BJU Press Scope and Sequence by Grade
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Scope & Sequence Curriculum Overview by Grade Contents 3 Elementary 3 Preschool 4 K5 7 Grade 1 13 Grade 2 18 Grade 3 23 Grade 4 28 Grade 5 33 Grade 6 38 Elementary Spanish 29 Secondary 39 Grade 7 43 Grade 8 46 Grade 9 49 Grade 10 53 Grade 11 57 Grade 12 62 Electives Color Key Textbook used with Online Textbook used with DVD Teacher Edition & Student Books Preschool Circle Time: In the Big Red • Read-aloud suggestions • Hands-on learning Pathways for Barn • Listening skills and visual Arts: Let’s Create! Preschool • Large group activity memory • Creative expression • Language and vocabulary skills Premath: 1, 2, 3, Go! • Hand-eye coordination Prereading: A-B-C Time • Counting and number Music: Sing with Me • Print awareness recognition • Singing and listening • Letter recognition • Sorting and sequencing • Moving and playing • Auditory discrimination Premath: Look Up, Look Down Motor: A Hop, Skip, and a Jump Prereading: Colors Are Fun! • Social interaction • Color recognition • Opposites and positional words Premath: Show Me a Shape Social: Happy Habits Prereading: Rhyme Time • Manners, habits, and social • Language expression • Shape recognition training • Auditory discrimination • Large motor skill development • Dramatizations • Following directions Cooking: Yummy in My • Creative movement Tummy Listening and Literature: • Cooking and following directions Once Upon a Time Environment: Let’s Discover! • Sensory and language experiences • Tales in the Barnyard stories • Science and observation skills Bible Truths Bible Content (Paul), generosity (the wise men), biblical principles to personal-life • Topical Bible study in 13 units honesty (Paul’s nephew), prayer situations. Walking God’s Way (Elijah), forgiveness (Jesus), trust • Character traits based on Christ’s Bible Truths for Christian 2nd Edition perfect example (Noah), respect (Josiah), and patience (Abraham). Growth • Bible stories from Old and New • 13 questions and answers cor- Testaments illustrate character Character Emphasis related with Bible content traits: obedience (David), cour- • Character traits emphasized in age (Esther), kindness (Elisha), application stories show children Memory Verses • 13 verses responsibility (Joseph), thankful- their need of Christ as Savior ness (Timothy), contentment and demonstrate ways to apply Prereading Handwriting • Community helpers, • Language acquisition and • Correct posture, pencil hold, and transportation development paper placement Science Footsteps for Fours • Recognition of alphabet letters • Prewriting skills; finger tracing • Environment: seasonal changes • Phonemic awareness of alphabet and pencil tracking of left-to- of plants and animals; animal sounds /a/–/z/ right, vertical, horizontal, diago- families and animal homes nal, zig-zag, and curved lines • Letter-sound recognition of • Hands-on: experiments, cooking, medial short-vowel sounds; initial • Uppercase and lowercase weather, space, and magnets and final consonants PreCursive alphabet; numbers • Optional beginning reading 0–12 Art strand for eager learners • Art suggestions and craft activi- Mathematics ties correlated with unit themes Listening and Literature • Number recognition 0–20; • Traditional literature; realistic and counting to 100; shape recogni- Motor fanciful prose and poetry; nursery tion; pattern sequencing; color • Fine and gross motor develop- rhymes sequencing ment activities; games, action rhymes, and action songs • Vocabulary development and • Calendar, clock, coins, measure- enrichment ment, dot patterns, number sets, Music number line, ordinals, fractions • Auditory memory; sound by • Songs, rhymes, and musical direction, pitch, tempo, and • Position words games volume; rhyming words Social Studies • Additional music strand to • Listening questions to develop • Concepts of God’s plan for the complement lessons through comprehension child and his family movement, rhythm instruments, • Dictation of group writing experi- • Patriotism, patriotic symbols, retelling of stories, games, and ences; sentence completions; holidays songs sequencing of story bjupresshomeschool.com Online DVD Teacher Edition & Student Books 3 K5 Focus on Fives LANGUAGE ARTS and digraphs, long vowels; r- Handwriting Prereading influenced vowels; special vowel • Letter formation; principles of 4th Edition • Print awareness: left-to-right eye combinations; vowel patterns slant; alignment; spacing; pencil progression; visual discrimina- for long vowels (examples: _oke, hold; posture tion; visual memory _o, _oat) RELATED ARTS • Reasoning; classifying; sequenc- Early Reading Skills Art ing size and shape relationships • Comprehension • Drawing; painting; making crafts • Rhyming; awareness of author; • Predicting outcomes; answering