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KINDERGARTEN:
Fundations
How-To books (sequence of steps for how to do something)
Sequence words: first/next/then/last
Telling a story in order
Rhyming words
Book parts (author, illustrator, cover, title)
Position words (next to, under, behind, between, in front of,...)
Opposites
Drawing details and adding labels to your picture
Circular stories (If you Give a Mouse a Cookie)
Asking and answering questions about likes/dislikes
Days of the week
Matching letters to beginning sounds
We read:
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff
If You Give A Moose A Muffin by Laura Numeroff
If You Bring A Mouse To School by Laura Numeroff
Where's Spot by Eric Hill
Five Little Penguins Slipping on the Ice by Steve Metzger and Laura Bryant
If You Want To See A Whale by Julie Fogliano and Erin E. Stead
Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
GRADE 1:
Fundations
Family vocab
Same/different (both, different, alike)
Basic Venn Diagram
Compare/contrast books
5 question words
Beginning/middle/end of stories
Sequence words (after that, finally)
Animal/plant life cycles: describing a process
Setting/characters in stories
Fiction/nonfiction
Making a list with commas
End marks (period, exclamation point, question mark)
-ing endings
Magic "e" words
Write a nonfiction book about an animal with headings/table of contents
Write a story from pictures in sequence
Math vocab for story problems (how many fewer/more, in all, altogether,...)
Measuring
Who has/I have
-er/-est
Compound words
We read:
Families Around the World by Clare Lewis
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Life Cycle of a Chicken by Angela Royston
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson
Life Cycle of a Spider by Ron Fridell and Patricia Walsh
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Bats in the Band by Brian Lies
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Mr. Pine's Purple House by Leonard Kessler
Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle
Hey, Pancakes! by Tamson Weston
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog by Mo Willems
Biggest, Fastest, Strongest by Steve Jenkins
Things That Are Most in the World by Judi Barrett
The Wild Toboggan Ride by Suzan Reid and Eugenie Fernandez
The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy
Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy
GRADE 2:
Narrative writing
Using describing words
Dialogue
-er/-est
Pronouns
Using more detailed transition/sequence words
Making a "hook" for your writing
Writing a letter
Writing a story in sequence from pictures with details and dialogue
Homophones
Basic idioms
Math vocab for story problems; explaining your answer in writing (how do you know?)
Contractions
3 sounds of -ed
"A" versus "an"
We read:
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Wake Up, Mr. B! by Penny Dale
My Mouth Is A Volcano by Julia Cook
Aunt Ant Leaves Through the Leaves by Nancy Coffelt
The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne
Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles by Marvin Terban
A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne
The World Is Your Oyster by Tamara James
More Parts by Tedd Arnold
GRADE 3:
Prefix/suffix
Reading comprehension and literacy responses
Using adjectives and adverbs in writing
Character traits: internal vs. external
Author's purpose
Fact/opinion
Writing an opinion piece with 3 reasons and supporting examples
Food chain and animal adaptations
Writing a nonfiction book about a topic you are an expert on, including text features (glossary/index/diagram/table of contents)
Making inferences
Math vocab for word problems (combined, reduced, estimate, fewer/less, increase/decrease by,...)
Summarizing nonfiction text
More opposite pairs (shallow/deep, north/south, east/west, thick/thin, loose/tight,...)
Academic vocab (demonstrate, infer, summarize, restate,...)
Writing a reflection
-er/-est
Compare/Contrast
3 sounds of -ed
Genres (mystery, non-fiction,...)
Main idea
Contractions
We read:
Poems by Judith Viorst, Mary Ann Hoberman, Shel Silverstein
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Who Eats What? by Patricia Lauber
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
Biggest, Fastest, Strongest by Steve Jenkins
Earthworms by Claire Llewellyn and Barrie Watts
We Hate Rain by James Stevenson
Third Grade Detectives: The Case of the Dirty Clue by George E. Stanley
Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff
Mel's Diner by Marissa Moss
KINDERGARTEN:
Fundations
How-To books (sequence of steps for how to do something)
Sequence words: first/next/then/last
Telling a story in order
Rhyming words
Book parts (author, illustrator, cover, title)
Position words (next to, under, behind, between, in front of,...)
