An intentional scope and sequence builds background knowledge.

📚An intentional scope and sequence increases success!

The sequence of the units in the program represent an intentional progression of background knowledge and scaffolding. We recommend teaching units in numerical order.

📗Units explicitly teach fiction and nonfiction genres.

• Fantasy - Talking Animals & Epic Fantasy
• Realistic Fiction,
• Realistic Fiction - Adventure & Mystery,
• Legend,
• Historical Fiction,
• Science Fiction,
• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir,
• Narrative/Historical Nonfiction; and 
• Information Nonfiction.

🌍Units introduce themes and topics:

Third Grade: 

• Theme: Conflict - at home, at school, and in the world.
• Topics: Communities & The Civil Rights Movement.

Fourth Grade:

• Themes: Journeys (personal & literal), and the pioneering spirit.
• Topics: Westward expansion - Lewis and Clark, Klondike Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railway.

Fifth Grade:

• Theme: Survival.
• Topics: Natural disasters, human rights, Revolutionary War, slavery.

Sixth Grade:

• Theme: Immigration & the American Dream.
• Topics: The push and pull factors that cause people to move & Great Depression to early WWII.

7th/8th Grade:

Units for grades 7-8 feature a memorable character archetype, opening doors to new genres, authors, and text types. Choose from a variety of unit archetypes:

• the orphan,

• time traveler,
• rescuer,
• and more!

Design a flexible 7th or 8th grade scope and sequence. We suggest selecting three units per year.