, too, no, bad, Bob, sob, stop, and Tom


• Beginning Book: Stop, Bob, Stop!

o Printouts: Stop, Bob, Stop! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including mad, stop, no, Tom, is, Bob, sad, then, and not





5 Too Hot



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /n/ and /h/



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o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /n/, /h/, /b/, and /o/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –an, –and, and –ot




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including hop, hot, pop, and pot; and sand and hand


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including hop, hot, pop, and pot; and sand and hand


o Skills taught: spell words that end in –an, –and, and –ot


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including the, go, get, and a; and us, but, you, and it


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including the, go, get, and a; and us, but, you, and it


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including the, go, get, a, hop, hot, pop, pot, us, but, you, hand, and sand


• Beginning Book: Too Hot

o Printouts: Too Hot book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including hot, us, no, the, go, you, hop, sand, but, Mat, and is






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6 What Is That?


• Spellball Showdown: Spelling Assessment

o Skills taught: spell words including tap, Bob, Pam, sob, mad, pop, bad, pot, dam, and stop


• Beginning Book: What Is That?

o Printouts: What Is That? book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including stop, what, bad, where, it, get, here, you, good, and go





7 Pam’s Hat



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /c/ and /f/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /c/, /f/, /n/, and /h/




o Skills taught: spell words ending in –an, –and, and –ot


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including cat, fan, and fat; and hat, on, Pam’s, and pats


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including cat, fan, and fat; and hat, on, Pam’s, and pats



January 2017


o Skills taught: spell words that end in –an, –and, and –ot


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including has, have, new, and hits


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including has, have, new, and hits


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including has, have, new hits, it, cat, fan, fat, hat, on, Pam’s, and pats


• Beginning Book: Pam’s Hat

o Printouts: Pam’s Hat book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including has, new, hat, hits, on, Pam, cat, now, and can

• Look in the Book: Intro to Literal Comprehension






8 The Band



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /v/ and /i/




o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ĭ/, /ŏ/, and /ă/



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ĭ/ and /ŏ/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /v/, /i/, /k/, and /f/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –in and –it




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including can’t, grin, hit, and in; and band, pans, and van


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including can’t, grin, hit, and in; and band, pans, and van


o Skills taught: spell words that end in –in and –it


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including they, then, and that


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including they, then, and that


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including they, can’t, grin, hit, in band, pans, and van


• Beginning Book: The Band

o Printouts: The Band book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including band, hit, they, have, you stop, good, in, pans, van, and have



January 2017





9 The Map



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /u/ and /r/


o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ŭ/, /ŏ/, and /ĭ/


o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ĭ/ and /ŭ/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /u/, /r/, /v/, and /i/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ip and –ut




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including at, it’s, and rip; and but, cut, and mud


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including at, it’s and rip; and but, cut, and mud


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ip and –ut


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including look, this, let’s, and found


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including look, this, let’s, and found


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including look, this, let’s, found, at, it’s, rip, but, cut, and mud


• Beginning Book: The Map

o Printouts: The Map book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including look, it’s, rip, map, this, let’s, mud, a, too, what, and this





10 The New Rug



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /g/ and /k/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /g/, /u/, /r/, and /v/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ug, –ag, and –un


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including rug, run, and sun; and bag, rag, and sit


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including rug, run, and sun; and bag, rag, and sit


o Skills taught: spell words ending –ug, –ag, and –un


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including mess up, does, and soon



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including mess up, does, and soon


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including does, soon, rug, run, sun, bag, rag, and sit


• Beginning Book: The New Rug

o Printouts: The New Rug book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including new, rug, run, sit, but, on, does, rag, is what, Pam, and new





11 Can You Come?

Includes the following activities and skills:


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /k/, /g/, /i/, and /r/




o Skills taught: spell words ending in –im and –ug


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including camp and Kim; and bugs and fun


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including camp and Kim; and bugs and fun


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –im and –ug



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including come, with, like, and to; and want, don’t, will, and shop


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including come, with, like, and to; and want, don’t, will, and shop


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including come, with, like, to want, don’t, will, shop, camp, Kim, bugs, and fun


• Beginning Book: Can You Come?

o Printouts: Can You Come? book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including Kim, come, bag, with, like, don’t, bugs, want, camp, fun, and will





12 Let’s Camp



o Skills taught: spell words, including fat, rip, cut, run, hot, cat, sit, hand, fun, and van


• Beginning Book: Let’s Camp

o Printouts: Let’s Camp book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including van, have, want, don’t, run, this, where, found, to, camp, and let’s



January 2017







13 Frog’s Eggs



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /e/ and /l/




o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ŭ/, /ŏ/, /ĭ/, /ĕ/, and /ă/


o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ŭ/ and /ĕ/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /e/, /k/, /f/, and /h/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ig, –est, and –og




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including frog and frog’s; and big, eggs, nest, and pig


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including frog and frog’s; and big, eggs, nest, and pig





January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including them, are, and shells; and see, tadpoles, and baby


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including them, are, and shells; and see, tadpoles, and baby


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including them, are, shells, see, tadpoles, baby, frog, frog’s, big, eggs, nest, and pig


• Beginning Book: Frog’s Eggs

o Printouts: Frog’s Eggs book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including eggs, at, nest, shells, them, frog’s, what, tadpoles, see, big, now, and come







14 Bob and the Bug



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /l/, /e/, /d/, and /o/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ig, –est, –og

• Bouncy Blends: Blend Letter Sounds for Single-Syllable Words

o Skills taught: automaticity in blending letter sounds to recognize and produce single-syllable words


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including lost, pals, dig, and log; and bed and red


January 2017



o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including lost, pals, dig, and log; and bed and red




o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including by, back, and isn’t


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including by, back, and isn’t


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including by, back, isn’t, dig, log, lost, pals, bed, and red


• Beginning Book: Bob and the Bug

o Printouts: Bob and Bug book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including pals, they, bed, log, by, digs, too, back, lost, red, comes, isn’t, and sun





15 Sam Is the Best



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /j/ and /y/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /j/, /y/, /b/, and /l/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ell and –ob


January 2017



o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including job, jogs, and gets; and rests, well, best, yes, and bell


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including job, jogs, and gets; and rests, well, best, yes, and bell


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ell and –ob


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including wants, again, he, done, and wins; and bike, prize, his, and rides


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including wants, again, he, done, and wins; and bike, prize, his, and rides


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including wants, he, done, again, wins, prize, bike, his, rides, job, jogs, gets, bell, best, rests, well, and yes


• Beginning Book: Sam Is the Best

o Printouts: Sam Is the Best book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including wants, job, well, done, this, Sam, rests, again, best, hat, he, bike, and his





16 The Frog



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /w/ and /z/



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /w/, /z/, /j/, and /y/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –et and –end


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including jet, pond, slips, wet, and swims


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including jet, pond, slips, wet, and swims


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –et and –end


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including toward, around, zigzags, onto, and into


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including toward, around, zigzags, onto, and into


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including toward, around, zigzags, into, onto, jet, pond, slips, swims, and wet


• Beginning Book: The Frog

o Printouts: The Frog book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including jogs, zigzags, frog, into, wet, around, slips, bob, pond, log, swims, toward, onto, and can’t





17 Wax Quiz



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /qu/ and /x/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /kw/, /x/, /w/, and /z/


o Skills taught: ck phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending –ick and –un


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including brick, dip, miss, quick, and quiz; and fox, wax, melt, mom, and box


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including brick, dip, miss, quick, and quiz; and fox, wax ,melt, mom, and box


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ick and –un


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including take, bees, said, and from; and make, candles, your, and for


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including take, bees, said, and from; and make, candles, your, and for


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including take, said, from, bees, make, candles, your, for, brick, dip, miss, quick, quiz, fox, melt, wax, and mom


• Beginning Book: Wax Quiz

o Printouts: Wax Quiz book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including quick, what, said, from, bees, wax, make, miss, candles, melt, then, go, and your



January 2017





18 The Prize



o Skills taught: recognize short vowel sounds, including /ŭ/, /ŏ/, /ĭ/, /ĕ/, and /ă/


o Skills taught: spell words, including big, nest, log, kid, bell, vest, rug, kit, hat, and bog


• Beginning Book: The Prize

o Printouts: The Prize book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including for, quiz, job, said, will, but, box, take, prize, yes, and best



• Fluent Reader: Demonstrate Oral Reading Fluency (Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)

o Skills taught: read grade-level text with accuracy and fluency

• Read and Record: Read Aloud (Pre-K and K)


19 Let’s Play Tag



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ent/, /end/, /el/, and /kw/


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ent and –end



January 2017




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including bend, went, Brent, end, and tent; and fell, flip, tag, and got


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including bend, went, Brent, end, and tent; and fell, flip, tag, and got


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ent and –end


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including played, me, of, and other


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including played, me, of, and other


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including played, me, of, other, bend, Brent, end, tent, went, fell, flip, got, and tag


• Beginning Book: Let’s Play Tag

o Printouts: Let’s Play Tag book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including went, played, me, yes, of, get, other, end, fell, are, got, and Brent

• Look and Think: Intro to Inferential Questions

o Skills taught: inferential comprehension





20 Stop That!


January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ump/, /amp/, /all/, and /st/; and /ch/, /ent/, /end/, and /el/


o Skills taught: double consonants phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ump, –amp, and –all




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including bump, clump, jump, stomp, and thump; just, chest, lamp, must, and nap; and ball, wall, hall, and rest


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including bump, clump, jump, stomp, and thump; just, chest, lamp, must, and nap; and ball, wall, hall, and rest


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ump, –amp, and –all


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including need, floor, woke, and down


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including need, floor, woke, and down


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including need, floor, woke, down, bump, clump, jump, stomp, thump, chest, just, lamp, must, nap, ball, hall, wall, and rest


• Beginning Book: Stop That!

o Printouts: Stop That! book text



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including bump, bump, wall, floor, lamp, clump, down, need, thump, and woke





21 Crash!



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ch/ and /sh/


o Skills taught: recognize short and long vowel sounds, including /ā/, /ē/, /ī/, /ō/, and /ū/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ate/, /ame/, /ake/, and /ash/; and /il/, /sk/, /sh/, and /amp/


o Skills taught: silent e phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ate, –ake, and –ame




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including gate, plate, face, skate, place, and hate; Shane, came, Shane’s, brake, frame, and rake; and ramp, crash, still, fast, and pill


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including gate, plate, face, skate, place, and hate; Shane, came, Shane’s, brake, frame, and rake; and ramp, crash, still, fast, and pill


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ate, –ake, and –ame



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including park, oh, off, ouch, and couldn’t


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including park, oh, off, ouch, and couldn’t


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including park, oh, off, ouch, couldn’t, face, gate, hate, place, plate, skate, brake, came, frame, rake, Shane, Shane’s, crash, ramp, still, and fast


• Beginning Book: Crash!

o Printouts: Crash! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including Shane, need, park, gate, place, came, ramp, brake, couldn’t, crash, ouch, skate, and still







22 What a Bike!



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ide/, /ike/, /ine/, and /ive/; and /ind/, /pr/, /ake/, and /il/




o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ide, –ike, and –ive



January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including find, kind, mind, and ice; hide, slide, and glide; and dive, ride, fine, and five


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including find, kind, mind, and ice; hide, slide, and glide; and dive, ride, fine, and five


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ide, –ike, and –ive


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including my, cool, and so; and moon, clouds, and room


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including my, cool, and so; and moon, clouds, and room


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including my, cool, so, moon, clouds, room, find, kind, mind, glide, hide, slide, dive, fine, five, and ride


• Beginning Book: What a Bike!

o Printouts: What a Bike! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including kind, cool, so, ride, moon, clouds, slide, my, dive, bike, and your





23 Vote!



o Skills taught: recognize short and long vowel sounds, including /ă/, /ā/, /ĭ/, /ī/, /ŏ/, and /ō/


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize long vowel sounds, including /ā/, /ī/, and /ō/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /one/, /oke/, /f/, and /ike/




o Skills taught: spell words ending in –one and –oke




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including note, phone, tone, and vote; and joke, home, hope, and well


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including note, phone, tone, and vote; and joke, home, hope, and well


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –one and –oke


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including saw, was, and star; and number, she, and push


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including saw, was, and star; and number, she, and push


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including saw, was, star, number, she, push, note, phone, tone, vote, home, hope, and joke


• Beginning Book: Vote!

o Printouts: Vote! book text



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including phone, saw, joke, star, home, push, she, note, number, was, vote, and well





24 I Hate This Bike



o Skills taught: spell words, including end, woke, phone, wide, hike, dive, rent, date, cake, pump, stamp, and call; end, wax, jog, yell, stomp, zap, quiz, chest, clump, and bend; and rent, box, jet, jump, yes, call, quick, pump, stamp, and zip


• Beginning Book: I Hate This Bike

o Printouts: I Hate This Bike book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including thump, fell, hate, was, couldn’t, went, ride, bike, like, make, and cool









25 Not Mice!




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ice/, /ife/, /gl/, and /th/


o Skills taught: ce phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ice, –id, and –ife


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including prince, glad, mice, nice, and price; wife, rid, cats, glance, and kittens; and had, throne, ran, chance, and lid


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including prince, glad, mice, nice, and price; wife, rid, cats, glance, and kittens; and had, throne, ran, chance, and lid


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ice, –id, and –ife


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including seen, some, asked, and were; and away, one, there, and these


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including seen, some, asked, and were; and away, one, there, and these


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including seen, were, asked, some, away, one, there, these, prince, glad, mice, nice, price, rid, wife, cats, glance, kittens, had, throne, ran, chance, and lid


• Beginning Book: Not Mice!

o Printouts: Not Mice! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including throne, glad, seen, nice, wife, some, away, prince, were, there, kittens, cats, and rid




January 2017






26 The Plane Race



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /th/ and /w/


o Skills taught: recognize long vowel sounds, including /ā/, /ē/, /ī/, /ō/, and /ū/


o Skills taught: recognize short and long vowel sounds, including /ĭ/, /ŏ/, /ā/, /ī/, and /ō/




o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /I/, /ight/, /fl/, and /cr/; and /fr/, /wh/, /pl/, and /one/


o Skills taught: gh phonics rule; and y phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ight and –y


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including plane, right, Fran’s, light, and Cris’s; Fran, sky, why, race, and try; and planes, Cris, help, and fly


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including plane, right, Fran’s, light, and Cris’s; Fran, sky, why, race, and try; and planes, Cris, help, and fly


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ight and –y



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including way, first, and threw; and her, our, and work


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including way, first, and threw; and her, our, and work


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including way, frist, threw, her, our, work, Fran, sky, why, race, try, plane, right, Fran’s, light, Cris’s, planes, Cris, help, and fly


• Beginning Book: The Plane Race

o Printouts: The Plane Race book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including plane, sky, why, first, threw, right, let’s, light, Cris’s, our, help, Fran, and fly





27 Oh the Pain!



o Skills taught: recognize short and long vowel sounds, including /ă/, /ā/, /ī/, and /ō/




o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ay/, /ain/, /ail/, and /tr/; and /dr/, /br/, /I/, and /ight/


o Skills taught: two vowels phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ay, –ain, and –ail


January 2017





o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including train, rain, rail, and drain; day, all, clay, pain, and races; and plain, may, sprain, gray, and mail


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including train, rain, rail, and drain; day, all, clay, pain, and races; and plain, may, sprain, gray, and mail


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ay, –ain, and –ail


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including wanted, over, and jumped; slipped, hurt, be, and doctor


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including wanted, over, and jumped; slipped, hurt, be, and doctor


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including wanted, over, jumped, slipped, hurt, be, doctor, train, rain, rail, drain, day, all, clay, pain, plain, may, sprain, gray, and mail


• Beginning Book: Oh the Pain!

o Printouts: Oh the Pain! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including wanted, rain, rail, over, day, clay, down, pain, be, doctor, race, and train







January 2017



28 Good Luck



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ock/, /ook/, /ack/, and /ay/


o Skills taught: two Os phonics rule; ck phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ook and –oon; and –ock and –ack


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including shook, if, luck, safe, hook, and back; lock, truck, rock, crook, took, and sack; and stuck, jail, did, clock, and black


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including shook, if, luck, safe, hook, and back; lock, truck, rock, crook, took, and sack; and stuck, jail, did, clock, and black


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ook and –oon; and –ock and –ack


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including used, out, money, looked, anyone, and him


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including used, out, money, looked, anyone, and him


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including used, him, out, money, looked, anyone, lock, truck, rock, crook, took, sack, shook, if, luck, safe, hook, stuck, jail, did, clock, and black


• Beginning Book: Good Luck

o Printouts: Good Luck book text


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including truck, rock, sack, money, anyone, luck, hook, crook, away, jail, did, and saw





