Thematic Units
· The Journey (CA History)
· Electricity and Magnetism
· Environments
· Solid Earth
Comprehensive Reading
· Making Meaning – Using literature to learn comprehension strategies
· Genre Study
· Guided Reading
· Literature Circles
· Read Aloud
· Shared Reading
· Independent Reading
· Literature Response Activities
· Independent Daily Reading Conference
Word Work
· Phonics Review
· Spelling
· Vocabulary
Writing Workshop
· Being A Writer Program using Literature
· Six + 1 Writing Traits (Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice,
Sentence Fluency, Conventions, Presentation)
· Modeled Writing
· Interactive Writing Aloud
· Guided Writing
· Independent Writing
· Conferring
Math
· Houghton-Mifflin Math (State Adopted Textbook Series)
· Practice Math, Re-Teach Math, Challenge Math
· Math Games, Take It To Your Seat Math, & Math Center
· Differentiated Math Work Groups and Activities
· Daily Warm-Up Math Story Problems
Social Science
· Harcourt Social Science (State Adopted Textbook Series)
· Field Lessons
· Art and interdisciplinary activities
· Geography in Daily Warm-Up
· Continent Study: Asia
Science
· Foss Science Text and Activities
· Field Lessons
· Take it to your Seat Science
· Science Bellworks Review
Specialty Classes
Spanish, Art, P.E.,
Computers and Library once per week
Differentiated Instruction will be used in the classroom. This included acceleration which allows the students’ abilities/talents to be matched with more challenging optimal learning opportunities and compacting which allows students to compress their learning into a much shorter period of time, based on their ability to pass competency tests.
Strategies for Integrating Multiple Intelligences will also be used in the classroom to enhance and enrich learning for all students.
