Language Arts

This year we will be learning:

Reading

• Collaborative discussions with peers

• Strategies to comprehend at higher levels

• Pushing our thinking to higher levels, supporting answers with text evidence

• Nonfiction text structures

Writing

• Informational writing

• Opinion writing

• Reading Response

• Persuasive essays

• Fiction stories

Word Work and Reading Skills

• Prefixes, suffixes, root words

• Spelling patterns

• Vocabulary building

• Phonics skills