Your child will be learning:
READING:

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Self-selecting books on own level
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Strategies for decoding unknown words
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Reading is Thinking Strategies (Predicting, Visualizing, Connecting, Clarifying, Summarizing, Author's Message)
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Story Elements (Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution)
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Personal and critical response to literature through discussion and writing
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Author Studies: Tomie dePaola, Leo Leonni, Chris Van Alsburgh, David Adler, Gail Gibbons, William Steig)
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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
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