Identify, summarize, or explain the main idea of a text using supporting details

Compare and contrast characters, settings, ideas, point of view, and/or plot

Achieve comprehension by reading literature with an emphasis on vocabulary

Use a variety of strategies to comprehend reading selections

Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying

Expand their vocabulary and use them in discussions, reports and texts.

Create paragraphs and multiple-paragraph essays

Create a fictional short story that includes dialogue

Write letters for various situations, including business letters, e-mail messages, etc.

Consistently apply rules of spelling

Demonstrate increased vocabulary and enhanced language use

Discriminate between transitive and intransitive verbs and direct and indirect objects

Identify and use descriptive adjectives and adverbs to enhance writing

Identify and correctly punctuate dependent and independent clauses

Use commas in appositives and after introductory words and phrases, as well as with names in direct address

Identify pronouns, demonstrate agreement between pronouns and antecedents