Reader's Workshop
- Read Aloud
- Shared Reading
- Guided Reading
- Independent Reading
- Leveled Libraries
- Text-to-Text Connection
- Text-to-Self Connection
- Text-to-World Connection
Journal Writing and Reader Response
Independent Reading (25 book requirement)
Poetry
Guided Reading (novels to be selected by teacher) Genres
- Biographies
- Fables/Tall Tales
- Variety of picture books
- Non-fiction books
Writer's Workshop/Writing Genres
- Autobiographical sketch/Personal narratives
- Friendly letter
- Personal invitation
- Content report
- Poetry
- Writing directions “how to…”
- Realistic fiction
Writing Conventions and Grammar
- Uses appropriate grammatical construction adjectives, adverbs, verb tense
- Sentence structure
- Varies vocabulary choices
- Adds descriptive language
- Includes appropriate punctuation
- Uses correct spelling
- Uses writing process effectively
- Uses revision skills
- Note-taking for listening comprehension
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- Data, Graphs
- Place Value
- Time
- Money
- Whole Number Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication Concepts
- Division Using Digit Divisors
- Geometry
- Fractions and Linear Measurements
- Decimals and Metric Linear Measurements
- Measurement and Probability
- Word Problems
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- People Build Communities
- Life in communities
- Communities and geography
- Protecting our environment
- Communities Have History
- Early communities in America
- Building new communities
- Cities grow and change
- Inventions shape communities
- Communities at Work
- People earn money
- Making money choices
- Communities make goods
- State Reports
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- How Plants Live and Grow
- Plant roots, stems and leaves
- Minerals definition
- Carbon dioxide-definition
- Flowers
- Petal, pollen and pollination
- Fruit
- Cones and seeds
- How plants grow from seeds
- Seed coat and leaf
- Scattering seeds
- Life cycle of a flowering plant, germination and seedling
- How Animals Grow and Change
- How are babies are like their parents
- Growing from eggs/embryo, the chicken egg
- Living Things and Their Environment
- Where do organisms live?
- Define organisms and habitat
- Rain forest, ocean, desert and wetlands habitats
- Environments and how organisms can change their environments
- Adaptation of organisms to their environments.
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- 3H-Homework Club Wednesday after school
- Art
- Assembly Holiday Programs
- Computers
- Cumulative Writers Portfolio
- Gruss Lab
- Health Fair
- Music
- Phys. Ed.
- Science Lab Enrichment
- Spelling Bee
- Country Fair
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