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Kindergarten Curriculum Overview
Marking Period 1
Book Handling Skills
Left-to-right Tracking
Listen and respond to stories
Generate inferences while listening to stories
Ask & Answer Questions
Make Predictions
Read high frequency words
Recognize consonant and vowel letters
Write upper and lower case letters
Match letters to their corresponding sound
Short Vowel Sounds
Blend syllables to say words
Count and track words in a spoken sentence
Orally tell a story
Use pictures and writing to express ideas
Write first name
Marking Period 2
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Identify the Beginning, Middle and End of a story
Orally Summarize a story
Identify Characters
Draw Conclusions
Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel and final sound in three phoneme words
Identify phonograms
Decode CVC words in a text
Recognize and produce rhyming words
Isolate initial and final sounds in words
Recognize and blend syllables to say words
Apply initial letter sounds when writing
Group words together to form sentences
Marking Period 3
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Note details in stories
Setting
Fiction/Nonfiction
Segment words into syllables
Apply initial & final letter sounds in writing
Use sight words in writing
Appropriate word spacing
Phonetically spell simple words
Capitalize the first word in a sentence
Capitalize the pronoun, I
Recognize & use end punctuation
Describe experiences and events in writing
Marking Period 4
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Identify character’s emotions
Identify basic similarities and differences in characters, settings, etc.
Read emergent-reader text with purpose and understanding
With prompting, identify the main idea and key details in a story
Blend onsets and rimes
Segment words into sounds
Express personal opinion
Write 2-3 sentences on one topic
First Grade Curriculum Overview
Marking Period 1
Key Details
Labels
Rhymes
Short A, E, I, O, and U
Ask and Answer Questions
Sentence Punctuation (periods, question and exclamation marks)
-s (inflectional ending and plural nouns)
Phoneme Blending, Deletion & Segmentation
Diagrams
Blends: R & S
Sentence Capitalization
Beginning Blends
Consonant Sounds
Book Handling
Track Print and Return Sweep
Visualization
Phrasing and Intonation
High Frequency Words
Alphabetical Order (first letter)
Writing Sentences
Marking Period 2
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Character, Setting and Events
Short E: spelled e and ea
Nouns
Commas in a series
Contractions
Captions
Quotations
Make and Confirm Predictions
Nouns: Plural, Possessive (w/apostrophe, Proper
-ed, -ing, -es (inflectional endings)
Main Idea with Key Details
Lists
Ending Consonant Blends
Map Skills
Consonant Blends (nd, nk, nt, st, sk,mp)
Consonant Digraphs (th, sh, ng, ch, tch, wh, ph
Long A, I,
Contractions with not
Verbs: Present, Past & Future
Cause and Effect
Soft C and G
Marking Period 3
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Long O, U and E
Commas in Dates
Compare and Contrast
State an Opinion
Sequence Words
Theme
Long A: a, ai, ay
Long E: e, ee, ea, ie, y, ey
Context Clues
Point of View
Long O: o, oa, ow, oe
Long I: i, y, igh, ie
Change y to I (inflectional ending)
Root Words
Compound Words
Adverbs that tell when
Marking Period 4
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Shades of Meaning/Word Intensity
Multiple Word Meanings
Adjectives
R-Controlled Vowels: ar, er, ir, ur, or, ore, oar,
Problem and Solution
Suffixes: -ful, -less
Prefixes
-er and –est (comparative inflectional endings)
Abbreviations/ Name Titles
Synonyms/Antonyms
Pronouns/Possessive Pronouns
Dipthongs: ou, ow, oy, oi,
Similes
Three Letter Blends
Variant Vowel Digraphs: oo, u, u_e, ew, ue, ui, ou, a, aw, au, augh, al
Silent Letters: wr, kn, gn
Second Grade Curriculum Overview
Marking Period 1
Point of View
Understand Story Elements
Main Idea and Key Details
Narrative Writing
Author’s Purpose
Text Features
Sounds can be manipulated to make new words.
Word Choice
Some words do not follow a pattern.
