Curriculum Overview

1st Quarter Curriculum

ELA: 

Literary Skills: making inferences while citing text evidence, determining unknown words or phrases, studying characters, settings, and events, and determining and supporting a theme within a story.

Informational Skills: making inferences while citing text evidence, determining the main idea and details of a text, determining the meaning of unknown words and phrases, and distinguishing between firsthand and secondhand accounts using text evidence.

In writing, we will begin with informational and research writing. We will learn how to research, take notes, cite evidence, and create an informational piece about natural disasters.

In word study, we will review the word inquiry process and study Greek and Latin roots.