Weekly Reading Stories:
Every week we will read a new story out of our Reading text book. With
each new story, we will focus on a new skill and new vocabulary words.
The students will then be tested over the story and skill on Friday.
Below is a list of the stories we will be reading throughout the year:
Unit 1
Theme: Let's Explore
Explore mysteries, space and wildlife
1. The Mystery of the Missing Lunch
2. A Walk in the Desert
3. Time For Kids: Animals Come Home to Our National Parks
4. The Astronaut and the Onion
5. The Raft
Unit 2
Theme: Take a Stand
Take a stand in your own life as well as in bettering the lives of others
6. Mighty Jackie
7. My Diary from Here to There
8. Time For Kids: Stealing Beauty
9. How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightening
10. Dear Mr. Winston
Unit 3
Theme: Making a Difference
Find out about children and heroes that have made a difference in our lives
11. Roadrunner's Dance
12. My Brother Martin
13. Time For Kids: Kid Reporters at Work
14. Mystic Horse
15. Snowflake Bentley
Unit 4
Theme: Viewpoints
How do we know what a whale or a dog is thinking? Learn about the viewpoints of others
16. Dear Mrs. LaRue
17. The Blind Hunter
18. Time For Kids: The Power of Oil
19. Adelina's Whales
20. At Home in the Coral Reef
Unit 5
Theme: Relationships
Read about the different types of relationships, animals, and people can have
21. Because of Winn-Dixie
22. Ranita, the Frog Princess
23. Time For Kids: Exploring the Undersea Territory
24. Me and Uncle Romie
25. Wild Horses
Unit 6
Theme: Discovery
Make discoveries about history, nature, and the animals in our world
26. The Gold Rush Game
27. The Cricket in Times Square
28. Time For Kids: Meet a Bone-ified Explorer
29. My Brothers' Flying Machine
30. The Life and Times of the Ant
