Reading Street
Reading Skills for Unit 1
Week 1: Charlie McButton Lost His Power
Focus Skill: Literary Elements Word Study Skill: Short Vowel Syllables VC/CV
Week 2: What About Me?
Focus Skill: Sequence Word Study Skill: Plurals -s, -es, -ies
Week 3: Kumak's Fish
Focus Skill: Sequence Word Study Skill: Base Word Endings -ed, -ing, -er, -est
Week 4: Supermarket
Focus Skill: Compare & Contrast Word Study Skill: Vowel Digraphs ee, ea; ai, ay; oa, ow
Week 5: My Rows and Piles of Coins
Focus Skill: Author's Purpose Word Study Skill: Vowel Diphthongs ou, ow; oi, oy
Reading Skills for Unit 2
Week 1: Penguin Chick
Focus Skill: Main Idea and Details Word Study Skill: Syllables V/CV and VC/V
Week 2: I Wanna Iguana
Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast Word Study Skill: Final Syllable -le
Week 3: Purdy's Problem and How She Solved It
Focus Skill: Drawing Conclusions Word Study Skill: Compound Words
Week 4: Tops and Bottoms
Focus Skill: Author's Purpose
Word Study Skill: Three Letter Blends
Week 5: Amazing Bird Nests
Focus Skill: Main Idea & Detail
Word Study Skill: Consonant Digraphs /sh/, /th/, /f/, /ch/, /ng/
Reading Skills for Unit 3
Week 1: How Do You Raise a Raisin?
Focus Skill: Draw Conclusions Word Study Skill: Syllables Contractions
Week 2: Pushing Up the Sky
Focus Skill: Draw Conclusions Word Study Skill: Syllables Contractions
Week 3: Seeing Stars
Focus Skill: Graphic Sources Word Study Skill: Spelling the /j/, /k/, and /s/ sounds
Week 4: Symphony of Whales
Focus Skill: Making Generalizations Word Study Skill: Suffixes -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -able, -ible
Week 5: Around One Cactus
Focus Skill: Cause and Effect Word Study Skill: Consonant Patterns wr, kn, gn, st, mb
Reading Skills for Unit 4
Week 3: Rocks in His Head
Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion Word Study Skill: Prefixes pre-, mid-, over-, out-, bi-, de-
Week 4: America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion Word Study Skill: Suffixes -er, -or, -ess, -ist
Week 5: Fly, Eagle, Fly!
Focus Skill: Cause and Effect Word Study Skill: Syllable Pattern VCCCV
Reading Skills for Unit 5
Week 1: Suki's Kimono
Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast Word Study Skill: Syllables CV/VC