Reading Curriculum- 1st Unit
Week 1
Story: Ducky
Key Comprehension Concept: “Summarize”
Vocabulary: overboard, bobbed, surface, float, bubbles, drifting, ocean
Jolly Phonics: Silent /b/
Spelling Words: shin, bench, lamb, comb, thumb, crumbs, plumber, climbing, mother, father
Jolly Grammar: Alphabetical Order
Week 2
Story: Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat
Key Comprehension Concept: “Character”
Vocabulary: practice, clutched, helmet, sneaker
Jolly Phonics: Silent /w/
Spelling Words: chat, cash, write, wrist, wreck, wrong, answer, swordfish, sister, brother
Jolly Grammar: Sentence Writing
Week 3
Story: Ruby the Copycat
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Predictions”
Vocabulary: announced, tiptoed, whispered, modeled, recited, murmured,
Jolly Phonics: Silent /k/
Spelling Words: song, trunk, knee, knit, know, knock, knight, penknife, grandma, grandpa
Jolly Grammar: Quotation Marks
Week 4
Story: Shipwreck Saturday
Key Comprehension Concept: “Point of View”
Vocabulary: sail, lake, breeze, rowboat, swish, ripples, waves, mast
Jolly Phonics: /wh/
Spelling Words: this, that, while, wheat, whip, whistle, whiskers, whatever, aunt, uncle
Jolly Grammar: Developing Questions
Week 5
Story: George Ancona: Then and Now
Key Comprehension Concept: “Compare and Contrast”
Vocabulary: artist, photographer, camera, imagination, hobby
Jolly Phonics: /ph/
Spelling Words: club, flag, phone, photo, dolphin, elephant, sphere, alphabet, nephew, niece
Jolly Grammar: Commas in Lists
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 2nd Unit
Week 1
Story: Belling the Cat
Key Comprehension Concept: “Sequence”
Vocabulary: decided, solve, idea, agreed, wise
Jolly Phonics: -/ea/ the short e sound
Spelling Words: glad, plum, read, head, bread, weather, treasure, breakfast, cousin, friend
Jolly Grammar: exclamation marks
Week 2
Story: The Treasure Hunt
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Inferences”
Vocabulary: treasure, solves, mystery, gold, buried
Jolly Phonics: soft c
Spelling Words: mill, tell, ice, dance, city, circle, police, cylinder, January, February
Jolly Grammar: Alphabetical Order
Week 3
Story: Pigsty
Key Comprehension Concept: “Problem/Solution”
Vocabulary: pigsty, swept, scoured, polished, scrubbed
Jolly Phonics: soft g
Spelling Words: miss, cross, giant, magic, large, orange, danger, orange, vegetable, March April
Jolly Grammar: Proper Nouns
Week 4
Story: Marti and the Mango
Key Comprehension Concept: “Draw Conclusions”
Vocabulary: mango, guavas, watermelon, kiwis, avocados
Jolly Phonics: /wa/ for the wo sound
Spelling Words: luck, click, was, wash, wasp, swan, watch, swallow, May, June
Jolly Grammar: Adjectives
Week 5
Story: The Paper Crane
Key Comprehension Concept: “Evaluate Author’s Purpose”
Vocabulary: restaurant, travelers, guests, stranger, clothes, host, company
Jolly Phonics: /ou/ for the u sound
Spelling Words: thin, thick, touch, young, double, trouble, country, nourish, July, August
Jolly Grammar: Plural -s, -es
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 3rd Unit
Week 1
Story: The Enormous Carrot
Key Comprehension Concept: “Summarize”
Vocabulary: planted, seeds, garden, watered, weeded, grew, ground, growing
Jolly Phonics: /air/
Spelling Words: cliff, off, air, hair, pair, stair, chair, hairbrush, September, October
Jolly Grammar- Possessive Adjectives
Week 2
Story: The Swallow’s Gift
Key Comprehension Concept: “Cause/Effect”
Vocabulary: kindness, rubies, emeralds, fortune, riches, rewarded
Jolly Phonics: /ch/ for the /k/ sound
Spelling Words: buzz, fizz, echo, choir, ache, stomach, Christmas, character, November, December
Jolly Grammar- Homophone Mix-ups: ex. there/their, see/sea
Week 3
Story: Music, Music for Everyone
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Inferences”
Vocabulary: accordion, drums, flute, fiddle, guitar, instrument
Jolly Phonics: /ai/ sound: long a
Spelling Words: next, quit, make, pay, main, clay, rain, waistband, half, quarter
Jolly Grammar: Alphabetical Order
Week 4
Story: The Bremen Town Musicians
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Predictions”
Vocabulary: danger, dreadful, terror, cowards, gruesome, fierce, scared
Jolly Phonics: the /ee/ sound- long e
Spelling Words: arm, shark, seen, three, seat, cream, please, teenager, eleven, twelve
Jolly Grammar: Sentences and Verbs: A sentence must contain a verb.
