{"id":1717,"date":"2024-05-22T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T06:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regardefamilia.com\/?page_id=1717"},"modified":"2024-05-23T21:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T21:01:52","slug":"language-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regardefamilia.com\/index.php\/language-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style>\n<h1>Language Arts<\/h1>\n<p>RFS&#8217;s Language Arts cirriculum challenges students to reach a level of literacy and fluency in reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visual representation that will enable them to become life-long learners.\n<\/p>\n<h6>BY SUBJECT:<\/h6>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/regardefamilia.com\/?page_id=901\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTechnology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a ><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEntrepreneurship<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/regardefamilia.com\/?page_id=890\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tComputer Science<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/regardefamilia.com\/index.php\/chess\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChess<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a 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\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMusic<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a ><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCapoiera<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/regardefamilia.com\/?page_id=900\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSports<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/regardefamilia.com\/?page_id=899\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSpirituality<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Kindergarten Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading foundations<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Letter identification\n<ol>\n<li>Find the letter in the alphabet: uppercase<\/li>\n<li>Find the letter in the alphabet: lowercase<\/li>\n<li>Choose the letter that you hear: uppercase<\/li>\n<li>Choose the letter that you hear: lowercase<\/li>\n<li>Frequently confused letters: find the letter<\/li>\n<li>Frequently confused letters: find all the letters<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lowercase and uppercase letters\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the lowercase letter that matches: c, k, o, p, s, u, v, w, x, z<\/li>\n<li>Choose the lowercase letter that matches: f, i, j, l, m, t, y<\/li>\n<li>Choose the lowercase letter that matches: a, b, d, e, g, h, n, q, r<\/li>\n<li>Choose the lowercase letter that matches: review<\/li>\n<li>Find the lowercase letters<\/li>\n<li>Choose the uppercase letter that matches: C, K, O, P, S, U, V, W, X, Z<\/li>\n<li>Choose the uppercase letter that matches: F, I, J, L, M, T, Y<\/li>\n<li>Choose the uppercase letter that matches: A, B, D, E, G, H, N, Q, R<\/li>\n<li>Choose the uppercase letter that matches: review<\/li>\n<li>Find the uppercase letters<\/li>\n<li>Put the letters in ABC order<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Word recognition\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the two words that are the same<\/li>\n<li>Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly<\/li>\n<li>Find a word in a sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consonants and vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Sort consonants and vowels<\/li>\n<li>Find the vowel in the word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Syllables\n<ol>\n<li>How many syllables does the word have?<\/li>\n<li>Which word has more syllables?<\/li>\n<li>Sort by the number of syllables<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rhyming\n<ol>\n<li>Which word has the same ending?<\/li>\n<li>Which two words have the same ending?<\/li>\n<li>Choose the picture that rhymes with the word<\/li>\n<li>Which word does not rhyme?<\/li>\n<li>Complete the rhyme<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blending and segmenting\n<ol>\n<li>Blend onset and rime together to make a word<\/li>\n<li>Blend each sound in a word together<\/li>\n<li>Identify the first, second, and last sound in a word<\/li>\n<li>Put the sounds in order<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Beginning and ending sounds\n<ol>\n<li>Which two words start with the same sound?<\/li>\n<li>Which word ends with the same sound?<\/li>\n<li>Which two words end with the same sound?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Letter-sound associations\n<ol>\n<li>Find the words that begin with a given sound<\/li>\n<li>Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: b, d, j, k, p, t, v, z<\/li>\n<li>Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: f, l, m, n, r, s<\/li>\n<li>Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: c, g, h, w<\/li>\n<li>Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: review<\/li>\n<li>Which letter does the word start with?<\/li>\n<li>Which letter does the word end with?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consonant blends and digraphs\n<ol>\n<li>Which consonant blend does the word start with?<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Does the word start with a consonant blend?<\/li>\n<li>Which consonant blend does the word end with?<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right final consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Does the word end with a consonant blend?<\/li>\n<li>Choose the word that matches the picture: -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz, -ck<\/li>\n<li>Choose the correct digraph<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short a\n<ol>\n<li>Find the short a word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short a word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short a word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short a sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short e\n<ol>\n<li>Find the short e word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the short e word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short e word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short i\n<ol>\n<li>Find the short i word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short i word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short i words<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short i sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short o\n<ol>\n<li>Find the short o word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short o word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short o word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short o sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short u\n<ol>\n<li>Find the short u word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the short u word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short u word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the short vowel sound in a word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right short vowel<\/li>\n<li>Spell the short vowel word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word<\/li>\n<li>Read questions with short vowel words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Long vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Find the word with the same vowel sound<\/li>\n<li>Which two words have the same vowel sound?