Reading Street 4th Grade Common Core Unit 1-6 Full Year Bundle 2013

Unit 1

• “Because of Winn-Dixie”
• “Lewis and Clark and Me”
• “On the Banks of Plum Creek”
• “ The Horned Toad Prince”
• “Letters Home from Yosemite”

Unit 2

• “What Jo Did”
• “Coyote School News”
• “Scene Two”
• “Horse Heroes: True Stories of Amazing Horses”
• “So You Want to Be President?”

Unit 3

• “The Man Who Named the Clouds”
• “Adelina’s Whales”
• “How Night Came from the Sea”
• “Eye of the Storm”
• “Paul Bunyan”

Unit 4

• “The Case of the Gasping Garbage”
• “Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon”
• “The Navajo Code Talkers”
• “Seeker of Knowledge”
• “Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander”

Unit 5

• “Smokejumpers: Life Fighting Fires”
• “Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu”
• “Cliff Hanger”
• “Antarctic Journal”
• “Moonwalk”

Unit 6

• “My Brother Martin”
• “Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path”
• “How Tia Lola Came to Stay”
• “A Gift from the Heart”
• “The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon”

Included for each lesson’s anthologies are the following:

• Crossword Puzzles( Vocabulary Development)
• Answer Keys for Crossword Puzzle (Vocabulary Development)
• Word Banks for Crossword Puzzles (Vocabulary Development)
• CLOZE (fill in the blank) worksheets (Vocabulary Development)
• Writing Templates (Stationary) associated with each story and skill being taught such as “Personal Narrative, Persuasive Essays, Summaries, Poetry, etc.
• Task Cards or grammar worksheets in some lessons
• Common Core Essential Questions in some lessons