Week 5
Story: Light, Camera, Action
Key Comprehension Concept: “Steps in a Process”
Vocabulary: producers, actresses, actors, director, technicians, assistants
Jolly Phonics: the /ie/ sound long i
Spelling Words: clump, flex, flying, sight, side, die, bright, sunshine, thirteen, fourteen
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 4th Unit
Week 1
Story: The Gingerbread Man
Key Comprehension Concept: “Cause/Effect”
Vocabulary: mixed, batter, rolled, dough, sugar, glaze, oven, crumb
Jolly Phonics: /oa/ sound
Spelling Words: such, truck, home, froze, foal, stone, toast, snowball, fifteen, sixteen
Jolly Grammar: Irregular Verb "To Be" I am, You are, he/she/it is...
Week 2
Story: Abuelo and the Three Bears
Key Comprehension Concept: “Character”
Vocabulary: grumpy, hungry, medium-sized, cozy
Jolly Phonics: /ue/ sound
Spelling Words: sunk, book, huge, fuse, rescue, argue, we, useful, seventeen, eighteen
Jolly Grammar: Regular Past Tense Verbs- _ed
Week 3
Story: Little Grunt and the Big Egg
Key Comprehension Concept: “Setting”
Vocabulary: volcano, disaster, pitch, erupting, lava
Jolly Phonics: the /k/ sound (one syllable, short vowel- _ck ending
Spelling Words: hook, fork, back, brick, deck, flock, struck, checkers, nineteen, twenty
Jolly Grammar: Irregular Past Tense Verbs
Week 4
Story: Red Riding Hood
Key Comprehension Concept: “Plot”
Vocabulary: kind, considerate, charming, sweet, horrid, wicked
Jolly Phonics: the /er/ sound
Spelling Words: drip, plug, third, winter, bird, over, hurt, butterfly, thirty, forty
Jolly Grammar: Using a dictionary
Week 5
Story: Amazing Grace
Key Comprehension Concept: “Theme”
Vocabulary: auditions, theater, ballet, stunning, imaginary, amazing
Jolly Phonics: The /oi/ sound
Spelling Words: drag, trip, join, spoil, point, joy, royal, ointment, fifty, sixty
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 5th Unit
Week 1
Story: Stellaluna
Key Comprehension Concept: “Visualize”
Vocabulary: crooned, squeaked, cried, chirped, hissed, sighed, gasped
Jolly Phonics: the /ou/ sound
Spelling Words: snap, swam, loud, cloud, found, now, crowd, sunflower, seventy, eighty
Jolly Grammar: Irregular Verb "to be" Simple Past Tense
Week 2
Story: Balto: The Dog Who Saved Nome
Key Comprehension Concept: “Main Idea/Details”
Vocabulary: frozen, drifts, skidded, swirling, bitter, howling
Jolly Phonics: the /ar/ sound
Spelling Words: twig, from, sharp, walk, jaw, straw, laundry, saucepan, ninety, hundred
Jolly Grammar: Expanding a Sentence
Week 3
Story: Ibis: A True Whale Story
Key Comprehension Concept: “Plot”
Vocabulary: whales, humpback, calves, dive, blew, spout, blowhole
Jolly Phonics: /ey/
Spelling Words: film, kept, honey, money, donkey, chimney, journey, thousand, million
Jolly Grammar: Conjunctions
Week 4
Story: When the Monkeys Came Back
Key Comprehension Concept: “Draw Conclusions”
Vocabulary: hoot, howl, scream, scolded, shrieked, shouts
Jolly Phonics: /y/ as the final syllable
Spelling Words: grip, milk, baby, lady, holly, fairy, happy, family, zero, equals
Jolly Grammar: Plurarls <s> and <es>
Week 5
Story: How Artists See Animals
Key Comprehension Concept: “Compare/Contrast”
Vocabulary: shapes, vivid, patterns, painting, sculpture, style, texture, mobile
Jolly Phonics: Silent h
Spelling Words: belt, farm, herb, hour, honest, ghost, rhyme, rhinoceros, mouse, mice
Jolly Grammar: Word Webs- Ability to use a thesaurus
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Week 1
Story: Ducky
Key Comprehension Concept: “Summarize”
Vocabulary: overboard, bobbed, surface, float, bubbles, drifting, ocean
Jolly Phonics: Silent /b/
Spelling Words: shin, bench, lamb, comb, thumb, crumbs, plumber, climbing, mother, father
Jolly Grammar: Alphabetical Order
Week 2
Story: Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat
Key Comprehension Concept: “Character”
Vocabulary: practice, clutched, helmet, sneaker
