Language Arts

What we will learn this year

Unit 1

Reading

  • Character traits

  • Character, setting, plot

  • Sequence

  • Cause and effect

  • Main idea and details


Grammar

  • Sentences and fragments

  • Commands and exclamation

  • Subject

  • Predicate

  • Simple and compound sentences

Unit 4


Reading

  • Point of view

  • Compare and contrast

  • Cause and effect

  • Theme

  • Message


Grammar

  • Verbs

-Linking

-Main and helping

-irregular

  • Contractions with not

  • Complex sentences




Unit 2

Reading

  • Theme

  • Author's point of view

  • Illustrations

  • Lesson and message

  • Text evidence


Grammar

  • Nouns

-Common and proper

-Singular and plural

-Irregular plural

-Combining sentences with nouns

-Possessive


Unit 5


Reading

  • Point of view

  • Summarize

  • Cause and effect

  • Ask and answer questions


Grammar

  • Singular and plural nouns

  • Pronouns

-Pronoun and verb agreement

-Possessive pronouns

-Subject/pronoun agreement


Unit 3

Reading

  • Problem and solution

  • Cause and effect

  • Main idea and details

  • Sequence

  • Lesson and message


Grammar

  • Verbs:

-Action

-Present tense

-Subject/verb agreement

-Past tense

-Combining sentences with verbs


Unit 6


Reading

  • Make, confirm, and revise predictions

  • identify theme

  • problem and solution

  • Compare and contrast


Grammar

  • Adjectives

  • Adverbs

  • Prepositions