Reading, Writing, and More!

At New Vision we use Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA). As their website states, CKLA is "A comprehensive Preschool–Grade 5 program for teaching skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Core Knowledge Language Arts™ also builds students’ knowledge and vocabulary in literature, history, geography, and science."

Below you will see the list of units we will cover throughout the year. You may notice the units are out of order. However, this is done intentionally so that we can align our writing units and craft prompts around what students are studying in CKLA.

CKLA

Unit 1: Personal Narratives

Unit 2: Early American Civilizations

Unit 4: Adventures of Don Quixote

Unit 6: The Renaissance

Unit 7: The Reformation

Unit 3: Poetry

Unit 8: Native Americans

Novel Study: Tale of Despereaux

Early Russia and Feudal Japan

Unit 5: William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Writing

Unit 1 : Grammar Boot Camp and Writing Genres

Unit 2: Personal Narratives

Unit 3: Perfect Paragraphs

Unit 4: Opinion Writing

Unit 5: Informative/Explanatory Writing

Unit 6: Opinion Essay

Unit 7: Writing on Demand/CMAS Reveiw

Unit 8: Poetry

Unit 9: Narrative Writing

Spelling and Morphology

Weekly Spelling Lists:

Students will receive a list of 20 words each week in their planners. They are responsible for studying these words all week in preparation for the test on Friday.
The goal is to get students to become comfortable with larger words with more complex spelling patterns to help them both in the area of reading and writing.

Morphology:

Morphology is the study of how parts of words, called morphemes, create different meanings by combining with each other or standing alone.
Our goal is for students to begin exploring roots, prefixes, and suffixes in order to decode and better understand new vocabulary words.

Book Reports

For Quarter 1, 2, and 3, students are assigned a book report that must be completed at home. There are three that we will be completing this year:

Book Report 1: Cereal Box Report

Book Report 2: Diorama Report

Book Report 3: Living History Museum Report

Stay tuned for more information!