ELA Goals and Objectives

Unit 1

Because of Winn Dixie

• Content Knowledge: Diversity
• Comprehension Skill: Sequence
• Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
• Spelling: Short Vowel VCCV
• Conventions: Declarative and Interrogative Sentences
• Writing: Realistic Fiction

Lewis and Clark and Me

• Content Knowledge: Opportunities Found in New Places
• Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
• Comprehension Strategy: Questioning
• Spelling: Long a and Long i
• Conventions: Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences
• Writing: Expository Composition

On the Banks of Plum Creek

• Content Knowledge: Exploring New Places
• Comprehension Skill: Literary Elements: Character, Setting, and Plot
• Comprehension Strategy: Background Knowledge
• Spelling: Long e and o
• Conventions: Complete Subjects and Predicates
• Writing: Parody

The Horned Toad Prince

• Content Knowledge: The Southwest
• Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
• Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
• Spelling: Long e
• Conventions: Compound Sentences
• Writing: Friendly Letter

Letters Home From Yosemite

• Content Knowledge: The Unique Qualities of the West
• Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Details
• Comprehension Strategy: Text Structure
• Spelling: Long u
• Conventions: Clauses and Complex Sentences
• Writing for Tests: Personal Narrative

Unit 2

What Jo Did

• Content Knowledge: Appreciating Talents
• Word Analysis: Prefixes un- and in-
• Literary Terms: Dialogue and Narration
• Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and Suffixes
• Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect
• Comprehension Strategy: Background Knowledge
• Spelling: Adding -s and -es
• Conventions: Common and Proper Nouns
• Writing: Poetry

Coyote School News

• Content Knowledge: Working Together
• Word Analysis: Word Origins
• Literary Terms: Similes and Metaphors
• Vocabulary Skill: Unknown Words
• Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
• Comprehension Skill: Review Author's Purpose
• Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
• Spelling: Irregular Plurals
• Conventions: Regular Plural Nouns
• Writing: News Article

Scene Two

• Content Knowledge: Team Accomplishments
• Word Analysis: Latin Prefixes dis-, re-, non-
• Literary Terms: Sensory Words
• Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes
• Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
• Comprehension Skill: Review Cause and Effect
• Comprehension Strategy: Questioning
• Spelling: Words with ar, or
• Conventions: Irregular Plural Nouns
• Writing: Poetry

Horse Heroes

• Content Knowledge: People and Animals
• Word Analysis: Compound Words
• Literary Terms: Dialogue and Narration
• Vocabulary Skill: Unknown Words
• Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion
• Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
• Spelling: Consonant Patterns ng, nk, ph, wh
• Conventions: Singular Possessive Nouns
• Writing: Expository Composition

So You Want to Be President?

• Content Knowledge: The U.S. President's Job
• Word Analysis: Suffix -ly
• Literary Terms: Humor
• Vocabulary Skill: Unknown Words
• Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Details
• Comprehension Strategy: Inferring
• Spelling: Words with ear, ir, our, ur
• Conventions: Plural Possessive Nouns
• Writing for Tests: Persuasive Essay

Unit 3

The Man Who Named the Clouds

• Content Knowledge: Looking at Patterns in Nature
• Comprehension Skill: Graphic Sources
• Comprehension Strategy: Important Ideas
• Spelling: Adding -ed and -ing
• Conventions: Action and Linking Verbs
• Writing: Narrative Poem

Adelina's Whales

• Content Knowledge: Patterns That Guide Animals
• Literary Terms: Flashback
• Text Structure: Sequence
• Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion
• Comprehension Strategy: Text Structure
• Spelling: Homophones
• Conventions: Main and Helping Verbs
• Writing: Invitation

How Night Came from the Sea

Content Knowledge: Day and Night

Comprehension Skill: Generalize

Comprehension Strategy: Visualize

Spelling: Vowel Sound in shout

Conventions: Subject-Verb Agreement

Writing: Speculative

Eye of the Storm

• Content Knowledge: Weather Patterns
• Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect
• Comprehension Strategy: Predict and Set Purpose
• Spelling: Compound Words
• Conventions: Past, Present, and Future Tenses
• Writing: Formal Letter

Paul Bunyan

• Content Knowledge: Changes in Nature
• Comprehension Skill: Generalize
• Comprehension Strategy: Inferring
• Spelling: Possessives
• Conventions: Irregular Verbs
• Writing for Tests: Summary

Unit 4

The Case of the Gasping Garbage

• Content Knowledge: Perception
• Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast
• Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
• Spelling: Conventions
• Conventions: Singular and Plural Pronouns
• Writing: Mystery

Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

• Content Knowledge: Animal Behavior
• Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast
• Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
• Spelling: Final Syllable Patterns
• Conventions: Kinds of Pronouns
• Writing: Song

Najavo Code Talkers

• Content Knowledge: Necessary Secret Codes
• Comprehension Skill: Sequence
• Comprehension Strategy: Important Ideas
• Spelling: Consonant Digraph /sh/
• Conventions: Pronouns and Antecedents
• Writing: Instructions

Seeker of Knowledge

• Content Knowledge: Creating Understanding Through Language
• Comprehension Skill: Graphic Sources
• Comprehension Strategy: Predict and Set Purpose
• Spelling: Consonants /j/, /ks/, and /kw/
• Conventions: Possessive Pronouns
• Writing: Problem-Solution Essay

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander

• Content Knowledge: Attention to Detail
• Comprehension Skill: Literary Elements: Character and Plot
• Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
• Spelling: Prefixes un-, dis-, and in-
• Conventions: Contractions and Negatives
• Writing for Tests: Adventure Story

Unit 5

Smokejumpers

• Content Knowledge: Emergencies
• Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
• Comprehension Strategy: Important Ideas
• Spelling: Multisyllabic Words
• Conventions: Adjectives and Articles
• Writing: Fantasy

Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu

• Content Knowledge: Ancient Cities
• Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast
• Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
• Spelling: Words with Double Consonants
• Conventions: Adverbs
• Writing: Legend

Cliff Hanger

• Content Knowledge: Heroism
• Comprehension Skill: Literary Elements: Character, Plot, and Theme
• Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
• Spelling: Greek Word Parts
• Conventions: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
• Writing: Thank-You Note

Antarctic Journal

• Content Knowledge: Exploring the Unknown
• Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Details
• Comprehension Strategy: Text Structure
• Spelling: Latin Roots
• Conventions: Time-Order Words
• Writing: Persuasive Ad

Moonwalk

• Content Knowledge: Walking on the Moon
• Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
• Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
• Spelling: Related Words
• Conventions: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• Writing for Tests: Personal Narrative