to match the unit themes of the picture reading questions after silent reading; lessons (examples: puppets, • Listening comprehension sequencing events; developing papier-mâché pig) • Comparing vocabulary Motor Skills • Following directions; perceiving • Perceiving relationships; distin- • Encouraging fine-motor skills concepts, such as up/down, hard/ guishing reality from fantasy through prewriting activities, soft • Matching words and pictures; fingerplays, cooking and Learning • Alphabet recognition: phonemic matching sentences and pictures; Center activities, and student awareness reading short stories activity worksheets Phonics and Word Perception • Oral communication and oral • Developing gross-motor skills • Units 1–3: Letter-sound associa- reading during simple games and group tion—consonants and short vow- • Discussion; action rhymes; pan- activities tomime; retelling stories; reading els; words with closed syllable Music phonograms (examples: _it, _at); phonics stories orally • Traditional and piggyback songs; plural words with s and es; com- Composition music games pound words; possessive words • Dictating sentence ideas for indi- • Units 4–6: Letter-sound as- vidual composition; completing sociation—consonant blends sentence starters Heritage Studies • Geography: US landmarks; his- Science • Appreciating God’s creation tory: Native Americans, colonial • Learning about birds, bugs, mag- life; culture: families, commu- nets, seasons, water, our bodies, nity helpers, Hispanic culture, weather, rocks, oceans, sun, Bible times, farming, American moon, plants, and animals celebrations • Experiencing hands-on activities Reading Word Recognition Comprehension fanciful animal stories, poetry, • Application of phonics concepts • Picture reading Bible accounts, and realistic presented in K5 phonics lessons • Questioning to develop higher fiction • Readers 1–16—short vowels, order thinking skills • Distinguish reality from fantasy single consonants • Predict text; make inferences; Silent Reading • Readers 17–34—short vowels, draw conclusions; predict • Reading for specific information; consonant blends and digraphs, outcomes reading for author’s message long vowels, r-influenced vowels, • Compare; sequence events; fol- special vowels low directions Oral Reading • Word families; high-frequency • Communicate message of the words; compound words; words Vocabulary author; communicate in a natural • Meaning from context with suffixes manner Literature • Portray a character • Read a variety of genres: family • Respond to punctuation: period, stories, informational articles, exclamation point, question mark, quotation marks 4 Online DVD Teacher Edition & Student Books 800.845.5731 Bible Truths Bible Content Character Emphasis • Chronological and topical study • Character traits emphasized in Updated 2nd Edition of the Old and New Testaments application stories correlated • Bible characters include Noah, with biblical content Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua Catechism through Jonah, and Christ. • 50 questions correlated with • Topics include creation, learning biblical content about the Bible, the life of Christ, prayer, and missions. Memory Verses • Lessons for Thanksgiving, • 25 verses or passages Christmas, and Easter Reading Word Recognition • Literal, interpretive, critical, ap- Silent Reading • Application of phonics concepts preciative levels of questioning • Reading for specific information, presented in K5 Beginnings • Predict text; make inferences; reading for author’s message draw conclusions; predict • Readers 1–16—short vowels, Oral Reading single consonants, few consonant outcomes • Communicate message of the blends • Compare; sequence events; fol- author; communicate in a natural • Readers 17–32—short vowels, low directions manner consonant blends and digraphs, Vocabulary • Portray a character long vowels, r-influenced vowels, • Meaning from context • Respond to punctuation: period, special vowels exclamation point, question mark • Word families; service words; Literature compound words; words with • Read a variety of genres: family suffixes stories, informational articles, fan- ciful animal stories, poetry, Bible Comprehension accounts, and realistic fiction • Picture reading • Distinguish reality from fantasy Math Numeration Geometry • Capacity: holds more, holds less; • Identify 0–100 • Flat shapes: circle, square, cup, quart, gallon, liter 3rd Edition • Writing 0–100 triangle, rectangle; symmetry; • Temperature: hot, cold same shape • Measuring tools: ruler, scale, Number Sense • Solid figures: ball-shape (sphere), thermometer, cup • Ordinals: first–sixth; first, next, can-shape (cylinder), box-shape last; before, after, between; pat- • Time: to hour (rectangular solid, cube), cone- terns; place value: tens/ones • Calendar: days,