Dr. Zalman's Reading Page

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