Literacy

Comprehension Strategies

• connecting
• visualizing
• questioning
• inferring
• synthesizing
• summarizing
• questioning

Literature Circles
Guided Reading
Self Select Independent Reading
Fiction and Non-fiction
Genres
Readers' Theater
Book Projects
Read Alouds
Readers' notebooks

Writing

Portfolio Pieces

• procedure
• response to literature
• persuasive
• narrative
• report
• personal essay

Free Writes
Poetry
Readers Notebooks
Communication Journals
GUM (grammar usage and mechanics)

MATH

Everyday Math
Problem solving (Portfolio Pieces)

• computation, numbers, operation concepts
• geometry and measurement
• functions and algebra
• statistics and probability

Math Games

Social Studies

Vikings
Explorers
Geography

• landforms
• regions
• states and capitals
• daily geography trivia

Colonial America
American Revolution
Westward Expansion
Civil War

SCIENCE

Nutrition
Cell Structure
Ecosystems
Water Cycle Review
Voyage of the Mimi