COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course, students receive structured lessons in the language arts, a discipline that includes literature and comprehension, writing skills, vocabulary, spelling, and handwriting. The purpose of these lessons is to increase reading comprehension, develop fundamental skills in oral and written communication, build vocabulary, and promote a lifelong interest in reading. This course addresses current thinking in assessment standards.

CHAPTERS

Literature and Comprehension
Unit 1: Lessons Learned
Unit 2: Animal Tales
Unit 3: Animals and Their People
Unit 4: Critical Skills Practice 1
Unit 5: Weather or Not
Unit 6: Animal Friends Poetry
Unit 7: Critical Skills Practice 2
Unit 8: George Washington: Soldier, Hero, President
Unit 9: Critical Skills Practice 3
Unit 10: Semester Review and Assessment
Unit 11: Stories That Teach
Unit 12: Nature’s Way
Unit 13: Critical Skills Practice 4
Unit 14: Folk Tales of Many Lands
Unit 15: Critical Skills Practice 5
Unit 16: Greek and Roman Myths
Unit 17: The Glory of Greece
Unit 18: Semester Review and Assessment
Handwriting
Spelling
Vocabulary
Unit 1: Compound Words and Math Words
Unit 2: Homographs and Aquatic Words
Unit 3: Synonyms, Dictionary Skills, and Abbreviations
Unit 4: Antonyms, Prefixes, and Multiple-Meaning Words
Unit 5: Suffixes and Homophones
Unit 6: Weather Words and Suffixes
Unit 7: Suffixes and Contractions
Unit 8: Suffixes and Shades of Meaning
Unit 9: Solar System Words
Unit 10: Compound Words, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
Unit 11: Latin Roots and Homographs
Unit 12: Synonyms and Abbreviations
Unit 13: Prefixes and Multiple-Meaning Words
Unit 14: Suffixes and Antonyms
Unit 15: Categories and Homophones
Unit 16: Dictionary Skills and Contractions
Unit 17: Suffix -ous and Shades of Meaning
Unit 18: Literal and Nonliteral Meanings and Latin and Greek Roots
Writing Skills