Develop complex writing skills.

Constructively critique their own and other’s writing.

Apply punctuation, grammar, and syntax skills.

Recognize and apply grade appropriate vocabulary.

Read with fluency, with focus on comprehension.

Compare books to their movie version and describe how the message is affected.

Compare and contrast texts from different authors presenting the same topic.

Write more in-depth research papers with citations and quotes from multiple sources

Using prepositional phrases and clauses correctly

Understanding and use of all parts of speech, including plural nouns, possessive nouns, verb tenses, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and conjunctions

Applying the rules of convention for capitalization and punctuation

Recognition of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.

Using strategies to construct the meaning of unfamiliar words

Analyze elements and style of different genres of literature

Use text evidence to analyze, infer, and synthesize ideas.

Determining the theme of a text as well as the author’s purpose

Giving an objective summary of a text

Identifying and distinguishing between cause and effect in literature