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Storytown: Grade 4
Book: Winning Catch
Lesson
Theme 1: Facing Challenges
Focus Skill/
Genre/ comprehension strategies
spelling
vocab
Theme 1
Lesson 1
character’s traits and motivations
realistic fiction
Story Structure
Story Titles:
Intro/Vocab Story
Main Story
Connecting Story
Trading Chores
The Hot and Cold Summer
Secret Talk (poem)
Author, Illustrator, photographer…//
Themes
Johanna Hurwitz
Mary GrandPre
business, baseball, summer, Bolivia, money, cards, pie, pizza,
vegetables, friends
short v/ digraphs: pact, brand, brick, crop, broad, tread, film, else, gram, gum, dread, spend, past, plot, check, split, sting, strap, task, twin
annoyed, depriving, foisted, pact, queasy, venture
Theme 1
Lesson 2
character’s traits and motivations
biography
Story Structure
Table Tennis Shake-Up
Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen
The New Kid (poem)
Marissa Moss
C. F. Payne
baseball, female athletes, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig
long v/ digraphs: cheese, heel, season, boast, chief, gape, aim, brain, fluke, crayon, eagle, throw, rose, student, goal, woke, ripen, cube, rainbow, scrape
flinched, fluke, gaped, glared, legendary, muttered, snickering, stunned
Theme 1
Lesson 3
compare/contrast
narrative poem
answer questions
Eggs the Hard Way
Danitra Brown Leaves Town
Summertime Star Parties
Nikki Grimes
Floyd Cooper
breakfast, eggs, summer, handball,
dancing, stars, astronomers
variant v/diphthongs: toil, faucet, boyhood, choice, dawn, awful, foist, daughter, flaw, annoyed, royal, allow, destroy, blew, spoon, shampoo, brown, renew, wooden, auction
clusters, particular, sizzles, sparkling, stroll, surrender
Theme 1
Lesson 4
compare/contrast
historical fiction
answer questions
Last-Minute Scare
Kai’s Journey to Gold Mountain
My Japanese Sister
Katrina Currier
Gabhor Utomo
travel, China, immigration, basketball, Japan
-ed, -ing: counting, craned, seemed, burned, chopped, cracked, begged, moving, slipped, sailing, trimmed, shopping, returned, watching, pushed, visited, cringed, screamed, scratching, flapping
accusing, averted, craned, cringed, fury, interrogation, solemnly, stern
Theme 1
Lesson 5
Theme Review
story structure
answer questions
RT: Pedro Puts on a Play
Raul’s After-School Snack
family, cultural heritage, puppets. mariachis. library
v & v digraphs: tread, broad, split, chief, season, brain, throw, goal, scrape, choice, allow, auction, flaw, daughter, destroy, renew, boyhood, returned, chopped, counting
commenced, consternation, culinary, downcast, extensive, pensive, recruit, reminiscent, serenely, vivid
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Storytown: Grade 4
Book: Winning Catch Theme 2: Getting the Job Done
Lesson
Focus Skill/
Genre/ comprehension strategies
Theme 2
Lesson 6
plot: conflict/resolution
historical fiction
reread for comprehension
Story Titles:
Intro/Vocab Story
Main Story
Connecting Story
A Pioneer’s Diary
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Surviving the Prairie
Author, Illustrator, photographer…//
Themes
Laura Ingalls Wilder
cattle, prairie
-le: circle, angle, cradle, ladle, castle, ruffle, juggle, ankle, battle, candle, fable, riddle, icicle, sparkle, jungle, tangle, marble, sizzle, paddle, handle
attentive, contradicting, darted, jostling, pounced, responsible, swerved
Theme 2
Lesson 7
plot: conflict/resolution
realistic fiction
reread for comprehension
Just Another Day
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
Home on the Range
Hats Off to the Cowboy
Mildred Pitts Walter
Don Tate
ranch, calf, chores, grandpa, festival, fawn, Teddy Roosevelt,
cooking, cowboys, desert, range
VCCV: letter, ladder, appear, lesson, soccer, classic, hollow, supper, accent, pizza, officer, lettuce, better, slipper, bottom, ribbon, summer, college, occur, rabbit
inspecting, lurked, reluctant, resounded, rumpled, surge, taut, untangled
Theme 2
Lesson 8
author’s purpose and perspective
plays
summarize
Next Stop: Internet
Three Little Cyberpigs
The Three Little Pigs Revisited
Jane Tesh
Nathan Jurevicius
computers, nursery rhyme characters,
