Mrs. Sams'

New Scott Foresman Resources     

Unit 1

Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale

Because of Winn-Dixie

The Horned Toad Prince

Grandfather's Journey

Letters Home from Yosemite

Unit 2

What Jo Did

Coyote School News

Grace and the Time Machine

Marven of the Great North Woods

So You Want to Be President

Unit 3

The Stranger
Adelina's Whales

• Fact & Opinion
• Compare & Contrast
• Action Verbs
• Verb Agreement

How Night Came from the Sea, by Melissa Guinn
Eye of the Storm

• The Search for Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms
• Figurative Language

Unit 4

Houdini's Box

• Antonym Raceway
• Genres
• The Plot
• Synonyms
• The Parts of A Plot
• Characterization Bookmark
• Elements of Characterization

Encantado

Seeker of Knowledge

Encyclopedia Brown

Unit 5

Sailing Home

• Homophones & Homographs
• More Homophones & Homographs
• Unlocking the Secrets:  Homophones & Homographs

Machu Picchu

· Machu Picchu – beautiful pictures

Amelia and Eleanor

· Biography report

Antarctic Journal

Moonwalk

· Synonyms

· Drawing Conclusions

· In Conclusion

Unit 6

My Brother Martin

· Dr. King

· Cause and Effect Intro

· Cause and Effect game

· Conjunctions

· Fact and Opinion

· Fact and Opinion Intro

· Fact and Opinion game

· Sentence review

Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path

· Biography of Jim Thorpe

· Review

Tia Lola