Year Plan
August-December
Stories
Old Yeller/ Setting and Plot/Subject and Predicate
Mother Fletcher’s Gift/Character and Theme/Dependent and Independent Clauses
Viva New Jersey/ Compare and Contrast/ Sentence Types: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex Sentences/Conjunctions
The Chimpanzees I Love/Author’s Purpose/ Regular and Irregular Verb Tenses
January-May
Stories
Morning Traffic/Draw Conclusions/ Adjectives and Articles
The Emperor’s Silent Army/Main Idea/Adverbs
Egypt/ Graphic Sources/Commas
Juan Verdades/Generalizations/Quotations
"The Color of My Words" by Lynn Joseph/ Reading Comprehension/Story Elements/Figurative Language