Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Sept. - May

• Daily Oral Language

• Conventions for spelling, grammar, and usage

• Insert editing marks and revise sentences

• IIC2
• IIC4
• IIC5

Sept.

• Subject and Predicate
• Compound Words
• Syllabication
• Capitalization

• Students correctly categorize words according to spelling pattern
• Identify compound words and susquepedalian words from their own reading and from teacher’s read aloud books
• Identify complete subject and predicate in a sentence
• Use capitalization rules at the beginning of sentences with proper nouns, and the word “I”

• Word list sorts
• Main Events Charts
• Basal Unit Test

• IIC1
• IIC3
• IIC4 a - e
• IIC5 a - f

Oct.

·         Verbs

·         Synonyms and antonyms

·         Adjectives

·         Complete sentences

• Identify verbs in samples and own writing
• Use a Thesaurus to replace verbs with more active word choice
• Use a Thesaurus or a dictionary to find synonyms and antonyms of a given word
• Use a Thesaurus or dictionary to replace synonyms and antonyms of a given word
• Identify past, present, and future verb tenses
• Use a Thesaurus to replace verbs with more active word choice

• Paul Bunyan story
• Character Description
• News Article
• Worksheets
• Main Events Chart
• Basal Unit Test

• IIC4 a - e
• IIC5 a - f

November

• Open and closed syllables
• Action Verbs
• Synoyms and Antonyms
• Complete Sentences
• Identify the compound subject and the compoud predicate in a sentence
• Compose complete sentences using punctuation

• Divide words into syllables using vowel sounds to determine whether the .
• Use synoymns and antonyms to improve word choice
• Compose complete sentences using appropriate punctuation
• Tell whether a syllable is open or closed

• Worksheets
• Character Description
• Main events Chart
• Worksheets
• Basal Unit Test

• IIB3a
• IIB3b
• IIB3c
• IIB3d
• I!b3e

December

• Nouns and Adjectives
• Four kinds of sentences:  declarative, imperative, iterrogative, and excalamatory
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Punctuating quotations
• Complete sentences

• Use a Thesaurus or Dictionary to choose interesting nouns and to replace adjectives with more descriptive word choice
• Punctuate a sentence correctly with a  period, an exclamation mark, or a question mark
• Punctuate dialogue correctly using commas, capital letters, periods, exclamation points, and question marks.
• Use a Thesaurus or dictionary to replace an identified word in a sentence with a synonym and/or antonym
• Compose complete sentences using appropriate punctuation

• Night Before Christmas slotted story
• Pippi Longstocking stories
• Story summaries
• Worksheets
• Basal Unit test

• IIB1 – IIB3e
• IIC4d
• IIC5d – IIC5f

January

 Puncutate compound sentences correctly using a comma before and, or, and but to glue them together

Suffixes

Homophones

Compound subject and compound predicate

Subject and Verb agreement

• Write about one’s interests using complete sentences with correct punctuation
• Use commas to correctly glue two complete sentences together with and, or, or but

• Identify the suffix
• Use suffix meanings to define words using the root word meaning and the suffix meaning
• Apply rules about how adding a suffix may change the spelling of the word
• Use homophones correctly in writing
• Identify the subject and predicate of a given sentence
• Write sentences with subject and verb agreement

• Reading journals,
• 3 Things in a Bag Story

• IB2
• IB3
• IB4
• IB5
• IIC1 – IIC3
• IIIC4d
• IIC5e
• IIC5f

February

• Adverbs
• Adverbs of Comparison

• Write definitions of words by using the base (root word) meaning and the suffix meaning
• Apply rules about how adding a suffix may change the spelling of the word
• Vary sentence beginnings by using sequence words such as next, then, later, after, and finally
• Use more or most with adverbs to compare two or more actions including those that are used to compare nouns with –er and -est

• Worksheets/reading unit test
• Main Events Charts
• Written Directions
• Worksheets

• IIC4b

March

 “Glue” words (prepositions) such as when, because, if, until, unless, since, before, after.

Adjectives

Words in a series

Sequence Words

• Use prepositions at the beginning of a sentence and make sure to glue an ending on after a comma.
• Use prepositions correctly in the middle of a sentence to glue two sentence parts together.
• Use appropriate adjectives to describe characters
• Use commas in a series

• Sentence strips
• Worksheets
• Tuesday story
• Reader’s Journal
• Written Directions
• Basal Unit Test

• IIC5d
• IIC4c
• IIC5e

April

• Punctuating quotations
• Complete sentences

• Use commas, capital letters, and quotation marks, periods, exclamation points, and question marks correctly when writing dialogue.

• Personal narrative story
• Main Events chart

• IIC5f
• IIC5b

May