VCCV: history, number, hunger, company, window, welcome, blanket, perhaps, service, subject, thunder, furnish, jersey, mother, secret, harvest, winter, problem, chapter, nurses
cease, exist, fierce, impressed, nimble, slick
Theme 2
Lesson 9
author’s purpose and perspective
expository nonfiction
summarize
Sand Painting
Weaving a California Tradition
Wonder Weaver
Linda Yamane
basket making, Indian tribes, plants, stick buildings
VCCCV: monster, complete, hundred, kitchen, sandwich, surprise, applause, although, conflict, mattress, purchase, merchant, pumpkin, angry, Thursday, ostrich, punctual, address, chestnut,
luncheon
bond, delicate, flexible, infest, inspires, intervals, preserve, unique
Theme 2
Lesson 10
Theme Review
reread for comprehension
summarize
Emerald’s Eggs
Local Governments
volunteers, sea turtles, government
review: castle, handle, ruffle, icicle, fable, soccer, appear, hollow, classic, college, accent, service, jersey, mother, problem, subject, complete, mattress, purchase, luncheon
comprehend, encircle, exuberant, lumbers, mature, nurture, pliable, scan, solitary, vulnerable
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Storytown: Grade 4
Book: Winning Catch
Theme 3: Natural Changes
Lesson
Focus Skill/
Genre/ comprehension strategies
Theme 3
Lesson 11
text structure: cause & effect
expository nonfiction
graphic organizers
Story Titles:
Intro/Vocab Story
Main Story
Connecting Story
Surprises in Nature
Mimicry and Camouflage
lizards, frogs and polliwogs
Author, Illustrator, photographer…//
Themes
Mary Hoff
prairie dogs, venus flytrap, puffer fish, zebra, walking stick,
butterfly, chameleon
VCV: begin, vanish, bonus, legal, event, moment, motive, native, suburb, mimic, paper, pilot, raven, rival, relish, silent, solar, spider, super, virus
avoid, deceptive, lure, mimic, obvious, predators, resembles, traits
Theme 3
Lesson 12
text structure: cause & effect
expository nonfiction
graphic organizers
The Double Volcano
Mountains
To the Top of the World
Seymour Simon
glaciers, Alps, maps, rocks, erosion, climate, Mount Everest,
school
prefixes re-, un-, non-: reuse, restart, retell, resend, replace, uncork, unstuck, unannounced, unpleasant, unchain, unfit, nonprofit, nonmetal, recall, nontoxic, unwelcome, reproduce, retrace,
uninvited, reapply
constant, contract, depths, eruption, gradually, immediate, revealed
Theme 3
Lesson 13
draw conclusions
realistic fiction
read ahead for comp.
A Town Transformed
Fire Storm
Flame Busters
Jean Craighead George
Wendell Minor
fire, camping, kayaking, firemen
suffixes –able, -ible, -ness, -ment, -less: likable, removable, printable, adorable, comfortable, durable, usable, invisible, responsible, darkness, tidiness, silliness, excitement, government,
requirement, loneliness, harmless, hopeless, fearless, horrible
altered, discouraged, drudgery, plunge, scoffed, skeptically, smoldering, treacherous
Theme 3
Lesson 14
draw conclusions
fantasy
read ahead for comp.
Mountain Mystery
The Stranger
A Place in the Sun
Chris Van Allsburg
vacation, dog, seasons, sun, orbit
ending /en/: apron, button, canyon, certain, chicken, cardigan, cotton, dragon, even, fountain, gallon, horizon, listen, orphan, pardon, pollen, prison, siren, swollen, driven
dashed, drab, fascinated, hermit, occasionally, peculiar, timid, trembling
Theme 3
Lesson 15
Theme Review
read ahead
RT: The Adventurers
Icebergs: Floating Snow Cones
sailing, beach, snorkeling, coral reef, icebergs
use graphic organizers
review: event, rival, solar, moment, unannounced, reuse, retrace, unpleasant, nonmetal, likable, comfortable, horrible, invisible, loneliness, requirement, fearless, cotton, listen, fountain, orphan
cherish, delectable, fragile, guidance, hoist, intrepid, pristine, privilege, seasoned, undoubtedly
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Storytown: Grade 4
Book: Winning Catch
Theme 4: Imagination at Work
Lesson
Focus Skill/
Genre/ comprehension strategies
Theme 4
fact & opinion
Lesson 16
narrative nonfiction
adjust reading rate
Story Titles
Intro. Story
Main Story
Connecting Story
Dad’s Invention
So You Want to be an Inventor?
