⬅ Click on your schedule for all of your Google Meets! ➡

Click on me

for the

Focus Wall

Unit 5, Week 5 Skills

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones

  • Genre(s): Expository Text

  • Comprehension Skill: Text Structure: Cause & Effect (RI 3.8)

  • Comprehension Strategy: Ask & Answer Questions

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Pronoun-Verb Contractions

  • Spelling Pattern: Variant Vowels: aw, au, ough, a

Unit 5, Week 4 Skills

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes and Suffixes

  • Genre(s): Biography

  • Comprehension Skill: Author's POV (RI 2.6)

  • Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Possessive and Reflexive Pronouns

  • Spelling Pattern: Inflectional Endings: y to i

Previous Focus Walls

Need to review certain skills? Find them below and go back to that week's Focus Wall for extra resources. :)

Unit 5, Week 2 Skills

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Homographs (Multiple Meaning Words)

  • Genre(s): Realistic Fiction and Expository Text

  • Comprehension Skill: Character's/Narrator's POV (RL 2.6)

  • Comprehension Strategy: Summarize

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Subject and Object Pronouns

  • Spelling Pattern: Inflectional Endings (-ed, -ing, -s)

Unit 6, Week 2 Skills

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms

  • Genre(s): Historical Fiction

  • Comprehension Skill: Theme

  • Comprehension Strategy: Predictions

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Adjectives that Compare

  • Spelling Pattern: Consonant + le Syllables

Unit 4, Week 3 Skills

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues

  • Genre(s): Folktale and Expository Text

  • Comprehension Skill: Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

  • Comprehension Strategy: Rereading

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Main and Helping Verbs

  • Spelling Pattern: Variant Vowels: aw, au, ough, a

Unit 4, Week 5 Skills

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Figurative Language

  • Genre(s): Narrative and Free Verse

  • Comprehension Skill: Theme (RL 1.2)

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Irregular Verbs

  • Spelling Pattern: Soft C and G

Unit 3, Week 4 Skills

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Root Words

  • Genre(s): Expository Text & Myth

  • Comprehension Skill: Main Idea & Key Details

  • Comprehension Strategy: Summarizing

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Verb Tenses and Book Titles

  • Spelling Pattern: Prefixes

Unit 6, Week 1

(Click the button to review that Focus Wall)

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Root Words

  • Genre(s): Myth, Drama, and Realistic Fiction

  • Comprehension Skill: Theme (RL 1.2)

  • Comprehension Strategy: Predictions

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Adjectives and Articles

  • Spelling Pattern: Prefixes: un-, re-, pre-, and dis-

Unit 3, Week 2

(Click the button to review that Focus Wall)

Reading:

  • Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms

  • Genre(s): Historical Fiction & Biography

  • Comprehension Skill: Text Structure: Cause & Effect (RI 3.8)

  • Comprehension Strategy: Visualizing

Language Arts (ELA):

  • Grammar Skill: Subject-Verb Agreement

  • Spelling Pattern: R-Controlled Vowels ("Bossy R")

Check out these pages for any skills we learned previously. ➡