This year we will be focusing on the following reading and writing skills:

• Using text evidence to make and support inferences

• Drawing conclusions 

• Making inferences

• Learning important vs. non-important details

• Rank evidence in supporting a claim

• Find theme or a central idea and explain how it's supported by key details

• Summarize a text

• Using strategies to determine meaning of words

• Using figurative language 

• Make connections to other texts and personal experience

• Identify similarities and differences between two texts

• Writing informative, argumentative (opinion), and narrative texts