Your child will be learning:
 READING:Self-selecting books on own levelStrategies 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
WORD STUDY:Homophones Compound Words Synonyms Antonyms
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