LANGUAGE ARTS

• Process writing
• Informative and persuasive essays
• Complete sentences and fragments
• Instruction on research
• Types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative)
• Complete simple and compound subjects and predicates
• Simple and compound sentences
• Joining and separating sentences
• Poetry and creative writing
• Speaking and listening skills
• Vocabulary
• Spelling

 

READING

• Students will take the Star reading test at the beginning and end of the first marking period and at the conclusion of every other marking period.
• Critical reading skills and interpreting literature.
• Identify author’s main points, supporting details, tone, and intended audience.
• Identify meaning words using context clues and reference materials.
• Identify and analyze author’s use of figurative language, and story elements
• Constructed-response questions and strategies to answer them.
• Distinguish between fact and opinion.
• Identify cause and effect.
• Identify root words, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms.
• Identify themes, morals, type of characters, problems, and resolutions.
• Read, analyze, and use maps, charts, and tables.
• Map stories:  identifying rising action, climax, and resolution.
• Identify, analyze, and discuss different types of text (Biographies, Autobiographies, Narratives, and Poetry).
• Conduct research, compile information, and create a presentation.

 

MATH

• Computations of whole numbers and decimals
• Number sense and problem solving
• Powers, factors, multiples, and roots
• Fractions
• Decimals, fractions, and percents
• Integers
• Statistics, line plots, and schedules
• Graphing
• Formulas
• Geometry
• Measurement

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Five themes of Geography (Location, Place, Movement, Human/Environment Interactions, Regions)
• United States and Canada
• Pre-historic man
• Explorers
• China
• Mesopotamia
• Greece
• Rome
• Mayans
• India
• Byzantine Empire

 

SCIENCE

• Scientific Method
• Plants and Animals
• Astronomy
• Bacteria/Cells