Course Syllabus (cont.) Final Scores Grading Scale Tests = 40% 100-90 = A Homework = 15% 89-80 = B Classwork and Projects = 45% 79-70 = C 69-60 = D 59-Below = Failing Date Unit Skills Stories Phonics Unit 1 *Sequence Skills Unit 1 Unit 1 This Land Is Your Land *Summarize Because of Winn-Dixie: Lewis Short Vowels; VCCV; *Author’s Purpose and Clark and Me: Long a and I; Long e Unit 3 *Answer Questions Grandfather’s Journey; The and o; Long e; Long u Patterns in Nature *Cause and Effect Horned Toad Prince; Letters *Word Structure Home from Yosemite Unit 2 Unit 4 *Graphic Organizers Adding and –s –es; Puzzles and Mysteries *Dictionary/Glossary Unit 2 Irregular Plurals; *Story Structure What Jo Did; Coyote School Words with ar, or; Unit 5 * Context Clues News; Grace and the Time Consonant Pairs ng, Adventures by Land, * Main Idea Machine; Marven if the nk, ph, wh; Air, and Water *Fact and Opinion Great North Woods; So you Words with ear, ir, Every * Draw Conclusions Want to Be President? our, ur Nine Unit 6 * Generalize Weeks Reaching for Goals *Graphic Sources Unit 3 Unit 3 *Character and Setting The Stranger; Adelina’s Adding -ed and –ing, *Plot Whales; How Night Came Homophones, Vowel from the Sea; Eye of the Sound in shout; Storm; The great Kapok Tree Compound Words; Possessives Unit 4 The Houdini Box, Ecantado: Unit 4 Pink Dolphin of the Amazon; Contractions; Final The king in the Kitchen; le, al, en; Final er, ar; Seeker of Knowledge; Consonants /j/, /ks/, Encyclopedia Brown and /kw/; Prefixes un-dis-in- Unit 5 Sailing Home: A story of a Unit 5 Childhood at Sea; Lost City: Multisyllabic Words; the Discovery of Machu Syllable Patterns v/cv Picchu, Amelia and Eleanor and vc/v; Greek Go for a Ride; Antarctic Word Parts; Words journal; Moonwalk
Course Syllabus (cont.) Final Scores Grading Scale Tests = 40% 100-90 = A Homework = 15% 89-80 = B Classwork and Projects = 45% 79-70 = C 69-60 = D 59-Below = Failing Date Unit Skills Stories Phonics Every Nine Weeks Unit 1 This Land Is Your Land Unit 3 Patterns in Nature Unit 4 Puzzles and Mysteries Unit 5 Adventures by Land, Air, and Water Unit 6 Reaching for Goals *Sequence Skills *Summarize *Author’s Purpose *Answer Questions *Cause and Effect *Word Structure *Graphic Organizers *Dictionary/Glossary *Story Structure * Context Clues * Main Idea *Fact and Opinion * Draw Conclusions * Generalize *Graphic Sources *Character and Setting *Plot Unit 1 Because of Winn-Dixie: Lewis and Clark and Me: Grandfather’s Journey; The Horned Toad Prince; Letters Home from Yosemite Unit 2 What Jo Did; Coyote School News; Grace and the Time Machine; Marven if the Great North Woods; So you Want to Be President? Unit 3 The Stranger; Adelina’s Whales; How Night Came from the Sea; Eye of the Storm; The great Kapok Tree Unit 4 The Houdini Box, Ecantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon; The king in the Kitchen; Seeker of Knowledge; Encyclopedia Brown Unit 5 Sailing Home: A story of a Childhood at Sea; Lost City: the Discovery of Machu Picchu, Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride; Antarctic journal; Moonwalk Unit 1 Short Vowels; VCCV; Long a and I; Long e and o; Long e; Long u Unit 2 Adding –s and –es; Irregular Plurals; Words with ar, or; Consonant Pairs ng, nk, ph, wh; Words with ear, ir, our, ur Unit 3 Adding -ed and –ing, Homophones, Vowel Sound in shout; Compound Words; Possessives Unit 4 Contractions; Final le, al, en; Final er, ar; Consonants /j/, /ks/, and /kw/; Prefixes un-dis-in- Unit 5 Multisyllabic Words; Syllable Patterns v/cv and vc/v; Greek Word Parts; Words
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