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| Reading Phonics LIterature |
Reading readiness: constant sounds, rhyming, auditory/visual discrimination, sequencing and classifying, storytelling. | Strong phonics to teach beginning reading skills, short vowels, consonant sounds, logical/chronological sequencing, auditory/visual discrimination, classifying rhyming; read 20 phonics storybooks. | Beginning reading with emphasis on phonics, context, and structural skills; developing comprehension through literal and inferential skills. | Developing basic skills; phonics, word analysis, vocabulary; stories for enjoyment and information. | Developing and expanding basic skills; comprehension; drawing conclusions; making inferences; identifying main idea; predicting outcomes; determining fact and opinion; phonics, syllables, accents; dictionary skills. | |
| Spelling Vocabulary |
Identifying word beginnings and ending sounds. | Identifying word beginnings and endings; controlled vocabulary of short vowel words and key words. | Simple words associated with phonics and reading vocabulary. | Building a written vocabulary. | Daily spelling / vocabulary lessons; spelling rules; interesting word derivations and roots (CD-ROM version available). | |
| Writing Composition |
Developing motor control. | Developing fine motor control; option of printing letters, words, simple sentences. | Beginning cursive handwriting, letters, words, simple sentences | Handwriting, composing sentences and paragraphs. | Using ideas logically; writing letters, stories, book reports, poems, journals, compositions; simple outlining; penmanship. | |
| Grammar | Developing oral expression. | Developing oral expression, constructing asking/telling sentences. | Constructing sentences, simple punctuation. | Proper punctuation, nouns and verbs. | Parts of speech and common errors; using words well in sentences and paragraphs. | |
| Math | Number ideas from 1 to 20; shapes, measuring, money. | Number ideas from 1-30; patterns, shapes, understanding data from pictures; properties of addition and subtraction; problem-solving; graphing; ordering numbers, matching sets; adding/subtracting through 5. | Counting/writing 1-100; adding / subtracting 1-18; 2-digit numbers; meaning of multiplication, division, fractions; measuring; telling time; money; problem solving. | Skill review; adding and subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers; understanding numbers to 1,000; fractions; multiplying and dividing numbers 1-5. | Skill review; numbers and money to 100,000s; graphs; mental math and front-end estimation; measuring time, capacity, mass; temperature; multiplying / dividing 6-9; mixed numbers, decimals, adding / subtracting of 3-digit numbers with regrouping. | |
| Science | The five senses; birds, pets; weather. | Seasons; the five senses; space; differences among land, air, water; weather; natural resources. | Senses; solids and liquids; living things; Earth and space. | Changes in animals, plants, and Earth; sounds; measuring; health and human growth; heat; Earth and the sun. | Seeds and plants; matter; Earth's rocks, forces and machines; water and life around us; comparing Earth and the moon; our health and environment. | |
| Poetry | Poetry and songs. | Enjoying and memorizing poems, rhymes, songs, and finger plays. | Appreciation and memorization. | Enjoying sound, meaning, memorizing. | Reading for enjoyment and appreciation, memorizing. | |
| History | ` | Discussions of famous people and events. | ` | ` | Biographies of famous people; myths and legends. | |
| Geography | ` | Families, communities, and animal habitats. | ` | Use of maps and globes; four cardinal directions; continents; oceans. | Reading and using maps, globes, and graphs; interpretation of map symbols, bar graphs, pictographs, line graphs. | |
| Art | Drawing, painting, work with clay; craft activities. | Painting, drawing with crayons and chalk, clay; craft activities. | Drawing, cutting, designs, constructing with paper. | Developing fine motor skills, observing, appreciating; color; self-expression; study of ten paintings. | Famous paintings; using color and imagination in basic drawing. | |
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