Language

Students will be able to define, identify, and distinguish between simple and progressive verb tenses.

Students will be able to compare and contrast the motivations, traits, and actions of characters from different texts.

Students will be able to identify errors in punctuation of compound sentences and in parallel sentence structure.

Students will be able to define and identify direct and indirect characterization.

Students will be able to identify the topic sentences and supporting details of a passage or text.

Students will be able to identify common prefixes and their meanings.

Students will read text with proper accuracy, speed, and intonation (or expression).

Students will be able to identify and use different punctuation marks: period, question mark and exclamation point.

Students will learn how to use a dictionary to find information.

Students will recognize, read and write words with long vowel word families.

Students will be able to identify and correctly use commas.

Students will be able to use appropriate comparative and superlative terms to make comparisons.

Talk about the summer.

Students will be able to define and identify prepositions and prepositional phrases.

Students will learn to formulate the parts of a properly written thank you note. They will learn about tone in writing and how it is perceived by the recipient.

Students will understand that suffixes are word parts added to base words to change their meaning. They will look at how adding a suffix to a root word can change the spelling of the root word.