Language Skills
• Nouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Pronouns
• Suffixes and prefixes
• Homographs
• Contractions
• Compound words
• Plurals
• Subjects and predicates
• Identifying and writing complete sentences
• Punctuation
• Capitalization
Writing
• Continued phonetic and spelling pattern study
• Continued review and application of mechanics
• Approaches to writing (shared interactive, guided, timed, writing to prompts) Identify audience and purpose
• Personal voice, writer’s viewpoint
• Organizing information
• Effective sentences (opening, closing, combing sentences, sentence variety)
• Elaboration (reasons and details, developing ideas, staying on the topic)
• Paragraphing (topic sentence and details)
• Word choice (vivid words, sensory details, description, figurative language)
• Analyze published models
• Writing process
• Use technology to create, revise, edit, and publish texts
• Descriptive writing
• Narrative writing
• Writing a friendly letter
• Poetry
• Persuasive writing
• Informative / expository writing
• Everyday writing
• Daybooks
Reading / Literature
• Predicting
• Summarizing
• Sequencing
• Classify and categorize
• Cause and effect
• Drawing conclusions
• Making inferences
• Compare and contrast
• Identify main ideas and supporting details
• Author’s purpose
• Point of view
• Identification of story elements
• Make connections between stories
• Genres: fiction, fantasy, biographies, historical fiction, non-fiction, myths, legends, fables, poetry
• Reading fluency and expression
• Vocabulary
• Counting, Estimating, and Approximation
• Addition and Subtraction (with and without regrouping)
• Equalities and Inequalities
• Place Value
• Rounding
• Counting beyond One Million
• Reading a Thermometer (comfort levels)
• Graphing (bar, pictograph)
• Perimeter and Area
• Skip Counting
• Multiplication
• Arrays
• Division (with and without remainders)
• Functions and Arrow Notation (including inverse operations)
• Fractions (adding, subtracting, comparing, improper, and mixed)
• Length (metric and customary)
• Decimals (all operations)
• Points and Lines
• Angles
• Triangles
• Quadrilaterals
• Polygons
• Congruence
• Slides, Flips Turns, Symmetry, Circles
• Collecting Data (samples and tally marks)
• Mean, Median, Mode
• States of Matter
• The Water Cycle
• Moon Phases
• Plant and Animal Life Cycles
• Plant and Animal Populations
• Graphing
• Temperature
• Predicting
• Scientific Method
• Understanding Concepts: melting and freezing points, condensation and evaporation, physical properties, physical and chemical changes, changes in water, water and life cycles, changes in the moon’s appearance, characteristics and needs of plants and animals, metamorphosis, biotic potential, habitat loss, endangered and extinct, food chain
• Charlotte / Mecklenburg County
history, climate, geography, government, economic development
• National government: three branches
• Country research skills
• Famous African Americans
• Map skills
• Our Nation’s history: early settlements
• Current Events: Time for Kids