| Story | LA concept | Vocab | Phonics | |
| lesson 1 | A Fine, Fine School(story structure) | Subject predicate | multiple meaning words | short Vowel sounds |
| lesson 2 | The Trial of Cardigan Jones(conclusions) | kinds of sentences | compound words | long vowel sounds |
| lesson 3 | Destiny’s Gift(understanding characters) | sentence, run-on, fragment | antonyms | ai,ay,ee,ea |
| lesson 4 | Pop’s Bridge(compare and contrast) | common and proper nouns | -s, -es, -ed, -ing | Long O:oa,ow |
| lesson 5 | Roberto Clemente(cause and effect) | -s, -es | target prefix mis- | long i: i, ie, igh |
| lesson 6 | Max’s Words(sequesnce of events) | what is a verb? | -er, -or | words with the VCV pattern |
| lesson 7 | What do Illustrators Do?(text and Graphics features) | verb tenses | synonyms | three letter clusters(scr-, spr-, str-, thr-) |
| lesson 8 | The Harvest Birds(conclusions) | commas in a series | multiple meaning words | silent letters(kn, wr) |
| lesson 9 | Kamishibai Man(cause and effect) | simple subject/simple predicate | dictionary/glossary entry | vowel dipthong (ow,ou) |
| lesson 10 | Young Thomas Edison(main idea/details) | pronouns | categorizing and classifying | words with the au, aw, ai, o |
| lesson 11 | Jump! (fact and opinion) | more plural nouns | suffixes -y, -ful, -ous | vowel dipthong (oi, oy) |
| lesson 12 | The science Fair (story Structure) | more proper nouns | idioms | homophones/words ending in -er, -le |
| lesson 13 | Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend( compare and Contrast) | subject-verb agreement | homophones/homographs | contractions with n’t, ‘d, ‘ve |
| lesson 14 | Aero and Officer Mike(authors Purpose) | pronouns and verbs | prefix in-, im- | words with ar, or, ore |
| lesson 15 | The Extra-Good Sunday(understanding characters) | forming the past tense | using a thesaurus | words with er, ir, ur, or |
| lesson 16 | Mr. Rubbish Mood(Authors purpose) | what is an Adjective? | context clues | words with the air, ear, are |
| lesson 17 | The Albertosaurus Mystery(conclusoins) | adjective/adverb | suffix -ly | words with the VCCCV pattern |
| Lesson 18 | A Tree is Growing(text and graphic features) | using the verb be and helping verbs | categorizing and classifying | words with /k/ and /kw/ |
| lesson 19 | Dogzilla(cause and effect) | irregular verbs | prefix pre-, re-, bi- | vowel sounds with spoon and wood |
| lesson 20 | Life on the Ice(main idea and details) | contractions | dictionary/glossary | compound words |
| lesson 21 | Two Bad Ants(story structure) | possesive nouns | base words and prefix non- | base words and -ed, -ing |
| lesson 22 | Stories of Migration(compare and contrast) | using proper nouns | prefix in-, im- | less common plurals |
| lesson 23 | The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (sequence of events) | abbreviations | suffix -er, -est | suffix -full, -y, -ous, -ly, -er |
| lesson 24 | Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves( authors purpose) | adverbs | Words from other languages | prefixes un-, pre-, re-, bi- |
| lesson 25 | Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest(text and graphic features) | preposition | analogies | suffix -less, -ness, -able |
| lesson 26 | The Foot Race Across AMerica(main idea/supporting details) | quotation marks | suffix -ion | common final syllables |
| lesson 27 | The power of Magnets(cause and effect) | commas in sentences | homophones/homographs | double consonants(VCCV) |
| Lesson 28 | Becoming Anything He Wants to Be(fact and opinion) | commas in a sentence | word roots | words with ough, augh |
| lesson 29 | A New Team of Heroes(understanding Characters) | possesive pronouns | prefixes un-, dis- | words ending in -er, -le |
| Lesson 30 | Saving Buster(conclusion/generalization) | correct pronouns | compound words | schwa sounds |







