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Lesson Title |
Lesson/Test Content |
| 1 |
Consonant Review |
Identify initial and single consonant sounds and sound-letter correspondences,
final consonant sounds and sound-letter correspondences, medial consonant
sounds and sound-letter correspondences, blends and digraphs |
| 2 |
Vowel Review |
Identify short vowel sounds and sound-letter correspondences; long
vowel sounds and sound-letter correspondences |
| 3 |
Verb Review |
Identify verbs in sentences, forms of regular verbs, verb forms (past,
present, future); vowel pairs and vowel digraphs |
| 4 |
Pronunciation |
Review of pronunciation skills; long and short vowels; pronunciation
symbols |
| 5 |
Sight Words |
Develop a sight vocabulary of high frequency words |
| 6 |
Common Misspellings |
Review of words that have tricky spellings and words that are confused
with others and commonly misused; also includes some words that change to
form plurals |
| 7 |
Root Words |
Root words without spelling changes, root words with spelling changes;
prefixes and suffixes |
| 8 |
Prefixes |
Correctly use the prefixes pre, en, non, mis, non, in, and im, dis,
anti, sub, re, etc. |
| 9 |
Suffixes |
Correctly use the suffixes ible, able, ful, ment, y, ly and ily,
ance, and tion |
| 10 |
Greek and Latin Words |
Examples and definitions of words with Greek and Latin derivatives;
old English words, middle and modern English words |
| 11 |
Context Clues |
Select the correct meaning for unfamiliar words by using pictures
or familiar words context clues, use structural analysis to determine the
meaning of unknown words; search for further information |
| 12 |
Compound Words |
Definition and examples of compound word; students identify compound
words |
| 13 |
Synonyms |
Definition of synonyms; students practice finding synonyms for words |
| 14 |
Antonyms |
Definition of antonyms; students practice finding antonyms for words |
| 15 |
Homonyms |
Definition of homonyms; selecting the correct homonym in sentences |
| 16 |
Homographs and Homophones |
Definition and examples and use of homophones and homographs; Correctly
use the homophones here, hear, to, too, two, its, it's, your, you're, they're,
their, etc. words with multiple meaning. |
| 17 |
Contractions |
Forming contractions; using negative words with contractions; identify
words that form compound words; how to avoid confusing compound words and
contractions. |
| 18 |
Sound Associations |
Sounds that are associated with various letters and letter contractions;
identify words that form compound words; how to avoid confusing compound
words and contractions |
| 19 |
Analogies |
Definition and examples of analogies; includes examples of analogies
as they often appear on standardized tests. |
| 20 |
Abbreviations |
Identify and correctly use abbreviations; measurement abbreviations
and business abbreviations |
| 21 |
Core Subject Words |
Identify and use words from language arts, math, social studies,
science, art, drama, and technology |
| 22 |
Multiple Meaning Words |
Understand multiple meanings of words, define connotation and denotation |
| 23 |
Sequencing |
Importance of sequence in telling a story; words that identify sequence |
| 24 |
Alphabetization |
Alphabetize to the third letter |
| 25 |
Main Ideas |
Identify main idea and details, recognize the title as a source of
the main idea, determine the key words and topic sentence |
| 26 |
Fact and Opinion |
Identify facts and opinions, idioms and sense words |
| 27 |
Conflict and Climax |
Understand conflict, climax, comparisons and resolution in selections |
| 28 |
Cause and Effect |
Definitions of cause and effect; students identify various causes
and effects by reading clues |
| 29 |
Compare and Contrast |
Definition and examples of comparing and contrasting ideas, events,
characters, etc. |
| 30 |
Characterization |
Make an inference based on characters and character traits |
| 31 |
Predicting/Summarizing |
Review of cause and effect; students read and predict outcomes based
on knowledge gained in reading; summarizing |
| 32 |
Drawing Conclusions |
Explanation of how word clues about main ideas and details of stories
can help the student reach a conclusion; examination and discussion of evidence
that helps support conclusions. |
| 33 |
Five 'W' Questions |
Answer the who, what, when, where and how questions in a reading
selection |
| 34 |
Story Elements |
Use major elements of story structure (beginning-middle-end, character,
setting, plot) to discuss literature and write a story; mood |
| 35 |
Purpose in Writing |
Distinguish the author’s purpose: the KWL technique; writing for
entertainment and for information; audience |
| 36 |
Paraphrasing |
Students will retell a story in their own words; generalizations,
tips for paraphrasing |
| 37 |
Point of View |
Recognizing point of view, first person, second person, third person
and narrator; omniscience |
| 38 |
Novels and Short Stories |
Identify the elements of short stories and novels, plot, characters,
conflict |
| 39 |
Realistic/Science Fiction |
Understand elements of non-fiction, definition and examples of historical
fiction, understanding the elements of time and setting |
| 40 |
Mysteries |
Definition and elements of a mystery; clues in mysteries; skills
for understanding mysteries |
| 41 |
Fiction |
Examples of various types of fiction including historical, science,
and realistic; folktales, fables, and tall tales |
| 42 |
Propaganda and Bias |
Identification of propaganda techniques; bandwagon, testimonials,
faulty cause, and loaded words |
| 43 |
Fables and Folktales |
The elements of folktales, fables, and tall tales |
| 44 |
Nonfiction |
Identify biographies and autobiographies |
| 45 |
Literary Forms 1 |
Use of poetry, ballad, sonnet, lyric, narrative and limerick, narrative
poetry, shape poetry |
| 46 |
Literary Forms 2 |
Use of elements of drama (tragedy and comedy), newspaper articles,
and essays |
| 47 |
Mood and Tone |
The elements of mood and tone in reading selections; clues for recognizing
mood and tone |
| 48 |
Metaphors and Similies |
Identification of metaphors and similies in reading selections |
| 49 |
Figurative Language |
Identify and correctly use satire, farce, alliteration, and onomatopeia;
irony |
| 50 |
Literary Terms 1 |
Identify hyperbolas, personification, flashback, and foreshadowing |
| 51 |
Literary Terms 2 |
Identify oxymoron, parody, irony, and imagery |