COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course, students receive structured lessons on readiness skills through emphasis on phonics, language skills, literature, and handwriting to help develop comprehension, build vocabulary, and promote a lifelong interest in reading.

CHAPTERS

Literature and Comprehension:
Unit 1: How Are You Feeling?
Unit 2: Sharing Through Stories
Unit 3: There’s Magic in the Air
Unit 4: How’s the Weather?
Unit 5: Worldly Wisdom
Unit 6: Mid-Semester Checkpoint (Read Aloud)
Unit 7: You Reap What You Sow
Unit 8: A Whirl of Words
Unit 9: Our Place in Space
Unit 10: If You’re Happy and You Know It
Unit 11: Semester Review and Checkpoint
Unit 12: Colonial Times
Unit 13: Family Fun
Unit 14: Amazing Americans
Unit 15: Animal Antics
Unit 16: Mid-Semester Checkpoint
Unit 17: American Inventors
Unit 18: A Friend Indeed
Unit 19: Creative Characters
Unit 20: Animals: Fact and Fiction
Unit 21: Let’s Put On a Show
Unit 22: Semester Review and Checkpoint

Vocabulary:
Unit 1: Weather Words and Multiple Meaning Words
Unit 2: Homophones and Action Words
Unit 3: Synonyms and Reptiles
Unit 4: Dictionary Skills and Antonyms
Unit 5: Traffic and Travel Words
Unit 6: Compound Words and Animals
Unit 7: Time and Collective Names
Unit 8: Related Verbs, Related Adjectives, and Homographs
Unit 9: Abbreviations and Calendar Words
Unit 10: Inflectional Endings, Verb Tenses, and Multiple-Meaning Words
Unit 11: Compound Words and School and City Words
Unit 12: Math Words and Antonyms
Unit 13: Related Verbs and Geography Terms
Unit 14: Glossary Skills and Space and Science Words
Unit 15: Homophones, Dictionary Skills, and Fairy Tale Words
Unit 16: Synonyms and Plural Inflectional Endings
Unit 17: Related Adjectives and Animal Terms
Unit 18: Measurement and Sports Terms
Writing Skills