Contents at a Glance

Unit	Vocabulary	Language & Grammar		Reading		Writing
		Function	Grammar	Phonics/Decoding	Comprehension
1	Time	Tell What May Happen	Phrases with have to and need to Possessive Adjectives	Long Vowels (ie, igh, ui, ue)	Cause and Effect	Friendly Letter
2	Direction Words Civil Rights Words	Give Information Give Directions Express Wants and Feelings	Irregular Past Tense Verbs	R-controlled vowels	Sequence Classify	Personal Narrative
3	Opinion Words Animals Plants and Habitats	Give Your Opinion Describe Places Make a Suggestion	Sensory Adjectives	R-controlled Syllable Types	Details	Fact-and-Opinion Article
4	History and Historical Records	Have a Discussion Make Comparisons	Nouns Present and Past Tense Verbs Object Pronouns	Words with y	Comparisons	Comparison Paragraph
5	Story Elements Opposites Phrases for Times and Places	Ask for and Give Advice Ask for and Accept a Favor Describe Actions	Commands Prepositional Phrases	Diphthongs and Variant Vowels	Character Traits Story Elements	New Story Ending
6	The Body Sports	Ask for and Give Information Express Thanks	Present Tense Verbs Pronouns	Variant Vowels and Consonants	Main Idea and Details	Procedure
7	American History Landforms and Bodies of Water	Ask and Answer Questions Give Directions	Questions with How? and Why? Capitalization: Proper Nouns	Multisyllabic Words	Classify	Biography
8	Farming	Buy or Sell an Item Give Information	Subjects and Predicates Word Order in Sentences	Prefixes and Suffixes	Comparisons	Report
9	Idioms Space	Agree and Disagree Give Information	Future Tense Verbs Contractions Verb Tenses	Multisyllabic Words	Goal and Outcome	Poem