Literacy Curriculum
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If you have further questions about the curriculum, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Matthews or Mrs. Mendell. We will update this page every trimester.
TRIMESTER 3 READING CURRICULUM INFORMATION:
The unit of study for reading is Research Clubs, and the unit for writing is Changing the World. Listed below are some of the major reading concepts from each unit of study.
READING CONCEPTS IN LUCY CALKINS' CHARACTER STUDIES:
- Readers will review their resources and organize them
- Readers will use more technical vocabulary related to their subject
- Readers analyze the information they collect, “asking and answering the all-important question: why?”
- Readers plan to study a second topic, using all they know about reading and research strategies
- Readers will recognize cause-effect and compare-contrast structures as they read
- Readers will evaluate the evidence they have collected to grow new evidence-based theories
- Writers have gathered brave, bold opinions for persuasive writing
- Writers have learned to address an audience directly in their persuasive writing
- Writers learned “proving by showing” in their persuasive writing
- Writers learned to select and discard material in their writing
- Writers gathered a variety of evidence - including interviews and surveys
- Writers revised their introductions and conclusions to get the audience to care about their cause
- Cursive handwriting will be modeled and practiced throughout the entire school year.
- open and closed syllables
- common and unusual digraphs
- difficult phonograph patterns for vowels
- inflected endings
- prefixes and suffixes
- suffixes
- affixes
- contractions