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Grade2 BEGINNINGOFYEARSimpleSentences Nouns

AFable

ProperNouns

TellingaStory TimeandPlaces

StoryElements

BeginningaSentence

TellingYourStories Poetry

SpecialNouns

TheFirstPartofaSentence

RealisticWriting OwnershipNouns

Pronouns

TheSecondPartofaSentence

StoriesofthePast AdjectivesforDescribing

WritingforGoodManners

AdjectivesforComparing

MID-YEARStoriesofMake-Believe VerbsandArticles

KindsofSentences

AskingQuestions

SentenceVariety AnotherFairytale

TenseandNumberAgreement

Commands

WritingaboutScience InformingYourReader

UsingtheVerb“Be”

UsingtheVerb“Have”

ExplainingandPersuading TellingHowandWhy

AgreementwithHelpingVerbs

AdverbsforDescribing

GivingDirections StepbyStep

ContractionsforQuickerWriting

WordsthatSoundAlike

ReadingPassages Fables TheLionandtheMouse(Aesop) TheShepherdBoyandtheWolf(Aesop)Poetry TheBean-Stalk(EdnaSt.VincentMillay)RealisticFiction AUniqueName(DuEwaFrazier)HistoryTexts

SarahWinnemuca(NevadaWomen'sHistoryProject;SarahWinnemuca)

Fairytales Cinderella(JacobandWilhelmGrimm) ThePoorTurkeyGirl(Zunifairytale)ScienceText TheLifeCycleoftheButterfly(PacificScienceCenter)PersuasiveWriting

CreatingaButterflyGardenatSchool(NationalWildlifeFederation)

Step-By-StepDirections HowtoMakeaBirdFeeder(NationalAudubonSociety)



Grade3 BEGINNINGOFYEARReadingFolktales PracticewithNouns

NarrativeParagraphs

PhrasesinSentences

KindsofSentences

Pronouns

ReadingDrama NarrativeWriting

MorePronouns

LeadSentences

SupportingSentences

WritingaNarrative Possessives

IrregularNouns

MoreNarrativeWriting

PracticewithIrregularNouns

ConcludingaNarrative IntroductiontoMyths

ArticlesinNounPhrases

PracticewithArticles

Adjectives

ReadingaboutScience IntroductiontoScienceReading

PunctuationwithCommas

Adverbs

VerbTenses

PresentTense

ConjoinedNounPhrases

MID-YEARWritingtoInform ReadingDirections

FutureTense

SimpleSubjects

WritingInformationParagraphs

WritinganOpinion RealisticFiction

OpinionParagraphs

ComparativeAdjectives

CompoundSubjects

SimpleandCompletePredicates

WritingOpinionParagraphs

HelpingVerbs

OpinionStatements

CompoundVerbsandPredicates

HistoricalWriting HistoricalDocuments

IrregularVerbs

PracticewithIrregularVerbs

PunctuationforTitles

PersuasiveWriting ReadingPersuasiveWriting

Prepositions

PracticeWritingOpinionParagraphs

Compounds

CompletinganOpinion Contractionswith“Not”

TrickyHomophones

CommasandQuotations

PracticeWritingOpinions

ReadingPassages Folktale

TheTiger,theBrahman,andtheJackal

(Indianfolktale)Drama

TheTigerandtheBrahman

(ShirleySimon,SylviaKamerman)Poetry TheTyger(WilliamBlake)Myth OdysseusandtheCyclops(Greekmyth)ScienceText HowCavesForm(USGS)Step-By-StepDirections HowtoBuildaCave(CrystalCave)

RealisticFiction

LittleHouseintheBigWoods

(LauraIngallsWilder)

TheBirchbarkHouse

(LouiseErdich)HistoricalDocument

TheConstitutionoftheFiveNations

(IroquoisConfederacy)PersuasiveWriting

TheAmericanBaldEagle(U.S.Dept.ofVeteransAffairs)

HistoryText

TheGreatSealoftheUnitedStates

(U.S.Dept.ofState)



Grade4 BEGINNINGOFYEARReadingandWritingFiction KindsofParagraphs

PracticingNarrativeParagraphs

SingularandPluralNouns

PracticingKindsofSentences

WritinginthePresentTense

DifferentKindsofMyths WritinginthePastTense

PracticingVerbTenses

WorkingwithMyths

PossessiveNouns

WorkingwithDrama PracticingwithAdjectives

WritingwithAdjectives

Numerals

Conjunctions

WritingwithArticles

PracticingNarrativeWriting Demonstratives

PrefixesandSuffixes

WorkingwithLegends

PracticingPrefixesandSuffixes

MID-YEARFirst-PersonFiction

SimpleandCompleteSubjects

WritingwithCompleteSubjects

FormsoftheVerb“Be”