29 The Old Dog



o Skills taught: recognize short and long vowel sounds, including /ŏ/, /ā/, /ī/, /ō/


o Skills taught: recognize long vowel sounds, including /ā/ and /ō/




o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /oh/ and /old/; /bl/, /sl/, /gl/, and /sn/


o Skills taught: ow phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ow and –oat; and –old and –o


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including snow, old, an, cold, and dog; slow, flakes, wind, blow, and well; and float, slope, slid, and boat


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including snow, old, an, cold, and dog; slow, flakes, wind, blow, and well; and float, slope, slid, and boat



January 2017


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ow and –oat; and –old and –o


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including walked, very, began, and die; and float, slope, slid, and boat


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including walked, very, began, and die; and float, slope, slid, and boat


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including walked, very, began, die would, boy, as, snow, old, an, cold, slow, flakes, wind, blow, float, slope, slid, dog, and boat


• Beginning Book: The Old Dog

o Printouts: The Old Dog book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including walked, very, float, cold, slope, die, no, boy, old, well, and snow





30 Stuck



o Skills taught: spell words, including nice, right, phone, wide, try, crash, find, thump, place, and brake; and life, woke, flip, tone, cake, frog, still, glide, date, and sight


• Beginning Book: Stuck

o Printouts: Stuck book text



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including old, day, black, rain, snow, ice, stuck, so, her, rails, and as







31 Bees



o Skills taught: long vowel sounds, including /ā/, /ē/, /ī/, /ō/, and /ū/


o Skills taught: short and long vowel sounds, including /ĕ/, /ā/, /ē/, and /ō/


o Skills taught: long vowel sounds, including /ō/ and /ē/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /eet/, /eed/, and /ee/; and /eam/, /scr/, /sw/, and /oh/


o Skills taught: ee phonics rule

• Ready to Spell: Introduction to Spelling

o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ee and –eet; and –eam and –eat




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including meet, by, sweet, treat, and seat; eat, tree, feed, scream, and bee; and Brook, feet, meat, seed, and team



January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including meet, by, sweet, treat, and seat; eat, tree, feed, scream, and bee; and Brook, feet, meat, seed, and team

• Spellball: Spelling Practice

o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ee, –eat, –eet, and –eed; and –ay, –ain, and –ail


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including okay, bring, many, laughed, and afraid


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including okay, bring, many, laughed, and afraid


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including okay, bring, many, laughed, afraid, meet, sweet, treat, seat, eat, tree, feed, scream, bee, Brook, meat, feet, seed, and team


• Beginning Book: Bees

o Printouts: Bees book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including meet, treat, we, tree, feed, don’t, scream, need, laughed, right, seat, and afraid







32 Where Are the Keys?



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ing/, /ong/, /eed/, and /eam/



January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including ring, thing, swing, and long; and string, spring, bang, and song


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including ring, thing, swing, and long; and string, spring, bang, and song


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ing and –ong; and –ack, –ock, –uck, –ook, and –oom


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ing and –ong


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including key, always, under, and hair; and head, put, and car


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including key, always, under, and hair; and head, put, and car


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including key, always, under, hair, head, put, car, ring, thing, swing, long, string, spring, bang, and song


• Beginning Book: Where Are the Keys?

o Printouts: Where Are the Keys? book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including ring, thing, long, under, keys, spring, string, not, head, look, and put





33 The Trunk of Money




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ank/, /ink/, /unk/, and /ing/


o Skills taught: two vowels phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ink, –eat, and –unk


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including trunk, man, sank, bank, think, and men; and thank, ink, wink, and skunk


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including trunk, man, sank, bank, think, and men; and thank, ink, wink, and skunk


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ink, –eat, and –unk; and –old, –ow, –oat, and –oap


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including stolen, two, open, and before; and smiled, give, after, and could


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including stolen, two, open, and before; and smiled, give, after, and could


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including stolen, two, open, before, smiled, give, after, could, trunk, man, sank, bank, think, men, thank, ink, wink, and skunk


• Beginning Book: The Trunk of Money

o Printouts: The Trunk of Money book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including trunk, sank, think, men, before, bank, thank, ink, smiled, give, and after




January 2017






34 The Toy Robot



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /oy/, /sp/, and /ink/


o Skills taught: ee phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –oy, –eet, and –oil


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including Roy, toy, gold, three, and legs; and oil, spoil, foil, and soil


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including Roy, toy, gold, three, and legs; and oil, spoil, foil, and soil


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –oy, –eet, and –oil


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including covered, any, walk, and talk; and pool, robot, and about


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including covered, any, walk, and talk; and pool, robot, and about


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including covered, any, walk, talk, pool, robot, about, Roy, toy, gold, three, legs, oil, spoil, foil, and soil


• Beginning Book: The Toy Robot

o Printouts: The Toy Robot book text


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including toy, cool, covered, boy, any, talk, foil, oil, robot, soil, and about





35 Who Did It?



o Skills taught: short and long vowel sounds, including /ŭ/, /ē/, /ō/, and /ū/


o Skills taught: long vowel sounds, including /ē/ and /ū/




o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ool/, /oo/, /eeoo/, and /sc/


o Skills taught: ew phonics rule; ue phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ew and –e; and –ue and –eam




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including clues, few, print, and chunk; clue, blue, boot, and glue; and made, Scoop, mew, and chew



January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including clues, few, print, and chunk; clue, blue, boot, and glue; and made, Scoop, mew, and chew


o Skills taught: spell words ending in –ew and –e; –ue and –eam; and –ing, –ang, and –ong


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including someone, been, who, shoe, and know


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including someone, been, who, shoe, and know


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including someone, been, who, shoe, know, clues, few, print, chunk, clue, blue, boot, glue, made, Scoop, mew, and chew


• Beginning Book: Who Did It?

o Printouts: Who Did It? book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including boy, someone, clues, shoe, chest, pool, room, who, shoe, know, and mew





36 The Cool Ball





o Skills taught: spell words, including bee, greet, blew, king, along, pink, sunk, beat, joy, beam, glue, flew, pool, and he; float, day, sock, bang, pack, slow, drain, team, hook, and luck;


January 2017


and greet, may, black, king, along, sold, nail, beat, took, and boat


• Beginning Book: The Cool Ball

o Printouts: The Cool Ball book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including Roy, blue, bang, thing, string, works, smiled, toy, Shane, Sue, afraid, and laughed









37 The Clown



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ow/, /out/, /own/, and /cl/


o Skills taught: ow and ou phonics rules


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include ou and ow


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including clown, bow, crowd, gown, crown, and brow; and brown, loud, frown, cow, and shout



January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including clown, bow, crowd, gown, crown, and brow; and brown, loud, frown, cow, and shout


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include ou, ow, and nk


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including wild, loved, air, yelled, and more


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including wild, loved, air, yelled, and more

• Word Chop: Introduction to Prefixes and Affixes

o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes

• Fix It Up: Use Prefixes and Affixes

o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ed


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including wild, loved, air, yelled, more, clown, bow, crowd, gown, crown, brow, brown, loud, frown, cow, and shout


• Beginning Book: The Clown

o Printouts: The Clown book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including bow, loved, brow, brown, clown, loud, yelled, more, down, crowd, frown, and out





38 The Scarecrow




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ah/, /ool/, /out/, and /ow/


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include aw


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including crows, crops, draw, claws, and paws; and jaws, straw, real, that’s, and looks


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including crows, crops, draw, claws, and paws; and jaws, straw, real, that’s, and looks


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include aw, oo, ou, ow, oi, and oy


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including scare, really, and should; and turn, scarecrow, and because


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including scare, really, and should; and turn, scarecrow, and because


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words including, scare, really, should, turn, scarecrow, because, crows, crops, draw, claws, paws, jaws, straw, real, that’s, and looks


• Beginning Book: The Scarecrow

o Printouts: The Scarecrow book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including crows, saw, scarecrow, really, should, jaws, straw, turn, cool, think, and because






January 2017


39 A Walk in the Dark



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ar/, /art/, and /or/; and /orn/, /ah/, /own/, and /oo/


o Skills taught: r-controlled vowels phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include –ar, –ore, –or, and –orn




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including start, far, smart, dark, and part; sports, lights, horns, and honk; and yell, score, dart, and corn


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including start, far, smart, dark, and part; sports, lights, horns, and honk; and yell, score, dart, and corn


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include ar, or, ore, and orn; and ew, ue, and oo


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including across, another, people, their, and which


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including across, another, people, their, and which


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including across, another, people, their, which, start, far, smart, dark, part, sports, lights, horns, honk, yell, score, dart, and corn


• Beginning Book: A Walk in the Dark


January 2017


o Printouts: A Walk in the Dark book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including start, would, far, smart, another, for, lights, horns, which, score, and laughed







40 Look at that Girl Go!



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /rt/, /ime/, /ar/, and /or/


o Skills taught: r-controlled vowels phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include ir and ime


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including girl, twirl, skirt, swirl, and win; than, skates, curls, turns, and how; and times, twirls, jerk, shirt, and lime


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including girl, twirl, skirt, swirl, and win; than, skates, curls, turns, and how; and times, twirls, jerk, shirt, and lime


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include ir, ime, ow, and ou


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including every, four, contest, and better


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including every four, contest, and better


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words including every, four, contest, better, girl, twirl, skirt, swirl, win, than, skates, curls, turns, how, times, twirls, jerk, shirt, and lime


• Beginning Book: Look at that Girl Go!

o Printouts: Look at that Girl Go! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including skirt, every, down, curls, turns, girl, times, jerk, hurt, contest, and better





41 The Car Wreck



o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /n/, /r/, /ite/, and /ime/


o Skills taught: wr and kn phonics rule


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include wr and kn


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including things, wrong, tire, and flips; knocks, knee, hurts, and wraps; and wrist, write, and days



January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including things, wrong, tire, and flips; knocks, knee, hurts, and wraps; and wrist, write, and days


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include kn and n; r, wr, and wh; and aw, oo, ow, and ou


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including suddenly, against, door, and hospital; and says, both, and today


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including suddenly, against, door, and hospital; and says, both, and today


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including suddenly, against, door, hospital, says, both, today, things, wrong, tire, flips, knocks, knee, hurts, wraps, wrist, write, and days


• Beginning Book: The Car Wreck

o Printouts: The Car Wreck book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including think, wrong, out, turns, knocks, black, know, knee, wrist, write, and today





42 Let’s Draw





o Skills taught: long and short vowel sounds, including /ă/, /ĭ/, /ŭ/, /ē/, and /ō/



January 2017


o Skills taught: spell words, including flew, sank, bow, paw, shout, glue, joy, soil, pink, and boot; and blew, dunk, pow, paw, out, clue, toy, foil, thank, and pool


• Beginning Book: Let’s Draw

o Printouts: Let’s Draw book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including draw, first, crown, jaws, girl, curls, okay, robot, paws, skirt, wrong, band, and cool







43 I Want to Rest





o Skills taught: long and short vowel sounds, including /ĕ/, /ŏ/, /ā/, /ū/, and /ī/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ez/, /kn/, /r/, and /ite/




o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including wish, didn’t, dishes, and bikes; time, wait, and ramps



January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including wish, didn’t, dishes, and bikes; time, wait, and ramps;


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including school, clothes, never, and Saturday; and friends, funny, and play


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including school, clothes, never, and Saturday; and friends, funny, and play


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including school, clothes, never, Saturday, friends, funny, play, wish, didn’t, dishes, bikes, time, wait, and ramps


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include ar, ore, and orn


• Beginning Book: I Want to Rest

o Printouts: I Want to Rest book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including didn’t, few, clothes, dishes, bikes, never, Saturday, friends, ramps, funny, and work




o Skills taught: literal and inferential comprehension



44 Run!



o Skills taught: long and short vowel sounds, including /ă/, /ĭ/, /ŭ/, /ē/, and /ō/



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /ing/, /ed/, /ez/, and /rt/


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including blowing, going, cast, and started; running, trying, beat, and dry; and arm, kept, pulled, and when


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including blowing, going, cast, and started; running, trying, beat, and dry; and arm, kept, pulled, and when


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including minute, house, opened, and pouring


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including minute, house, opened, and pouring




o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –ing

• Affix Action: Practice Prefixes and Affixes

o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –ed and –ing


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including minute, house, opened, pouring, blowing, going, cast, started, running, trying, beat, dry, arm, kept, and pulled


• Beginning Book: Run!

o Printouts: Run! Book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including blowing, minute, arm, doctor, trying, house, covered, dry, pulled, running, and opened





January 2017



45 First Place



o Skills taught: long and short vowel sounds, including /ĕ/, /ŏ/, /ū/, /ā/, and /ī/


o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /re/, /un/, /ly/, and /ed/


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including quickly, laps, slowly, runners, and uncool; shoelaces, untied, stepped, unlucky, and sadly; unhurt, retied, retake, lead, and passing; and kid, finish, line, and luckily


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including quickly, laps, slowly, runners, and uncool; shoelaces, untied, stepped, unlucky, and sadly; unhurt, retied, retake, lead, and passing; and kid, finish, line, and luckily


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including catching, thought, move, and though


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including catching, thought, move, and though


o Skills taught: identify prefixes, including un– and re–

• Affix Action: Practices Prefixes and Affixes

o Skills taught: identify prefixes, including un– and re–


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including catching, thought, move, though, quickly, laps, slowly, runners, uncool, shoelaces, untied, stepped, unlucky, sadly, unhurt, retied, retake, lead, passing, kid, finish, and line


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include ir and ime


January 2017



• Beginning Book: First Place

o Printouts: First Place book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including quickly, more, slowly, uncool, untied, thought, unhurt, retake, passing, though, and finish







46 Faster





o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /est/, /re/, /un/, and /ly/


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including fastest, swimmers, teacher, older, and taller; smaller, being, loudly, timer, and dived; smoothly, faster, stroking, harder, and cheering; and finished, girls, and happily


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including fastest, swimmers, teacher, older, and taller; smaller, being, loudly, timer, and dived; smoothly, faster, stroking, harder, and cheering; and finished, girls, and happily


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including quietly, water, and wildly



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including quietly, water, and wildly


o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –er and –est

• Affix Action: Practices Prefixes and Affixes

o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –er and –est


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including quietly, water, wildly, fastest, swimmers, teacher, older, taller, smaller, being, loudly, timer, dived, smoothly, faster, stroking, harder, cheering, finished, girls, and happily


• Beginning Book: Faster

o Printouts: Faster book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including fastest, older, smaller, team, beat, timer, water, faster, harder, wildly, and happily





47 Sick and Bored





o Skills taught: recognize letter sounds, including /fl/, /ness/, /shun/, and /est/





January 2017


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including sick, hopeful, bored, and shows; helpful, action, boring, and puppy; and playful, happiness, happy, sickness, and thankful


o Skills taught: decode regularly-spelled words, including sick, hopeful, bored, and shows; helpful, action, boring, and puppy; and playful, happiness, happy, sickness, and thankful


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including I’d, watched, and even; and mother, present, and watching


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including I’d, watched, and even; and mother, present, and watching


o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –ful


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including I’d, watched, even, mother, present, watching, sick, hopeful, bored, shows, helpful, action, boring, puppy, playful, happiness, happy, sickness, and thankful


o Skills taught: spell words with word parts that include wr and kn


• Beginning Book: Sick and Bored

o Printouts: Sick and Bored book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including long, even, I’d, bored, watched, action, present, playful, happiness, sickness, and thankful



• What Makes Sense: Understanding Context

o Skills taught: identify words from context, including draw, slide, and leg



January 2017



48 Action!





o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –ion


o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –tion and –ful


o Skills taught: spell words, including far, more, wrong, knee, lime, corn, girl, horn, wrap, and smart; and part, score, write, knit, time, dart, skirt, sport, wrist, and dark


• Beginning Book: Action!

o Printouts: Action! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including action, putting, around, started, flipped, unlucky, redo, running, luckily, cheering, twirling, and frowned










January 2017


Transition Books In Transition Books, students practice reading vocabulary and reading comprehension for bridge texts. These bridge texts help students transition successfully from Read-Along Book lessons to Leveled Book lessons. Lessons in Transition Books are grouped by book themes:

• Am I Too Small? • Let’s Fly • To the Race • Strong Winds • What’s to Eat? • Finding a Fortune

Transition Book lessons include pre-reading activities that help students teach, practice, and assess vocabulary words used in bridge texts, including vocabulary practice with multi-syllabic and compound words. Transition Book lessons also include activities where students practice and review advanced letter sounds. Students then practice reading informational and literary bridge texts with or without audio support, creating audio recordings of them reading the book aloud, and answer comprehension questions about what they learned from the book. Transition Book lessons contain a series of literary texts called “Fables and Folktales.” For each “Fables and Folktales” text, the lesson also includes instruction for students on how to read and interpret the fable or folktale.

