Wonders 2017 and 2020 Correlation

Many of the Reading Wonders resources for McGraw-Hill were created for the 2017 version of Wonders, but they align with the 2020 version, too. Just use this chart to determine which units and weeks are the same.

Wonders 2017 Unit, Week	Shared Read	Anchor Text	Vocabulary	Skills	Wonders 2020 Unit/Week
U1, W1	A Fresh Idea	One Hen	afford, loan, profit, prosper, risk, savings, scarce, wages	Reread, Character, Setting, Plot: Sequence, Realistic Fiction	Unit 1: Genre Study 2: Weeks 3 and 4
U1, W2	Whitewater Adventure	First Day, Second Impressions	accomplish, anxious, assemble, decipher, distracted, navigate, options, retrace	Character, Setting, Plot: Problem and Solution, Reread	x
U1, W3	A Life in the Woods	Camping with the President	debris, emphasis, encounter, generations, indicated, naturalist, sheer, spectacular	Text Structure: Cause and Effect, Narrative Nonfiction, Ask and Answer Questions	Unit 1: Genre Study 1: Weeks 1 and 2
U1, W4	Fantasy Becomes Fact	The Boy Who Invented TV	breakthrough, captivated, claimed, deices, enthusiastically, envisioned, passionate, patents	Text Structure: Seuence, Illustrations and photographs, biography	x
U1, W5	Are Electronic Devices Good for Us?	The Future of Transportation	access, advance, analysis, cite, counterpoint, data, drawbacks, reasoning	Author’s Point of View, Expository Text, Headings and Graphs, Greek and Latin Prefixes	Unit 1: Genre Study 3: Week 5
U2, W1	Creating a Nation	Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution?	committees, convention, debate, proposal, representatives, resolve, situation, union	Reread, problem and solution, expository text, headings, time lines	Unit 2: Genre Study 1, Weeks 1 and 2
U2, W2	A Modern Cinderella	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon	circumstances, consideration, consults, destiny, expectations, presence, reveal, unsure	Make Predictions, Compare and Contrast, Characters, setting, Fairy Tale,	x
U2, W3	Growing in Place: The Story of E. Lucy Braun	The Boy Who Drew Birds	behaviors, disappearance, energetic, flurry, migrate, observation, theory, transformed	Reread, text structure, sequence, biography, illustrations and photographs	x
U2, W4	The Magical Lost Brocade	Blancaflor	assuring, detected, emerging, gratitude, guidance, outcome, previous, pursuit	Make Predictions, theme, folktale	Unit 2: Genre Study 2, Weeks 3 and 4
U2, W5	A Simple Plan, Rescue	Stage Fright, Catching Quiet	ambitious, memorized, satisfaction, shuddered Poetry terms: narrative, repetition, free verse, rhyme	Reread, theme, free verse poetry,	Unit 2: Genre Study 3: Week 5
U3, W1	A Reluctant Traveler	They Don't Mean It!	appreciation, blurted, complimenting, congratulate, contradicted, critical, cultural, misunderstanding	Summarize, Realistic Fiction, Theme	Unit 3: Genre Study 1: Weeks 1 and 2
U3, W2	Survivaland	Weslandia	civilization, complex, cultivate, devise, fashioned, resourceful, shortage, tormentors	Summarize, theme, fantasy	x
U3, W3	Patterns of Change	The Story of Snow	contact, erode, formation, moisture, particles, repetition, structure, visible	Ask and Answer Questions, Main Ideas and key details, expository text, diagram, Greek roots	x
U3, W4	Gulf Spill Superheroes	Winter's Tail	artificial, collaborate, dedicated, flexible, function, mimic, obstacle, techniques	Ask and Answer Questions, Main ideas and key details, photographs and captions, Latin roots	Unit 3: Genre Study 2: Weeks 3 and 4
U3, W5	What Was the Purpose of the Inca's Strange Strings?	Machu Picchu: Ancient City	archaeologist, era, fragments, historian, intact, preserved, reconstruct, remnants	Summarize, author's point of view, persuasive article, diagram, expository text	Unit 3: Genrey Study 3: Week 5
