Month: August Subject: Reading Focus: Fiction

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
1 / 2 / Introductions
5
/ 6 / 7
enrichment / 8 / 9 / Teacher's Choice
CCR 1
12
/ 13 / 14
enrichment / 15 / 16 / Teacher's Choice
CCR 2
19 / 20 / 21
enrichment / 22 / 23 / “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”- Twain
CCR 3
26 / 27 / 28
enrichment / 29 / 30 / “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”- Twain
CCR 4

Month: September Subject: Reading Focus: Expository Reading Strategies

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
2
Labor Day / 3 / 4
enrichment / 5 / 6 / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 5
9
/ 10 / 11
enrichment / 12 / 13 / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 6
16
/ 17 / 18
enrichment / 19 / 20
[Galileo Test] / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 7
23
/ 24 / 25
enrichment / 26 / 27 / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 9
30 / / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 10

Month: October Subject: Reading Focus: Expository Reading Strategies

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
/ 1 / 2
enrichment / 3 / 4
End Of Quarter / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 10
7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 /
14
/ 15 / 16
enrichment / 17 / 18 / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 1
21
/ 22 / 23
enrichment / 24 / 25 / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 2
28 / 29 / 30
enrichment / 31 / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 3

Month: November Subject: Reading Focus: Elements of Story Telling

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives

/ 1 / “Dragonwings”- Yep
CCR 3
4 / 5 / 6
enrichment / 7 / 8 / “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”- Taylor
CCR4
11
Veteran's Day / 12 / 13
enrichment / 14 / 15 / “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”- Taylor
CCR 5
18 / 19 / 20
enrichment / 21 / 22
[Galileo Test] / “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”- Taylor
CCR 6
25
/ 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”- Taylor
CCR 7

Month: December Subject: Reading Focus: Persuasive Text

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
2
/ 3 / 4
enrichment / 5 / 6 / “Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat: Address to Parliament”- Churchill
CCR 7
9
/ 10 / 11
enrichment / 12 / 13 / “Letter on Thomas Jefferson (1776)”- Adams
CCR 8
16 / 17 / 18
enrichment / 19 / 20

End of Quarter / “Letter on Thomas Jefferson (1776)”- Adams
CCR 9
23
/ 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
30 / 31

Month: January Subject: Reading Focus: Persuasive Text

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
1 / 2 / 3 /
6
/ 7 / 8
enrichment / 9 / 10 / Newspaper Editorials
CCR1
13
/ 14 / 15
enrichment / 16 / 17 / Advertisements
CCR2
20
MLK, Jr. Day / 21 / 22
enrichment / 23 / 24
[Galileo Test] / Political Campaigning
CCR 3
27
/ 28 / 29
enrichment / 30 / 31 / Speeches
“The Duties of American Citizenship”- Roosevelt
CCR 4

Month: February Subject: Reading Focus: Functional Text

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
3
/ 4 / 5
enrichment / 6 / 7 / Reading to follow directions- road maps, bus schedules, etc.
(have students make a map)
CCR 7
10
/ 11 / 12
enrichment / 13 / 14 / Read to follow directions- recipes, assembly instructions, etc.
CCR 5
17
/ 18 / 19
enrichment / 20 / 21 / Read to gain information- flyers, ads, brochures
CCR 4
24 / 25 / 26
enrichment / 27 / 28 / Read to gain information- food labels, reviews
CCR 6

Month: March Subject: Reading Focus: Functional Text

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
3 / 4 / 5
enrichment / 6 / 7
[Galileo Test] / Using reference materials- dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, internet
(research paper)
CCR 9
10
/ 11 / 12
enrichment / 13 / 14
End of Quarter / Filling out forms- job applications, resumes, forms
(have students get a library card)
CCR 10
17
/ 18 / 19 / 20 / 21
24
/ 25 / 26
enrichment / 27 / 28 / Review
Teacher's Choice
31
/ “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”- Petry
CCR 1

Month: April Subject: Reading Focus: Historical Text

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
/ 1 / 2
enrichment / 3 / 4 / “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”- Petry
CCR 2
7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 /
14
/ 15 / 16
enrichment / 17 / 18
Good Friday / “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”- Petry
CCR 3
21 / 22 / 23
enrichment / 24 / 25 / “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”- Petry
CCR 4
28 / 29 / 30
enrichment / “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”- Petry
CCR 5

Month: May Subject: Reading Focus: Poetry

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Weekly Objectives
/ 1 / 2 / “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”- Petry
CCR 6
5 / 6 / 7
enrichment / 8 / 9 / “The Road Not Taken”- Frost
Teacher's Choice
CCR 5
12
/ 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / “The Road Not Taken”- Frost
Teacher's Choice
CCR 5
19 / 20 / 21
End of Year / 22 / 23
26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30