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GRADE 5 Language Arts: Reading Fifth graders will travel to other lands, other times, or just around the block while reading the character- building stories in their three readers. While reading classic stories of foreign lands, other time periods, great achievers, inventors, and men and women who made America great, young readers are introduced to a variety of literature and provided with a rich literary heritage. A Christian fiction novel and a biographical novel will be used for language book reports. Two speed and comprehension readers will whet students’ appetites for a wider range of reading, while they challenge each student to learn how to read quickly for information, with a strong emphasis on comprehension. Literary Value Materials Evaluation 125 authors, including well-known Readers (3) containing: Weekly oral reading grade writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Short stories (97) Speed and comprehension Frances Hodgson Burnett, Beverly Poems (62), plays (2), songs (4) quizzes (73) for timed silent reading Cleary, Rudyard Kipling, and Mark Scripture selections (4) exercises and stories Twain Christian fiction novel (1) Weekly vocabulary comprehension Character-building themes such as quizzes (33) bravery, charity, compassion, con- Biographical novel (1) tentment, determination, duty, faith, Speed and comprehension readers (2): teamwork, and forgiveness Read & Comprehend 5 Skill Sheets (42) Adventures in Nature exercises (31) Reading Skills Development Comprehension, Discussion, & Analysis Strive for increased: Skills Development Accuracy, fluency, phrasing Answer factual and interpretive questions for most stories and Good expression, comprehension poems Improvement of flow Answer inferential comprehension and discussion questions Ability to follow along and comprehend as others read orally Improve ability to use deductive reasoning, understand cause and effect, and draw conclusions Vocabulary development through words and definitions included in readers Determine main characters, theme, climax, and turning point Pace and comprehension while reading silently Ability to read poetry correctly Language Arts: Language As well as providing a thorough review of capitalization, punctuation, and the parts of speech, God’s Gift of Language B deepens students’ knowledge of grammar and increases their writing skills. Students will be introduced to the four main types of complements and to additional rules for punctuation. They will learn how to diagram prepositional phrases and complements. Students’ writing skills will improve as they learn how to write effective topic sentences and paragraphs and how to use transitional words. Skills learned in outlining, note taking, and preparing a bibliography will aid fifth graders in writing an ency- clopedia report and a library research report. Evaluation Quizzes from quiz/test book (12) Library research report (counts as 2 test grades) Exercises from student book 7 graded book reports: (9; each counts as a quiz grade) Short format (2; each counts as 2 quiz grades) Tests from quiz/test book (11) Long format (3; each counts as test grade) Encyclopedia report (counts as test grade) Oral (2; each counts as test grade) Language cont. p. 83 82 GRADE 5 h RED indicates first introduction of content. Language cont. Grammar Indentify four types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory Capitalization: Recognize simple and compound sentences First word in every line of poetry, every sentence, and direct quota- tions h Diagram compound sentences Pronoun I Correct run-on sentences and fragments Proper nouns: h Identify complements: direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, objects of preposition Names, initials h Avoid wordiness h Nationalities, races, religions h Find the subject and verb: Days, holidays, months h Inverted order (interrogative sentences) h Historical events or periods, organizations, businesses, ships, awards h There and other words when beginning the sentence Other particular nouns Parts of speech: Geographical locations: streets, cities, states; regions of the Recognize and diagram all eight parts of speech: country or world; countries, continents Noun as subject Geographical features h Noun as predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, h Recreational areas, planets and object of the preposition h Proper adjectives Verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb First and last words and all important words in the following titles: h Preposition Books, magazines, poems, and stories Conjunction h h Plays, paintings, and other works of art Interjection Title of person before a name Verbs: h Titles used instead of a name in direct address Action, state of being, helping Nouns referring to the Bible; nouns and pronouns referring to God h Linking Punctuation: Verb phrase End marks h Principle parts of verbs Commas: Spelling rules for verb endings To separate three or more items in a series h Irregular forms of principle parts h To separate two or more adjectives before a noun Correct and effective verbs h h Before coordinating conjunctions joining a compound sentence Correct use of troublesome verbs: burst, busted; attacked, To separate items in a date or address attackted; brought, brung; climbed, clumb; drowned, drownded; ate, et; eaten, aten; grew, growed; sneaked, snuck; stole, stoled; After salutation of a friendly letter and closing of any letter threw, throwed; thought, thunk After and at beginning of sentence well, yes, no, why Nouns: To set off words of direct address, direct quotation Common, proper, compound, plural Apostrophes: Nouns as antecedents, subjects To form contractions and possessive words h Nouns as direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, h To form the plural of letters object of preposition Colons: Pronouns: To write time Personal pronouns (subject, object, possessive) After salutation of business letters h Compound, interrogative, demonstrative In Scripture references h Subject and verb agreement with pronouns h Hyphens: to divide a word at end of line Adjectives: h Semicolons: to separate simple sentences not joined by conjunc- Proper tion h Adjectives that look like verbs Underline: Possessive nouns and pronouns as adjectives Titles of books, newspapers, ships, plays, sculptures, paintings, and h Predicate adjectives other works of art h Distinction between adjectives modifying noun and a h Titles of films, planes, trains compound noun Quotation marks: h Positive, comparative, and superlative degrees With direct quotations h Comparison of irregular adjectives With titles of short stories, poems, songs, chapters, articles, other parts of books, magazines, and newspapers The sentence: Know definitions of sentence, subject, predicate Find subjects and verbs: compound, simple Language cont. p. 84 83 GRADE 5 h RED indicates first introduction of content. Language cont. Grammar cont. Composition Adverbs: h Write a book report with character sketch using the Writing Process Know adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs Use a checklist for book reports Distinguish adjectives from adverbs Write: Use modifiers correctly Friendly letters Use good and well correctly Post cards Use adverbs and negatives correctly Thank-you notes h Compare adverbs h Paragraphs with a topic sentence Prepositions: Paragraphs with unity Prepositional phrase Write with details Object of preposition h Write dialogue h Adjective or adverb phrase h Complete creative writing assignments including a poem, narrative, Preposition or adverb biography, Bible story, dialogue, paragraphs, etc. (8) h Diagram prepositional phrases h Make topical and sentence outlines Conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, for, yet Use the encyclopedia and Writing Process to write an encyclopedia Interjections: report: taking notes, writing a rough draft, rewriting Punctuation Use the Writing Process for a library research report: h h Diagram Make a preliminary outline h Word study and diction: Take notes h Use the best words; use specific words Write bibliography cards h Understand synonyms, homonyms, and antonyms Make a final outline h Use the dictionary Write the rough draft, a second rough draft, and the final draft h Use the thesaurus Correctly use: Between, among; can, may; less, fewer h Amount, number Language Arts: Penmanship Penmanship Mastery II concentrates on what fifth graders need most—practice with Added Enrichment “trouble-maker” letters. Each week’s lessons provide practice with basic letter size Journal compilation (16) and formation, correct pen grip, slant, and overall neatness. Students are given the Creative writing assignments (75) opportunity to employ their skills through a variety of interesting activities such as word studies and creative writing exercises. Each week, students will also complete a Evaluation creative writing assignment, including a biweekly journal entry. Tests (34) Progress report boxes (32) Skills Development Correctly write all upper- and lowercase letters and numbers 0–9 Maintain good writing position: Maintain correct letter formation, uniform slant and size, correct spacing, letters that touch the line, and proper margins for success Sitting properly in desk in writing legibly Holding pencil correctly Use key strokes: slant, loops, tails, and humps Slanting paper correctly Evaluate writing for personal improvement Write in ink with a relaxed grip and flowing movement

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