Indicates possible start point in sequence. Transition Books Lesson Details

1 What Happened to Pluto?


• Brilliant Bugs: Learn Sight Words (Grade 2)

o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including caught, finally, gnawing, through, voice, and prey


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including caught, finally, gnawing, through, voice, and prey

o Printouts: Sight Words


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including caught, finally, gnawing, through, voice, and prey


January 2017


• Syllable Story: Introduction to Dividing Multisyllabic Words

o Skills taught: decode multisyllabic words, including words with the vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel word type

• Syllable Split: Practice Dividing Multisyllabic Words

o Skills taught: divide words into syllables, including words with the vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel word type

• Compound Breakdown: Learn about Compound Words by Instructional Video

o Skills taught: recognize compound words

• Compound World: Learn to Identify Compound Words

o Skills taught: identify, split, and define compound words

• Intro to Fables and Folktales: How to Find the Lesson in a Fable or Folktale

o Skills taught: recognize lessons in fables and folktales

• Fireball: Read Words by Analogy

o Skills taught: identify words by analogy with word parts that include it, est, et, and ar

• Word Cup: Read Words by Analogy in Sentences

o Skills taught: identify words in context, including kitchen, visiting, question, restaurant, and yesterday; lettering, marching, farther, startled, and carpeted; visit, sunlit, hardest, restful, and guests; and upset, nets, rockets, bookmark, and sharpened


• Beginning Book: What Happened to Pluto?

o Printouts: What Happened to Pluto? book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including scientists, Pluto, changed, Mars, planet, farthest, planets, solar, and dwarf





Includes this fable or folktale and supporting activities:


January 2017


• Fable: The Lion and the Mouse

o Printouts: The Lion and the Mouse book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including caught, voice, prey, gnawing, finally, through, something, please, laughed, and mood



2 First Flight



o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including teased, already, continued, replied, steady, and break


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including teased, already, continued, replied, steady, and break



o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including teased, already, continued, replied, steady, and break


o Skills taught: decode multisyllabic words, including words with the vowel-consonant-vowel word type


o Skills taught: divide words into syllables, including words with the vowel-consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel word types






o Skills taught: identify words by analogy with word parts that include ate, ike, oke, and ice



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify words in context, including frustrated, skater, celebrated, motorbike, and likeable; devices, underpriced, outspoken, and broken; hiked, likely, skated, gates, and plate; and smoke, broken, nicest, sliced, and overpriced


• Beginning Book: First Flight

o Printouts: First Flight book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including blowing, Wright, rope, time, slower, and flight





Includes this fable or folktale and supporting activities

• Folktale: The Hummingbird and the Crane

o Printouts: The Hummingbird and the Crane book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including teased, continued, steady, already, replied, proud, large, river, agreed, sipping, hurried, garden, and nearby



3 A Tugboat Race on the Hudson



o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including stronger, shoulder, mountains, believe, behind, and notice


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including stronger, shoulder, mountains, believe, behind, and notice




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including stronger, shoulder, mountains, believe, behind, and notice




o Skills taught: divide words into syllables, including words with blends, digraphs, and vowel teams

• Multi-Decoder: Dividing Multisyllabic Words Assessment

o Skills taught: divide multisyllabic words






o Skills taught: identify words by analogy with word parts that include ight, ay, ain, and ook


o Skills taught: identify words in context, including streetlights, lightning, stoplights, delayed, and replay; notebook, scrapbook, container, explained, and painter; trays, away, daylight, height, and spotlight; and rained, gained, yearbooks, cookies, and cookout


• Beginning Book: A Tugboat Race on the Hudson

o Printouts: A Tugboat Race on the Hudson book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including look, narrow, tugboats, waiting, captains, noon, River, slower, and proud






January 2017



• Fable: The Tiger and the Fox

o Printouts: The Tiger and the Fox book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including stronger, mountains, shoulder, behind, believe, problem, world, clever, worried, focused, crossed, and grinned







4 Tornadoes



o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including calmly, gently, neither, sweat, rough, and giant


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including calmly, gently, neither, sweat, rough, and giant



o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including teased, already, continued, replied, steady, and break








January 2017




• Intro to Fables and Folktales: How to Find the Lesson in a Fable or Folktale

o Skills taught: recognize lessons in fables and folktales


o Skills taught: identify words by analogy with word parts that include oon, ow, oa, and old


o Skills taught: identify words in context, including balloons, moonless, arrows, tomorrow, and marshmallows; golden, blindfolded, colder, floating, and oatmeal; followed, rainbow, snowing, moonlight, and cartoon; and loaned, overcoat, retold, goldfish, and colder


• Beginning Book: Tornadoes

o Printouts: Tornadoes book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including moist, speed, brewing, tornado, cold, funnels, powerful, tornadoes, and minutes






• Folktale: The Sun and the North Wind

o Printouts: The Sun and the North Wind book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including neither, calmly, rough, giant, sweat, breath, shivered, tighter, beamed, and sweetly




January 2017


5 Making Sushi



o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including brought, delicious, together, symbol, island, and juicy


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including brought, delicious, together, symbol, island, and juicy



o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including brought, delicious, together, symbol, island, and juicy










o Skills taught: identify words by analogy with word parts that include eet, ee, ew, and o


o Skills taught: identify words in context, including sweetener, worksheets, streetcar, between, and zookeeper; superheroes, subzero, renewed, withdrew, and jewelry; speedy, sightseeing, sleepy, beetles, and greeted; and chewing, renew, grew, tomatoes, and auto


• Beginning Book: Making Sushi

o Printouts: Making Sushi book text


January 2017


• Find the Word: Recognize the Word

o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including sushi, plate, long, down, seaweed, crabmeat, tightly, bites, and enjoy






• Folktale: Stone Soup

o Printouts: Stone Soup book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including brought, delicious, together, share, traveler, stone, soup, onions, stirring, potatoes, carrots, wonderful, goodbye, and learned



• Folktale: The Story of Watermelon

o Printouts: The Story of Watermelon book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including island, juicy, symbol, wealth, An-Tiem, distant, shelter, planted, sailors, watermelon, and overcome



6 Gold!



o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including surprised, daughter, beautiful, realized, months, and angry


o Skills taught: recognize sight words, including surprised, daughter, beautiful, realized, months, and angry



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize and decode words, including surprised, daughter, beautiful, realized, months, and angry


o Skills taught: decode multisyllabic words, including words with the blends, digraphs, and vowel teams


o Skills taught: divide words into syllables, including words with blends, digraphs, and vowel teams

• Multi-Decoder: Dividing Multisyllabic Words Assessment

o Skills taught: divide multisyllabic words




o Skills taught: identify, split, and define compound word


o Skills taught: identify words by analogy with word parts that include ue, eam, ong, and oy


o Skills taught: identify words in context, including rescued, discontinued, steamroller, daydreaming, and steamed; voyage, enjoyed, strongest, songbook, and belonged; streams, teammates, value, refuel, and statue; and yearlong, strongest, wrong, busboy, and enjoyed


• Beginning Book: Gold!

o Printouts: Gold! book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including found, started, feet, California, ground, thousands, harder, dirt, miners, and without






January 2017



• Folktale: King Midas

o Printouts: King Midas book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including surprised, daughter, realized, family, piles, beauty, servants, grant, touch, furniture, sandwich, careful, and normal







• Folktale: The Fisherman and his Wife

o Printouts: The Fisherman and his Wife book text


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including beautiful, months, angry, fisherman, magic, returned, mansion, cottage, sea, queen, palace, happily, again, greedy, and lived




January 2017


Leveled Books In Leveled Books, students receive integrated reading lessons that teach reading vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. Students are introduced to leveled texts for their specific grade level, which they read independently or with support. Students also receive support for reading vocabulary, including specific support for affixes, and writing about story elements.

Indicates possible start point in sequence. Simple Books and AP Articles 1 Hide and Seek





o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –un and –ly


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including –un and –ly

• Word-A-Tron: Discover Story Vocabulary

o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including Hide and Seek, entrance, and ancient


• Leveled Book: Hide and Seek

o Printouts included: Hide and Seek book text, Story Map graphic organizer, and Questions


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including ancient, petroglyphs, and you’re out


o Skills taught: literal comprehension, vocabulary, and inferential comprehension

• Application Station: Response to Text (Grades 2, 3, 4, and 5)

o Skills taught: identify story elements



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify words from context, including green, crab, and kite





2 Petroglyphs



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including petroglyph and history


• Leveled Book: Petroglyphs

o Printouts: Petroglyphs book text, Response Journal, and Questions


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including damaged and protect


o Skills taught: main idea, cause and effect, and vocabulary



• Context Clues: Context Strategies

o Skills taught: infer words’ meanings using context



3 Museums



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including display and unusual


• Leveled Book: Museums


January 2017


o Printouts: Museums simple book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including unusual and amazing


o Skills taught: inferential comprehension, author’s purpose, and literal comprehension





4 Symbols and Secrets



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including symbol, guide, and nervously


• Leveled Book: Symbols and Secrets

o Printouts: Symbols and Secrets simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including guide, treasure, attic, symbol, passage, nervously, and discovery


o Skills taught: story mapping, literal comprehension, and intertextual analysis








January 2017


5 Don’t Eat Me



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including develop and protect


• Leveled Book: Don’t Eat Me

o Printouts included: Don’t Eat Me! simple book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including enemies


o Skills taught: main idea, author’s purpose, and literal comprehension









6 Tarantula Defense



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including defense and weapon

• Listening with a Purpose: Identify Key Words and Main Ideas in Recordings

o Skills taught: identify key words and main ideas in spoken passages

• Tune In!: Answer Comprehension Questions about Audio Passages

o Skills taught: listening comprehension


January 2017



• Leveled Book: Tarantula Defense

o Printouts: Tarantula Defense simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including weapon and coated


o Skills taught: literal comprehension, vocabulary, and inferential comprehension







7 A Party Surprise





o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –al


o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –er, –est, –al, and –ful


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including piñata and Mexico




• Leveled Book: A Party Surprise

o Printouts: A Party Surprise simple book text, Questions, and Sequence Graphic Organizer


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including inexpensive, decorate, piñata, and popular


o Skills taught: main idea, vocabulary, and cause and effect





8 World of Celebrations



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including celebration and continent


• Leveled Book: World of Celebrations

o Printouts: World of Celebrations simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including culture, festival, continent, and celebrations


o Skills taught: intertextual comprehension, author’s purpose, and compare and contrast







9 I Don’t Understand




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including signal, under control, and avoid




• Leveled Book: I Don’t Understand

o Printouts: I Don’t Understand simple book text, Questions, and Story Map graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including signaled, choose teams, and under control


o Skills taught: inferential comprehension, vocabulary, and problem and solution







10 Don’t Fence Me In



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including freedom and pioneer


• Leveled Book: Don’t Fence Me In

o Printouts: Don’t Fence Me In simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including freedom and pioneers



January 2017


o Skills taught: cause and effect, main idea, and intertextual comprehension







11 Falling Rocks of Ice



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including simile, band, and warn


• Leveled Book: Falling Rocks of Ice

o Printouts: Falling Rocks of Ice simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including trouble, bands, like a sheet of gray fog, hail, and warn


o Skills taught: literal comprehension, compare and contrast, and cause and effect





12 Lost



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including narrator and stare


• Leveled Book: Lost


January 2017


o Printouts: Lost simple book text, Questions, and Story Map graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including stared, wolf, and all right


o Skills taught: problem and solution, cause and effect, and story mapping







13 The Can Dance



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including non– and –ment


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including non–, re–, –ment, –or, and –er


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including charity work, donation, and volunteer


• Leveled Book: The Can Dance

o Printouts: The Can Dance simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including donate, assigned, and introduced



January 2017


o Skills taught: story mapping, problem and solution, inferential comprehension







14 Ben’s Big Ideas



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including colonial, community, and good citizen


• Leveled Book: Ben’s Big Ideas

o Skills taught: Ben’s Big Ideas simple book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, memberships, government, and good citizen


o Skills taught: cause and effect, vocabulary, and story mapping







15 Weightless in Space



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including and –less



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including weight and gravity


• Leveled Book: Weightless in Space

o Printouts: Weightless in Space simple book text, Questions, Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including weight, planet, gravity, surface, and weigh


o Skills taught: compare and contrast, inferential comprehension, and author’s purpose







16 Sir Isaac Newton



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ist and –ous


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including –less, –ful, –ous, and –ist


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including scientist, discover, and disease


• Leveled Book: Sir Isaac Newton

o Printouts: Sir Isaac Newton simple book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including disease, discovered, and scientist


o Skills taught: main idea, inferential comprehension, and problem and solution





17 Curtains Up

Includes these activities and skills: • Fix It Up: Use Prefixes and Affixes

o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –or


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including main character and script


• Leveled Book: Curtains Up

o Printouts: Curtains Up simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including main characters, script, dialogue, and lights, camera, and action


o Skills taught: literal comprehension, vocabulary, and author’s purpose

• Application Station: Response to Text







January 2017


18 The Case of Missing Manny



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –er and –ion


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including re–, –ion, –er, and –or


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including perfume, scene, and mystery


• Leveled Book: The Case of Missing Manny

o Printouts: The Case of Missing Manny simple book text, Questions, and Story Map graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including bandit, perfume, scene, suspects, and expensive


o Skills taught: inferential comprehension and intertextual comprehension





19 Rainforest Explorer



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including dis–


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including ecosystem, rainforest, and species


• Leveled Book: Rainforest Explorer


January 2017


o Printouts: Rainforest Explorer simple book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including ecosystems, nutrients, humid, emergent, and rainforest


o Skills taught: cause and effect, vocabulary, compare and contrast







20 Searching



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –y and –ment


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including dis–, –y, and –ment


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including poetry and onomatopoeia


• Leveled Book: Searching

o Printouts: Searching simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including foliage, slithers, and cozy



January 2017


o Skills taught: problem and solution, intertextual comprehension, and inferential comprehension







21 How do you grow a 2,000-pound pumpkin? It’s tricky (Grade 3)


• Vocab Island: Learn Reading Vocabulary Words

o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including conduct, trace, prized, and capable

• Vocab Dash: Practice and Review Reading Vocabulary

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including conduct, trace, prized, and capable

• Newsbreak: Read Informational News Articles

o Skills taught: main idea

• Newsbreak Comprehension: Answer Reading Comprehension Questions

o Skills taught: citing text evidence, supporting detail, and inferential comprehension

22 California rescuers free entangled whale (Grade 3)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including entangled, buoy, pinpoint, and rescuer


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including entangled, buoy, pinpoint, and rescuer





23 The Record Breakers


January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including mis–


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including mis–, –er, and –est


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including table and break a record


• Leveled Book: The Record Breakers

o Printouts: The Record Breakers simple book text, Questions, and Problem and Solution graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including record to break, table, and miserably


o Skills taught: literal comprehension, story mapping, and vocabulary





24 Picture This



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including survey, compare, and graph


• Leveled Book: Picture This

o Printouts: Picture This simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including survey, common, and compare


o Skills taught: inferential comprehension, literal comprehension, and main idea







25 Boy scouts save leader from bear attack (Grade 3)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including lure, commend, threat, and capture


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including lure, commend, threat, and capture




o Skills taught: citing text evidence, sequence, and supporting detail

26 Trained elephants are helping control forest fires (Grade 3)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including province, illegally, habitat, and plantation


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including province, illegally, habitat, and plantation





January 2017


o Skills taught: problem and solution, supporting detail, and inferential comprehension

27 Davy Crockett: Larger than Life



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including exaggeration and tall tale


• Leveled Book: Davy Crockett: Larger than Life

o Printouts: Davy Crockett: Larger than Life simple book text, Questions, and Compare and Contrast graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including exaggeration, noticed, tall tales, and legendary


o Skills taught: author’s purpose, compare and contrast, and problem and solution







28 Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including talented and challenge


• Leveled Book: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind

o Printouts: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind simple book text, Questions, and Problem and Solution graphic organizer



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including challenged, adventure, lassoed, rescuer, and got hitched


o Skills taught: vocabulary, cause and effect, and story mapping







29 Fossils of strange turtle found in Utah (Grade 3)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including alongside, announce, climate, and monument


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including alongside, announce, climate, and monument




o Skills taught: supporting detail, vocabulary comprehension, and literal comprehension

30 Cliff-side full of fossils found in Utah (Grade 3)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including ferocious, creature, identify, armor


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including ferocious, creature, identify, armor





January 2017


o Skills taught: supporting detail and inferential comprehension

31 Board Sports


• Fix It Up: Use Prefixes and affixes

o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including il– and –ist


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including un–, il–, –ion, –ist, and –ed

