Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Sept.-May

• Grammar and Usage

• Identify and correctly use nouns, verbs and pronouns
• Use descriptive words—adjectives and adverbs
• Use regular and irregular plurals
• Use present and past tense verbs
• Write sentences with correct subject verb agreement.
• Identify and correctly use contractions and possessives
• Write and speak in complete sentences

• Teacher observation
• Group discussion
• Daily Oral Language
• Writing Samples
• Journal writing

• IIC1

• IIC2

• IIC3

Sept.-May

• Conventions of Language

• Identify and write declarative, interrogative and exclamatory sentences
• Use periods, question marks and exclamation marks appropriately
• Use capital letters for proper nouns, the first word in a sentence, the word I, days of the week and months of the year, titles
• Use commas in lists of words and in friendly letters
• Alphabetize to the second letter
• Use grade appropriate dictionary or glossary to locate word meanings
• Identify the cover, title page, and glossary

• Teacher observation
• Writing samples
• Journal entries
• Daily oral Language

• IIC4

• IID2

• IB6, IID3

• IIIB1