- Reading silently for purpose
- Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading
- Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading
- Story development: beginning, middle, end
- Simple book reviews
- Listening skills
- Organizing ideas and impressions
- Alphabetizing through second letter of a word
- Using dictionary guide words
- Vocabulary development
- Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
- Methods of word attack
- Ways to study spelling
- Simple punctuation and capitalization
- Refining manuscript handwriting
- Writing independently in manuscript form
- Brief and simple letters and journals
- Narration, description, letters, poetry
- Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index
Annotated links for the typical course of study for to help you cover each topic and check mastery of that skill. This is a work in progress that I assume will take a while to complete. I will be adding links and pages periodically.
Course of Study by Grade Level
Upper Grades
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