UNIT THEME TITLES AND QUESTIONS

							                                         READING STREET UNIT THEME TITLES AND QUESTIONS
               UNIT 1                             UNIT 2                        UNIT 3                   UNIT 4                       UNIT 5                       UNIT 6
Pre-K   All Together Now                 Who Lives Here?                 Watch Me Change           Let’s Find Out            Going Places                  Building Our
        How do people work and play      Where and how do people and     How do people and         Where will our            How can people travel from    Homes
        together?                        animals live?                   animals change?           adventures take   us?     place to place?               How do people build
                                                                                                                                                           things?
 K      All Together Now                 Animals Live Here               Watch Me                  Let’s Explore             Going Places                  Building Our
        How do we live, work, and play   Where do animals live?          Change                    Where will our            How do people get from here   Homes
        together?                                                        How do people, plants,    adventures take us?       to there?                     How do homes help us
                                                                         and animals grow and                                                              survive and enjoy life?
                                                                         change?
 1      Animals, Tame and Wild           Communities                     Changes                   Treasures                 Great Ideas                         [no unit 6]
        How are people and animals       What is a community?            What is changing in our   What do we treasure?      What difference can a great
        important to one another?                                        world?                                              idea make?


 2      Exploration                      Working Together                Creative Ideas            Our Changing              Responsibility                Traditions
        What can we learn from           How can we work together?       What does it mean to be   World                     What does it mean to be       How are traditions and
        exploring new places and                                         creative?                 How do things             responsible?                  celebrations important to
        things?                                                                                    change? How do they                                     our lives?
                                                                                                   stay the same?
 3      Dollars and Sense                Smart Solutions                 People and                One-of-a-Kind             Cultures                      Freedom
        When is money important, and     What are smart ways that        Nature                    What does it mean to      What happens when two ways    What does it mean to be
        when does it affect our lives?   problems are solved?            How are people and        be unique?                of life come together?        free?
                                                                         nature connected?
 4      This Land Is Your Land           Work and Play                   Patterns in               Puzzles and               Adventures by Land,           Reaching for
        How do the diverse regions and   What is the value of work and   Nature                    Mysteries                 Air, and Water                Goals
        peoples of the United States     play?                                                     Is there an explanation   What makes an adventure?
                                                                         What are some patterns                                                            What does it take to
        reflect its greatness?                                                                     for everything?
                                                                         in nature?                                                                        achieve our goals and
                                                                                                                                                           dreams?


 5      Meeting Challenges               Doing the Right                 Inventors and             Adapting                  Adventurers                   The Unexpected
        What kinds of challenges do      Thing                           Artists                   How do people and         Who goes seeking adventure    What can we learn from
        people face and how do they      What makes people want to       What do people gain       animals adapt to          and why?                      encounters with the
        meet them?                       do the right thing?             from the work of          different situations?                                   unexpected?
                                                                         inventors and artists?

 6      Loyalty and Respect              Space and Time                  Challenges and            Explorers,                Resources                     Exploring
        What draws us to people and      Why might things far away       Obstacles                 Pioneers, and             What are resources and why    Cultures
        things around us and makes us    and long ago be important to    How are the results of    Discoverers               are they important to us?     In what ways does one
        care?                            us now?                         our efforts sometimes     How have those                                          culture affect another?
                                                                         greater than we expect?   who've gone first
                                                                                                   influenced those
                                                                                                   who've gone after?