• Special Effects: Identify Cause and Effect in a Passage

o Skills taught: identify cause and effect

• Lost Cause: Identify Cause and Effect in a Passage



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including invent


• Leveled Book: Board Sports

o Printouts: Board Sports simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including invented, hang ten, and rails


o Skills taught: compare and contrast, main idea, and story mapping







32 Inventions



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ly


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including medicine, penicillin, and serendipity


• Leveled Book: Inventions

o Printouts: Inventions simple book text, Questions, and Information Table graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including solve, penicillin, unplanned, and serendipity


o Skills taught: main idea, vocabulary, and compare and contrast





33 Alaskan seabirds in trouble (Grade 3)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including suspect, narrow, slope, and predict


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including suspect, narrow, slope, and predict




o Skills taught: cause and effect, citing text evidence, and supporting detail

34 California condor returns to wild (Grade 3)




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including extinction, glide, incredible, and refuge


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including extinction, glide, incredible, and refuge




o Skills taught: problem and solution, supporting detail, and vocabulary comprehension

35 Your Own Secret Army



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including over– and dis–


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including dis–, over–, –ful, –ous, and –ly


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including immunize and antibodies


• Leveled Book: Your Own Secret Army

o Printouts: Your Own Secret Army simple book text, Questions, and Cause and Effect graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including antibodies, germs, immunize, and stores


o Skills taught: vocabulary and cause and effect





36 Stopping the Killers


January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including observe and hypothesize


• Leveled Book: Stopping the Killers

o Printouts: Stopping the Killers simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including cure, hypothesized, and catching


o Skills taught: story mapping, inferential comprehension, and intertextual comprehension







37 More students learning computer science (Grade 3)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including code, introduced, opportunity, and technology


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including code, introduced, opportunity, and technology




o Skills taught: supporting detail, vocabulary comprehension, and inferential comprehension

38 London Zoo begins yearly animal count (Grade 3)


January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including include, data, require, and colony


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including include, data, require, and colony





39 Is It a Myth?



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including god and goddess, pride, and weave

• Solve It!: Identify Problems and Solutions in Passages

o Skills taught: identify problems and solutions in passages


• Leveled Book: Is It a Myth?

o Printouts: Is It a Myth? simple book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including gods and goddesses, pride, and wove


o Skills taught: cause and effect and vocabulary





40 Phaethon’s Ride



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including cause, effect, and prove it


• Leveled Book: Phaethon’s Ride

o Printouts: Phaethon’s Ride simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including prove it, grant me a favor, given his word, harnessed, and Zeus


o Skills taught: problem and solution, cause and effect, and compare and contrast







41 The Exploding Mountain



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including volcanic, earthquake, and explosion


• Leveled Book: The Exploding Mountain

o Printouts: The Exploding Mountain simple book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including eruption, craters, and earthquakes



January 2017


o Skills taught: main idea, cause and effect, and inferential comprehension









42 Create a Timeline





o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –less


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including –ful, –less, –ion, and –ly


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including independent and French






• Leveled Book: Create a Timeline

o Printouts: Create a Timeline simple book text, Questions, and Sequence graphic organizer



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including arrived, island, finished, and French


o Skills taught: intertextual comprehension, literal comprehension, and story mapping





Advanced Books and AP Articles Lesson Details

1 Museums





o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including ir–


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including display and unusual


• Leveled Book: Museums

o Printouts: Museums advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal,


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including usually, display, and amazing


o Skills taught: main idea, vocabulary, and literal comprehension




January 2017



o Skills taught: identify words from context, including puppy, Halloween, and flower



2 Symbols and Secrets





o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including un–, ir–, re–, –ly, and –able


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including symbol, guide, and nervously


• Leveled Book: Symbols and Secrets

o Printouts: Symbols and Secrets advanced book text, Questions, and Story Map graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including guide, treasure, attic, symbol, passage, and discovery


o Skills taught: cause and effect, compare and contrast, and story mapping










January 2017


3 Hide and Seek





o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ance






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including Hide and Seek, entrance, and ancient


• Leveled Book: Hide and Seek

o Printouts: Hide and Seek advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including holler, narrow, ancient, and you’re out


o Skills taught: inferential comprehension, problem and solution, and story mapping









4 Petroglyphs



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including en– and dis–


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including dis–, en–, –ly, and –ance


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including petroglyph and history

• Reading Ace Tutorial: Scroll and Multiple Correct

o Skills taught: using a scroll bar and answering questions that have multiple correct answers

• Reading Ace Tutorial: Selectable Table

o Skills taught: answering questions with multiple answers in a selectable table

• Reading Ace: Practice Answering Standardized Test Questions

o Skills taught: answering questions that have multiple correct answers






• Leveled Book: Petroglyphs

o Printouts: Petroglyphs advanced book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including history, petroglyphs, erode, damage, and protected


o Skills taught: author’s purpose, compare and contrast, and inferential comprehension




January 2017






5 A Party Surprise



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including in– and –al


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including piñata and Mexico




• Leveled Book: A Party Surprise

o Printouts: A Party Surprise advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including hollow, inexpensive, probably, and piñata


o Skills taught: cause and effect, author’s purpose, literal comprehension





6 World of Celebrations



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ian and –ous



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including in–, –ous, –al, and –ian


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including celebration and continent


• Leveled Book: World of Celebrations

o Printouts: World of Celebrations advanced book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including continent, celebrations, relatives, and traditions


o Skills taught: compare and contrast, vocabulary, and author’s purpose







7 Falling Rocks of Ice



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including simile, band, and warn


• Leveled Book: Falling Rocks of Ice

o Printouts: Falling Rocks of Ice advanced book text, Questions, and Information Table graphic organizer



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including like a sheet of gray fog, bands, hail, and warn


o Skills taught: author’s purpose, vocabulary, and literal comprehension



• What Makes Sense: Understanding Comprehension

o Skills taught: identify words from context, including eyelids, exercise, and biography



8 Lost



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including narrator and stare

• What’s the Problem?: Learn Project/Solution Text Structure

o Skills taught: use context to identify problems and solutions in texts




• Leveled Book: Lost

o Printouts: Lost advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including I’d be toast, stared, snarled, pounding, and all right


o Skills taught: inferential comprehension, intertextual comprehension, and problem and solution





January 2017







9 Ice playground being built ahead of Alaska sculpture contest (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including attraction, experimental, sculpture, and harvest


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including attraction, harvest, sculpture, experimental, observed, hypothesized, simile, and warn



10 Huge ice chunks are giving parts of Cape Cod an arctic vibe (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including tide, current, polar, and curious


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including tide, current, polar, curious, harvest, sculpture, attraction, and experimental



• Reading Ace Tutorial: Scroll and Multiple Correct (Grades 3, 4, and 5)


• Reading Ace Tutorial: Selectable Table (Grades 3, 4, and 5)


• Reading Ace: Practice Answering Standardized Test Questions (Grades 3, 4, and 5)


January 2017


o Skills taught: answering questions that have multiple choice questions, multiple correct answers, selectable text, selectable tables, and dragging items to order

11 Curtains Up



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including main character and script




• Leveled Book: Curtains Up

o Printouts: Curtains Up advanced book text, Questions, and Compare and Contrast graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including interact, main characters, script, and dialogue


o Skills taught: author’s purpose, vocabulary, and compare and contrast







12 The President hosts student film festival at the White House (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including featured, achieve, seek, and climate


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including climate, achieve, seek, featured, evacuation, tourist, surge, and spew


January 2017




13 The Case of Missing Manny



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including perfume, scene, and mystery


• Leveled Book: The Case of Missing Manny

o Printouts: The Case of Missing Manny advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including perfume, startled, pathetic, scene, suspects, expensive, and proof


o Skills taught: problem and solution, story mapping, and inferential comprehension





14 Vermont college searches for missing boa constrictor (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including remain, campus, tropical, and tinged


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including tropical, campus, remain, tinged, climate, seek, achieve, and featured



15 Don’t Eat Me!



January 2017





o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ous






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including develop and protect


• Leveled Book: Don’t Eat Me!

o Printouts: Don’t Eat Me! advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including developed, escape, camouflage, and attack


o Skills taught: vocabulary, main idea, and inferential comprehension









16 Monkey gives first aid to electrocuted friend (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including companion, injured, onlooker, and unconscious


January 2017



o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including unconscious, companion, onlooker, injured, tropical, tinged, campus, and remain



17 Tarantula Defense



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including in–


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including in–, –ous, and –ian


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including defense and weapon


• Leveled Book: Tarantula Defense

o Printouts: Tarantula Defense advanced book text, Questions, and Sequence graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including weapon, coated, and bald


o Skills taught: cause and effect, inferential comprehension, literal comprehension







18 Cat accidentally sold with mattress back home (Grade 4)




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including social media, examine, disappearance, and cherished


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including social media, cherished, examine, disappearance, unconscious, injured, companion, and onlooker








o Skills taught: answering questions that have multiple choice questions, multiple correct answers, dragging items to order, selectable tables, and selectable text

19 I Don’t Understand



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including signal, under control, and avoid


• Leveled Book: I Don’t Understand

o Printouts: I Don’t Understand advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including signaled, couple, chose, and under control


o Skills taught: vocabulary, problem and solution, and author’s purpose




January 2017




20 Mitchell, her WNBA idol Staley lead Gamecocks to Final Four (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including opportunity, idol, attend, and recruit


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including opportunity, idol, attend, recruit, cherished, examine, social media, and disappearance



21 Don’t Fence Me In



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including freedom and pioneer


• Leveled Book: Don’t Fence Me In

o Printouts: Don’t Fence Me In advanced book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including wilderness, freedom, and pioneers


o Skills taught: compare and contrast, vocabulary, and main idea








January 2017


22 Michigan couple complete visit to every county in lower 48 (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including ferry, board, encounter, and blizzard


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including ferry, board, encounter, blizzard, opportunity, idol, attend, and recruit



23 The Can Dance



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ment






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including charity work, donation, and volunteer


• Leveled Book: The Can Dance

o Printouts: The Can Dance advanced book text, Questions, and Cause and Effect graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including charity work, assigned, introduced, and double


o Skills taught: vocabulary, cause and effect, and story mapping





January 2017


o Skills taught: infer words’ meanings based on context



24 Man who lived modestly leaves millions in surprise donations (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including frugal, janitor, local, and stock


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including frugal, janitor, local, stock, ferry, board, encounter, and blizzard



25 Ben’s Big Ideas



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –al


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including colonial, community, and good citizen


• Leveled Book: Ben’s Big Ideas

o Printouts: Ben’s Big Ideas advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including community, improvements, calculate, permission, and good citizen


o Skills taught: main idea, intertextual comprehension, and problem and solution





January 2017





26 Stanford students design paddles to climb glass (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including adhesive, paddle, gecko, and version


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including adhesive, paddle, gecko, version, frugal, janitor, local, and stock









27 Board Sports



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ian


o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –al, –ment, –or, –er, and –ian


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including invent


• Leveled Book: Board Sports


January 2017


o Printouts: Board Sports advanced book text, Questions, and Compare and Contrast graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including invented, hang ten, rails, and extreme


o Skills taught: vocabulary, cause and effect, and inferential comprehension





28 Man close to running 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including participate, equator, continent, and challenge


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including participate, equator, continent, challenge, adhesive, paddle, gecko, and version



29 Inventions





o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including medicine, penicillin, and serendipity


• Leveled Book: Inventions

o Printouts: Inventions advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including accidentally, penicillin, bacteria, and serendipity


o Skills taught: compare and contrast, problem and solution, and vocabulary







30 Nissan, NASA to work on self-driving car technology (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including advance, researcher, partnership, and vehicle


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including advance, researcher, partnership, vehicle, participate, equator, continent, and challenge



31 Davy Crockett: Larger Than Life





o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including out– and dis–


o Skills taught: identify prefixes, including out– and dis–


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including opinion, exaggeration, and tall tale


January 2017



• Leveled Book: Davy Crockett: Larger Than Life

o Printouts: Davy Crockett: Larger Than Life advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including exaggeration, included, eventually, and legendary


o Skills taught: vocabulary, compare and contrast, and cause and effect




o Skills taught: identify words from context, including sea turtle, crayons, and constitution



32 Portrait of frontiersman Crockett’s widow heads to auction (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including auction, widow, frontiersman, and portrait


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including auction, widow, frontiersman, portrait, advance, researcher, partnership, and vehicle



33 Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including talented and challenge

• What’s the Problem?: Learn Project/Solution Text Structure

o Skills taught: use context to identify problems and solutions in texts


January 2017





• Leveled Book: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind

o Printouts: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including talented, adventure, investigate, and rescuer


o Skills taught: vocabulary, problem and solution, and story mapping









34 Snowstorm sasquatch? Watch out for the Boston yeti (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including phantom, reveal, elusive, and hail


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including phantom, reveal, elusive, hail, auction, widow, frontiersman, and portrait






January 2017






35 Rainforest Explorer



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –able


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including ecosystem, rainforest, and species






• Leveled Book: Rainforest Explorer

o Printouts: Rainforest Explorer advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including ecosystems, environment, nourish, decompose, overpopulating, canopy, and species


o Skills taught: cause and effect, inferential comprehension, and vocabulary






January 2017




36 Brazil scientists fear golden mussel threat to Amazon River (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including attach, alter, virus, and species


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including attach, alter, virus, species, phantom, reveal, elusive, and hail



37 Searching



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ness


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including un–, –less, –ful, and –able


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including poetry and onomatopoeia


• Leveled Book: Searching

o Printouts: Searching advanced text, Questions, and Story Map graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including forest floor, lithely, and swiftly


o Skills taught: vocabulary, main idea, and literal comprehension





January 2017



38 Monarch butterflies rebound in Mexico, numbers still low (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including delicate, population, decline, and formal


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including delicate, population, decline, formal, attach, alter, virus, and species



39 Weightless in Space



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including weight and gravity


• Leveled Book: Weightless in Space

o Printouts: Weightless in Space advanced book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including weight, planet, gravity, surface, and weigh


o Skills taught: main idea, cause and effect, and literal comprehension







40 Astronomers to Earth: You’ve got some newly found near-twins (Grade 5)


January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including universe, adapt, throughout, and astronomer


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including universe, adapt, throughout, astronomer, delicate, population, decline, and formal





41 Sir Isaac Newton



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including scientist, discover, and disease






• Leveled Book: Sir Isaac Newton

o Printouts: Sir Isaac Newton advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including discovered, plague, and scientist


o Skills taught: intertextual comprehension, main idea, and inferential comprehension




January 2017








42 Space X supply ship arrives at space station with groceries (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including capable, capsule, condiment, and launch


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including capable, capsule, condiment, launch, universe, adapt, throughout, and astronomer









43 Is It a Myth?



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including god and goddess, pride, and weave




January 2017



• Leveled Book: Is It a Myth?

o Printouts: Is It a Myth? advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including gods and goddesses, pride, and wove


o Skills taught: story mapping, inferential comprehension, and main idea





44 Archaeologists unearth centuries-old pretzels in Bavaria (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including product, discard, unearth, and fragment


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including product, fragment, unearth, discard, current, polar, curious, and tide



45 Arizona home of Pluto discovery dedicates year to icy world (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including amateur, benefit, altitude, and exhibit


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including amateur, benefit, altitude, exhibit, capable, capsule, condiment, and launch




January 2017


46 Phaethon’s Ride



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –less


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including un–, –less, –ful, and –able


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including cause, effect, and prove it


• Leveled Book: Phaethon’s Ride

o Printouts: Phaethon’s Ride advanced text, Questions, and Story Map graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including prove it, grant me a favor, given his word, harnessed, and Zeus


o Skills taught: vocabulary, main idea, and literal comprehension







47 Fireball! Meteor going 45,000 mph lights up Pennsylvania sky (Grade 4)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including descend, meteor, atmosphere, and flare



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including descend, meteor, atmosphere, flare, product, fragment, unearth, and discard



48 NASA: Evidence of ocean beneath solar system’s biggest moon (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including determine, peer, recent, and interior


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including determine, peer, recent, interior, amateur, benefit, altitude, and exhibit



49 The Record Breakers



o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –im


o Skills taught: identify prefixes and affixes, including im–, –er, –est, and –ly






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including table and break a record


• Leveled Book: The Record Breakers

o Printouts: The Record Breakers advanced text, Questions, and Response Journal



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including squirmed, unison, put the finishing touches, breaking any records, table, and protested


o Skills taught: inferential comprehension, story mapping, and cause and effect







50 Record for largest paper wad set in Minnesota (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including circumference, previous, resident, and display


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including circumference, previous, resident, display, determine, peer, recent, and interior



51 Picture This



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including survey, compare, and graph


