SpeLling

Week 1 ~ Short Vowel Syllable Patterns 

already

fraction

problem

president

contest

public

difficult

planet

sensitive

commitment

industry

minimum

Week 2 ~ Long Vowel Syllable Pattern

bright

elevate

explained

exploded

human

raised

replied

weigh

yielded

obliged

payable

reasonable

Week 3 ~ r-Controlled Vowels (-er, -ir, -ur)

covered

future

desert

kernels

surprising

earned

member

first

person

scorching

temperature

thirteen

VocAbulary

Determine the Meaning of Domain-Specific Vocabulary 

READING SKILLS

Asking Questions

Identify Key Details & Determine Main Idea

Cause & Effect

Creating Mental Images

Draw Information from Multiple Sources: Charts and Graphs

Determine Author's Point of View & Purpose

Draw Information from Multiple Sources to Answer Cause & Effect Questions

Integrate Information from Two Texts on the Same Topic

Analyze Point of View & Purpose in Two Texts on the Same Topic

Integrate Information from Several Texts on the Same Topic

Review the Features & Structures of Poetry

Grammar

Explain the functions of prepositions

Review verb tenses

Rules for comma usage

Linking words with the same clause

writing

Writing an Informative/Explanatory Essay