Quarter 1 Reading Theme: Identify and locate the theme of a text and choose the evidence that influences that choice. Story Structure: Compare and contrast characters, settings, or events drawing on specific details in text and how that affects the plot Problem/Solution: Identify the main problem and events that lead up to the solution. Point of View: Describe how the point of view influences how events are described. Writing Personal Narratives Language Present/Past Tense Verbs Capitalization/Punctuation: including commas in a series, quotation marks, capitalizing
Quarter 2 Reading Inferences: Use details and knowledge to mark inferences and quote info from text Story Structure: Compare/contrast characters, settings, or events drawing on specific details in text Writing Opinion Pieces Language Prepositional phrases, appositives, main clauses, and subordinate clauses
Quarter 3 Reading Structure of text Author's purpose in text Figurative language: similes, metaphors, personification, symbolism, imagery, etc. Writing Narrative Stories Language Transition words Word relationships
Quarter 4 Reading Visual and Multi-media elements: how do they contribute to the tone of text? Writing Research Project: summarize and paraphrase information from sources, organize information, provide list of sources, etc. Language Multiple meaning words Reference materials: dictionary, thesaurus, glossary, etc.
Social Studies
Quarter 1 Map Skills: lines of longitude/latitude, locate states/countries/continents/oceans, US regions, etc. Election Unit
Quarter 2 Native Americans: Historic Indian groups of West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic/sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands; trade routes; housing styles; etc. Exploration: reasons for movement, early settlements, and early economy 13 colonies
Quarter 3 American Revolution and Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation United States Constitution
Quarter 4 Bill of Rights 3 branches of government: election process, separation of powers, and checks and balances