Focus: In Unit 7, students continue to build skills in spelling, grammar, and morphology. In addition through their Student Reader, What’s in Our Universe, they build a greater understanding of the universe and the celestial bodies within it. At the end of the unit, students apply note-taking skills and their knowledge of the qualities of strong paragraphs to write a research paper on a topic about astronomy.
Number of Lessons: 15
Lesson Time: 50–80 minutes each. Each lesson may be divided into shorter segments.
Additional Search Terms: nonfiction • astronomy • singular possessive nouns • plural possessive nouns • research paper