Opposites
Drawing details and adding labels to your picture
Circular stories (If you Give a Mouse a Cookie)
Asking and answering questions about likes/dislikes
Days of the week
Matching letters to beginning sounds
We read:
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff
If You Give A Moose A Muffin by Laura Numeroff
If You Bring A Mouse To School by Laura Numeroff
Where's Spot by Eric Hill
Five Little Penguins Slipping on the Ice by Steve Metzger and Laura Bryant
If You Want To See A Whale by Julie Fogliano and Erin E. Stead
Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
GRADE 1:
Fundations
Family vocab
Same/different (both, different, alike)
Basic Venn Diagram
Compare/contrast books
5 question words
Beginning/middle/end of stories
Sequence words (after that, finally)
Animal/plant life cycles: describing a process
Setting/characters in stories
Fiction/nonfiction
Making a list with commas
End marks (period, exclamation point, question mark)
-ing endings
Magic "e" words
Write a nonfiction book about an animal with headings/table of contents
Write a story from pictures in sequence
Math vocab for story problems (how many fewer/more, in all, altogether,...)
Measuring
Who has/I have
-er/-est
Compound words
We read:
Families Around the World by Clare Lewis
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Life Cycle of a Chicken by Angela Royston
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson
Life Cycle of a Spider by Ron Fridell and Patricia Walsh
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Bats in the Band by Brian Lies
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Mr. Pine's Purple House by Leonard Kessler
Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle
Hey, Pancakes! by Tamson Weston
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog by Mo Willems
Biggest, Fastest, Strongest by Steve Jenkins
Things That Are Most in the World by Judi Barrett
The Wild Toboggan Ride by Suzan Reid and Eugenie Fernandez
The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy
Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy
GRADE 2:
Narrative writing
Using describing words
Dialogue
-er/-est
Pronouns
Using more detailed transition/sequence words
Making a "hook" for your writing
Writing a letter
Writing a story in sequence from pictures with details and dialogue
Homophones
Basic idioms
Math vocab for story problems; explaining your answer in writing (how do you know?)
Contractions
3 sounds of -ed
"A" versus "an"
We read:
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Wake Up, Mr. B! by Penny Dale
My Mouth Is A Volcano by Julia Cook
Aunt Ant Leaves Through the Leaves by Nancy Coffelt
The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne
Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles by Marvin Terban
A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne
The World Is Your Oyster by Tamara James
More Parts by Tedd Arnold
GRADE 3:
Prefix/suffix
Reading comprehension and literacy responses
Using adjectives and adverbs in writing
Character traits: internal vs. external
Author's purpose
Fact/opinion
Writing an opinion piece with 3 reasons and supporting examples
Food chain and animal adaptations
Writing a nonfiction book about a topic you are an expert on, including text features (glossary/index/diagram/table of contents)
Making inferences
Math vocab for word problems (combined, reduced, estimate, fewer/less, increase/decrease by,...)
Summarizing nonfiction text
More opposite pairs (shallow/deep, north/south, east/west, thick/thin, loose/tight,...)
Academic vocab (demonstrate, infer, summarize, restate,...)
Writing a reflection
-er/-est
Compare/Contrast
3 sounds of -ed
Genres (mystery, non-fiction,...)
Main idea
Contractions
We read:
Poems by Judith Viorst, Mary Ann Hoberman, Shel Silverstein
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Who Eats What? by Patricia Lauber
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
Biggest, Fastest, Strongest by Steve Jenkins
Earthworms by Claire Llewellyn and Barrie Watts
We Hate Rain by James Stevenson
Third Grade Detectives: The Case of the Dirty Clue by George E. Stanley
Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff
Mel's Diner by Marissa Moss