Reading Objectives
Integrated Theme Test 1: Off to Adventure
Reading Strategy:
Predict/Infer
Comprehension and Comparing Texts:
Sequence of Events, making inferences, and cause/effect
Structural Analysis and Vocabulary:
Base words, syllabication, inflected endings -ed and -ing, and multiple meaning words
Writing and Language:
Writing Fluency: Personal Narrative
Proofreading: Short Vowels (a, e, i, o, u, vowel-consonant-e)
What is a sentence? (kinds of sentences, subjects and predicates)
Writing Skills (using commas in dates and places, capitalizing days and months)
Listening Comprehension:
Making inferences; cause and effect
Theme 1 Tested Skills/Review Sheet
Integrated Theme Test 2: Celebrating Traditions
Reading Strategy:
Evaluate
Comprehension and Comparing Texts:
Author's viewpoint, categorize and classify, noting details; topic, main idea, and supporting details
Structural Analysis and Vocabulary:
Compound words; plurals contractions with 's, n't, 're, 'll; plurals with words ending in ch, h, x, s; word families, rhyming words
Writing and Language:
Writing Fluency: Instructions
Proofreading: more long vowel spellings, the long o sound, three letter clusters and unexpected consonant patterns, the long i sound; common nouns, special plural nouns
Writing Skills (correcting run-on sentences, writing complete sentences)
Listening Comprehension:
Author's viewpoint, categorize and classify, noting details
Theme 2 Tested Skills/Review Sheet
Integrated Theme Test 3: Incredible Stories
Reading Strategy:
Question
Comprehension and Comparing Texts:
Fantasy and realism, following directions, drawing conclusions, story structuret
Structural Analysis and Vocabulary:
Plurals of nouns ending in f or fe, word endings -er and -est, suffixes -y and -ly, prefixes un-, dis-, and non-; using context
Writing and Language:
Writing Fluency: Story
Proofreading: Vowel sounds in clown and lawn; /r/, /j/, /k/, and /kw/ sounds homophones; Possessive nouns; what is a verb?; present time, past time, and future time
Writing Skills (using commas for direct addresses, capitalization with punctuation and quotations)
Listening Comprehension:
Story structure, following directions, and drawing conclusions
Theme 3 Tested Skills/Review Sheet
Integrated Theme Test 4: Animal Habitats
Reading Strategy:
Monitor/clarify
Comprehension and Comparing Texts:
Fact and opinion, compare and contrast, making judgments
Structural Analysis and Vocabulary:
Syllabication, word endings -ed and -ing and changing final y to i, prefixes un- and re-, suffixes
Writing and Language:
Writing Fluency: Research Report
Proofreading: vowel + /r/ sound in hair, added endings, prefixes and suffixes; the verb be, helping verbs, irregular verbs
Writing Skills: Varying sentence types
Listening Comprehension:
Compare and contrast, fact and opinion, making judgments
Theme 4 Tested Skills/Review Sheet
Integrated Theme Test 5: Voyagers
Reading Strategy:
Predict/Infer
Comprehension and Comparing Texts:
Making inferences, predicting outcomes, text organization
Structural Analysis and Vocabulary:
Suffixes -less and -ness, possessives, VCCV pattern
Writing and Language:
Writing Fluency: Description
Proofreading: Vowel sounds in tooth and cook, vowel sound inn bought, VCCV pattern, subject pronouns, object pronouns,, possessive pronounn
Writing Skills: Writing dates and times)
Listening Comprehension:
Making inferences; predicting outcomes
Theme 5 Tested Skills/Review Sheet
Integrated Theme Test 6: Smart Solutions
Reading Strategy:
Summarize
Comprehension and Comparing Texts:
Problem solving and decision making; drawing conclusions, making generalizations
Structural Analysis and Vocabulary:
VCCCV pattern, VCV pattern, contractions, antonyms and synonyms
Writing and Language:
Writing Fluency: Personal Narrative
Proofreading: Words that end with -er or -le, words that begin with a or be, contractions, adjectives, comparing with adjectives, adverbs
Writing Skills: Using exact adverbs
Listening Comprehension:
Problem solving and decision making, drawing conclusions
Theme 6 Tested Skills/Review Sheet