Jolly Phonics: Silent /w/
Spelling Words: chat, cash, write, wrist, wreck, wrong, answer, swordfish, sister, brother
Jolly Grammar: Sentence Writing
Week 3
Story: Ruby the Copycat
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Predictions”
Vocabulary: announced, tiptoed, whispered, modeled, recited, murmured,
Jolly Phonics: Silent /k/
Spelling Words: song, trunk, knee, knit, know, knock, knight, penknife, grandma, grandpa
Jolly Grammar: Quotation Marks
Week 4
Story: Shipwreck Saturday
Key Comprehension Concept: “Point of View”
Vocabulary: sail, lake, breeze, rowboat, swish, ripples, waves, mast
Jolly Phonics: /wh/
Spelling Words: this, that, while, wheat, whip, whistle, whiskers, whatever, aunt, uncle
Jolly Grammar: Developing Questions
Week 5
Story: George Ancona: Then and Now
Key Comprehension Concept: “Compare and Contrast”
Vocabulary: artist, photographer, camera, imagination, hobby
Jolly Phonics: /ph/
Spelling Words: club, flag, phone, photo, dolphin, elephant, sphere, alphabet, nephew, niece
Jolly Grammar: Commas in Lists
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 2nd Unit
Week 1
Story: Belling the Cat
Key Comprehension Concept: “Sequence”
Vocabulary: decided, solve, idea, agreed, wise
Jolly Phonics: -/ea/ the short e sound
Spelling Words: glad, plum, read, head, bread, weather, treasure, breakfast, cousin, friend
Jolly Grammar: exclamation marks
Week 2
Story: The Treasure Hunt
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Inferences”
Vocabulary: treasure, solves, mystery, gold, buried
Jolly Phonics: soft c
Spelling Words: mill, tell, ice, dance, city, circle, police, cylinder, January, February
Jolly Grammar: Alphabetical Order
Week 3
Story: Pigsty
Key Comprehension Concept: “Problem/Solution”
Vocabulary: pigsty, swept, scoured, polished, scrubbed
Jolly Phonics: soft g
Spelling Words: miss, cross, giant, magic, large, orange, danger, orange, vegetable, March April
Jolly Grammar: Proper Nouns
Week 4
Story: Marti and the Mango
Key Comprehension Concept: “Draw Conclusions”
Vocabulary: mango, guavas, watermelon, kiwis, avocados
Jolly Phonics: /wa/ for the wo sound
Spelling Words: luck, click, was, wash, wasp, swan, watch, swallow, May, June
Jolly Grammar: Adjectives
Week 5
Story: The Paper Crane
Key Comprehension Concept: “Evaluate Author’s Purpose”
Vocabulary: restaurant, travelers, guests, stranger, clothes, host, company
Jolly Phonics: /ou/ for the u sound
Spelling Words: thin, thick, touch, young, double, trouble, country, nourish, July, August
Jolly Grammar: Plural -s, -es
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 3rd Unit
Week 1
Story: The Enormous Carrot
Key Comprehension Concept: “Summarize”
Vocabulary: planted, seeds, garden, watered, weeded, grew, ground, growing
Jolly Phonics: /air/
Spelling Words: cliff, off, air, hair, pair, stair, chair, hairbrush, September, October
Jolly Grammar- Possessive Adjectives
Week 2
Story: The Swallow’s Gift
Key Comprehension Concept: “Cause/Effect”
Vocabulary: kindness, rubies, emeralds, fortune, riches, rewarded
Jolly Phonics: /ch/ for the /k/ sound
Spelling Words: buzz, fizz, echo, choir, ache, stomach, Christmas, character, November, December
Jolly Grammar- Homophone Mix-ups: ex. there/their, see/sea
Week 3
Story: Music, Music for Everyone
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Inferences”
Vocabulary: accordion, drums, flute, fiddle, guitar, instrument
Jolly Phonics: /ai/ sound: long a
Spelling Words: next, quit, make, pay, main, clay, rain, waistband, half, quarter
Jolly Grammar: Alphabetical Order
Week 4
Story: The Bremen Town Musicians
Key Comprehension Concept: “Make Predictions”
Vocabulary: danger, dreadful, terror, cowards, gruesome, fierce, scared
Jolly Phonics: the /ee/ sound- long e
Spelling Words: arm, shark, seen, three, seat, cream, please, teenager, eleven, twelve
Jolly Grammar: Sentences and Verbs: A sentence must contain a verb.
