Language Arts - Unit 3
The following skills will be covered in this third unit of the year.
Phonics: silent letters, er, en, le, short e spelled ea, long e spelled y & ey.
Reading: Comprehension: Fantasy vs. Reality Cause and Effect Vocabulary: Review context clues Introduce synonyms Study Skills: Reference sources
Grammar (English): Action verbs Present-tense verbs Past-tense verbs The verb have Review sentence combining Review parts of a sentence: subject, predicate. Explanatory Writing Sentence rules: All sentences must have - 1. a subject 2. a predicate 3. punctuation 4. a capital letter at the beginning 5. spaces between the words. Punctuating sentences
Handwriting: Introduce cursive letter forms and lower case letters (Zaner Bloser style) Review manuscript (printed) letter forms
We will be reading the following stories in this reading unit: Arthur Writes a Story by Marc Brown Best Wishes, Ed by James Stevenson The Pony Express by Dale Ryder Nine-In-One, Grr! Grr! told by Blia Xiong Adapted by Cathy Spagnoli "Change for the Quarter" from Time for Kids magazine