Language Arts

Reading  

  We have a new reading series for the 2007-2008 school year. Our new reading series is Houghton Mifflin Reading for Indiana. Our reading series is comprised of six themes. All of these themes will address the Indiana Academic Standards.

  We will also be reading a variety of chapter books this year. Again, all chapter books will reinforce the Indiana Academic Standards for Grade 5.

Language Arts

  Language Arts will go hand in hand with our reading series. In Language Arts the students will be working on many different writing pieces. They will be required to write narrative stories, informative pieces, persuasive writings, poems, and many other types of writings. Technology will be implemented in the writing process. Students will also be required to implement correct grammar usage in their writing pieces. We will be covering sentences, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. 

Spelling

  Spelling goes along with our reading stories for the week. Each week the students will be given 20 words which cover a variety of different spelling patterns. I will also be adding five words from the vocabulary lists weekly. Bonus words will also be given. Bonus words are used for extra credit in spelling. In other words, bonus words can only help your grade, never hurt your grade!

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