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3e année English Language Arts and Literature:

Grade 3 Overview https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/cdn/ciihub/docs/English%20Language%20Arts%20and%20Literature%20Subject%20Overview_Final.pdf

• Explore how oral traditions show respect for traditional shared knowledge. 

• Use eye contact, posture, gestures, and movements to enhance communication. • Read complex words, phrases, and passages fluently and with expression. 

• Relate personal experiences to interactions with people or information in books, poems, or plays. 

• Apply writing strategies to create texts that draw upon a variety of sources of inspiration. 

• Demonstrate grammar, spelling, and punctuation that clarify written communication. 

• Identify how a variety of texts can communicate ideas and information.

SEPTEMBER LEARNING FOCUS for Grade 3:

• CONVENTIONS (Grammar):  Capitalization Rules

• READING:  Songs/Chants, The Day the Crayons Quit, The Day the Crayons Came Home, Beginner Reading Comprehension, STAR Reading Comprehension

• WRITING:  Figurative Language, Poetic Structures, Weekly Journal Entry

• VOCABULARY (Word Work):  Beginning, Medial, and Final Consonants, Vowels,  Rhyming Word Families

4e année English Language Arts and Literature:

Grade 4 Overview https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/cdn/ciihub/docs/English%20Language%20Arts%20and%20Literature%20Subject%20Overview_Final.pdf

• Demonstrate listening and speaking that build relationships and understanding. 

• Demonstrate appropriate emphasis on words, pausing, phrasing, and intonation that reflect comprehension of text. 

• Examine and apply strategies that support text comprehension. 

• Create a variety of written texts to share information and develop personal expression. 

• Access, share, and store information ethically in a variety of digital or non-digital forms. 

• Examine and apply grammar, spelling, and punctuation to develop concise written communication. 

• Identify the purpose, form, and structure of a variety of texts and how they can communicate ideas and information.

SEPTEMBER LEARNING FOCUS for Grade 4:

• CONVENTIONS (Grammar):  Capitalization, Punctuation

• READING:  Readers’ Theatre, Fountas & Pinnell Reading Evaluation, STAR Reading Evaluation, EPIC Books, Making predictions

• WRITING:  Organizational processes, methods and tools

• VOCABULARY (Word Work):  Idioms, Vocabulary Self Awareness

5e année English Language Arts and Literature:

Grade 5 Overview https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/cdn/ciihub/docs/English%20Language%20Arts%20and%20Literature%20Subject%20Overview_Final.pdf

• Engage in collaborative dialogue to share ideas, solve problems, and make decisions. 

• Apply knowledge of vocabulary to reading and writing. 

• Evaluate ideas and information to comprehend texts. 

• Analyze and reflect on ways to write effectively for different audiences and purposes. 

• Experiment with and apply grammar, spelling, and punctuation to develop precise written communication. 

• Examine how text genres, forms, and structures support and enhance communication in a variety of digital or non-digital formats.

SEPTEMBER LEARNING FOCUS for Grade 5:

• CONVENTIONS (Grammar):  Capitalization and punctuation, Parts of speech - noun, verb, adjective, adverb

• READING:  Develop reading stamina, Making connections and predictions while reading, STAR Reading Evaluation

• WRITING:  Weekly prompts, Quick Writes

• VOCABULARY (Word Work):  Synonyms, Antonyms, Vocabulary Self Awareness