• Leveled Book: Picture This

o Printouts: Picture This advanced book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including survey, common, compare, pie chart, and data


January 2017



o Skills taught: compare and contrast, intertextual comprehension, and author’s purpose









52 Balloon pilots arrive in New Mexico after historic flight (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including original, mission, parallel, and exceed


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including original, mission, parallel, exceed, circumference, previous, resident, and display









53 Your Own Secret Army



January 2017







o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including immunize and antibodies


• Leveled Book: Your Own Secret Army

o Printouts: Your Own Secret Army advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including antibodies, immunize, and stores


o Skills taught: compare and contrast, main idea, and author’s purpose





54 Crash victim thanks donors whose blood saved his life (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including donor, annual, physician, and gracious


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including donor, annual, physician, gracious, original, mission, parallel, and exceed



55 Stopping the Killers




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize prefixes and affixes, including –ic


o Skills taught: identify affixes, including –tion, –ic, –ist, and –y


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including observe and hypothesize


• Leveled Book: Stopping the Killers

o Printouts: Stopping the Killers advanced text, Questions, and Sequence graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including cure, observed, hypothesized, test their idea, and catching


o Skills taught: main idea, cause and effect, and vocabulary







56 Hard search for less invasive brain surgery leads to eyelid (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including tumor, method, miracle, and recover


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including tumor, method, miracle, recover, donor, annual, physician, and gracious



57 View from the Top


January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including narrator and point of view


• Leveled Book: View from the Top

o Printouts: View from the Top advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including point of view, instead of, reluctantly, and narrator









58 3 men see snout, free moose buried in avalanche (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including clear, concerned, avalanche, and snout


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including clear, concerned, avalanche, snout, tumor, method, miracle, and recover



59 The Magic Trick




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including illusion, suspicious, and reasonable explanation


• Leveled Book: The Magic Trick

o Printouts: The Magic Trick advanced book text, Questions, and Point of View graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including patience, illusion, and suspicious


o Skills taught: cause and effect, story mapping, and literal comprehension





60 Astronauts board space station for 1-year mission (Grade 5)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including series, taper off, physical, and consecutive


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including series, taper off, physical, consecutive, clear, concerned, avalanche, and snout









January 2017



61 Surviving Sunset Crater



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including archaeologist, desert, and agriculture


• Leveled Book: Surviving Sunset Crater

o Printouts: Surviving Sunset Crater advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including archaeologists, desert, eventually, and agriculture


o Skills taught: cause and effect





62 Mystery on Guam



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including native, stowaway, and endangered







January 2017


o Skills taught: answering questions that have multiple choice questions, multiple correct answers, selectable tables, and dragging items to order


• Leveled Book: Mystery on Guam

o Printouts: Mystery on Guam advanced book text, Questions, and Cause and Effect graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including stowaway, thrived, invaders, endangered, and native


o Skills taught: cause and effect, vocabulary, and main idea







63 Don’t Sell Yourself Short



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including advertiser, competitor, and product


• Leveled Book: Don’t Sell Yourself Short

o Printouts: Don’t Sell Yourself Short advanced book text, Questions, and Information Table graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including competitors, method, advertisers, analyze, and products



January 2017


o Skills taught: vocabulary, cause and effect, and inferential comprehension







64 Check Out That Site



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including certain, link, and accurate








• Leveled Book: Check Out That Site

o Printouts: Check Out That Site advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including chances are, certain, links, locate, accurate, and mislead


o Skills taught: main idea, literal comprehension, and author’s purpose


January 2017






65 Sodium Labels Required in New York City (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including unanimously, criticize, sodium, and consume


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including unanimously, criticize, sodium, and consume

• Newsbreak: Reading Informational News Articles



o Skills taught: cause and effect, citing text evidence, and supporting detail

66 Boaters Map Garbage in Pacific (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including barrier, massive, organization, and ultimate


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including barrier, massive, organization, and ultimate

• Newsbreak: Reading Informational News Articles




67 The Exploding Mountain



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including volcanic, earthquake, and explosion


January 2017



• Leveled Book: The Exploding Mountain

o Printouts: The Exploding Mountain advanced book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including volcanic, eruption, avalanches, craters, and earthquakes


o Skills taught: vocabulary, author’s purpose, and main idea







68 Create a Timeline



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including independent and French








• Leveled Book: Create a Timeline


January 2017


o Printouts: Create a Timeline advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including events, independent, several, ambassador, and immigrants


o Skills taught: problem and solution, story mapping, and main idea





69 New Island in Tonga (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including entirely, shallow, disrupt, and erode


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including shallow, entirely, disrupt, erode, descend, meteor, flare, and atmosphere





70 Volcano Erupts in Chile



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including tourist, evacuation, spew, and surge


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including evacuation, tourist, surge, spew, disrupt, erode, shallow, and entirely




January 2017








71 Wonderboy



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including villain, unpredictable, and reality


• Leveled Book: Wonderboy

o Printouts: Wonderboy advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including villain, reality, cancer, invade, major, sidekicks, weapon, and unpredictable







72 Hannah and Sarah: Rockin’ Any Challenge




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including acquire and competition








• Leveled Book: Hannah and Sarah: Rockin’ Any Challenge

o Printouts: Check Out That Site advanced book text, Questions, and Main Idea and Supporting Detail graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including ability, deaf, cochlear implant, internal, speech therapists, acquire, and competition


o Skills taught: problem and solution, intertextual comprehension, and inferential comprehension







73 Football Player Recovers from Cancer (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including expectation, monitor, optimistic, and treatment


January 2017



o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including expectation, monitor, optimistic, and treatment





74 Doctors Help Restore Vision in Haiti (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including affectionately, reassure, stream, and vision


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including affectionately, reassure, stream, and vision




o Skills taught: compare and contrast, supporting detail, and vocabulary comprehension

75 Mysterious Laws of Motion



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including state of motion and react


• Leveled Book: Mysterious Laws of Motion

o Printouts: Mysterious Laws of Motion advanced book text, Questions, and Cause and Effect graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including at rest, state of motion, reacts, and accelerates



January 2017


o Skills taught: cause and effect, inferential comprehension, and author’s purpose







76 The Thrill of the Ride



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including towering, brochure, and intense






• Leveled Book: The Thrill of the Ride

o Printouts: The Thrill of the Ride advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including towering, genius, attendant, brochure, such a rush, and intense


o Skills taught: vocabulary, literal comprehension, and compare and contrast






January 2017


77 Footage Found of Parachuting Beavers (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including transplant, wilderness, mislabel, and novel


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including transplant, wilderness, mislabel, and novel




o Skills taught: cause and effect, supporting detail, and vocabulary comprehension

78 Flight of a Lifetime (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including internal, mimic movement, and swap

• Vocab Dash: Practice and Review Vocabulary

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including internal, mimic, movement, and swap





79 See You Around the Solar System



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including space shuttle and atmosphere





January 2017


• Leveled Book: See You Around the Solar System

o Printouts: See You Around the Solar System advanced book text, Questions, and Information Map graphic organizer


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including space shuttle, fascinating, headed, atmosphere, and range


o Skills taught: compare and contrast and inferential comprehension





80 Little Planets: Big World



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including astronomer, dwarf, and discovery




• Leveled Book: Little Planets: Big World

o Printouts: Little Planets: Big World advanced book text, Questions, and Response Journal


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including astronomer, dwarf, discovery, orbit


o Skills taught: compare and contrast and inferential comprehension





January 2017





81 Buzz Aldrin Joins University (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including colonize, envision, input, and schedule


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including colonize, envision, input, and schedule




o Skills taught: supporting detail and inferential comprehension

82 Spacecraft Flies past Pluto (Grade 6)



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including confirmation, consider, standard, and tremendous


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including confirmation, consider, standard, and tremendous




o Skills taught: citing text evidence, compare and contrast, and supporting detail


January 2017


Grammar In Grammar, students learn parts of speech, such as nouns, prepositions, comparative adjectives, and more. Students also learn grammar concepts, such as subject-verb order, contractions, articles “a” and “an,” and question words. Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum to help reinforce these grammar skills.

Indicates possible start point in sequence. Grammar Lesson Details

1 Singular and Plural


• Time Seekers 1: Exploring Grammar Part 1

o Skills taught: recognize singular and plural nouns


o Skills taught: recognize singular and plural nouns

• History Hero: Grammar Practice

o Skills taught: identify singular and plural nouns

• Jazz Chants: Make It Plural

o Skills taught: recognize plural nouns

• History Hero: Grammar Assessment

o Skills taught: identify singular and plural nouns

2 Plural S and ES 1



o Skills taught: recognize plural nouns with –s and –es




o Skills taught: identify plural nouns with –s and –es




January 2017


3 Plural S and ES 2










4 Question Words



o Skills taught: recognize question words

• Time Seekers 2: Exploring Grammar part 2



o Skills taught: identify question words

• Jazz Chants: Question Words Chant



o Skills taught: identify question words

5 Prepositions



o Skills taught: recognize prepositions


o Skills taught: recognize prepositions


o Skills taught: identify prepositions


o Skills taught: identify prepositions

6 Sentences



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize complete sentences


o Skills taught: recognize complete sentences


o Skills taught: identify complete sentences


o Skills taught: identify complete sentences

7 Subject



o Skills taught: recognize sentence subjects


o Skills taught: recognize sentence subjects


o Skills taught: identify sentence subjects


o Skills taught: identify sentence subjects

8 Nouns



o Skills taught: recognize nouns


o Skills taught: recognize nouns


o Skills taught: identify nouns


o Skills taught: identify nouns

9 Proper Nouns



o Skills taught: recognize proper nouns


o Skills taught: recognize proper nouns


January 2017



o Skills taught: identify proper nouns


o Skills taught: identify proper nouns

10 Personal Pronouns



o Skills taught: recognize personal pronouns


o Skills taught: recognize personal pronouns


o Skills taught: identify personal pronouns


o Skills taught: identify personal pronouns

11 Adjectives



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives


o Skills taught: recognize adjectives


o Skills taught: identify adjectives


o Skills taught: identify adjectives

12 Verbs



o Skills taught: recognize verbs


o Skills taught: recognize verbs


o Skills taught: identify verbs


o Skills taught: identify verbs


January 2017


13 Simple Present 1



o Skills taught: recognize verbs in the simple present tense




o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple present tense



14 Simple Present 2










15 To Be Verbs 1



o Skills taught: recognize to be conjugations



16 To Be Verbs 2







o Skills taught: identify to be conjugations


January 2017






17 To Be Verbs 3












18 Articles A and An



o Skills taught: recognize a and an


o Skills taught: recognize a and an


o Skills taught: identify a and an


o Skills taught: identify a and an

19 Contractions


• Contraction Action: Learn about Contractions by Instructional Video

o Skills taught: recognize contractions

• Contraction Creation: Form Contractions

o Skills taught: create contractions with not; have and not; am, is, and are; and will and would

• Excellent Editor: Editing Practice


January 2017


o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple present and plural nouns with –s and –es

20 Plural S and IES



o Skills taught: recognize plural nouns with –s and –ies


o Skills taught: recognize plural nouns with –s and –ies


o Skills taught: identify plural nouns with –s and –ies


o Skills taught: identify plural nouns with –s and –ies

21 Irregular Plurals 1



o Skills taught: recognize irregular plural nouns




o Skills taught: identify irregular plural nouns















January 2017


o Skills taught: identify plural nouns with –ies and irregular plural nouns












o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple present tense and contractions with not

24 Subject Verb Order



o Skills taught: recognize the order of subjects and verbs in sentences


o Skills taught: recognize the order of subjects and verbs in sentences


o Skills taught: identify the order of subjects and verbs in sentences


o Skills taught: identify the order of subjects and verbs in sentences


o Skills taught: identify plural nouns with –es and –ies

25 Simple Past



o Skills taught: recognize verbs in the simple past tense


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize verbs in the simple past tense


o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple past tense


o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple past tense


o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple past tense and irregular plural nouns

26 Irregular Past 1



o Skills taught: recognize verbs in the irregular past tense




o Skills taught: identify verbs in the irregular past tense


o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple present tense and plural nouns with –es

27 Irregular Past 2









o Skills taught: identify verbs in the irregular past tense and simple past tense

28 Irregular Past 3





January 2017







o Skills taught: identify to be conjugations and irregular plural nouns

29 Irregular Past 4









o Skills taught: identify verbs in the irregular past tense and contractions with are

30 Adverbs



o Skills taught: recognize adverbs


o Skills taught: recognize adverbs


o Skills taught: identify adverbs


o Skills taught: identify adverbs


o Skills taught: identify plural nouns with –ies and verbs in the simple past tense

31 Pronouns and Nouns



o Skills taught: recognize nouns and pronouns


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize nouns and pronouns


o Skills taught: identify nouns and pronouns


o Skills taught: identify nouns and pronouns


o Skills taught: identify irregular plural nouns and verbs in the irregular past tense

32 Simple Present Conjugation 1



o Skills taught: recognize simple present conjugations




o Skills taught: identify simple present conjugations




o Skills taught: identify verbs in the irregular past tense, proper nouns, nouns and pronouns, and complete sentences

33 Simple Present Conjugation 2











o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple past tense, nouns and pronouns, plural nouns with –es, and irregular plural nouns


January 2017


34 Future Will



o Skills taught: recognize verbs in the future tense with will


o Skills taught: recognize verbs in the future tense with will


o Skills taught: identify verbs in the future tense with will


o Skills taught: identify verbs in the future tense with will


o Skills taught: identify to be conjugations, plural nouns with –es and –ies, and complete sentences

35 Comparative Adjectives 1



o Skills taught: recognize comparative adjectives




o Skills taught: identify comparative adjectives




o Skills taught: identify proper nouns, comparative adjectives, verbs in the future tense with will, and nouns and pronouns

36 Comparative Adjectives 2









January 2017





o Skills taught: identify verbs in the future tense with will, contractions with not, plural nouns that use –es, and proper nouns

37 Superlative Adjectives 1



o Skills taught: recognize superlative adjectives




o Skills taught: identify superlative adjectives




o Skills taught: identify verbs in the simple past tense and irregular past tense, superlative adjectives, and complete sentences

38 Superlative Adjectives 2











o Skills taught: identify comparative adjectives, contractions with are, complete sentences, and plural nouns with –es

39 Questions with Auxiliaries 1



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize questions with auxiliaries




o Skills taught: identify questions with auxiliaries




o Skills taught: identify plural nouns with –ies, verbs in the simple present tense, and irregular plural nouns

40 Questions with Auxiliaries 2











o Skills taught: identify superlative adjectives, nouns and pronouns, to be conjugations, and verbs in the future tense with will

41 Questions with To Be



o Skills taught: recognize to be questions


o Skills taught: recognize to be questions


o Skills taught: identify to be questions


o Skills taught: identify to be questions


January 2017



o Skills taught: identify proper nouns and verbs in the irregular past tense and simple past tense

42 Questions with Question Words



o Skills taught: recognize questions with question words


o Skills taught: recognize questions with question words


o Skills taught: identify questions with question words


o Skills taught: identify questions with question words


o Skills taught: identify superlative and comparative adjectives, contractions with are, and to be conjugations


January 2017


Phonics and Word Recognition In Phonics and Word Recognition, students are introduced to letter sounds, decodable words, and high-frequency sight words. They read independently or with support to recognize sight words, recognize word family patterns, decode word parts, and read words by analogy in context. Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum to help reinforce decoding, sight words, and other word recognition skills. All Phonics and Word Recognition activities can be found in the Reading Lessons curriculum area.


January 2017


Spelling In Spelling, students are introduced to word family patterns, such as CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) and CVCe (consonant-vowel-consonant-e) and regularly-spelled words that contain short vowels and vowel teams. They are also introduced to words that begin with letter combinations like “kn” or “wr” and words that end with “–nk” or “–ng.” Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum, as well as supplemental activities, such as printouts, to help reinforce these skills and build spelling automaticity. All Spelling activities can be found in the Reading Lessons curriculum area.


January 2017


Comprehension In Comprehension, students learn reading comprehension and analysis skills, such as main idea, compare and contrast, plot and setting, and more. Students read leveled reading passages at Below Basic, Basic, or Proficient levels that teach these reading comprehension skills. Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum, as well as supplemental resources, such as printouts, to help further reinforce these reading skills.

Indicates possible start point in sequence. Grade 1 Lesson Details

1 Literal




2 Inferential




3 Story Map


• Map It Out: Introduction to Story Map Questions

o Skills taught: story mapping

o Reading text taught: Not Mice!

