- Independent reading
- Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills
- Literary terms
- Novel, short story, narrative poetry
- Nonfiction
- Biographies of great Americans
- American poets and storytellers
- Creative dramatics
- Listening and speech activities
- Advanced dictionary work
- Extended vocabulary
- Figures of speech
- Spelling
- Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct and indirect object
- Kinds of sentences and their parts
- Functions of sentence elements
- Writing simple business letters
- Report-writing skills
- Improving skills in using basic reference sources
- Inductive and deductive reasoning
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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