A later review contains similar activities. Decodability of practice texts. I chose a representative lesson from Unit 3, p. T251. The lesson begins using a KWL activity on movies to activate students' background knowledge. There follows a vocabulary lesson on people who work in movies, a set of words that form a semantic group, permitting optimal vocabulary instruction.
Students read sentences using the word to identify context clues to meaning.
The vocabulary instruction in this lesson is the best I found in any of the basals I reviewed. The lesson uses a fiction text, though expository texts are the principle challenge in fourth grade. Summarizers are to restate important ideas in their own words. No summarization modeling is provided. Summarization is assigned.