Week 5
Story: Light, Camera, Action
Key Comprehension Concept: “Steps in a Process”
Vocabulary: producers, actresses, actors, director, technicians, assistants
Jolly Phonics: the /ie/ sound long i
Spelling Words: clump, flex, flying, sight, side, die, bright, sunshine, thirteen, fourteen
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 4th Unit
Week 1
Story: The Gingerbread Man
Key Comprehension Concept: “Cause/Effect”
Vocabulary: mixed, batter, rolled, dough, sugar, glaze, oven, crumb
Jolly Phonics: /oa/ sound
Spelling Words: such, truck, home, froze, foal, stone, toast, snowball, fifteen, sixteen
Jolly Grammar: Irregular Verb "To Be" I am, You are, he/she/it is...
Week 2
Story: Abuelo and the Three Bears
Key Comprehension Concept: “Character”
Vocabulary: grumpy, hungry, medium-sized, cozy
Jolly Phonics: /ue/ sound
Spelling Words: sunk, book, huge, fuse, rescue, argue, we, useful, seventeen, eighteen
Jolly Grammar: Regular Past Tense Verbs- _ed
Week 3
Story: Little Grunt and the Big Egg
Key Comprehension Concept: “Setting”
Vocabulary: volcano, disaster, pitch, erupting, lava
Jolly Phonics: the /k/ sound (one syllable, short vowel- _ck ending
Spelling Words: hook, fork, back, brick, deck, flock, struck, checkers, nineteen, twenty
Jolly Grammar: Irregular Past Tense Verbs
Week 4
Story: Red Riding Hood
Key Comprehension Concept: “Plot”
Vocabulary: kind, considerate, charming, sweet, horrid, wicked
Jolly Phonics: the /er/ sound
Spelling Words: drip, plug, third, winter, bird, over, hurt, butterfly, thirty, forty
Jolly Grammar: Using a dictionary
Week 5
Story: Amazing Grace
Key Comprehension Concept: “Theme”
Vocabulary: auditions, theater, ballet, stunning, imaginary, amazing
Jolly Phonics: The /oi/ sound
Spelling Words: drag, trip, join, spoil, point, joy, royal, ointment, fifty, sixty
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests
Reading Curriculum- 5th Unit
Week 1
Story: Stellaluna
Key Comprehension Concept: “Visualize”
Vocabulary: crooned, squeaked, cried, chirped, hissed, sighed, gasped
Jolly Phonics: the /ou/ sound
Spelling Words: snap, swam, loud, cloud, found, now, crowd, sunflower, seventy, eighty
Jolly Grammar: Irregular Verb "to be" Simple Past Tense
Week 2
Story: Balto: The Dog Who Saved Nome
Key Comprehension Concept: “Main Idea/Details”
Vocabulary: frozen, drifts, skidded, swirling, bitter, howling
Jolly Phonics: the /ar/ sound
Spelling Words: twig, from, sharp, walk, jaw, straw, laundry, saucepan, ninety, hundred
Jolly Grammar: Expanding a Sentence
Week 3
Story: Ibis: A True Whale Story
Key Comprehension Concept: “Plot”
Vocabulary: whales, humpback, calves, dive, blew, spout, blowhole
Jolly Phonics: /ey/
Spelling Words: film, kept, honey, money, donkey, chimney, journey, thousand, million
Jolly Grammar: Conjunctions
Week 4
Story: When the Monkeys Came Back
Key Comprehension Concept: “Draw Conclusions”
Vocabulary: hoot, howl, scream, scolded, shrieked, shouts
Jolly Phonics: /y/ as the final syllable
Spelling Words: grip, milk, baby, lady, holly, fairy, happy, family, zero, equals
Jolly Grammar: Plurarls <s> and <es>
Week 5
Story: How Artists See Animals
Key Comprehension Concept: “Compare/Contrast”
Vocabulary: shapes, vivid, patterns, painting, sculpture, style, texture, mobile
Jolly Phonics: Silent h
Spelling Words: belt, farm, herb, hour, honest, ghost, rhyme, rhinoceros, mouse, mice
Jolly Grammar: Word Webs- Ability to use a thesaurus
Week 6
Review stories and concepts
Unit Reading and Spelling Tests