Language Arts

Unit 1: SHARING STORIES: Fairytales, Folktales, Fiction

           -main idea -summarizing -recalling events -writing complete sentences

           -compare and contrast -common and proper nouns -object prounouns

           -time and order words -viewpoint and story order

Unit 2: KINDNESS: Fairtales, Folktales, Contemporary Fiction, Nonfiction

           -main idea -summarizing -drawing conclusions -sentence elaboration

           -sensory details -structure of personal letters -quotation marks

Unit 3: LOOK AGAIN: Animal Habitata, Adaptations, Camoulage

           Fiction, Nonfiction, Scientific Nature Stories

           -expository writing   -main idea   -topic sentence   -sensory details

           -transition words   -classify and categorize   -drawing conclusions  

           -fact and opinion   -note taking

 

Unit 4: FOSSILS: Fossils, Prehistoric Animals, Paleontology

           Scientific Fact and Hypothesis, Fiction, Nonfiction

           -paragraph form   -figurative language   -descriptive writing

           -collecting and organizing data   -classifying and categorizing

           -note taking   -drawing conclusions   -fact and opinion

 

Unit 5: COURAGE: (Covered During Summer School)

 

Unit 6: OUR COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE:Historical Nonfiction and Fiction,Sociology

           -common, proper, and possesive nouns and pronouns   -audience and purpose

           -words of request   -plagiarism   -structure of scripts    -making inferences