<\/li>\n<li>Find the long a word<\/li>\n<li>Find the long e word<\/li>\n<li>Find the long i word<\/li>\n<li>Find the long o word<\/li>\n<li>Find the long u word<\/li>\n<li>Sort short and long vowel words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sight words\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the two sight words that are the same<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 1: ate, he, of, that, was<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 2: are, green, on, please, they<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 3: be, have, or, pretty, this<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words: review sets 1, 2, 3<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 4: all, but, ride, saw, what<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 5: about, like, she, under, we<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 6: black, into, made, ran, white<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words: review sets 4, 5, 6<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 7: am, did, get, now, well<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 8: fast, good, him, take, will<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 9: came, going, say, too, with<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 10: brown, does, eat, must, went<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words: review sets 7, 8, 9, 10<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words: review sets 1\u201310<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct sight word<\/li>\n<li>Spell the sight word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Text features\n<ol>\n<li>Identify book parts and features<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reality vs. fiction\n<ol>\n<li>Which could happen in real life?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>What is the picture about?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Inference and analysis\n<ol>\n<li>Which feeling matches the picture?<\/li>\n<li>What will happen next?<\/li>\n<li>What am I?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Setting and character\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the setting or character<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sequence\n<ol>\n<li>Order images in a story<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Who is telling the story?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-along literary texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read along with fantasy<\/li>\n<li>Read along with realistic fiction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-alone literary texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read animal fantasy<\/li>\n<li>Read realistic fiction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-along informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read along about science and nature<\/li>\n<li>Read along about famous people<\/li>\n<li>Read along about food<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-alone informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals\n<ol>\n<li>Read about places<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Color and number words\n<ol>\n<li>Use number words: one to ten<\/li>\n<li>Use color words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and verbs\n<ol>\n<li>Compare pictures using adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Find the picture that matches the action ver<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Location words\n<ol>\n<li>Inside and outside, above and below, next to and beside<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best location word to match the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Question words\n<ol>\n<li>Who, what, when, where, or why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Match antonyms to pictures<\/li>\n<li>Match synonyms<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Categories\n<ol>\n<li>Sort objects into categories<\/li>\n<li>Which one is not like the 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number of syllables<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rhyming\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that rhymes with the word<\/li>\n<li>Which word does not rhyme?<\/li>\n<li>Complete the rhyme<\/li>\n<li>Complete the poem with a word that rhymes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blending and segmenting\n<ol>\n<li>Blend each sound in a word together<\/li>\n<li>Identify each sound in a word<\/li>\n<li>Put the sounds in order<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consonant sounds and letters\n<ol>\n<li>Which two words start with the same sound?<\/li>\n<li>Which two words end with the same sound?<\/li>\n<li>Which letter does the word start with?<\/li>\n<li>Which letter does the word end with?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consonant blends and digraphs\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Does the word start with a consonant blend?<\/li>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the word: ng, nk<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right final consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Does the word end with a consonant blend?<\/li>\n<li>Fill in the missing consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word to match the picture: -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz, -ck<\/li>\n<li>Choose the correct digraph<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right digraph<\/li>\n<li>Spell the digraph word<\/li>\n<li>Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short a\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the short a word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short a word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short a sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short e\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the short e word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short e word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short i\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the short i word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short i words<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short i sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short o\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the short o word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short o word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short o sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short u\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the short u word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the short u word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the short vowel sound in a word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right short vowel<\/li>\n<li>Spell the short vowel word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short and long vowel sounds\n<ol>\n<li>Find the word with the same vowel sound<\/li>\n<li>Which two words have the same vowel sound?<\/li>\n<li>Sort short and long vowel words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Silent e\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the silent e word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the silent e words<\/li>\n<li>Spell the silent e word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the silent e sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Vowel teams\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the vowel team word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the vowel team words<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right vowel team<\/li>\n<li>Choose the vowel team sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short and long vowel patterns\n<ol>\n<li>Match the short a and long a words to pictures<\/li>\n<li>Match the short e and long e words to pictures<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short i or long i word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short u or long u word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>R-controlled vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the r-control word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right r-controlled vowel: ar, er, ir, or, ur<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the diphthong word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the right diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Two-syllable words\n<ol>\n<li>Put two syllables together to create a word: easier<\/li>\n<li>Put two syllables together to create a word: harder<\/li>\n<li>Complete the two-syllable words<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with a two-syllable word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sight words\n<ol>\n<li>Read sight words set 1: again, each, from, may, stop, than, when<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 2: after, best, gave, has, once, them, were<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 3: as, by, four, her, more, some, think, way<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words: review sets 1, 2, 3<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 4: every, could, how, over, put, there, who<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 5: ask, five, just, long, read, then, want<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 6: any, give, his, new, open, sleep, wish<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words set 7: also, fly, know, live, old, soon, why<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words: review sets 4, 5, 6, 7<\/li>\n<li>Read sight words: review sets 1\u20137<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct sight word: sets 1, 2, 3<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct sight word: sets 4, 5, 6, 7<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct sight word: review sets 1\u20137<\/li>\n<li>Spell the sight word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Reality vs. fiction\n<ol>\n<li>Which could happen in real life?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>What is the picture about?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sequence\n<ol>\n<li>Order images in a story<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Who is the narrator?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Inference and analysis\n<ol>\n<li>Which feeling matches the picture?<\/li>\n<li>What will happen next?<\/li>\n<li>What am I?<\/li>\n<li>Use actions and dialogue to understand characters<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Setting and character\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the setting or character<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text features\n<ol>\n<li>Use text features<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-along literary texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read along with fantasy<\/li>\n<li>Read along with realistic fiction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-alone literary texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read animal fantasy<\/li>\n<li>Read realistic fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read myths, legends, and fables<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-along informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read along about science and nature<\/li>\n<li>Read along about famous people<\/li>\n<li>Read along about food<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-alone informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals<\/li>\n<li>Read about sports and hobbies<\/li>\n<li>Read about famous places<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Nouns and adjectives\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the sentence with a noun to match the picture<\/li>\n<li>Compare pictures using adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Use number words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Categories\n<ol>\n<li>Sort words into categories<\/li>\n<li>Which word is not like the others?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonyms<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonyms<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words\n<ol>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words with pictures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shades of meaning\n<ol>\n<li>Find the words with related meanings<\/li>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Order related words based on meaning<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Use words with prefixes and suffixes<\/li>\n<li>Understand words with prefixes and suffixes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Put the letters in ABC order<\/li>\n<li>Put the words in ABC order<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences\n<ol>\n<li>Identify statements<\/li>\n<li>Identify questions<\/li>\n<li>Identify exclamations<\/li>\n<li>Identify commands<\/li>\n<li>Choose the right end mark<\/li>\n<li>Statement, question, command, or exclamation?<\/li>\n<li>Who, what, when, where, or why?<\/li>\n<li>Is it the naming or action part of the sentence?<\/li>\n<li>Find the complete sentences<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence<\/li>\n<li>Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Is the noun a person, animal, place, or thing?<\/li>\n<li>Select the nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify nouns in a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Sort common and proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Regular plurals: select the word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Form regular plurals with -s and -es<\/li>\n<li>Use singular and plural nouns<\/li>\n<li>Irregular plurals: select the word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Select the possessive noun that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular possessive<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns\n<ol>\n<li>Choose between subject and object personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose the correct personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Choose the correct possessive pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct possessive pronoun<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verbs\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture<\/li>\n<li>Identify action verbs<\/li>\n<li>Use action verbs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>One or more than one?<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the best verb<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the best subject<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best verb<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best subject<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Select the sentence that tells about the present<\/li>\n<li>Select the sentence that tells about the past<\/li>\n<li>Select the sentence that tells about the future<\/li>\n<li>Place sentences on a timeline<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Identify the irregular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline<\/li>\n<li>Complete the verb with the ending that you hear<\/li>\n<li>Match the -ed and -ing sentences to the pictures<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct present tense form<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct past tense form<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct form<\/li>\n<li>To have: use the correct form<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Articles\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct article: a or an<\/li>\n<li>Identify articles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives\n<ol>\n<li>Use sense words<\/li>\n<li>Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?<\/li>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Compare pictures using comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Identify comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Does the adjective compare two or more than two?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Select the best preposition to match the picture<\/li>\n<li>Select the best preposition to complete the sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Linking words\n<ol>\n<li>Use conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Identify time-order words<\/li>\n<li>Put the sentences in order<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Contractions\n<ol>\n<li>Match the contractions<\/li>\n<li>Form pronoun-verb contractions<\/li>\n<li>Form contractions with &#8220;not&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct contraction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Capitalize the names of people and pets<\/li>\n<li>Capitalize days and months<\/li>\n<li>Capitalize sentences and the pronoun &#8220;I&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Second Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading foundations<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Syllables\n<ol>\n<li>How many syllables does the word have?