Reading

• Apply word analysis skills (phonics, word patterns) to recognize new words
• Apply word study skills (structural analysis) to recognize and understand new words
• Read age-appropriate material aloud with fluency and accuracy
• Demonstrate an understanding of vocabulary
• Apply reading strategies and skills to improve fluency and understanding

  Reading Related Web Sites

  • Open Court -Resources to support the Open Court Reading Program for students and teachers

Literature

• Identify and understand literary elements (characterization, dialogue, event sequence, plot, setting)
• Recognize the differences among types of literature (adventure tale, biography, folklore, historical fiction, informational texts, legend, poetry)

  Literature Related Web Sites

  • Fairy Tale Cyber Dictionary Project - Classes create pictures and sentences for a fairy tale then share them through the Internet.
  • Children's Literature Web Guide
  • Children's Literature Links
  • Mount Vernon-George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities - Standards-based, web-delivered units on childrens' literature for grades K-3. (also available for other grades)
  • Little Explorers From "aardvark" to "zoologist," little Net surfers can click their way through the alphabet. Each letter of Little Explorers' dictionary has dozens of illustrated entries, most of them linked to external sites

Writing

• Recognize and apply appropriate parts of speech
• Use correct grammar in written work
• Recognize and apply appropriate capitalization and punctuation
• Use correct spelling
• Identify and construct various types of sentences
• Use the writing process effectively (prewrite, draft, revise, edit, publish)
• Demonstrate organization, focus, elaboration, and integration
• Write using various forms (expository, narrative, persuasive, etc.)
• Make transition to cursive form

  Writing Related Web Sites

• Cafe Hawthorne - a district 97 showcase of student writings.
• Inkspot: A Resource for Children's Writers
• Bat Magnet Poem Board - This is just like the "real" magnetic poetry board.  You can also change the available words to create poetry about things other than bats!

Spelling Related Web Site

• http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/toftwood/lcwc.html use lists already created or create your own. Flash Player needed.

Listening/Speaking
Research

• Identify questions to research
• Takes notes using a template