• Book: Operation Hummingbird Rescue





o Reading text taught: Tricking the Crocodiles

4 Informational Text 1



January 2017


• Text Types: Introduction to Informational Text

o Skills taught: recognize informational texts

• Text Explorer: Informational Text Guided Practice

o Skills taught: recognize elements of informational texts

• Text Expert: Informational Text Assessment

o Skills taught: identify elements of informational texts

• Word Warehouse: Passage Reading Vocabulary Practice

o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including brakes and rules

• Match It Up: Passage Reading Vocabulary Assessment

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including brakes and rules

• Time to Read: Independent Passage Reading

o Reading text taught: A New Hobby

• Answer On Your Own: Passage Comprehension Questions


5 Main Idea


• What’s the Point?: Introduction to Main Idea Questions


o Reading text taught: Saying I’m Sorry




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including repair and siren


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including repair and siren


o Reading text taught: The Rabbit and the Turtle



Grade 2


January 2017


Lesson Details

1 Literal




2 Inferential




3 Main Idea





• Book: Seahorses




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including glide, current, and hitchhike


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including fly like a helicopter, current, and hitchhiking

• Book: How Do Seeds Get Around?





• Text Types: Introduction to Information Text







January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including alive and amount


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including alive and amount


o Reading text taught: What Do Plants Need?



5 Story Map





• Book: Operation Hummingbird Rescue




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including favorite and present


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including favorite, panicked, included, and presented

• Book: Missing Homework!



6 Compare/Contrast Fiction 1


• Sort It Out: Introduction to Compare and Contrast Fiction

o Skills taught: compare and contrast

• What’s the Story?: Compare and Contrast Fiction Guided Practice


• Story Circles: Compare and Contrast Fiction Assessment



January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including hobby and reliable


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including hobby and reliable


o Reading text taught: A New Hobby






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including mood and back and forth


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including mood and back and forth


o Reading text taught: The Rabbit and the Turtle






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including energy and diseases


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including energy and diseases


o Reading text taught: What Do Plants Need?



9 Compare/Contrast Non-Fiction 1


January 2017



• My Kind of Art: Introduction to Compare and Contrast Non-Fiction



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including oil paint and screen


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including oil paint and screen


o Reading text taught: Oil Painting






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including smashed and amazed


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including smashed and amazed


o Reading text taught: Clay Sculptures



Grade 3 Lesson Details

1 Main Idea





• Book: Animal Hibernation


January 2017





o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including publish, Latin America, and accomplishment


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including talent, published, accomplishments

• Book: Gabriela Mistral












o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including nostrils and vibrations


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including nostrils and vibrations


o Reading text taught: What Can You Do with a Big, Long Nose?






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including wisdom and reputation



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including wisdom and reputation


o Reading text taught: Big Animal, Little Brain



4 Story Map




o Reading text taught: Not Mice! with text

• Book: Dancing the Tinikling




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including sigh, chore, and wrinkle


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including sighed, chore, wrinkled, and raking

• Book: Job Swap












o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including face lit up and sweaty



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including face lit up and sweaty


o Reading text taught: The Missing Present






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including invite and waist


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including invite and waist


o Reading text taught: Why Anansi Has Long Legs: An African Folktale








o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including litter and supplies


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including litter and supplies


o Reading text taught: Make Your Own Recycled Wrapping Paper






January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including wrapper and thirsty


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including wrapper and thirsty


o Reading text taught: Taking the Trash Out of Lunchtime




1 Main Idea





• Book: Shark Sense




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including natural resource, factory, and discard


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including natural resources, factories, and discard

• Book: Protecting Planet Earth








January 2017







o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including habitat and absorb


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including habitat and absorb


o Reading text taught: A Home Fit for a Frog






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including characteristics and prey


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including characteristics and prey


o Reading text taught: Two Amphibian Friends



4 Story Map





• Book: Dancing the Tinikling





January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including sigh, chore, and wrinkle


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including belongings, rights, preserved, and privacy

• Book: Job Swap












o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including mischief and opportunity


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including mischief and opportunity


o Reading text taught: Ruined






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including coil and grind


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including coil and grind



January 2017


o Reading text taught: The Golden Fish








o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including extensive and tube


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including extensive and tube


o Reading text taught: The Heart






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including waste and chemical


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including waste and chemical


o Reading text taught: Plasma




1 Main Idea



January 2017





• Book: The Sand Between Your Toes




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including society, pottery, and ancestor


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including advanced, stories, pottery, traditions, walks of life

• Book: The Maya Civilization












o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including extreme and comfortable


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including extreme and comfortable


o Reading text taught: Our Neighbor in Space






January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including telescope and proposed


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including telescope and proposed


o Reading text taught: How Do We Know What the Moon Is Like?



4 Story Map





• Book: A Soccer Misunderstanding




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including analyze, spot, and recommend


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including as if his life depended on it, recommended, analyze, and spotted

• Book: Pepper’s Bark Chart











January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including suspicious and calculate


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including suspicious and calculate


o Reading text taught: A Suspicious Character






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including unique and disgusted


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including unique and disgusted


o Reading text taught: The Secret of Uncle David’s Letter








o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including climate and harvest


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including climate and harvest


o Reading text taught: El Mirador: The Lost City


January 2017







o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including Arctic and heritage


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including Arctic and heritage


o Reading text taught: Surviving the Arctic: The Inuit Way of Life before the 1800s




1 Main Idea





• Book: The Sand Between Your Toes




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including society, pottery, and ancestor


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including advanced, stories, pottery, traditions, walks of life

• Book: The Maya Civilization




January 2017











o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including fascinating and atmosphere


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including fascinating and atmosphere


o Reading text taught: Is It a Comet?






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including especially and forecast


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including especially and forecast


o Reading text taught: The Sky is Falling! Or Is It?



4 Story Map






January 2017


• Book: A Soccer Misunderstanding




o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including analyze, spot, and recommend


o Skills taught: recognize pre-reading vocabulary words, including as if his life depended on it, recommended, analyze, and spotted

• Book: Pepper’s Bark Chart












o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including fundraiser and examine


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including fundraiser and examine


o Reading text taught: The Car Wash







January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including flint and frustrated


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including flint and frustrated


o Reading text taught: Flint








o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including survivor and creation


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including survivor and creation


o Reading text taught: The Sinking of the Titanic






o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including magnitude and catastrophe


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including magnitude and catastrophe


o Reading text taught: Daily News: Disaster in Japan




January 2017


Claims Lesson Details

1 Points and Reasons: Grade 1


• Introduction to Points and Reasons: Introduction to Identifying Reasons in a Claim

o Skills taught: understand the concept of points and reasons, identify points, and recognize how reasons support a point

• Points and Reasons: Identify Reasons in a Claim

o Skills taught: understand the concept of points and reasons and identify reasons that support a point

• Light It Up: Identify the Main Point in a Claim

o Skills taught: connect points with reasons in sentences


Includes these activities and Skills:















January 2017



• Prove the Point: identify the Main Point and Reasons in a Claim

o Skills taught: identify reasons that support the main point of a text











5 Evidence: Grade 4


• What’s Your Evidence?: Evidence Initial Instruction

o Skills taught: recognize the difference between reasons and reasons that contain evidence

• Types of Evidence: Learn about Different Types of Evidence

o Skills taught: identify information than can be used as evidence, including quotes from experts, statistics, and facts

• Evidence Needed: Identify Evidence in a Passage

o Skills taught: identify pieces of evidence in a text and what kind of evidence they are







January 2017







7 Evidence: Grade 5


• What’s Your Evidence?: Evidence Initial Instruction

o Skills taught: recognize the difference between reasons and reasons that contain evidence

• Types of Evidence: Learn about Different Types of Evidence

o Skills taught: identify information than can be used as evidence, including quotes from experts, statistics, and facts

• Evidence Needed: Identify Evidence in a Passage

o Skills taught: identify pieces of evidence in a text and what kind of evidence they are


January 2017


Basic Vocabulary In Basic Vocabulary, students learn beginning vocabulary words for basic nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum, as well as supplemental resources, such as printouts and classroom activities, to help students learn basic vocabulary skills.


Basic Vocabulary Lesson Details

1 Nouns: Animals 1


• Everyday Words in Scenes

o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with animals, including bird, cat, dog, duck, and fish

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Animals, Noun Flashcards: Animals, Bingo Cards, and Categories printout

• My Word Book (Pre-K, K, Grade 1, and Grade 2)

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bird, cat, dog, duck, and fish

• Explore Everyday Words (Pre-K, K, Grade 1, and Grade 2)

o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including bird, cat, dog, duck, and fish

• Art With A Purpose (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bird, cat, dog, duck, and fish

• Carnival Games: Recognize Everyday Words

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including bird, cat, dog, duck, and fish

2 Nouns: Food 1

• My Word Book Review

o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including bird, cat, dog, duck, and fish



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with food, including bread, butter, eggs, meat, and milk

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Food, Noun Flashcards: Food, and Categories printout


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bread, butter, eggs, meat, and milk


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including bread, butter, eggs, meat, and milk

• Art With a Purpose (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bread, butter, eggs, meat, and milk


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including bread, butter, eggs, meat, and milk

3 Nouns: People 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including bread, butter, eggs, meat, and milk


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with people, including baby, brother, dad, mom, and sister

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: People, Noun Flashcards: People, and Categories printout


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including baby, brother, dad, mom, and sister


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including baby, brother, dad, mom, and sister

• Art with a Purpose (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including baby, brother, dad, mom, and sister



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including baby, brother, dad, mom, and sister

4 Nouns: Things in a House 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including baby, brother, dad, mom, and sister


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things in a house, including bathroom, bed, door, lamp, and window

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things in a House and Noun Flashcards: Things in a House


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bathroom, bed, door, lamp, and window


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including bathroom, bed, door, lamp, and window


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bathroom, bed, door, lamp, and window


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including bathroom, bed, door, lamp, and window

5 Nouns: Clothing 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including bathroom, bed, door, lamp, and window


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with clothing, including dress, pants, shirt, shoes, and socks

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Clothing and Noun Flashcards: Clothing

• My Word Book (K, Grade 1, and Grade 2)


January 2017


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including dress, pants, shirt, shoes, and socks

• Explore Everyday Words (K, Grade 1, and Grade 2)

o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including dress, pants, shirt, shoes, and socks


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including dress, pants, shirt, shoes, and socks


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including dress, pants, shirt, shoes, and socks

6 Nouns: Body Parts 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including dress, pants, shirt, shoes, and socks


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with body parts, including ear, eyes, hair, mouth, and nose

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Body Parts, Noun Flashcards: Body Parts, and My Own Monster printout


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including ear, eyes, hair, mouth, and nose


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including ear, eyes, hair, mouth, and nose


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including ear, eyes, hair, mouth, and nose


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including ear, eyes, hair, mouth, and nose

7 Nouns: Things That Go 1




January 2017


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including ear, eyes, hair, mouth, and nose


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things that go, including airplane, bus, car, train, and truck

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things That Go and Noun Flashcards: Things That Go


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including airplane, bus, car, train, and truck


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including airplane, bus, car, train, and truck


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including airplane, bus, car, train, and truck


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including airplane, bus, car, train, and truck

8 Nouns: Things in a Classroom 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including airplane, bus, car, train, and truck


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things in a classroom, including board, computer, desk, shelves, and teacher

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things in a Classroom and Noun Flashcards: Things in a Classroom


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including board, computer, desk, shelves, and teacher


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including board, computer, desk, shelves, and teacher



January 2017


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including board, computer, desk, shelves, and teacher


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including board, computer, desk, shelves, and teacher

9 Nouns: Things on a Playground 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including board, computer, desk, shelves, and teacher


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things on a playground, including ball, bench, trees, swing, and trash can

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things on a Playground and Noun Flashcards: Things on a Playground


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including ball, bench, trees, swing, and trash can


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including ball, bench, trees, swing, and trash can


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including ball, bench, trees, swing, and trash can


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including ball, bench, trees, swing, and trash can

10 Nouns: Wild Animals 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including ball, bench, trees, swing, and trash can


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with wild animals, including bear, elephant, lion, monkey, and zebra


January 2017


o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Wild Animals and Noun Flashcards: Wild Animals


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bear, elephant, lion, monkey, and zebra


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including bear, elephant, lion, monkey, and zebra


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bear, elephant, lion, monkey, and zebra


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including bear, elephant, lion, monkey, and zebra

11 Nouns: Animals 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including bear, elephant, lion, monkey, and zebra


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with animals, including chicken, cow, horse, pig, and sheep

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Animals, Noun Flashcards: Animals, Bingo Cards, and Categories printout


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including chicken, cow, horse, pig, and sheep


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including chicken, cow, horse, pig, and sheep


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including chicken, cow, horse, pig, and sheep


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including chicken, cow, horse, pig, and sheep


January 2017


12 Nouns: Food 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including chicken, cow, horse, pig, and sheep


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with food, including apple, grapes, lemon, orange, and peach

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Food, Noun Flashcards: Food, and Categories printout


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including apple, grapes, lemon, orange, and peach


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including apple, grapes, lemon, orange, and peach


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including apple, grapes, lemon, orange, and peach


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including apple, grapes, lemon, orange, and peach

13 Nouns: People 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including apple, grapes, lemon, orange, and peach


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with people, including boy, bus driver, doctor, girl, and police

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: People, Noun Flashcards: People, and Categories printout


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including boy, bus driver, doctor, girl, and police



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including boy, bus driver, doctor, girl, and police


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including boy, bus driver, doctor, girl, and police


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including boy, bus driver, doctor, girl, and police

14 Nouns: Things in a House 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including boy, bus driver, doctor, girl, and police


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things in a house, including chair, fridge, oven, sink, and table

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things in a House and Noun Flashcards: Things in a House


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including chair, fridge, oven, sink, and table


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including chair, fridge, oven, sink, and table


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including chair, fridge, oven, sink, and table


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including chair, fridge, oven, sink, and table

15 Nouns: Clothing 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including chair, fridge, oven, sink, and table



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with clothing, including coat, hat, pajamas, shorts, and sweater

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Clothing and Noun Flashcards: Clothing


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including coat, hat, pajamas, shorts, and sweater


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including coat, hat, pajamas, shorts, and sweater


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including coat, hat, pajamas, shorts, and sweater


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including coat, hat, pajamas, shorts, and sweater




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including coat, hat, pajamas, shorts, and sweater


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with body parts, including arms, feet, hand, head, and legs



o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including arms, feet, hand, head, and legs


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including arms, feet, hand, head, and legs


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including arms, feet, hand, head, and legs



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including arms, feet, hand, head, and legs

17 Nouns: Things That Go 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including arms, feet, hand, head, and legs


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things that go, including bike, boat, helicopter, motorcycle, and van

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things That Go and Noun Flashcards: Things That Go


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bike, boat, helicopter, motorcycle, and van


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including bike, boat, helicopter, motorcycle, and van


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bike, boat, helicopter, motorcycle, and van


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including bike, boat, helicopter, motorcycle, and van

18 Nouns: Things in a Classroom 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including bike, boat, helicopter, motorcycle, and van


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things in a classroom, including book, crayon, paper, pen, and pencil

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things in a Classroom and Noun Flashcards: Things in a Classroom



January 2017


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including book, crayon, paper, pen, and pencil


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including book, crayon, paper, pen, and pencil


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including book, crayon, paper, pen, and pencil


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including book, crayon, paper, pen, and pencil

19 Nouns: Things on a Playground 2



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including book, crayon, paper, pen, and pencil


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with things on a playground, including baseball, fence, grass, soccer ball, and slide

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Things on a Playground and Noun Flashcards: Things on a Playground


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including baseball, fence, grass, soccer ball, and slide


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including baseball, fence, grass, soccer ball, and slide


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including baseball, fence, grass, soccer ball, and slide


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including baseball, fence, grass, soccer ball, and slide

20 Nouns: Wild Animals 2



January 2017



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including baseball, fence, grass, soccer ball, and slide


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with wild animals, including bug, butterfly, lizard, snake, spider

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Wild Animals and Noun Flashcards: Wild Animals


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bug, butterfly, lizard, snake, spider


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including bug, butterfly, lizard, snake, spider


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including bug, butterfly, lizard, snake, spider


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including bug, butterfly, lizard, snake, spider

21 Verbs & Adjectives: Animals 1



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including bug, butterfly, lizard, snake, and spider

• Animated Everyday Words

o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with animals, including big, little, old, run, swim, and young

• Silly Animals: Matching Game

o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including big, old, and run; and little, young, and swim

• My Word Book

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including big, little, old, run, swim, and young


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including big, little, old, run, swim, and young


January 2017


22 Verbs & Adjectives: Food 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with food, including cold, cook, hot, pour, round, and square


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including cold, square, and cook; and hot, round, and pour

• My Word Book

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including cold, cook, hot, pour, round, and square


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including cold, cook, hot, pour, round, and square

