Your child will be learning:

READING:

• Self-selecting books on own level

• Strategies for decoding unknown words

• Reading is Thinking Strategies (Predicting, Visualizing, Connecting, Clarifying, Summarizing, Author's Message)

• Story Elements (Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution)

• Personal and critical response to literature through discussion and writing

• Author Studies: Tomie dePaola, Leo Leonni, Chris Van Alsburgh, David Adler, Gail Gibbons, William Steig)

• Genre Studies (Biographies, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction)

WRITING

• Capitalization and punctuation
• Steps in the writing process
• Domains of writing: Focus, Content, Organization, Style, and Conventions
• Leads and Endings
• Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives)
• Four Square
• Narrative, informative, persuasive writing genres
  
  

MATH:

• Addition and subtraction strategies
• Problem solving
• Place value
• Money
• Two digit Addition and subtractionwith regrouping
• Time

WORD STUDY:

• Homophones
• Compound Words
• Synonyms
• Antonyms