- Improving reading skills
- Literary terms
- Novels, short stories, plays
- Myths, legends, ballads
- Types of poetry
- Biography and autobiography
- Planning and producing dramatizations
- Speech activities
- Listening skills
- Refining dictionary skills
- Spelling
- Parts of speech
- Person, number, gender of nouns and pronouns
- Punctuation of conversation
- Clauses and phrases
- Compound sentences
- Writing descriptions, reports, journals, and letters
- Note taking and outlining
- Extending reference skills: atlases, directories, encyclopedias, periodicals, on-line information services, CD-ROMs, and other electronic reference material
- Library organization
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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