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Chapter 1: Organizational skills, review capitalization and punctuation rules, synonyms and antonyms, analogies
Chapter 2: Sentence parts, parts of speech, types of sentences, supporting ideas, topic sentences, 3 point expository paragraph
Chapter 3: Prepositions, prepositional phrases, editing paragraphs, writing forms, 1st and 3rd person point of view
Chapter 4: Pronouns, conjunctions, compound sentences, homonyms, sentence fragments, run-ons, and compound parts, possessive pronouns, 3 paragraph essay
Chapter 5: Natural and inverted sentence order, coordinating conjunctions, connective adverbs, comma uses, 5 paragraph essay
Chapter 6: Interjections, possessive nouns, subordinate conjunctions, clauses, 3 paragraph persuasive essay
Chapter 7: Direct objects, verb transitive, regular/irregular verbs, 5 paragraph persuasive essay
Chapter 8: Object pronouns, verb tenses, vocabulary analogies, descriptive writing
Chapter 9: Indirect objects, quotations, descriptive paragraphs, narrative writing with dialogue
Chapter 10: Spelling rules for plural nouns, writing a research report.
The Shurley English text is utilized in 5th grade to provide a comprehensive grammar curriculum. The Scriptorium curriculum is used to supplement non-fiction and fiction writing samples.
Mrs. Chelpka teaches Grammar to all 5th graders.
Mrs. King teaches Writing to all 5th graders.
Any questions regarding these subjects, please contact the respective teacher.