


Teach sound recognition with an animal alphabet book.


Writing an Argument: Developing Support 


Learn to define and understand the elements in a short story



Using connotation to persuade an audience


Identify and create examples of characterization based on comprehension


Identify the structure of a five-paragraph essay



Pre-writing and writing the five-paragraph essay


Students will recognize characteristics of upper and lower case letters.



Use graphics to infer an author's meaning


Pre-reading strategies to increase comprehension of nonfiction texts


Learn to outline and write a compare and contrast essay


Students will learn to hear and manipulate the sounds in words. Students will be able to isolate the first sound in a word, the last sound in a word, and all the sounds in a word.


Students will use picture cards to find rhyming word pairs.


Students will practice writing, spelling, and using new words.



Increase comprehension by the use of context clues|
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