Mrs. Teafatiller’s Reading Lesson Plans 2025-2026
Aug 11-15 Star Testing Dec 1-4 Story #20 April – TEST PREP
Aug 18-22 Story #1 Dec 8-11 Star-Testing April – State Testing - TBD
Aug 25-28 Story #2 Dec 15-18 Christmas Fun
Sept 2-5 Story #4 Jan 5-8 Story #21
Sept 8-12 Story #5 Jan 12-15 Story #22
Sept 15-19 Story #7 Jan 19-22 Story #23
Sept 22-26 Story #11 Jan 26-29 Story #24
Sept 29-Oct 3 Story #12 Feb 2-5 Story #25
Oct 6-8 Star-Testing Feb 9-12 Story #26
Oct 20-23 Story #14 Feb 16-19 Story #27
Oct 27-31 Story # 15 Feb 23-26 Story #28
Nov 3-6 Story # 16 Mar 2-5 Star-Testing
Nov 10-13 Story #17 Mar 9-12 Story #29
Nov 17-20 Story #19 Mar 23-26 TEST PREP
1st 9-weeks Stories – Students need to STUDY their vocabulary words weekly !!!
5th Grade Reading
Story |
Title |
Genre |
Skill |
Vocab. Words |
#1 |
Camping With The President |
Narrative Non-Fiction |
Cause/Effect |
Debris, emphasis, encounter, generations, indicated, naturalists, sheer, spectacular |
#2 |
One Hen |
Realistic Fiction |
Plot/Sequence |
Afford, loan, profit, prosper, risk, savings, scarce, wages |
#3 |
Future of Transportation |
Argumentative Text |
Point of View |
Access, advance, analysis, cite, counterpoint, data, drawbacks, reasoning |
#4 |
The Boy Who Invented TV |
Biography |
Sequence |
Breakthrough, captivated, claimed, devices, enthusiastically, envisioned, passionate, patents |
#5 |
2nd Day First Impressions |
Realistic Fiction |
Problem/Solution |
Accomplish, anxious, assemble, decipher, distracted, navigate, options, retrace |
#6 |
Who Wrote the US Const. |
Expository Text |
Problem/Solution |
Committees, convention, debate, proposal, representatives, resolve, situation, union |
#7 |
Blancaflor |
Folktale |
Theme |
Assuring, detected, emerging, gratitude, guidance, outcome, previous, pursuit |
#8 |
Stage Fright, Catching Quiet, Foul Shot |
Poetry |
Theme |
Ambitious, memorize, satisfaction, shudder, repetition, rhyme, free verse, narrative poem |
#9 |
The Boy Who Drew Birds |
Biography |
Sequence |
Behaviors, disappearance, energetic, flurry, migrate, observation, theory, transformed |
#10 |
Where Mountains Meets Moon |
Fairy Tale |
Compare/Contrast |
Circumstances, consideration, consults, density, expectations, presence, reveal, unsure |
#11 |
They Don’t Mean It |
Realistic Fiction |
Theme |
Appreciation, blurted, complimenting, congratulate, contradicted, critical, cultural, misunderstanding |
#12 |
Winter’s Tail |
Expository Text |
Main Idea/Details |
Artificial, collaborate, dedicated, flexible, function, mimic, obstacle, techniques |
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6th Grade Reading
Story |
Title |
Genre |
Skill |
Vocab Words |
#1 |
Into the Volcano |
Narrative Non-Fiction |
Main Idea/Details |
Cascaded, documentation, dynamic, exerts, plummeting, pulverize, scalding, shards |
#2 |
Little Blog on the Prairie |
Realistic Fiction |
Compare/Contrast |
Consolation, glimmer, heinous, indispensable, perception, phobic, sarcastic, threshold |
#3 |
Economic Rollercoaster |
Informative Article |
Author’s POV |
Available, basically, factors, fluctuate, formula, inventory, manufactured, salaries |
#4 |
Journey Into The Deep |
Expository Text |
Main Idea/Details |
Classification, compartment, engulfs, flanked, maneuvering, obscure, species, submerged |
#5 |
Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg |
Historical Fiction |
Sequence |
Adversity, alliance, confinement, inflicted, reminisce, retrieved, smuggle, spindly |
#6 |
Who Created Democ. |
Expository Text |
Compare/Contrast |
Aspiring, foundation, preceded, principal, promote, restrict, speculation, withstood |
#7 |
Roman Diary |
Historical Fiction |
Point of View |
Alcove, commerce, domestic, exotic, fluent, stifling, upheaval, utmost |
#8 |
Majestic, Mummy, Clay |
Poetry |
Theme |
Commemorate, contemplate, forlorn, lyric, poetry, meter, rhyme, scheme, sonnet |
#9 |
Tech. of Mesopotamia |
Expository Text |
Problem/Solution |
Artifact, communal, derived, inscription, millennium, stationery, utilize, yields |
#10 |
A Single Shard |
Historical Fiction |
Point of View |
Benefit, deftly, derision, eaves, expertise, impudence, legacy, symmetry |
#11 |
Lizzie Bright |
Realistic Fiction |
Theme |
Dilemma, feebly, persistent, recoiled, roused, skewed, summon, vastness |
#12 |
The Pot That Juan Built |
Narrative Non-Fiction |
Sequence |
Abundant, impoverished, ingenuity, productivity, sharecropper, solitude, unearthed, windswept |