Language Arts Curriculum
2004-2005
Reading and Reading Comprehension
Reading instruction will continue using the Pathway Readers for Grade 5. The workbooks will be
continued as well. New words for each story will continue to be introduced
first using uniform decoding and then Eric will read the stories and complete
the accompanying workbook pages.
Reading comprehension will be developed through
completion of the Pathway workbooks as well as guided comprehension exercises
of selected literature and science topics.
Other
Reading Materials
After Eric completed the Pathway reader for Grade 5, I
ordered the grade 6 reader and workbook. The reader seemed too hard and too
abstract for my son. So I decided to give him a break from the series and I
used the following resources for reading for a few months. Most of these I got
in a big odd lot from ebay.
Roads
to Follow (Dick and Jane Series level 3-1)
More
Roads to Follow (Dick and Jane Series level 3-2)
SRA
Specific Skills Level A
Finding
the Answer
Using
the Context
Getting
the Main Idea
Identifying
Inferences
Getting
the Facts
Literature
High Interest Classics
Eric will read these abridged stories using guided readers
available from the publisher
and Remedia publications (although they
donít have it online, you have to call them). You can also order them from High
Noon Books, During his reading
(usually over two weeks) he will watch a movie version of the story as well and
compare the two versions.
Hunchback
of Notre Dame
Rip
Van Winkle/Sleepy Hollow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Man
without a Country
High
Noon Books
The
Red Hot Rod
The
Siamese Turtle Mystery
The
Video Game Spy
The
Mummyís Crown
Expository Writing
Most expository writing practice will involve the
non-fiction topics of science. Expository writing exercises will be
included in the science topics. Activities will include:
Comprehension Questions (answer questions, fill in the blanks, matching,
cloze activities, multiple choice)
Outlining
text and oral presentation from outlines
Writing
summaries
Compare
and contrast activities (Venn
diagrams)
Outlining
in preparation for writing
Writing
guided research papers
Structured specific paragraph writing techniques will
be taught using the following resources:
Vocabulary
This year we will discontinue formal spelling
instruction and use custom created vocabulary activities created on Edhelper. Words will be taken from science and social studies content
words.
Thank you Notes and Letters
This is an excellent activity to do during
homeschool. Whenever Eric receives a gift or some other nice favor from
someone, he writes a thank you letter and mails it.