Language Arts

• Manuscript and cursive penmanship
• Looking for language patterns in stories and poetry
• Construction a simple story using beginning, middle, and end.
• Recognition and use of rhyming elements
• Using a variety of strategies to derive meaning from text, including cause and effect, making predictions and locating the main idea and supporting details
• Identifying basic facts and main ideas in a text and use them as the basis for interpretation.
• Reading and interpreting simple charts, graphs, maps, illustrations and signs.
• Using short stories, picture books, literature to understand other cultural and historical periods
• Basic grammar and language mechanics

All of the above, as well as:

• • Creating complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in speaking and writing.
  • Progressing to identify all eight parts of speech
  • Correct use of the writing process, including pre-writing, editing, peer editing, revision, and publishing
  • Writing with purpose – to describe, to inform, to persuade, to narrate
  • Recognizing genre: fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, biography
  • Using of research materials
  • Organizing material for use in study strategies such as graphic organizers.
  • Use of higher level punctuation such as quotation marks, hyphens, colons
  • Identifying and using indirect objects, predicate nominatives, phrases, clauses, antecedents, transitional words, etc.
  • Reading and interpreting literature

All of the above, as well as:

• Studying literature via thematic units
• Analyzing literary elements, including: plot, setting, characterization, conflict, point of view, theme, etc.
• Critically reading, examining and discussing poetry, drama, short stories, and novels
• MLA format
• Using rich language in writing
• Using higher order thinking skills in writing and discussion