PracticewithHelpingVerbs

Third-PersonFiction

ParagraphsofInformation

WritingwithPersonalPronouns

CompoundSubjects

SeeingDifferentPointsofView FirsthandandSecondhandAccounts

OpinionParagraphs

ReflexivePronouns

WritingwithAdverbs

ReadingonProblemsandSolutions

WritingwithComparativeAdjectives

DirectandIndirectObjects

PracticingOpinionParagraphs

PersuasioninReadingandWriting ReadingPersuasiveWriting

WritingwithIrregularVerbs

PracticingWritingOpinions

PoetryandPointofView

Negatives

ReadingTechnicalDirections CoordinatedVerbs

WritingwithPrepositions

Appositives

NegativeContractions

PunctuationandContractions PronounContractions

UsingParentheses

WorkingwithPronounContractions

AdjectiveandAdverbs

ReadingPassages Myth ANorseMyth(MaryPopeOsborne)Narrative TheBeginningofArmadillos(RudyardKipling)Drama

GluscabiandHisMagicGameBag

(L.E.McCullough)Legend

JohnnyAppleseed:TheLegendandtheMan(Americanlegend)

Fiction BlessMe,Ultima(RudolfoAnaya) Nilda(NicholasaMohr)

FirsthandandSecondhandAccounts

CésarChávez

(CADept.ofEducation;CésarChávez)ProblemsandSolutions CaringfortheLand(UtahStateUniversity)PersuasiveWriting EatLocal(JenniferMaiser)Poetry StoppingbyWoodsonaSnowyEvening(RobertFrost)TechnicalSteps MakingaRobotFinger(SlaterHarrison)ScienceText GlacialErosion(AmericanGeosciencesInstitute)



Grade5 BEGINNINGOFYEARDramaandNarratives ReadingDrama

RevisitingNarrativeParagraphs

StartingtheNarrative

MorePracticewithVerbs

AdventureFiction RealisminFiction

PracticingVerbTenses

PracticingtheFutureTense

ConcludingtheNarrative

PracticingNarrativeWriting

DirectandIndirectObjects

PracticingwithObjects

Possessives

WritingwithAdjectives PoetryandNarratives

ProperAdjectives

AffixesinWords

Demonstratives

ConcludingtheNarrative SupportingtheNarrative

ReadinginScience

WritingwithVariedSubjects

PracticingWritingNarratives

Step-By-StepDirections

HelpingVerb“Be”

PracticingwiththeVerb“Be”

MID-YEARInformativeandHistoricalWriting ParagraphsofInformation

HelpingVerb“Have”

HistoricalSpeech

Autobiography

PersonalPronouns

PossessivePronouns

OpinionParagraphs

ReadingHistory

PracticingComparativeAdjectives

RealisticandPersuasiveWriting RealisticFiction

ComparativeAdverbs

UsingAdjectivesorAdverbs

ReadingPersuasiveWriting


PracticingwithPrepositions

ReadingGovernmentDocuments PracticingwithModifiers

NegationandContractions

PracticingIrregularVerbs

CompletingOpinionParagraphs

HistoricalAccounts SynonymsandAntonyms

ConfusableVerbPairs

WritingwithSynonymsandAntonyms


ReadingPoetry Contractionswith“Have”

IndefinitePronouns

HomophonesandHomographs

WritingwithHomophonesandHomographs

ReadingPassages HistoricalSpeech TheNationalParksandForestReservations(JohnMuir)Autobiography TheStoryofMyLife(HelenKeller)HistoryText TheInventionofBraille(AmericanFoundationfortheBlind)PersuasiveWriting CommonSense(ThomasPaine) TheTrueInterestofAmerica(CharlesInglis)GovernmentDocuments PreambletotheU.S.DeclarationofIndependence(1776) PreambletotheU.S.Constitution(1787)HistoricalAccounts

PaulRevere

(PaulRevereMemorialAssociation;RobertLawson)

RealisticFiction

TheAccidentalBully

(NatashaGordon-Chipembere)ScienceText TheLifeCycleofaMineralDeposit(USGS)Step-By-StepDirections HowtoGrowtheBestCrystals(ScientificAmerican)Drama TheAdventuresofTomSawyer(TimothyMason)AdventureFiction TheAdventuresofTomSawyer(MarkTwain) Alice'sAdventuresinWonderland(LewisCarroll)Poetry Jabberwocky(LewisCarroll) PaulRevere'sRide(HenryWadsworthLongfellow)



