Month

Content/Topic

Skills

Assessment

Standards

September

Unit 1 Relating to Others

Reading Comprehension

Vocabulary

Spelling

Language Arts

-Sequence

-Preview and Predict

-Make Judgments

-Characters

-Setting

-Mood

-Generalizing

-Cause and Effect

Draw Conclusions

-Multiple-Meaning Words

-Homophones

-Antonyms

-Discuss word meanings

-Context clues

-Pronounce and list words correctly

-Short vowel pattern

-Classify words according to their spelling pattern

-Spelling patterns ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, ow, o, oa, ow, o, igh, ike

-Sentence and sentence fragments

-Write complete sentences

-Identify declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences

-Identify complete subjects and complete predicates

-Identify simple subjects and the simple predicates

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling tests

A.8.1,  A.8.2, A.8.4,  B.8.3,  C.8.2,  C.8.1,  C.8.3,  D.8.1,  B.8.1,  B.8.2,

October

Unit 2 My World and Yours

Reading Comprehension

Vocabulary

Spelling

Language Arts

-Cause and Effect

-Drawing Conclusions

-Author’s Purpose

-Autobiography

-Sequence

-Predictions

-Read and understand poetry

-Steps in a process

-Connect ideas and themes

-Graphic sources

-Related Words

-Context clues with unfamiliar words

-Homophones

-Synonyms

-Multiple meaning words

-List words correctly

-Classify words according to their spelling pattern ule, ue, oo, ui, ou

ow, aw, au, a, oi, oy

-Imperative sentences

-Identify simple predicate

-Write sentences and identify simple predicates

-conjunctions

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3,  C.8.2, C.8.1, C.88.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2

November

Reading Comprehension

The Case of The Missing Cutthroats book

Spelling

Language Arts

-Parts of newspaper

-Multiple meaning words

-Expand vocabulary

-Character traits

-Sequence skills

-Reading for understanding

-Connecting themes with the environment

-Classify words by their spelling pattern

-spelling patterns ou, ow, aw, au, a, oi, oy, or,  ore, oar, are, air, ar,

-Rhyming words

-Meanings of words

Compound words

-Homophones

-Final er spelling patterns

-Combining sentences into compound predicates, compound subjects

-Run-on Sentences

-Nouns

-Identify singular and plural nouns

-Common and Proper nouns

-Singular and plural possessive nouns

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3, C.8.2, C.8.1, C.8.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2

December

Reading Comprehension

Vocabulary

Spelling

Language Arts

- Author’s viewpoint

- Cause and Effect

-Drawing conclusions

-Predicting

-Understand different types of poetry

-Predict meanings

-Context clues and unfamiliar words

- Classifications

-Final l and el sounds

-VCCV pattern

-Identify action verbs and locate them in a sentence

-Find and name direct object

-Label main and helping verbs

-Writing project

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3, C.8.2, C.8.1, C.8.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2,

January

Unit 3: A Job Well Done

Reading Comprehension

Vocabulary

Spelling

Language Arts

-Character

-Drawing conclusion and predicting

-Graphic sources

-Visualizing

-Preview and Predict

-Set purposes

Connect ideas and themes across texts

-Theme

-Plot

-Text structure

-Unfamiliar words

-Context clues and multiple meaning words

-Synonyms and Antonyms

-Synonym analogy

-VCV pattern

-VV pattern

-VCCCV pattern

-Past and Future tense

- Present tense

- Identify Linking words

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3, C.8.2, C.8.1, C.8.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2,

February

Reading Comprehension

Trouble River

Spelling

Language Arts

-Multiple meaning words

-Expand vocabulary

-Character traits

-Sequence skills

-Read for understanding

Connecting themes

-Words with ed or ing

-Words with suffixes

-Subject –verb agreement

-Agreement with be and have

-Contractions with not

-Regular and irregular verbs

-Teach, learn, let, leave, used correctly in a sentence

-Sit, set, can, may used correctly in a sentence

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3, C.8.2, C.8.1, C.8.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2

March

Reading Comprehension

Vocabulary

Spelling

Language Arts

-Summarizing

-Compare and contrast

-Main idea and supporting details

-Multiple meaning words

-Predict meanings

-Context clues

-Synonyms

-Words with Suffixes

-Words with ain, ture, sure spelling patterns

-Words with age,  ive, ice spelling patterns

-Identify adjectives and the nouns they describe

-Use articles correctly

-Add er to adjectives to compare nouns

-Compare good and bad

-Proper adjectives

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3, C.8.2, C.8.1, C.8.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2

April

Reading Comprehension

Caddie Woodlawn

Spelling

Language Arts

-Predicting

-Multiple meaning words

-Expand vocabulary

-Character traits

-Sequence

-Read for understanding

-Words with age, ive, and ice

Spelling words with unstressed syllables

-Spelling words with prefixes

-Changing the y to I

-Identify four kinds of sentences

-Use correct punctuation

-Proper nouns and proper adjectives

-Commas in a series

-Use Quotation marks correctly

-Use abbreviations correctly

-Use titles correctly

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3, C.8.2, C.8.1, C.8.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2,

May

Reading Comprehension

Little House in The Big Woods

Vocabulary

Spelling

Language Arts

-Context clues

-Author’s purpose

-Multiple meaning words

-Expand vocabulary

-Character Traits

-Sequence

-Read for understanding

-Topic related words

-Homonyms

-Adding ion

-Words with prefixes

-Words with ent, ant, able, ible

-Three syllable words

-Write a story with plot,  setting

-Write a descriptive report

-Interview a relative and form a report

-Compare and contrast

-Identify subject and object pronouns

-Use I and me correctly

-Possessive pronouns

-Double subjects

-Written assignments

-Class discussion

-Selection tests

-Group work

-Teacher observation

-Spelling

A.8.1, A.8.2, A.8.4, B.8.3, C.8.2, C.8.1, C.8.3, D.8.1, B.8.1, B.8.2

June