23 Verbs & Adjectives: People 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with people, including asleep, awake, happy, sad, sing, and walk


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including awake, sad, and sing; and happy, asleep, and walk

• My Word Book

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including asleep, awake, happy, sad, sing, and walk


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including asleep, awake, happy, sad, sing, and walk

24 Verbs & Adjectives: Things in a House 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things in a house, including clean, dirty, large, lock, paint, and small

• Silly Animals: Matching Game (Pre-K and K)


January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including dirty, small, and lock; and large, clean, and paint

• My Word Book (Pre-K and K)

o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including clean, dirty, large, lock, paint, and small


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including clean, dirty, large, lock, paint, and small

25 Verbs & Adjectives: Clothing 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with clothing, including dry, long, sew, short, wet, and tear


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including dry, long, and sew; and short, wet, and tear


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including dry, long, sew, short, wet, and tear


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including dry, long, sew, short, wet, and tear

26 Verbs & Adjectives: Body Parts 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with body parts, including blow, blue, brown, curly, smile, and straight


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including blue, brown, and blow; and curly, straight, and smile


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including blow, blue, brown, curly, smile, and straight



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including blow, blue, brown, curly, smile, and straight

27 Verbs & Adjectives: Things That Go 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things that go, including fast, go, high, low, slow, and stop


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including fast, high, and go; and low, slow, and stop


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including fast, go, high, low, slow, and stop


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including fast, go, high, low, slow, and stop

28 Verbs & Adjectives: Things in a Classroom 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things in a classroom, including empty, fall, full, sick, start, and well


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including empty, full, and fall; and sick, well, and start


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including empty, fall, full, sick, start, and well


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including empty, fall, full, sick, start, and well

29 Verbs & Adjectives: Things on a Playground 1




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things on a playground, including break, new, old, roll, round, and square


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including new, round, and break; and old, square, and roll


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including break, new, old, roll, round, and square


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including break, new, old, roll, round, and square

30 Verbs & Adjectives: Wild Animals 1



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with wild animals, including drink, fast, happy, hide, sad, and slow


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including drink, hide, and fast


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including drink, fast, happy, hide, sad, and slow


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including drink, fast, happy, hide, sad, and slow

31 Verbs & Adjectives: Animals 2



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with animals, including black, pink, eat, short, tall, and jump


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including black, pink, and eat; and short, tall, and jump



January 2017


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including black, pink, eat, short, tall, and jump


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including black, pink, eat, short, tall, and jump

32 Verbs & Adjectives: Food 2



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with food, including cut, dry, orange, purple, wash, and wet


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including orange, wet, and cut; and purple, dry, and wash


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including cut, dry, orange, purple, wash, and wet


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including cut, dry, orange, purple, wash, and wet

33 Verbs & Adjectives: People 2



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with people, including dance, old, sick, sleep, well, and young


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including young, dance, and sleep


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including dance, old, sick, sleep, well, and young


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including dance, old, sick, sleep, well, and young

34 Verbs & Adjectives: Things in a House 2




January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things in a house, including blue, brown, close, empty, full, and open


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including blue, close, and open


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including blue, brown, close, empty, full, and open


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including blue, brown, close, empty, full, and open

35 Verbs & Adjectives: Clothing 2



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with clothing, including clean, dirty, fold, hang, orange, and purple


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including orange, fold, and hang


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including clean, dirty, fold, hang, orange, and purple


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including clean, dirty, fold, hang, orange, and purple




o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with body parts, including big, little, long, raise, shake, and short


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including little, raise, and shake



January 2017


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including big, little, long, raise, shake, and short


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including big, little, long, raise, shake, and short

37 Verbs & Adjectives: Things That Go 2



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things that go, including black, float, fly, new, old, and pink


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including pink, float, and fly


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including black, float, fly, new, old, and pink


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including black, float, fly, new, old, and pink

38 Verbs & Adjectives: Things in a Classroom 2



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things in a classroom, including draw, high, low, red, write, and yellow


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including red, high, and draw; and low, yellow, and write


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including draw, high, low, red, write, and yellow


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including draw, high, low, red, write, and yellow

39 Verbs & Adjectives: Things on a Playground 2


January 2017




o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with things on a playground, including green, grow, kick, short, tall, and white


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including short, grow, and kick


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including green, grow, kick, short, tall, and white


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including green, grow, kick, short, tall, and white

40 Verbs & Adjectives: Wild Animals 2



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with wild animals, including asleep, awake, climb, crawl, red, and yellow


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including climb, crawl, and asleep


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including asleep, awake, climb, crawl, red, and yellow


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including asleep, awake, climb, crawl, red, and yellow

41 Nouns: Outdoors



o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with the outdoors, including forest, lake, map, mountain, and river

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Outdoors and Noun Flashcards: Outdoors


January 2017



o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including forest, lake, map, mountain, and river


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including forest, lake, map, mountain, and river


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including forest, lake, map, mountain, and river


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including forest, lake, map, mountain, and river

42 Verbs & Adjectives: Outdoors



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with the outdoors, including rough, smooth, wide, narrow, look, and mark


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including narrow, smooth, and look; and rough, wide, and mark


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including rough, smooth, wide, narrow, look, and mark


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including rough, smooth, wide, narrow, look, and mark

43 Nouns: Weather



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including forest, lake, map, mountain, and river


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with weather, including cloud, rain, snow, sun, and wind


January 2017


o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Weather and Noun Flashcards: Weather


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including cloud, rain, snow, sun, and wind


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including cloud, rain, snow, sun, and wind


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including cloud, rain, snow, sun, and wind


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including cloud, rain, snow, sun, and wind

44 Verbs & Adjectives: Weather



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with weather, including cool, dark, light, melt, set, and warm


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including cool, light, and melt; and dark, warm, and set


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including cool, dark, light, melt, set, and warm


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including cool, dark, light, melt, set, and warm

45 Nouns: Places



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including cloud, rain, snow, sun, and wind



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with places, including fire station, hospital, library, post office, and restaurant

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Places and Noun Flashcards: Places


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including fire station, hospital, library, post office, and restaurant


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including fire station, hospital, library, post office, and restaurant


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including fire station, hospital, library, post office, and restaurant


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including fire station, hospital, library, post office, and restaurant

46 Verbs & Adjectives: Places



o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with places, including back, closed, enter, front, leave, and open


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including back, front, and enter; and closed, open, and leave


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including back, closed, enter, front, leave, and open


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including back, closed, enter, front, leave, and open





January 2017


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including fire station, hospital, library, post office, and restaurant


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with body parts, including chin, elbows, eyebrow, fingers, and shoulders



o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including chin, elbows, eyebrow, fingers, and shoulders


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including chin, elbows, eyebrow, fingers, and shoulders


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including chin, elbows, eyebrow, fingers, and shoulders


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including chin, elbows, eyebrow, fingers, and shoulders




o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with body parts, including apart, bend, different, same, together, and touch


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including apart, together, and bend; and different, same, and touch


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including apart, bend, different, same, together, and touch


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including apart, bend, different, same, together, and touch

49 Nouns: Books



January 2017



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including chin, elbows, eyebrow, fingers, and shoulders


o Skills taught: recognize nouns that have to do with books, including author, illustrator, pages, picture, and title

o Printouts: Vocabulary Scenes: Books and Noun Flashcards: Books


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including author, illustrator, pages, picture, and title


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including author, illustrator, pages, picture, and title


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including author, illustrator, pages, picture, and title


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including author, illustrator, pages, picture, and title

50 Verbs & Adjectives: Books



o Skills taught: identify previously-taught vocabulary words, including title, author, illustrator, pages, and picture


o Skills taught: recognize adjectives and verbs that have to do with books, including female, few, male, many, point, and read


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including female, male, and point; and few, many, and read


o Skills taught: review vocabulary words, including female, few, male, many, point, and read


Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including female, few, male, many, point, and read


January 2017


Academic Vocabulary In Academic Vocabulary, students are introduced to beginning, intermediate, and advanced vocabulary words that are traditionally used in academic dialogue and text. Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum to help students learn and apply academic vocabulary skills.

Indicates a possible start point in sequence.

Beginning Academic Vocabulary Lesson Details

1 Beginning Academic Vocabulary 1 – Nouns


• Word Videos: Introduction to Vocabulary

o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including street, bridge, corner, farm, and city

• Cool Cars: Noun Game

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including street, bridge, corner, and farm

2 Beginning Academic Vocabulary 2 – Verbs


• Name That Word: Vocabulary Review

o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including street, bridge, corner, farm, and city


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including find, work, and give

• Go For the Gold: Verb, Adjective, and Adverb Game

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including find, work, and give

3 Beginning Academic Vocabulary 3 – Prepositions


• Name that Word: Vocabulary Review

o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including find, work, and give



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including on, off, away from, and next to

• Put It There: Preposition Game

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including on, off, away from, and next to




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including on, off, away from, and next to


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including beginning, middle, end, cover, and sentence


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including beginning, middle, end, cover, and sentence


Includes these activities skills:


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including beginning, middle, end, cover, and sentence; and street, bridge, corner, farm, and city

• Show What You Know: Vocabulary Test

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including street, middle, corner, cover, farm, beginning, bridge, end, city, and sentence


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including hear, smell, and stand

• Go for the Gold: Verb, Adjective, and Adverb Game

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including hear, smell, and give





January 2017


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including hear, smell, and stand


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including in front of and behind


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including in front of, behind, on, off, away from, and next to




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including in front of and behind; find, work, and give; hear, smell, and stand; and on, off, away from, and next to


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including give, find, smell, stand, hear, work, next to, away from, in front of, off, on, and behind


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including age, address, parents, neighbor, and number


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including sentence, age, address, parents, and neighbor

8 Beginning Academic Vocabulary 8 – Mixed



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including age, address, parents, neighbor, and number


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including show, wait, and last


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including show, wait, and stand



January 2017




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including show, wait, and last


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including under and over


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including under, over, next to, in front of, away from, and behind




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including under and over


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including push, pull, and tell


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including push, pull, and last




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including push, pull, and tell


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including into and out of


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including into, out of, over, away from, on, and under





January 2017


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including into and out of; show, wait, and last; push, pull, and tell; and under and over


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including show, wait, last, push, pull, tell, under, over, into, and out of


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including shape, side, line, ruler, and space


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including number, shape, side, line, and ruler




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including shape, side, line, ruler, and space; and age, address, parents, neighbor, and number


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including age, address, parents, neighbor, number, shape, side, line, ruler, space


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including measure, guess, and turn


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including measure, guess, and tell




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including measure, guess, and turn


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including in and below



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including in, below, out of, over, off, and under




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including in and below


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including date, month, year, calendar, and week


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including space, date, month, year, and calendar




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including date, month, year, calendar, and week


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including print, spell, and change


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including print, spell, and turn




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including print, spell, and change


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including inside and outside


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including inside, outside, on, below, next to, and under



January 2017




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including inside and outside; measure, guess, and turn; print, spell, and change; and in and below


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including measure, guess, turn, print, spell, change, in, below, inside, and outside


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including rectangle, triangle, zero, money, and machine


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including week, rectangle, triangle, zero, and money




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including rectangle, triangle, zero, money, and machine; and date, month, year, calendar, and week


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including date, month, year, calendar, week, rectangle, triangle, zero, money, and machine


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including take away, follow, and wrong


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including take away, follow, and change




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including take away, follow, and wrong



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including by and ahead of


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including ahead of, below, outside, inside, and behind




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including by and ahead of


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including begin, finish, and move


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including begin, finish, and wrong




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including begin, finish, and move


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including around and across


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including around, across, by, below, off, and into

23 Beginning Academic Vocabulary – Nouns



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including around and across; take away, follow, and wrong; begin, finish, and move; and by and ahead of



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including take away, follow, wrong, begin, finish, move, by, ahead of, around, and across


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including nothing, piece, wife, husband, and human


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including machine, nothing, piece, wife, and husband

24 Beginning Academic Vocabulary – Adjectives



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including nothing, piece, wife, husband, and human


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including equal, greater than, and less than


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including equal, greater than, and move

25 Beginning Academic Vocabulary – Prepositions



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including equal, greater than, and less than


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including above and beneath


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including above, beneath, outside, in, across, and by




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including above and beneath


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including example, half, whole, quarter, and fraction


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including human, example, half, whole, and quarter




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including example, half, whole, quarter, and fraction; and nothing, piece, wife, husband, and human


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including nothing, piece, wife, husband, human, example, half, whole, quarter, and fraction


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including unequal, fix, and both


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including unequal, fix, and less than




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including unequal, fix, and both


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including against and on top of


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including against, on top of, beneath, into, outside, and above





January 2017


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including against and on top of; equal, greater than, and less than; unequal, fix, and both; and above and beneath


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including equal, greater than, less than, unequal, fix, both, above, beneath, against, and on top of


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including center, edge, area, earth, and planet


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including fraction, center, edge, area, and earth




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including center, edge, area, earth, and planet


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including arrive, real, and copy


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including arrive, real, and both




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including arrive, real, and copy


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including between and beside


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including between, beside, against, on top of, beneath, and above



January 2017




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including between and beside


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including touch, taste, and think


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including touch, taste, and copy




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including touch, taste, and think


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including near and far from


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including near, far from, between, against, beside, and inside




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including near and far from; arrive, real, and copy; touch, taste, and think; and between and beside


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including arrive, real, copy, touch, taste, think, between, beside, near, and far from


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including ocean, island, coast, country, and capital


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including planet, ocean, island, coast, and country


January 2017


35 Beginning Academic Vocabulary – Verbs



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including ocean, island, coast, country, and capital; and center, edge, area, earth, and planet


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including center, edge, area, earth, planet, ocean, island, coast, country, and capital


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including discover, settle, and explore


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including discover, settle, and think

36 Beginning Academic Vocabulary – Nouns



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including discover, settle, and explore


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including army, leader, government, holiday, and message


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including capital, army, leader, government, and holiday




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including army, leader, government, holiday, and message


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including vote, once, and twice



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including vote, once, and explore




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including vote, once, and twice; and discover, settle, and explore


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including discover, settle, explore, vote, once, and twice


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including accident, mistake, grade, score, and team


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including message, accident, mistake, grade, and score




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including accident, mistake, grade, score, and team; and army, leader, government, holiday, and message


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including army, leader, government, holiday, message, accident, mistake, grade, score, and team


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including correct, incorrect, and complete


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including correct, incorrect, and twice





January 2017


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including correct, incorrect, and complete


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including cross out, fill in, and underline


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including cross out, fill in, and complete




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including cross out, fill in, and underline; and correct, incorrect, and complete


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including correct, incorrect, complete, cross out, fill in, and underline


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including season, crop, climate, globe, and report


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including team, season, crop, climate, and globe

42 Beginning Academic Vocabulary 42 – Adjectives



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including season, crop, climate, glove, and report


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including best, favorite, and alike


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including best, alike, and underline




January 2017



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including best, favorite, and alike


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including equator, continent, direction, group, and temperature


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including report, equator, continent, direction, and group




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including equator, continent, direction, group, and temperature; and season, crop, climate, globe, and report


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including season, crop, climate, globe, report, equator, continent, direction, group, and temperature


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including difficult, add, and imagine


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including difficult, add, and favorite

Intermediate Academic Vocabulary Lesson Details

1 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 1 – Nouns



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including difficult, add, and imagine; and best, favorite, and alike


January 2017



o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including best, favorite, alike, difficult, add, and imagine


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including instrument, experiment, problem, equation, and directions


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including temperature, instrument, experiment, problem, and equation

2 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 2 – Verbs



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including instrument, experiment, problem, equation, and directions


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including choose, practice, and list


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including choose, practice, and imagine




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including choose, practice, and list


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including compare, decide, and check


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including compare, decide, and list





January 2017


o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including compare, decide, and check; and choose, practice, and list


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including choose, practice, list, compare, decide, and check


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including height, weight, length, width, and inch


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including directions, height, weight, length, and width




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including height, weight, length, width, and inch; and instrument, experiment, problem, equation, and directions


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including instrument, experiment, problem, equation, directions, height, weight, length, width, and inch


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including increase, decrease, and balance


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including increase, balance, and check




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including increase, decrease, and balance


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including price, total, decimal, dozen, and symbol



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including inch, price, total, decimal, and dozen

7 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 7 – Adjectives



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including price, total, decimal, dozen, and symbol


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including even, odd, and final


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including even, odd, and decrease




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including even, odd, and final; and increase, decrease, and balance


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including even, odd, final, increase, decrease, and balance


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including graph, chart, table, microscope, and liquid


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including symbol, graph, chart, table, and microscope

9 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 9 – Mixed



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including graph, chart, table, microscope, and liquid; and price, total, decimal, dozen, and symbol



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including price, total, decimal, dozen, symbol, graph, chart, table, microscope, and liquid


