This year in Language Arts students will have the opportunity to read many books of their choice. As teachers, we will conference with students individually in regards to what they are reading and their book choices. Each student has also set an individual reading goal that they are working towards. Please ask your child about what they are reading and encourage them to read at home.
We will also meet with small groups an average of three times a week to work on specific skills that students may be struggling with. We are also doing various reading exercises and progress monitoring in regards to creating more fluent readers.
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McGraw Hill Reading
Unit 1 Week 1
Essential Question: Where do good ideas come from?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Make Predictions
Skill: Sequence
Genre: Fairy Tale
Vocabulary Skills: Synonyms
Unit 1 Week 2
Essential Question: How do your actions affect others?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Make Predictions
Skill: Problem and Solution
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Skills: Idioms
Unit 1 Week 3
Essential Question: How do people respond to natural disaster?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Compare and Contrast
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Skills: Multiple Meaning Words
Unit 1 Week 4
Essential Question: How can science help you understand how things work?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Cause and Effect
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Vocabulary Skills: Definitions and Restatements
Unit 1 Week 5
Essential Question: How can starting a business help others?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Genre: Persuasive Article
Vocabulary Skills: Suffixes
Unit 2 Week 1
Essential Question: What are some messages in animal stories?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Skill: Theme
Genre: Folktale
Vocabulary Skills: Root Words
Unit 2 Week 2
Essential Question: How do animal characters change familiar stories?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Skill: Theme
Genre: Drama
Vocabulary Skills: Context Clues: Antonyms
Unit 2 Week 3
Essential Question: How are all living things connected?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Summarize
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Vocabulary Skills: Context Clues
Unit 2 Week 4
Essential Question: What helps an animal survive?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Summarize
Skill: Main Idea and Details
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Skills: Prefixes
Unit 2 Week 5
Essential Question: How are writers inspired by animals?
Comprehension Skills
Literary Elements: Meter and Rhyme
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Lyric Poetry and Haiku
Vocabulary Skills: Figurative Language
Unit 3 Week 1
Essential Question: How can you make new friend feel welcome?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Visualize
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Fantasy
Vocabulary Skills: Context Clues
Unit 3 Week 2
Essential Question: In what ways can you help your community?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Visualize
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Skills: Context Clues
Unit 3 Week 3
Essential Question: How can one person make a difference?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Author's Point of View
Genre: Biography
Vocabulary Skills: Synonyms and Antonyms
Unit 3 Week 4
Essential Question: How can words lead to change?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Author's Point of View
Genre: Biography
Vocabulary Skills: Latin and Greek Suffixes
Unit 3 Week 5
Essential Question: In what ways can advances in science be helpful or harmful?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Author's Point of View
Genre: Persuasive Article
Vocabulary Skills: Greek Roots
Unit 4 Week 1
Essential Question: Why do we need government?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Skill: Cause and Effect
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Vocabulary Skills: Latin Roots
Unit 4 Week 2
Essential Question: Why do people run for public office?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Make Predictions
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Fantasy
Vocabulary Skills: Idioms
Unit 4 Week 3
Essential Question: How do inventions and technology affect your life?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Make Predictions
Skill: Point of View
Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Skills: Synonyms
Unit 4 Week 4
Essential Question: How can you explain what you see in the sky?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Skill: Cause and Effect
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Skills:
Unit 4 Week 5
Essential Question: How do writers look at success in different ways?
Comprehension Skills
Literary Elements: Stanzas and Repetition
Skill: Theme
Genre: Narrative Poetry
Vocabulary Skills: Connotation and Denotation
Unit 5 Week 1
Essential Question: In what ways do people show they care about each other?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Visualize
Skill: Problem and Solution
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Skills: Similes and Metaphors
Unit 5 Week 2
Essential Question: What are some reasons people moved west?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Visualize
Skill: Cause and Effect
Genre: Tall Tale
Vocabulary Skills: Homographs
Unit 5 Week 3
Essential Question: How can inventions solve problems?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Summarize
Skill: Problem and Solution
Genre: Biography
Vocabulary Skills: Greek Roots
Unit 5 Week 4
Essential Question: What can you discover when you look closely at something?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Summarize
Skill: Sequence
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Skills: Antonyms
Unit 5 Week 5
Essential Question: How can learning about the past help you understand the present?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Summarize
Skill: Sequence
Genre: Informational Article
Vocabulary Skills: Proverbs and Adages
Unit 6 Week 1
Essential Question: How do traditions connect people?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Theme
Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Skills: Connotation and Denotation
Unit 6 Week 2
Essential Question: Why is it important to keep a record of the past?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Reread
Skill: Theme
Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Skills: Homophones
Unit 6 Week 3
Essential Question: How have our energy resources changed over the years?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Vocabulary Skills: Latin and Greek Prefixes
Unit 6 Week 4
Essential Question: What has been the role of money over time?
Comprehension Skills
Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Skills: Proverbs and Adages
Unit 6 Week 5
Essential Question: What shapes a person's identity?
Comprehension Skills
Literary Elements: Imagery and Personification
Skill: Theme
Genre: Free Verse Poetry
Vocabulary Skills: Figurative Language
Unit 6 Week 4Essential Question: What has been the role of money over time?Comprehension Skills Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions Skill: Main Idea and Key Details Genre: Expository TextVocabulary Skills: Proverbs and Adages
English
Unit 1: The Sentence
Lesson 1: What is a Sentence
Lesson 2: Statements and Questions
Lesson 3: Commands and Exclamations
Lesson 4: Subjects and Predicates
Lesson 5: Simple Subjects
Lesson 6: Simple Predicates
Lesson 7: Correcting Run-On Sentence
Unit 2: Nouns
Lesson 1: What is a Noun?
Lesson 2: Common and Proper Nouns
Lesson 3: Singular and Plural Nouns
Lesson 4: Nouns Ending in y
Lesson 5: More Plural Nouns
Lesson 6: Singular Possessive Nouns
Lesson 7: Plural Possessive Nouns
Unit 3: Verbs
Lesson 1: Action Verbs
Lesson 2: Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
Lesson 3: Present, Past, and Future
Lesson 4: Subject-Verb Agreement
Lesson 5: Spelling the Present Tense
Lesson 6: Spelling the Past Tense
Lesson 7: The Past with Helping Verbs
Lesson 8: Irregular Verbs
Lesson 9: The Special Verb be
Lesson 10: Contractions with not
Unit 4: Adjectives
Lesson 1: What is an Adjective?
Lesson 2: Adjectives After Be
Lesson 3: Using a, an, and the
Lesson 4: Making Comparisons
Lesson 5: Comparing with more and most
Lesson 6: Comparing with good and bad
Unit 5: Capitalization and Punctuation
Lesson 1: Correct Sentences
Lesson 2: Names of People and Pets
Lesson 3: Names of Places and Things
Lesson 4: Abbreviations
Lesson 5: Commas in a Series
Lesson 6: More Uses for Commas
Lesson 7: Quotation Marks
Lesson 8: Quotations
Lesson 9: Titles
Unit 6: Pronouns
Lesson 1: What is a Pronoun?
Lesson 2: Subject Pronouns
Lesson 3: Object Pronouns
Lesson 4: Using I and Me
Lesson 5: Possessive Pronouns
Lesson 6: Contractions with Pronouns
Lesson 7: Pronouns and Homophones
Unit 7: Adverbs and Prepositions
Lesson 1: What is an Adverb?
Lesson 2: Comparing with Adverbs
Lesson 3: Using good and well
Lesson 4: Negatives
Lesson 5: What is a Preposition
