- Silent reading
- Reading prose and poetry aloud
- Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy
- Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word
- Dictionary skills
- Developing word-attack methods
- Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
- Spelling
- Beginning cursive writing
- Concept of paragraph
- Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks
- Writing short, original stories and poems
- Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading
- Increasing indexing skills
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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