Grade6 BEGINNINGOFYEARReadinganAutobiography AudienceandPurpose

SentenceFragments

PracticingNarrativeWriting

KindsofNouns

StartingtheNarrative

PracticingCapitalization

SupportingtheNarrative

Personification

ScienceFiction KindsofPronouns

PronounsandAntecedents

VerbPhrases

MoodandSetting

TypesofPronouns

CompoundSubjects

CompoundPredicates

InterrogativeandRelativePronouns

ScientificandTechnicalWriting ImperativeSentences

AppositivePhrases

SubordinateClauses

PracticingAgreement

ReadingTechnicalDirections

RelativeClauses

CoordinatingConjunctions

CorrelativeConjunctions

FirsthandandSecondhandAccounts ProgressiveVerbForms

AgreementwithCompoundSubjects

CombiningSentences

PronounContractions

ReadingSecondhandAccounts

SimileandMetaphor

Personification

PracticingIrregularVerbs

MID-YEARInformationandRealism WritingtoInform

RealisticFiction

VerbsofLinkingandAction

PrepositionalPhrases

PoetryandDrama ReadingPoetry

NounModifierPhrases

WritingOpinions

OpinionStatements

ReadingDrama


UsingCommas

Nouns,Pronouns,andAdjectives

FictionandHistoricalWriting ReadingFiction

ComparativeandSuperlativeAdjectives

AvoidingRun-OnSentences

AffixesandRoots

ReadingFirst-PersonHistory

WritingtoPersuade

PurposeinPersuasion

StartingYourPersuasiveParagraph

PersuasiveWriting ComparativeandSuperlativeAdverbs

PersuadingYourAudience

HomophonesandHomographs

DirectQuotations

ReadingHistory ConfusablePossessives

ConcludingPersuasiveWriting

UsingColonsandSemicolons

UsingDashesandParentheses

ReadingPassages Autobiography ACountryChildhood(NelsonMandela) TheLifeofOlaudahEquiano(OlaudahEquiano)FirsthandandSecondhandAccounts TheInvisibleThread(YoshikoUchida) Japanese-AmericanInternment(ClaraE.Breed) ThroughMyEyes(RubyBridges)HistoricalDocuments Plessyv.Ferguson(SupremeCourtRuling) Brownv.BoardofEducation(SupremeCourtRuling)HistoricalFiction SongoftheTrees(MildredD.Taylor)

RealisticFiction SeventeenSyllables(HisayeYamamoto)ScienceFiction TheVeldt(RayBradbury) FarmerintheSky(RobertHeinlein)ScienceText SpidersinSpace(GregoryVogt,etal)TechnicalDirections HowtoBuildaFoamRocket(NASA/JPL)Poetry TheNewColossus(EmmaLazarus)Drama Macbeth(WilliamShakespeare)



Grade7 BEGINNINGOFYEARWorkingwithAutobiographies StartingaNarrative

TypesofPhrases

NounPhrases

VerbsandVerbPhrases

SupportingtheNarrative

SubjectsandPredicates

HistoricalFictionandNon-Fiction UsingConjunctions

PrepositionsandPrepositionalPhrases

EndingtheNarrative

CompoundSubjects

First-PersonHistory

CompoundPredicates

MoodinSentences

DeclarativeMood

WritingaNarrative PracticingWritingNarratives

InterrogativeMood

InterrogativeSentences

ImperativeMood

BiographiesandHistory PronounAntecedents

PronounReference

UsingLinkingVerbs

ReflexivePronouns

InterrogativePronouns

DemonstrativePronouns

WritingaboutCauseandEffect

KindsofClauses

MID-YEARComplexClauses

RelativePronouns

SubordinatingConjunctions

IntensivePronouns

IntroductoryClauses

DemonstrativeAdjectives

PersuasiveWriting DependentClauses

IndependentClauses

FormsofAdverbs

SentenceFragments


CoordinatingConjunctions

CorrelativeConjunctions

SupportingYourOpinionParagraph

Non-FictionandPoetry UsingLinkingVerbs

ConcludingYourOpinionParagraph

RelativeClauses

PracticingWritingOpinions

UsingRelativeClauses

MisplacedModifiers

PracticingPersuasiveWriting

ClassifyingSentences

PurposeinPersuasiveWriting

ConstructingaPersuasiveArgument UsingVerbalParticiples

CompoundSentences

AudienceinPersuasiveWriting

PunctuatingComplexSentences

SupportingYourPersuasiveParagraph

RepairingCommaSplices

ConcludingYourPersuasiveParagraph

DramaticWriting PracticingthePerfectTense

AdverbPlacement

SubjunctiveMood

VoiceinWriting

PracticingReadingFiction

ReadingPassages Autobiography IncidentsintheLifeofaSlaveGirl(HarrietJacobs) NarrativeintheLifeofFrederickDouglass(FrederickDouglass)Biography AbeLincolnGrowsUp(CarlSandburg)HistoricalAccounts ThePrivateCampaignofaHistorythatFailed(MarkTwain) TheTrialofSusanB.Anthony(SusanB.Anthony,etal)HistoricalDocument TheEmancipationProclamation(AbrahamLincoln)PersuasiveWriting WhyWomenShouldVote(AliceStoneBlackwell) AgainstWomen'sSuffrage(Mrs.ClarenceHale)

HistoricalFiction AcrossFiveAprils(IreneHunt) TheRedBadgeofCourage(StephenCrane)TechnicalDirections BuildingaLemonBattery(WGBH)Science LightandColor(NASA)Fiction Herland(CharlottePerkinsGilman) TheRansomofRedChief(O.Henry)Poetry OCaptain!MyCaptain!(WaltWhitman)Drama TheTamingoftheShrew(WilliamShakespeare)