Literacy
Throughout the school year we use various resources in order to explore various types of literature. Listed below are the reading comprehension skills and strategies that we address in order to better analyze and understand text:
text structure (overview)
text structure (nonfiction)
text structure fiction
cause and effect
context clues
inferencing / text evidence / theme
author's message
nonfiction - compare and contrast
point of view
author's point of view
main idea
summarizing
problem and solution
Language Arts
For Language Arts, we use the Being a Writer program. The writing units are as follows:
The Writing Community
Personal Narrative
Nonfiction Writing
Opinion/Persuasive Writing
Fictional Writing
Spelling and grammar quizzes are given each week.