This curriculum follows the scope and sequence from unit 1 of the Reading Street curriculum, focusing on the following skills and strategies (homographs, multiple meaning words, short and long VCV VCCV, 4 kinds of sentences, realistic fiction, POV, Greek and Latin roots, subjects and predicates, tall tales, long vowel digraphs, independent and dependent clauses, compound words, imagery, word endings, compound and complex sentences and biographical writing), but utilizes the text "On My Honor" to