<\/li>\n<li>Sort by the number of syllables<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rhyming\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that rhymes with the word<\/li>\n<li>Which word does not rhyme?<\/li>\n<li>Complete the rhyme<\/li>\n<li>Complete the poem with a word that rhymes<\/li>\n<li>Spell rhyming words to answer riddles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consonant blends and digraphs\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct initial consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct final consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Spell the word with a consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Spell words with final consonant patterns: ng, nk<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct digraph: ch, sh, th<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct digraph: ph, qu, wh<\/li>\n<li>Spell the digraph word: ch, sh, th<\/li>\n<li>Spell the digraph word: ph, qu, wh<\/li>\n<li>Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with a three-letter consonant blend word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the words with silent letters<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct short vowel<\/li>\n<li>Spell the short a word<\/li>\n<li>Spell the short e word<\/li>\n<li>Spell the short i word<\/li>\n<li>Spell the short o word<\/li>\n<li>Spell the short u word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Silent e\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the silent e word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the silent e words<\/li>\n<li>Spell the silent e word<\/li>\n<li>Choose the silent e sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Vowel teams\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the vowel team word<\/li>\n<li>Complete the vowel team words<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct vowel team<\/li>\n<li>Choose the vowel team sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Short and long vowel patterns\n<ol>\n<li>Sort short and long vowel words<\/li>\n<li>Match the short a and long a words to pictures<\/li>\n<li>Match the short e and long e words to pictures<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short i or long i word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Choose the short u or long u word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words<\/li>\n<li>Is the syllable open or closed?<\/li>\n<li>Spell words with open and closed syllables<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct -ild, -ind, -old, -olt, or -ost word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Long vowel patterns\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the words with a given long vowel<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long a word: silent e, ai, ay<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long e word: ee, ea<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long i word: silent e, ie, y<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long o word: silent e, oa, ow<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long u word: silent e, ue, oo, ew<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>R-controlled vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the r-control word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct r-controlled vowel: ar, er, ir, or, ur<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct r-controlled vowel: er, ir, ur<\/li>\n<li>Choose the r-control sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the diphthong word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Complete the word with the correct diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow<\/li>\n<li>Choose the diphthong sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Variant vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Complete words with variant vowels<\/li>\n<li>Which word has a different vowel sound?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Soft g and c\n<ol>\n<li>Sort soft and hard g words and soft and hard c words<\/li>\n<li>Pick the soft g or soft c word that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Choose the soft g or soft c sentence that matches the picture<\/li>\n<li>Spell the soft g or soft c word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Two-syllable words\n<ol>\n<li>Put two syllables together to create a word: easier<\/li>\n<li>Put two syllables together to create a word: harder<\/li>\n<li>Complete the two-syllable words<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with a two-syllable word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consonant-l-e\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the consonant-l-e words<\/li>\n<li>Choose the correct spelling of the consonant-l-e word<\/li>\n<li>Spell the consonant-l-e word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sight words\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the sight word that you hear<\/li>\n<li>Complete the sentence with the correct sight word<\/li>\n<li>Spell the sight word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sequence\n<ol>\n<li>Order events in a story<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Inference and analysis\n<ol>\n<li>Which book title goes with the picture?<\/li>\n<li>Use actions and dialogue to understand characters<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theme\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Setting and character\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the setting or character<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Topic and purpose\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the purpose of a text<\/li>\n<li>Determine the topic and purpose of informational passages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cause and effect\n<ol>\n<li>Match each effect to its cause<\/li>\n<li>Match each cause to its effect<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast\n<ol>\n<li>Compare and contrast in informational passages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text features\n<ol>\n<li>Use text features<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-along literary texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read along with realistic fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read along with fantasy<\/li>\n<li>Read along with historical fiction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-alone literary texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read animal fantasy<\/li>\n<li>Read realistic fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read science fiction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-along informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read along about science and nature<\/li>\n<li>Read along about famous people<\/li>\n<li>Read along about art, music, and traditions<\/li>\n<li>Read along about business and technology<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read-alone informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals<\/li>\n<li>Read about sports and hobbies<\/li>\n<li>Read about famous places<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read about famous people<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizing writing\n<ol>\n<li>Put the sentences in order<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Topic sentences\n<ol>\n<li>Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence<\/li>\n<li>Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs<\/li>\n<li>Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Linking words\n<ol>\n<li>Use conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Use subordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Identify