Choose the resources below that help you and your student reach your goals. You do no not have to use all of the resources below. However, these resources are suggestions.
Readers
- Baldwin's Fifth Year Reader or New National Fourth Reader
- Reader report form Use to report on each days' reading lesson
- Free Reading (from list below) and report. 20 Min a day.
- Scholastic Words Flashcard Maker
- Scholastic Spelling Words Games
Spelling Choose one of the following:
- McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book Pages 74-90
- Sander's Union Speller pages 76-89
- Swinton' Word Book
- Reeds Word Lessons Pages 108- 145
- Spelling Lessons report form for use with spellers above.
- Student dictionary for new words. "Pupils should be required to keep a list of the words which they misspell, and to rewrite them frequently, in sentences and separately (Reed, Alonzo, 1896)."
- Spelling Rules Worth Knowing
English Lessons and Handwriting
- Graded Lessons in English 101 lessons 1st half of 2 year course
- Cursive handwriting
Topics to be covered this year
- Silent and oral reading
- Types of literature
- Presenting original plays
- Listening skills
- Dictionary use for word meaning
- Common homonyms Homophones and homographs
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Using a thesaurus
- Plurals and possessives
- Kinds of sentences
- Parts of sentences
- Writing outlines
- Paragraph writing (for educator) for child
- Writing letters, Letter Writing interactive game, stories, reports, poems, plays
- Preparing a simple bibliography
- Proofreading skills Proofreading Proofreading symbols
- Parts of a newspaper
- Using study materials: keys, tables, graphs, charts, legends, library catalogs, index, table of contents, reference materials, maps
Extras
Instructions
- Read a book of your choice for 20 minutes.
- If you finish the books below, you may choose books from your bookself above.
Use this form to answer questions about your reading
Books to be read this year
- Flower Fables
- Treasure Island
- The Secret Garden
- The Princess & The Goblin (pdf)
- Around The World In 80 Days (pdf)
- The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine (pdf)
- The Princess & The Curdie (pdf)
- The Adventures of Robin hood (pdf)
- Kidnapped (pdf)
- The Prince & The Pauper (pdf)
- Robinson Crusoe (pdf)
- Call Of The Wild (pdf)
- Captains Courageous (pdf)
- Gawayne And The Green Knight (pdf)
- Mystery at Putnam Hall: The School Chums' Strange Discovery