This unit emphasizes reading strategies for gathering information from nonfiction
articles and reports.
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This unit focuses on reading and responding to tall tales and legends. The
characteristics are defined, and a study of story elements are included.
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This unit emphasizes reading, researching, and writing nonfiction, with a focus
on biography and autobiography.
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This unit focuses on reading and responding to folktales. The characteristics
of folktales are included and analyzed through the exploration of folklore in
everyday life.
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This unit focuses on applying reading and comprehension strategies and reviewing
elements of the short story genre. Reading a variety of adventure short stories
will provide opportunities for students to describe the defining characteristics,
to sequence events, to summarize and paraphrase, and to compare and contrast
literary elements in the texts.
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This unit focuses on reading to comprehend and interpret classic and contemporary
poetry. Characteristics of poetry are defined, and a study of forms and elements
will reflect a concentration on lyric and narrative poems.
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