At Heritage Elementary School we use the Houghton Mifflin Reading program.
Below is a list of the themes we will be covering this year:
JULY/AUGUST Theme 1: Nature’s Fury Skills: Making Predictions, Inferring and Sequence of Events OARS Assessment #1 | AUGUST/SEPTEMBER Theme 2: Give it All you’ve Got Skills: Evaluate, Summarize and Clarify. Fact and Opinion. Story Structure, Predicting Outcomes OARS Assessment #2 | OCTOBER/NOVEMBER Theme 3: Voices of the Revolution Skills: Evaluate Cause and Effect, Author’s Viewpoint, Following Directions OARS Assessment #3 |
DECEMBER/JANUARY Theme 4: Person to Person Skills: Making Inferences, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Noting Details and Compare and Contrast OARS Assessment #4 | FEBRUARY/MARCH Theme 5: One Land, Many Trails Skills: Drawing conclusions, Propaganda, Making Judgments and Story Structure OARS Assessment #5 | APRIL/MAY/JUNE Theme 6: Nature-Animal Encounters Skills: Evaluate, Making Generalizations, Main Idea, Supporting Details and Drawing Conclusions OARS Assessment #6 |