Reading

• Fictional narrative text

  • Folktales, fantasy, action and adventure​

  • Explore central themes of the text and analyze their development

  • Text structure and its meaning

  • Compare and contrast points of view of different characters or narrators

  • Compare written and video forms of a story

  • Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place or character with a historical account of that same period to understand how authors of fiction incorporate history

• Non-fictional text

  • Informational text, personal essays, articles, and biographies​

  • Styles and genres

  • Text features

  • Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text and provide an objective summary of the written work

  • Analyze how two of more authors that are writing about the same topic shape their information to offer different interpretations of fact

  • Cite text evidence

  • Evaluate information presented in different media formats

• Accelerated Reader - independent reading

• Vocabulary units

English

• Conventions and usage of grammar

  • Function of phrases and clauses​

  • Recognize and correct misplaced dangling modifiers

  • Choose between simple, compound, complex, sentences to advance relationships among ideas

  • Diagramming sentences that include modifiers and verbals

• Informal writing journal

• Formal written and oral communication

  • Paragraph responses using text evidence​

  • Essay writing

    • 5 paragraph minimum​

    • Formally constructed

    • Personal Narratives

    • How to Articles

    • Creative Writing

    • Book Reports

  • Oral presentations of written work

    • Research presentations​

    • Team presentations

    • Voluntary sharing of work