Adverbs Spelling Writing with adverbs Grades 1st-8th use Houghton Mifflin for Adverbs that compare spelling. adverbs and adjectives Each week students are tested on a list of Avoiding double negatives words at the beginning and end of the Synonyms & antonyms week. Students also complete several unit pages Pronouns that work on vocabulary, homophones, Writing with pronouns antonyms, phonics, etc. Antecedents Subject & object pronouns Seventh Grade Possessive pronouns pronouns (after linking or action) Kinds of Nouns Contractions Compound and Collective Nouns Connotations Singular and Plural Nouns Prepositions Possessive Writing with prepositions Verbs Prepositional phrases as adjectives Kinds of Verbs Prepositional phrases as adverbs Verbs Phrases Using prepositional phrases Tenses Writing with conjunctions Forms of be, have and do Homophones & homographs Irregular Verbs Sentences More Irregular Verbs 4 kinds of sentences Progressive Forms Complete subjects & predicates Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Simple subjects & predicates Direct and Indirect Objects Finding subjects in sentences Predicate Nouns and Adjectives Compound subjects & predicates Active and Passive Voices Compound sentences Subject-Verb Agreement Subject/verb agreement More Subject-Verb Agreement Verbs with compound subjects Inverted and Interrupted Order Run-ons & fragments sentences Lie, lay; rise, raise Affect, effect; accept, except Reading Adjectives Students read or four novels a year, answer factual and application questions, Adjectives and work with a variety of literary devices. Comparing with Adjectives Following are novels that have been used Adverbs the last several years: Where the Red Fern Adverbs Grows, Hatchet, Brian’s Winter, Holes, The Comparing with Adverbs Westing Game Negatives Adjective or Adverb
Adverbs Writing with adverbs Adverbs that compare adverbs and adjectives Avoiding double negatives Synonyms & antonyms Pronouns Writing with pronouns Antecedents Subject & object pronouns Possessive pronouns pronouns (after linking or action) Contractions Connotations Prepositions Writing with prepositions Prepositional phrases as adjectives Prepositional phrases as adverbs Using prepositional phrases Writing with conjunctions Homophones & homographs Sentences 4 kinds of sentences Complete subjects & predicates Simple subjects & predicates Finding subjects in sentences Compound subjects & predicates Compound sentences Subject/verb agreement Verbs with compound subjects Run-ons & fragments sentences Reading Students read or four novels a year, answer factual and application questions, and work with a variety of literary devices. Following are novels that have been used the last several years: Where the Red Fern Grows, Hatchet, Brian’s Winter, Holes, The Westing Game Spelling Grades 1st-8th use Houghton Mifflin for spelling. Each week students are tested on a list of words at the beginning and end of the week. Students also complete several unit pages that work on vocabulary, homophones, antonyms, phonics, etc. Seventh Grade Kinds of Nouns Compound and Collective Nouns Singular and Plural Nouns Possessive Verbs Kinds of Verbs Verbs Phrases Tenses Forms of be, have and do Irregular Verbs More Irregular Verbs Progressive Forms Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Direct and Indirect Objects Predicate Nouns and Adjectives Active and Passive Voices Subject-Verb Agreement More Subject-Verb Agreement Inverted and Interrupted Order Lie, lay; rise, raise Affect, effect; accept, except Adjectives Adjectives Comparing with Adjectives Adverbs Adverbs Comparing with Adverbs Negatives Adjective or Adverb