Root words, prefixes and suffixes
Ask and answer questions about a text.
Write a topic sentence.
Engage in collaborative conversations.
Writing Conventions (capital letters, end punctuation, commas)
Identify and correctly use parts of speech.
Write a concluding statement.
Editing is part of the writing process.
Marking Period 2
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Main Idea of a paragraph.
Explain how key details support the main idea.
Writing an Address with commas
Story Themes
Vowel Patterns
Figurative Language
Linking Verbs
Possessives
Marking Period 3 & 4
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Story Lessons and Morals
Dialogue and appropriate use of quotation marks.
Introduce a topic and state an opinion.
Similarities and differences between texts.
Sequential Order
Verb and pronoun agreement
Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.
Third Grade Curriculum Overview
Marking Period 1
Character, Setting and Plot
Story Sequence
Synonyms & Antonyms
Inflectional Endings
Compound Words
Text Features: Headings, maps, diagrams, sidebars
Commands and Exclamations
Sentences: Compound and fragment
Cause & Effect
Predicates
Figurative Language
Compound Words
Multiple meaning words
Main Idea and Key Details
Write a personal narrative piece
Write a narrative, opinion and informative paragraph
Identify the theme of the text
Make and Confirm Predictions
Linking words
Nouns: Proper, Plural
Marking Period 2
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Author’s Point of View
Prefixes and Suffixes
Summarize text
Use commas to combine sentences
Singular and plural possessives
Write an informative piece
Opening and closing statements
Problem and Solution
Verbs: Present, past, & future
Quotation Marks
Contractions
Subject-verb agreement
Marking Period 3 & 4
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Write an opinion piece
Punctuation in letters, dates, addresses and locations
Root Words
Linking & Irregular Verbs
Compare and Contrast
Use context clues to understand unknown words
Homophones & Homographs
Subject and Object Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Fourth Grade Curriculum Overview
Marking Period 1
Cite Evidence
Determine the theme of a text
Main Idea & Key Details
Summarize
Interpret Text Features
Understand various genres
Engage in collaborative conversations
Write a personal narrative piece
Write an opinion and informative paragraph.
Figurative language
Choose words and punctuation correctly
Subjects & Predicates
Nouns: plural, proper, common
Correctly use frequently confused words (ex: to, too, two)
Sentence Fragments and run-on sentences
Decode unfamiliar multi-syllable words
Marking Period 2
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Point of View
Author’s Purpose
Text Structure
Suffixes, Prefixes and Root Words
Antonyms/Synonyms
Use context clues to determine word meaning
Verbs: main, linking, helping
Adjectives
Titles
Phrases & Interjections
Write a poetry piece
Use verb tenses to convey time and sequence
Marking Period 3 & 4
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Connotations of words with similar denotations (shades of meaning)
Homographs
Write an Opinion Piece
Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech
Form and Use Prepositional Phrases
Write an Informative Piece
Homophones
Analyze two texts to find similarities and differences
Fifth Grade Curriculum Overview
Marking Period 1
Point of View
Understand Story Elements
Analyzing texts using evidence
Compare & contrast stories, characters, and settings
Author’s Purpose
Text Features
Compare & contrast genre, theme, and topics.
Ask and answer questions about a text
Text features
Summarize the text.
Ask and answer questions about a text.
Using context clues to determine unknown words
Engage in collaborative conversations
Narrative Writing
Organizational structure (character, setting, plot)
Narrative techniques (description, pacing, and dialogue)
Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning.
Writing Conventions (punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and spelling)
Editing is part of the writing process
Conjunctions
Marking Period 2
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Explain relationships in texts
Greek and Latin affixes and roots
Quoting from the text
Use domain specific vocabulary
Prepositions and interjections
Verbs (tenses, agreement)
Commas in appositives
Punctuation in titles of works
Informative writing
Marking Period 3 & 4
Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.
Two or more main ideas and supporting details
Overall structure of a story, drama, and poem
Identify an author’s reasons and evidence to support a point
Group related information
Use commas appropriately
Opinion writing
Narrative / poetry
