Students use evidence from both texts to compare and contrast the impact of historical and everyday heroes, meeting RI.9 standards.

Students read about a modern-day local hero, identifying main ideas and using diagrams and labels to understand how everyday people make a difference.

Students explore the life of Rosa Parks, focusing on identifying key details and navigating complex text features like maps and timelines.

A comprehensive nonfiction reading experience about the history, sports, and traditions of the Winter Olympics, designed to help students identify main ideas and supporting details.

A lesson focused on analyzing character motivations and perceptions in the short story 'The Lure of Sheila Mant' by W.D. Wetherell. Students will explore how the narrator views the Mant family and Sheila herself through close reading and textual evidence.

A 30-minute introductory lesson where students learn to decode complex words using a list of 24 common morphemes.

Day 5 serves as a final comprehensive quick check. Students read a new passage independently and apply their analysis of character relationships and plot structure to demonstrate mastery of standards 5.8B and 5.8C.