Our reading series is ReadyGEN. Below are the skills we will cover throughout the year. .
Stories: The Lemonade War, The Case of the Gasping Garbage, Thundercake
Skills: character traits, questions and answers, sequence of events, point of view, compare and contrast
Phonics: short vowels and syllables, plurals, base words, vowel digraphs
Grammar- review nouns, plural nouns, verb tenses, quotation marks and commas in dialogue
Stories: Treasure in the Trees, The Moon Seems to Change, About Earth
Skills: main idea, text feature, point of view, compare and contrast, characters
Phonics: short vowels and syllables, plurals, base words and endings, vowel digraphs
Grammar: nouns as subjects, plural nouns, past tense verbs, quotation marks and commas in dialogue
Stories: The Year of Miss Agnes, The Athabascans, The Frog Princess
Skills: main idea, characters, central message, illustrations, compare and contrast characters
Phonics: compound words, consonant blends, contractions, consonant digraphs
Grammar: capital letters, proper nouns, adverbs, superlative adverbs, punctuation in dialogue
Stories: Deep Down and Other Extreme Places to Live, City Homes, The Song of Sky and Sand
Skills: main idea, analyze photos/illustrations, ask and answer questions, compare and contrast,
Phonics: prefixes, suffixes, consonant patterns
Grammar: adverbs, conjunctions, past tense verbs, subject-verb agreement
Stories: Storm in the Night, Knots on a Counting Rope, Paul Bunyan
Skills: contributions of illustrations to a text, character, central message, compare and contrast
Phonics: r-controlled vowels, prefixes, suffixes
Grammar: irregular plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, possessives, dictionary skills
Stories: Weather, On the Same Day in March, Living Through a Natural Disaster
Skills: ask and answer questions, scientific ideas, information from illustrations, compare and contrast, case and effect
Phonics: Syllable patterns, homophones, vowel patterns /aw/
Grammar: abstract nouns, past tense of irregular verbs, verb tenses, complex sentences and simple sentences
CCSS RF.3c
Stories: Back of the Bus, Rosa Parks: Hero of Our Time, Brave Girl, Below Deck: A Titanic Story
Skills: plot, fact and opinion, central message. actions and effect on story,
Phonics: suffixes, vowels, schwa
Grammar: nouns, plural nouns, pronouns, suffixes, prefixes, and base words, possessives
Stories: What is a Government?, Who Really Created Democracy?, A More Perfect Union
Skills: main idea and details, sequence, opinion
Phonics: schwa, final syllables, prefixes
Grammar: subject/verb agreement, past tense of be, antecedents of pronouns, simple sentences, adverbs