HARCOURT: STORYTOWN

Theme 1: Finding a WayContent Objectives and

Language Objectives

LESSON 1 ROPE BURN Comprehension Objective: Students will

recognize plot events, conflict, and resolution in a story; and understand how conflicts are resolved in a story.

Vocabulary: humiliation, expectations, fringes, hesitating, sincere, coaxed

Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with closed syllables with short-vowels patterns.

Grammar Objective: Students will identify complete, declarative, and interrogative sentences.

Writing Objective: Students will demonstrate a personal voice in writing.

LESSON 2 LINE DRIVE Comprehension Objective: Students will

recognize plot events, conflict, and resolution in a story; and understand how conflicts are resolved in a story.

Vocabulary: maven, mortified, reigned, conceited, designated, smirk, exhilarated.

Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with long vowels and vowel digraphs.

Grammar Objective: Students will identify imperative and exclamatory sentences as well as interjections.

Writing Objective: Students will write an autobiographical composition and demonstrate voice.

LESSON 3 CHANG AND THE BAMBOO FLUTE Comprehension Objective: Students will recognize

that authors reveal a character’s motives through traits, thoughts, words, and actions and make inferences regarding a character’s motives in a text.

Vocabulary: pried, desperately, sneered, indignantly, urgently, grudgingly

Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with vowel digraphs.

Grammar Objective: Students will identify subjects and predicates in a sentence and use them correctly in writing.

Writing Objective: Students will demonstrate word choice when writing an autobiographical narrative.

LESSON 4 NELLIE BLY Comprehension Objective: Students will recognize

that authors reveal a character’s motives through traits, thoughts, words, and actions and make inferences regarding a character’s motives in a text.

Vocabulary: relented, faze, eccentric, infuriated, disheartened, impassable, crusaded

Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with the –ed or –ing endings.

Grammar Objective: Students will identify and use complete and simple subjects and predicates correctly.

Writing Objective: Students will use vivid and descriptive words as well as effective organization for a newspaper article.

LESSON 5 IT TAKES TALENT Comprehension Objective: Students will

identify the distinguishing characteristics of a talent show and read aloud a talent show as a Readers’ Theater.

Vocabulary: genial, prognostication, stricken, dramatically, restrain, protest, feverishly, overcome, flop, spectacular

THEME 1 REVIEW Comprehension Objective: Students will….

recognize plot events, conflict, and resolution in a story.

understand how conflicts are resolved in a story. recognize that authors reveal a character’s

motives through traits, thoughts, words, and actions.

make inferences regarding a character’s motives in a text.

identify and analyze the characteristics of narrative text.

understand and identify the characteristics of particular genres of narrative text.

THEME 1(REVIEW) Spelling Objective: Students will

correctly spell words with… closed syllables and short vowels patterns long vowels, vowel digraphs, and vowel

diphthongs words with –ed and –ing endings.

THEME 1(REVIEW) Grammar Objective: Students will…

identify, form, and use complete, declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory sentences, and interjections in writing and speaking

recognize sentence fragments identify complete and simple subjects and

predicates

THEME 1(REVIEW) Vocabulary Objective: The students

will…Use a variety of strategies to determine

meaningUse context to clarify word meaning

THEME 1(REVIEW) Writing Objective: Students will…

revise writing for voice and word choice Refine a selected piece to publish