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including connect, shaded, and label


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including connect, shaded, and final

10 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 10 - Verbs



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including connect, shaded, and label


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including pronounce, repeat, and create


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including pronounce, create, and label




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including pronounce, repeat, and create; and connect, shaded, and label


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including connect, shaded, label, pronounce, repeat, and create


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including stage, audience, chapter, passage, and assignment


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including liquid, stage, audience, chapter, and passage



January 2017




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including stage, audience, chapter, passage, and assignment


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including agree, disagree, and discuss


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including agree, disagree, and repeat




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including agree, disagree, and discuss


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including dictionary, encyclopedia, definition, glossary, and magazine


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including assignment, dictionary, encyclopedia, definition, glossary




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including dictionary, encyclopedia, definition, glossary, and magazine; and stage, audience, chapter, passage, and assignment


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including stage, audience, chapter, passage, assignment, dictionary, encyclopedia, definition, glossary, and magazine


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including research, apologize, and defend



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including research, apologize, and discuss




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including research, apologize, and defend; and agree, disagree, and discuss


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including agree, disagree, discuss, research, apologize, and defend


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including draft, document, blank, margin, and column


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including magazine, draft, document, blank, and margin




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including draft, document, blank, margin, and column


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including edit, prewrite, and revise


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including edit, prewrite, and defend




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including edit, prewrite, and revise


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including dissolve, publish, and combine


January 2017



o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including dissolve, publish, and revise




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including dissolve, publish, and combine; and edit, prewrite, and revise


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including edit, prewrite, revise, dissolve, publish, and combine


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including period, apostrophe, quotation marks, question mark, and exclamation mark


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including period, apostrophe, quotation marks, and question mark




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including period, apostrophe, quotation marks, question mark, and exclamation mark; and draft, document, blank, margin, and column


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including draft, document, blank, margin, column, period, apostrophe, quotation marks, question mark, and exclamation mark


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including single, double, and plus


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including single, double, and combine



January 2017




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including single, double, and plus


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including paragraph, punctuation, heading, headline, and contraction


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including exclamation mark, paragraph, punctuation, heading, and headline

21 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 21 - Mixed



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including paragraph, punctuation, heading, headline, and contraction


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including italicize, similar, and bold


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including italicize, similar, and plus

22 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 22 - Nouns



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including italicize, similar, and bold; and single, double, and plus


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including single, double, plus, italicize, similar, and bold


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including skeleton, muscle, category, diagram, and section



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including contraction, skeleton, muscle, category, and diagram




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including skeleton, muscle, category, diagram, and section; and paragraph, punctuation, heading, headline, and contraction


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including paragraph, heading, punctuation, headline, contraction, skeleton, muscle, category, diagram, and section


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including collect, forward, and backward


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including collect, forward, and bold




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including collect, forward, and backward


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including classify, usually, unusual


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including classify, usually, and backward




o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including classify, usually, and unusual



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words including decade, century, culture, vowels, and consonants


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including section, decade, century, vowels, and consonants; and category, culture, paragraph, column, and diagram

26 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary - Verbs



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including decade, century, culture, vowel, and consonant; and decade, century, culture, vowel, and consonant


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including decade, century, culture, vowel, and consonant


o Skills taught: recognize beginning academic vocabulary words, including introduce, illustrate, and describe


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including introduce, describe, and unusual

27 Intermediate Academic Vocabulary 27 - Verbs



o Skills taught: identify previously-learned vocabulary words, including introduce, illustrate, and describe; collect, forward, and backward; classify, usually, and unusual; and select, sort, and estimate


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including collect, forward, backward, introduce, illustrate, and describe; and classify, usually, unusual, select, sort, and estimate


o Skills taught: recognize vocabulary words, including select, sort, and estimate



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including select, sort, estimate, and illustrate

Advanced Academic Vocabulary Lesson Details

1 Advanced Academic Vocabulary 1


• Word Alert: Introduction to Vocabulary

o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including sample and period; and article and explain

• Galactic Goal: Vocabulary Practice

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including sample, period, article, and explain




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including instead of and main; and identify and method


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including instead of, main, identify, and method

• Crossword Countdown: Vocabulary Review

o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including sample, period, explain, article, main, identify, and method




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including sample, period, explain, article, instead of, main, identify, and method


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including sample, period, explain, and article; instead of, main, identify, and method; and produce, substance, file, goal



January 2017


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including produce and substance; and file and goal




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including locate and organize; and horizontal and result


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including locate, organize, horizontal, and result


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including produce, substance, file, goal, locate, organize, horizontal, and result




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including produce, substance, file, goal, locate, organize, horizontal, and result


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including produce, substance, file, and goal; locate, organize, horizontal, and result; and receive subject, succeed, and mention


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including receive and subject; and succeed and mention




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including express and future; and convince and define


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including express, future, convince, and define



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including receive, subject, succeed, mention, express, future, convince, and define




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including receive, subject, succeed, mention, express, future, convince, and define


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including receive, subject, succeed, and mention; express, future, convince, and define; and situation, phrase, express, and permit


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including situation and phrase; and express and permit




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including suggest and annual; and evidence and event


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including suggest, annual, evidence, and event


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including situation, phrase, express, permit, suggest, annual, evidence, and event




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including situation, phrase, express, permit, suggest, annual, evidence, and event


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including situation, phrase, express, and permit; suggest, annual, evidence, and event; and communicate, setting, plot, and average


January 2017



o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including communicate and setting; and plot and average




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including based on and process; and error and influence


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including based on, process, error, and influence


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including communicate, setting, plot, average, process, error, and influence




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including communicate, setting, plot, average, based on, process, error, and influence


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including communicate, setting, plot, and average; based on, process, error, and influence; and consists of, comment, reveal, and series


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including consists of and comment; and reveal and series




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including selection and responsibility; and occur and the following



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including selection, responsibility, occur, and the following


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including comment, reveal, series, selection, responsibility, and occur




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including consists of, comment, reveal, series, selection, responsibility, occur, and the following


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including consists of, comment, reveal, and series; selection, responsibility, occur, and the following; and experience, region, topic, and average


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including experience and region; and topic and average




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including individual and general; and support and except


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including individual, general, support, and except


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including experience, region, topic, average, individual, general, support, and except




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including experience, region, topic, average, individual, general, support, and except



January 2017


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including experience, region, topic, and average; individual, general, support, and except; and entry, statement, in order to, and solution


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including entry and statement; and in order to and solution




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including characteristics and response; and strategy and present


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including characteristics, response, strategy, and represent


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including entry, statement, solution, characteristics, response, strategy, and represent




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including entry, statement, in order to, solution, characteristics, response, strategy, and represent


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including entry, statement, in order to, and solution; characteristics, response, strategy, and represent; and approximately, data, resources, and vertical


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including approximately and data; and resources and vertical





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o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including procedure and feature; and eventually and demonstrate


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including procedure, feature, eventually, and demonstrate


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including approximately, data, resources, vertical, procedure, feature, eventually, demonstrate




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including approximately, data, resources, vertical, procedure, feature, eventually, and demonstrate


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including approximately, data, resources, and vertical; procedure, feature, eventually, and demonstrate; and apply, analyze, legal, and interpret


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including apply and analyze; and legal and interpret




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including source and tradition; and assume and include


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including source, tradition, assume, and include


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including apply, analyze, legal, interpret, source, tradition, assume, and include



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o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including apply, analyze, legal, interpret, source, tradition, assume, and include


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including apply, analyze, legal, and interpret; source, tradition, assume, and include; and refer, natural resources, complex, and contrast


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including refer and natural resources; and complex and contrast




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including theory and require; and investigate and scarce


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including theory, require, investigate, and scarce


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including refer, complex, contrast, theory, require, investigate, and scarce




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including refer, natural resources, complex, contrast, theory, require, investigate, and scarce


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including refer, natural resources, complex, and contrast; theory, require, investigate, and scarce; and comprehend, apply, economy, and conflict



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o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including comprehend and apply; and economy and conflict




o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including interpret and emphasize; and solution and conclusion


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including interpret, emphasize, solution, and conclusion


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including comprehend, apply, economy, conflict, interpret, and emphasize




o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including comprehend, apply, economy, and conflict; and interpret, emphasize, solution, conclusion, obvious, paraphrase, specific, and previous


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including comprehend, apply, economy, and conflict; obvious, paraphrase, specific, and previous; and interpret, emphasize, solution, conclusion


o Skills taught: recognize advanced academic vocabulary words, including obvious and paraphrase; and specific and previous


o Skills taught: identify vocabulary words, including solution, conclusion, obvious, paraphrase, specific, and previous


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Speaking and Listening In Speaking and Listening, students are introduced to basic conversational phrases and listening comprehension. Imagine Learning provides standards-based interactive curriculum, as well as supplemental resources, such as printouts and classroom activities, to help reinforce these speaking and listening skills.

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School Readiness Lesson Details

1 Hello. Goodbye.

Includes these phrases and activities:

• Phrases taught:

o Hello.

o Goodbye.

• Let’s Talk: Learn New Phrase

o Skills taught: recognize basic English phrases

• Your Turn to Talk: Practice New Phrase

o Skills taught: authentic speech

• Daily Conversations

o Skills taught: recognize and repeat basic English phrases

• What Should You Say?

o Skills taught: identify basic English phrases

2 Come here.


• Phrases taught:

o Come here.









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3 What is this?


• Phrases taught:

o What is this?









4 Please. Thank you. You’re welcome.


• Phrases taught:

o Please.

o Thank you.

o You’re welcome.









5 What is your name?


• Phrases taught:

o What is your name?





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6 Where is it? Here it is.


• Phrases taught:

o Where is it?

o Here it is.









7 I like it. I don’t like it.


• Phrases taught:

o I like it.

o I don’t like it.









8 I don’t understand.


• Phrases taught:


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o I don’t understand.









9 It’s your turn.


• Phrases taught:

o It’s your turn.









10 Excuse me. I’m sorry.


• Phrases taught:

o Excuse me.

o I’m sorry.










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11 What do you want to do?


• Phrases taught:

o What do you want to do?









12 How’s the weather?


• Phrases taught:

o How’s the weather?









13 Where are you going?


• Phrases taught:









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14 How are you?


• Phrases taught:

o How are you?









15 What happens next?


• Phrases taught:

o What happens next?









English Phrases Lesson Details

1 Introductions


• Phrases taught:

o Hi.


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o My name is…

o What’s your name?

o These are my friends.

o It’s nice to meet you.

o It’s nice to meet you, too.

o Are you ready?

o Sorry.

o That was awesome.

• Rock ‘n’ talk: Introduction to Conversations

o Skills taught: recognize English phrases

• Rock ‘n’ Record: Record Conversations


• Comic Talk: Practice Conversations

o Skills taught: authentic speech in a variety of contexts



• Create a Comic: Practice Conversations

o Skills taught: identify English phrases in a variety of situations

2 Doing Things 1


• Phrases taught:

o What are you doing?

o I am reading a book.

o We are shopping.

o I’m exercising.

o We’re playing baseball.

o I’m catching the ball.

o What are you going to do?

o I’m going to work.

o I’ll help you.







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• Jazz Chants: Be Verbs

o Skills taught: recognize be verbs



• Say What?: Assess Conversations

o Skills taught: identify English phrases using nonverbal cues

3 Pleasantries


• Phrases taught:

o What’s up?

o Not much.

o How about you?

o Hello.

o How are you?

o I’m fine, thank you.

o Thank you very much.

o Goodbye.

o Have a nice day.







• Jazz Chants: You’re Dancing






4 Getting Acquainted


• Phrases taught:


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o What’s he doing?

o He is eating.

o He’s sleeping.

o What’s she doing?

o She is drawing.

o She’s learning English.

o What are they doing?

o They are playing guitars.

o They’re listening to music.













5 Getting Acquainted


• Phrases taught:

o May I help you?

o Thank you.

o You’re welcome.

o Where are you from?

o I’m from China.

o This is where I live.

o Cool.

o How old are you?

o I am thirteen years old.

o Me too.



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6 Colors and Likes


• Phrases taught:

o Do you like it?

o What colors do you have?

o I have black, yellow, brown, red, and blue.

o What color do you like?

o I don’t like it.

o Let’s make it.

o No.

o I’m finished.

o Yes.

o Good job.








o Skills taught: recognize plural words




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7 Getting Directions


• Phrases taught:

o Excuse me.

o Where is the library?

o I don’t know.

o Go straight.

o Turn right.

o Then turn left.

o This is not the library.

o Please show me where it is.

o Follow me.







• Jazz Chants: Places Chant

o Skills taught: recognize place words





8 Family


• Phrases taught:

o Who are they?

o This is my father.

o This is my mother.

o Do you have any brothers or sisters?

o This is my older brother.


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o This is my baby sister.

o I love my family.

o Where’s your picture?

o Here it is.

o I have an idea.







• Jazz Chants: It’s Mine

o Skills taught: recognize pronouns





9 Food


• Phrases taught:

o What’s this?

o It’s a lemon.

o It’s your turn.

o OK.

o What’s your favorite fruit?

o I like oranges and bananas.

o What are these?

o Apples are my favorite fruit.

o Choose the one you want.

o I want this one.







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o Skills taught: recognize plural words





10 Counting


• Phrases taught:

o How many do you want?

o I want ten tickets.

o One, two, three, four, five.

o Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

o What’s the problem?

o Eleven twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.

o Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.

o Twenty-one.

o I’m sorry.

o Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty.

o Sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.

o One hundred and one.







• Jazz Chants: Keep Counting

o Skills taught: recognize number words






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12 Time


• Phrases taught:

o What time is it?

o It’s 11:00.

o It’s 11:15.

o I’m hungry.

o It’s 11:30.

o It’s 11:45.

o It’s 12:00.

o It’s time for lunch.

o Let’s eat.







• Jazz Chants: Keep Counting

o Skills taught: recognize number words





13 Eating


• Phrases taught:

o What would you like to drink?

o I’ll have water.

o I’ll have milk.

o What would you like to eat?

o I’d like a large pizza.

o Would you repeat that, please?

o I’m full.


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o The food was delicious.

o Who wants ice cream?













14 Days of the Week


• Phrases taught:

o How do you say this in English?

o This is a calendar.

o This is a week.

o Would you say that again?

o Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

o Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

o Today is Friday.

o Yesterday was Thursday.

o Tomorrow is Saturday.







• Jazz Chants: This and That Chant

o Skills taught: recognize demonstratives


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15 Locations and Weather


• Phrases taught:

o May I speak to Dallin, please?

o I’m in Canada.

o It’s snowing.


o Yesterday, it was cloudy.

o Today, it’s sunny and hot.

o Where are you?

o It’s windy.

o Are you OK?













16 Buying Things


• Phrases taught:

o It’s raining.

o What should we do?

o Do you sell umbrellas?


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o This is too small.

o This is too big.

o This is the best umbrella.

o How much does this cost?

o I have a problem.

o I’ll buy it.







• Jazz Chants: This and That Chant

o Skills taught: recognize demonstratives





17 Miscellaneous


• Phrases taught:

o What’s the matter?

o My arm hurts.

o See you later.

o I don’t understand.

o Surprise!

o This is for you.

o Congratulations.

o Do you speak English?

o I speak English.







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Listening Comprehension Lesson Details

1 Nouns


• Put It Together: Introduction to Listening Comprehension

o Skills taught: identify nouns in spoken sentences

• Listen Up: Listening Comprehension Practice

o Skills taught: identify nouns in spoken sentences and understand spoken discourse

2 Nouns and Verbs



o Skills taught: identify nouns and verbs in spoken sentences


o Skills taught: identify nouns and verbs in spoken sentences and understand spoken discourse

3 Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives



o Skills taught: identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives in spoken sentences


o Skills taught: identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives in spoken sentences and understand spoken discourse

4 Passage Practice


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o Skills taught: identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives in spoken sentences and understand spoken discourse

Songs and Chants Lesson Details

1 If You’re Happy


• Sing and Chant: If You’re Happy

o Skills taught: phonemic awareness and vocabulary

• Be a Recording Artist


2 Fuzzy Wuzzy


• Sing and Chant: Fuzzy Wuzzy




3 Row, Row, Row Your Boat


• Sing and Chant: Row, Row, Row Your Boat




4 Good Morning, Good Evening


• Sing and Chant: Good Morning, Good Evening




5 Days of the Week



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• Sing and Chant: Days of the Week




6 Colors


• Sing and Chant: Colors




7 Buckle My Shoe


• Sing and Chant: Buckle My Shoe




8 Hickory Dickory Dock


• Sing and Chant: Buckle My Shoe




9 This is the Way


• Sing and Chant: This is the Way




10

There Was a Turtle


• Sing and Chant: There Was a Turtle





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