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5 ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS:
- Reading Comprehension
- Word Knowledge (vocabulary and spelling)
- Oral Reading Fluency
- Writing
- Speaking
READING COMPREHENSION
- Whole group instruction on reading skills and strategies (Treasures, and supplemental materials)
- Small group instruction at student’s level (short texts and novels)
- Authentic literature experience to support science and social studies content knowledge (novels)
- Homework (Reading chart, novels, content area assignments)
WORD KNOWLEDGE
- Spelling and vocabulary will alternate bi-weekly
- Greek and Latin stems (monos/unus)
- Content area vocabulary
- Challenge words
ORAL READING FLUENCY
- Assessed three times per year
- Paired activity for those who need support
WRITING
- Will cover 4 modes of writing–descriptive, expository, persuasive, and narrative
- Several major papers over the year
- Will include grammar instruction as well as the 6 Traits of Writing (ideas, organization, voice, sentence fluency, word choice, and conventions)
- Writing samples will be sent home to be signed, and then kept in your student’s writing portfolio at school.
SPEAKING
- Two formal assessments:
- Colonial Wax Museum presentation in the winter
- Francophone presentation in the spring.
- Daily informal opportunities
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Geography
- Civics / Government
- History
- Continents and Oceans
- States and Capitals
- Major physical features of the United States
- Early American History
- North America before European contact
- Explorers and their impact
- Early Colonies
- Colonial Expansion
- Colonial Wax Museum
- Revolutionary War
- French/Indian War and Changing Colonies
- Revolutionary War
- Geography
- Francophone Fair Project
HEALTH
- Social/Emotional Health
- Safety and Injury Prevention
- Healthy Eating
- Tobacco and Alcohol–Diseases and Prevention
- Reproductive Health–including HIV/AIDS
- Global Health Issues
FRENCH LANGUAGE ARTS
- Bi-weekly vocabulary/spelling quizzes (gender, spelling, definition)
- One oral report per semester
- Grammar: présent tense (avoir, être, faire, aller, “er”, “ir”, vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, mettre, reflexive verbs), passé composé, imparfait, futur
- Writing: reference books, editing, application studied concepts
- Speaking: application studied concepts/vocabulary
- Reading: leveled readers, fiction, non-fiction, integrated
SCIENCE : 3 units
- Earth and Sun (fall)
- Mixtures and Solutions (winter)
- Living Systems (spring)
MATH
- Septembre: Traitement des données, Triangles
- Octobre: Coordonnées,Multiplication
- Novembre: Fractions
- Décembre: Fractions
- Janvier: Nombres décimaux
- Février: Nombres décimaux
- Mars: Division
- Avril: Périmètre et aire
- Mai: Solides
- Juin: Problem-solving
ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Art integrated into curriculum
- Keyboarding taught on French side
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