Make a Movie Machine
Author, Illustrator, photographer…
Themes
Judith St. George
David Small
dogs, inventions, science, inventors, lightning, wheat, railroad,
phone, frozen food, Velcro, rubber, electricity, steamboat
ending /el/: tropical, animal, April, arrival, trample, bottle, camel, capital, couple, swivel, festival, gentle, level, national, normal, tremble, puddle, rebel, single, tunnel
barriers, forged, hoaxer, perfect, quest, tinker, trampled
Theme 4
Lesson 17
fact & opinion
autobiography
The Coolest Show on Earth
Just Like Me
I Am an Artist
farm, artist, China, Winter, ice sculptures, New York, sewing,
ethnicity, rodeo
The Giant
Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life
The Little Fly and the Great Moose
Jerdine Nolen, Kadir Nelson
fiddle, storms, swimming, beanstalk, eggs, New Hampshire
adjust reading rate
ending /er/: lunar, cellar, collar, corner, danger, director, doctor, dollar, tinker, finger, honor, horror, labor, master, motor, ancestor, checkers, power, regular, sugar
ancestors, brilliant, exotic, graceful, mischievous, participate
Theme 4
Lesson 18
theme
fairy tale
self-correcting
over-, under-, sub-: overactive, overbite, overboard, overdrive, overestimate, overhand, overheat, overpass, overreact, underline, underbrush, underdeveloped, undergo, underhand, underpass,
underscore, underwater, submarine, subway, overact
bountiful, inadvertently, intentions, relentless, resourceful, roused, stature, vast
Theme 4
Lesson 19
theme
folktales
self-correcting
The New Ruler
Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn’t Tell a Lie
Hard Cheese
Joe Hayes
Joseph Daniel Fiedler
ant, dove, queen, garden, rancheros, apple tree, honesty, fables
irregular plurals/possessives: babies’, baby’s, child’s, children, classes’, class’s, sheep, feet, elk, fish, fishes’, goose’s, geese, jeans, mouse’s, mice, teeth, women, woman’s, moose
anxiously, confidently, declared, distressed, gloated, insisted, magnificent
Theme 4
Lesson 20
Theme Review
adjust reading rate
self-correct
RT: The Case of the Too-Hot Apple Cider
Sequoyah’s Talking Leaves
storm, detectives, robot, temperatures, cider, Cherokee, writing
ending /al/: arrival, gentle, national, single, level, collar, doctor, checkers, power, overboard, overheat, underbrush, undergo, subway, sheep, class’s. fishes’, women, jeans, fish
beams, confound, exposed, gracious, installed, looming, miserable, monitor, ominous, self-assurance
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Storytown: Grade 4
Book: Winning Catch
Theme 5: A New Home
Lesson
Focus Skill/
Genre/ comprehension strategies
Theme 5
characters, setting, plot
realistic fiction
use story structure
Lesson 21
Story Titles
Intro. Story
Main Story
Connecting Story
Greensville: Best Town
Because of Winn-Dixie
Decoding Dog Speak
Author, Illustrator, photographer…
Themes
Kate DiCamillo
town, community, Florida, dog, supermarket, friends, library,
bear, communication
suffix –ant, -ent, -eer, -ist, -ian: assistant, consultant, coolant, defendant, radiant, disinfectant, ignorant, absorbent, confident, different, engineer, activist, cyclist, motorist, pianist,
typist, comedian, electrician, librarian, musician
consisted, intends, prideful, recalls, select, snatched
Theme 5
Lesson 22
characters, setting, plot
diary
use story structure
Adventure in Mexico
My Diary from Here to There
Moving (poem)
There’s an Orange Tree Out There
Amada Irma Perez
Maya Christina Gonzalez
beach, pyramids, boats, restaurant, Mexico, U.S., friends, magic
tricks, farming
in-, out-, down-, up-: incomplete, indirect, indent, instead, include, inexact, infamous, outbid, outbreak, outcast, outdated, outdoor, downfall, downhill, downpour, downstairs, update,
upfront, uphill, upwind
burst, comforted, huddle, journey, opportunities, recognizes
Theme 5
Lesson 23
sequence: story events
fantasy
ask questions
Crumbs for the Taking
The Cricket in Times Square
Cricket Thermometer
George Selden
mouse, New York City, cricket, dreams, leaves, money, following
directions
suffix –ation, -ition, -al, -ial: decoration, abbreviation, admiration, association, aviation, civilization, declaration, addition, composition, preposition, abdominal, admiral, rendition, disposal,
emotional, environmental, denial, facial, judicial, testimonial
fidget, forlornly, noble, pathetic, resolved, scrounging, stingy, suspicion
Theme 5
Lesson 24
text structure: sequence
expository nonfiction
ask questions
Florida’s Great Reefs
Mangrove Wilderness
Mangrove
Bianca Lavies
coral reefs, mangrove plants and animals, seedlings, alligators,
encyclopedia
suffix/combo: additional, beautifully, blissfully, boastfully, carefully, cheerfully, colorfully, educational, effortlessly, endlessly, guiltlessly, joyfully, meaningfully, playfully, restfully,
respectfully, childishness, truthfully, usefully, powerfully
advantage, extract, remarkable, stealthy, suitable, withstand
Theme 5
Lesson 25
Theme Review
Use story structure
ask questions
RT: Welcome to Chinatown!
