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 adequate speed, accuracy and expression
• 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, point of view, setting)
• Recognize the differences among types of literature (biography, fiction, folklore, informational texts, poetry)

  Literature Related Web Sites

  • Children's Literature Web Guide
  • CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities - Standards-based, web-delivered units on childrens' literature for grades K-12.
  • Banph: Stories, Pictures and Activities
  • White House-One Bad Thing About Father
  • Hall of Harry Houdini
  • Harry Houdini
  • Tales To Tell Choose from rhymes and nonsense, fables, animal stories, and many other kinds of stories by category, for adventures of all sorts, along with reading practice.
  • How the Leopard Got its Spots Rudyard Kipling's delightful story is told in text that is accompanied by photographs of animals and locales. For example, a lovely image of the real High Velt illustrates these lines: "Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt. 'Member it wasn't the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the 'sclusively bare, hot shiny High Veldt. . ."

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.)
• Write in cursive form

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

Listening/Speaking
Research

• Understand and use the research process as outlined in Research Basic, Jr.