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    Integrated Language Arts

     Harcourt School Publishers  “Storytown”

    www.harcourtschool.com/storytown


     

    Theme 1  “Count on Me”

    ·        Short vowels a, e, i, o, u

    ·        Long vowels a_e, i_e, o_e, oo, u_e, ee, ea

    ·        Story characters

    ·        Main idea and details

    ·        Sentences—statements, questions, commands, exclamaitions

    ·        Parts of a sentence

     

    Theme 2  “Doing Our Best”

    ·        Long vowels ie, igh, ai, ay, oa, ow

    ·        R-controlled vowels ar (car)

    ·        Making predictions

    ·        Plot

    ·        Singular and plural nouns

    ·        Proper nouns

     

    Theme 3  “Changing Times”

    ·        Digraphs ch, tch,sh, th

    ·        Long vowel e

    ·        R-controlled vowels ir, ur, er, ear

    ·        Author’s purpose

    ·        Fiction & nonfiction

    ·        Abbreviations

    ·        Singular/plural possessive nouns

    ·        Pronouns

       

    Theme 4  “Dream Big”

    ·        Digraphs kn, wr, gh, ph

    ·        Short vowel ea

    ·        Vowel diphthongs oi, oy

    ·        R-controlled vowels ear, eer

    ·        Setting

    ·        Locating information in text

    ·        Adjectives

    ·        Number words

    ·        Words that compare

     

    Theme 5  “Better Together”

    ·        Vowel diphthongs ou, ow, oo, ew, ue, ui, ou

    ·        R-controlled vowels air, are or, ore

    ·        Plot

    ·        Graphic aids

    ·        Present-tense action verbs

    ·        Subject-verb agreement

    ·        Past-tense verbs

    ·        Forms of be
     

     Theme 6  “Seek and Find”

    ·        Vowels oo, ou, aw, au(gh), ough

    ·        Long vowels  ea, ei(gh), ey

    ·        Cause and effect

    ·        Making inferences

    ·        Irregular verbs

    ·        Helping verbs

    ·        Contractions

     

     

Last Modified on October 8, 2009