U4, W1	How Mighty Kate Stopped the Train	Davy Crockett Saves the World	commenced, deeds, exaggeration, heroic, impress, posed, sauntered, wring	Visualize, point of view, tall tale, legend, synonyms and antonyms	x
U4, W2	Where's Brownie?	A Window into History: The Mystery of the Cellar Window	astounded, concealed, inquisitive, interpret, perplexed, precise, reconsider, suspicious	Visualize, point of view, drama, adages and proverbs	Unit 4: Genre Study 2: Weeks 3 and 4
U4, W3	Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice	Rosa	anticipation, defy, entitled, neutral, outspoken, reserved, sought, unequal	Summarize, author's point of view, biography, photographs, captions, prefixes and suffixes	Unit 4: Genre Study 1: Weeks 1 and 2
U4, W4	Power from Nature	One Well	absorb, affect, circulates, conserve, cycle, glaciers, necessity, seeps	Summarize, author's point of view, chart, context clues
U4, W5	How Do I Hold Summer?, Catching a Fly, When I Dance	Words Free as Confetti, Dreams	barren, expression, meaningful, plumes Poetry Terms: lyric, meter, alliteration, stanza	Free Verse and Lyric Poetry, visualize, theme, simile and metaphor	Unit 4: Genre Study 3: Week 5
U5, W1	Miguel in the Middle	Ida B... and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World	disdain, focused, genius, perspective, prospect, stunned, superb, transition	Make, Confirm, and Revise Predictions, Character, Setting, Plot	x
U5, W2	The Day the Rollets Got Their Moxie Back	Bud, Not Buddy	assume, guarantee, nominate, obviously, rely, supportive, sympathy, weakling	Historical Fiction, Make, Confirm, and Revise Predictions, Compare and Contrast Characters, Idioms	Unit 5: Genre Study 2: Weeks 3 and 4
U5, W3	Forests on Fire	Global Warming	atmosphere, decays, gradual, impact, noticeably, receding, stability, variations	Text Structure: Compare and Contrast, photographs, graphs, paragraph clues	x
U5, W4	Changing Views of Earth	When Is a Planet Not a Planet?	approximately, astronomical, calculation, criteria, diameter, evaluate, orbit, spheres	Text Structure: Cause and Effect, diagrams, Greek Roots	Unit 5: Genre Study 1: Weeks 1 and 2
U5, W5	Should Plants and Animals from Other Places Live Here?	The Case of the Missing Bees	agricultural, declined, disorder, identify, probable, thrive, unexpected, widespread	Author's Point of View, chart headings, root words,	Unit 5: Genre Study 3: Week 5
U6, W1	Shipped Out	The Unbreakable Code	bulletin, contributions, diversity, enlisted, intercept, operations, recruits, survival	Summarize, theme, historical fiction, homophones	Unit 6, Genre Study 1, Weeks 1 and 2
U6, W2	The Bully	The Friend Who Changed My Life	abruptly, ally, collided, confident, conflict, intervene, protective, taunting	Summarize, theme, realistic fiction, connotation and denotation	x
U6, W3	Mysterious Oceans	Survival at 40 Below	adaptation, agile, cache, dormant, forage, frigid, hibernate, insulates	Text Struture: Cause and Effect, map, context clues	Unit 6, Genre Study 2: Weeks 3 and 4
U6, W4	Words to Save the World: The Work of Rachel Carson	Planting the Trees of Kenya	export, glistening, influence, landscape, native, plantations, restore, urged	Text Structure: Problem and Solution, biography, illustrations, synonyms and antonyms	x
U6, W5	To Travel, Wild Blossoms	You Are My Music (Tu eres mi musica), You and I	blares, connection, errand, exchange Poetry Terms: personification, consonance, assonance, imagery	Visualize, point of view, narrative and lyric poetry, personification	Unit 6, Genre Study 3: Week 5