Amelia’s Garden
Chinatown, history, San Francisco, immigrants, languages, plants
suffix –ation, -ition, -al, -ial: radiant, confident, engineer, typist, electrician, inexact, outdated, downfall, upfront, upwind, admiration, addition, emotional, abdominal, testimonial,
decoration, effortlessly, meaningfully, truthfully, carefully
aspects, destinations, expectantly, festive, gorgeous, misfortune, ornate, reconstruct, symbolize, vigorously
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Storytown: Grade 4
Book: Winning Catch
Theme 6: Exploring Our World
Lesson
Focus Skill/
Genre/ comprehension strategies
Theme 6
main ideas/details
Lesson 26
expository nonfiction
summarize
Story Titles
Intro. Story
Main Story
Connecting Story
A Look at the Past
Dragons and Dinosaurs
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
Author, Illustrator, photographer…
Themes
dinosaurs, Earth, continents, bones, brain, rock ‘n roll,
rain forest, swamps, dance
silent letters: subtle, scene, climbed, comb, exhibit, doubt, folks, exhaust, half, whistle, island, lamb, numb, often, rustle, debt, knack, thumb, unknown, mortgage
complicated, contraption, eerie, elegant, massive, obstacles, roamed, submerged
Theme 6
Lesson 27
main ideas/details
narrative nonfiction
summarize
The Amazing Power of Rivers
Grand Canyon: A Trail Throughout Time
The Rock Cycle
Linda Vieira
Christopher Canyon
Grand Canyon, rivers, falls, lightning, Seven Natural
Wonders of the World, erosion, Indians, cactus, hiking,
rocks
Greek/Latin: respect, inspect, spectacle, spectator, spectrum, specific, construct, destruction, instruct, structure, autograph, photograph, phonics, telegraph, paragraph, visor, visitor,
visual, visible, television
ancient, cascading, distant, embedded, eroding, glistens, sentries, weary
Theme 6
Lesson 28
figurative language:
simile, metaphor, idiom, personification, hyperbole
tall tale
reread for comprehension
A Giant Turns Ten
The Bunyans
Mammoth Cave National Park
Audrey Wood
David Shannon
Pecos Bill, coyotes, mountains, craters, comets, ox,
Kentucky, lumberjack, cave, Montana, sand, hot air
balloons, sculptures, sinkholes
homophones: there, they’re, their, sent, scent, hour, our, seam, seem, plain, plane, piece, peace, two, too, to, whole, hole, pail pale
behemoth, colossal, cordially, fanciful, hearty, illusion, scenic
Theme 6
Lesson 29
figurative language
historical fiction
reread for comprehension
Snow Camp Diary
John Muir and Stickeen
John Muir: Extreme Explorer
Julie Dunlap
Marybeth Lorbiecki
Bill Farnsworth
Alaska, glaciers, dogs, hiking
prefix/base/suffix: impatiently, disappearance, unhappily, unnaturally, refreshment, mistakenly, nonrefundable, remarkable, unlikely, unpleasantly, disagreement, inaccurately,
incorrectly, irreversible, repayment, uneasily, unusually, misguidance, refillable
coddled, dainty, dedicated, determined, endured, memorable, pitiful
Theme 6
Lesson 30
Theme Review
reread
summarize
RT: Discovering the Atocha
Producers and Consumers
treasure, Spanish galleon, hurricane, shipwreck, diagram,
herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
silent letters: scene, numb, rustle, debt, knack, specific, phonics, destruction, paragraph, sent, scent, pail, pale, tp, too, two, inaccurately, unusually, repayment, misguidance
abruptly, descend, discern, distinguished, dubious, estimate, frantically, scrutinize, verify, vicinity
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