time-order words<\/li>\n<li>Use time-order words<\/li>\n<li>Use linking words to complete a passage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s purpose\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the text that matches the writer&#8217;s purpose<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Opinion writing\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the fact and opinion sentences<\/li>\n<li>Complete the opinion passage with an example<\/li>\n<li>Complete the opinion passage with a reason<\/li>\n<li>Complete the opinion-reason-example table<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Descriptive details\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the sensory details that match the picture<\/li>\n<li>Add descriptive details to sentences<\/li>\n<li>Revise the sentence using a stronger verb<\/li>\n<li>Insert dialogue into a story<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sentence variety\n<ol>\n<li>Combine sentences: subjects<\/li>\n<li>Combine sentences: predicates<\/li>\n<li>Combine sentences: subjects and predicates<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite sentences using introductory elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the word with the ending that you hear<\/li>\n<li>Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis-<\/li>\n<li>Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less<\/li>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Compound words\n<ol>\n<li>Form compound words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Form compound words<\/li>\n<li>Form and use compound words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Categories\n<ol>\n<li>Sort words into categories<\/li>\n<li>Which word is not like the others?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonym<\/li>\n<li>Find synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonym<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence uses an antonym?<\/li>\n<li>Find antonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence has the same meaning?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Homophones with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Identify homophones<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words\n<ol>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words with pictures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shades of meaning\n<ol>\n<li>Shades of meaning with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Find the words with related meanings<\/li>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Order related words based on meaning<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Idioms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first letter<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first two letters<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first three letters<\/li>\n<li>Use guide words<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence a statement, question, command, or exclamation?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the subject of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Select the nouns<\/li>\n<li>Which word is a noun?<\/li>\n<li>Identify nouns<\/li>\n<li>Sort common and proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify common and proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Form regular plurals with -s and -es<\/li>\n<li>Use regular plurals with -s and -es<\/li>\n<li>Use singular and plural nouns<\/li>\n<li>Is the noun singular or plural?<\/li>\n<li>Form and use irregular plurals<\/li>\n<li>Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular or plural possessive<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between subject and object personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Replace the singular noun with a personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Replace the plural noun with a personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with &#8220;I&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Choose the correct personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Identify possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Use action verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify action verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify helping verbs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>One or more than one?<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct subject or verb<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun-verb agreement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Which sentence is in the regular past tense?<\/li>\n<li>Identify verbs in the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Place sentences on a timeline<\/li>\n<li>Change the sentence to future tense<\/li>\n<li>Identify the irregular past tense I<\/li>\n<li>Identify the irregular past tense II<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4<\/li>\n<li>Match the -ed and -ing sentences to the pictures<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct present tense form<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct past tense form<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct form<\/li>\n<li>To have: use the correct form<\/li>\n<li>Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Articles\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct article: a or an<\/li>\n<li>Identify articles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Use sense words<\/li>\n<li>Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the adjective that describes the noun<\/li>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Identify comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where?<\/li>\n<li>Identify adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Is the word an adjective or adverb?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Select the best preposition to match the picture<\/li>\n<li>Select the best preposition to complete the sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Contractions\n<ol>\n<li>Match the contractions<\/li>\n<li>Form pronoun-verb contractions<\/li>\n<li>Form contractions with &#8220;not&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Use pronoun-verb contractions<\/li>\n<li>Use contractions with &#8220;not&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Use contractions in a sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Punctuation\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with a series<\/li>\n<li>Commas with dates<\/li>\n<li>Commas with the names of places<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Capitalizing the names of people and pets<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing days, months, and holidays<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization: review<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<li>Greetings and closings of<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviations\n<ol>\n<li>Abbreviate days of the week<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate months of the year<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Third Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading foundations<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Short and long vowels\n<ol>\n<li>Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell rhyming words to answer riddles (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long a word: silent e, ai, ay, ea, ey, eigh (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long e word: silent e, ee, ea, ie (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long i word: silent e, ie, y, igh, ind, ild (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long o word: silent e, oa, ow, old, ost, olt (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the long u word: silent e, ue, oo, ew, ui (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blends, digraphs, and trigraphs\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the digraph word: ch, sh, th (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the digraph or trigraph word: ph, mb, kn, wh, dge, tch (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell words with final consonant patterns: ng, nk (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multisyllabic words\n<ol>\n<li>Identify syllable types (42)<\/li>\n<li>Read multisyllabic words (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell words with open and closed syllables (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell consonant-l-e words (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell multisyllabic words (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Variant, diphthong, and r vowel patterns\n<ol>\n<li>Spell words with r vowel patterns (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell words with vowel diphthong patterns (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell words with variant vowels: oo, ou, ow, ea (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Irregular words\n<ol>\n<li>Select the letters that make a given sound (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the sight word: easier (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Spell the sight word: harder (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Use key details to determine the main idea (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage (55)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theme\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s purpose\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the author&#8217;s purpose: mixed media<\/li>\n<li>Identify the author&#8217;s purpose: passages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text structure\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the order of events in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match causes with effects<\/li>\n<li>Match causes and effects in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match problems with their solutions<\/li>\n<li>Identify text structures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sensory details\n<ol>\n<li>Sort sensory details<\/li>\n<li>Identify sensory details<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Similes with pictures (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of similes (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish characters&#8217; points of view<\/li>\n<li>Compare information from two informational texts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Inference\n<ol>\n<li>Which book title goes with the picture? (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Use actions and dialogue to understand characters<\/li>\n<li>Draw inferences from a text<\/li>\n<li>Make predictions about a story (60)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Story elements\n<ol>\n<li>Identify story elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Visual elements\n<ol>\n<li>Compare mythological illustrations (0)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text features\n<ol>\n<li>Use text features<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rhyme\n<ol>\n<li>Label the rhyme scheme<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary texts: level 1\n<ol>\n<li>Read fantasy with illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read historical fiction with illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read science fiction with illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read realistic fiction with illustrations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary texts: level 2\n<ol>\n<li>Read realistic fiction: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Read realistic fiction: set 2 (36)<\/li>\n<li>Read historical fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read poetry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Informational texts: level 1\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals<\/li>\n<li>Read about food<\/li>\n<li>Read about art, music, and traditions<\/li>\n<li>Read about sports and hobbies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Informational texts: level 2\n<ol>\n<li>Read about famous people<\/li>\n<li>Read about famous places<\/li>\n<li>Read about business and technology<\/li>\n<li>Read about science and nature<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizing writing\n<ol>\n<li>Put the sentences in order<\/li>\n<li>Order items from most general to most specific<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Topic sentences\n<ol>\n<li>Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence<\/li>\n<li>Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs<\/li>\n<li>Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Writer&#8217;s purpose\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the text that matches the writer&#8217;s purpose<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Linking words\n<ol>\n<li>Identify time-order words<\/li>\n<li>Use time-order words<\/li>\n<li>Use coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Use subordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best transition<\/li>\n<li>Use linking words to complete a passage<\/li>\n<li>Opinion writing\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify an author&#8217;s statement of opinion<\/li>\n<li>Choose reasons to support an opinion<\/li>\n<li>Complete the opinion passage with an example<\/li>\n<li>Complete the opinion passage with a reason<\/li>\n<li>Complete the opinion-reason-example table<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Descriptive details\n<ol>\n<li>Add descriptive details to sentences<\/li>\n<li>Show character emotions and traits<\/li>\n<li>Revise the sentence using a stronger verb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sentence variety\n<ol>\n<li>Combine sentences: subjects and predicates (30)<\/li>\n<li>Combine sentences by adding key details<\/li>\n<li>Create varied sentences based on models<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis-<\/li>\n<li>Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review<\/li>\n<li>Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning<\/li>\n<li>Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern analogies<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern sentences<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Compound words\n<ol>\n<li>Form compound words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Form compound words<\/li>\n<li>Form and use compound words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Categories\n<ol>\n<li>Select the members of a group<\/li>\n<li>Select the words that don&#8217;t belong<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonym<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence has the same meaning?<\/li>\n<li>Find synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonym<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence uses an antonym?<\/li>\n<li>Find antonyms in context<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Homophones with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Identify homophones<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words\n<ol>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Which definition matches the sentence?<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence matches the definition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shades of meaning\n<ol>\n<li>Shades of meaning with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Positive and negative connotation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Idioms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<li>Use academic vocabulary in context<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first letter<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first two letters<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first three letters<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically: challenge<\/li>\n<li>Use guide words<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence a statement, question, command, or exclamation?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete subject of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple or compound?<\/li>\n<li>Create compound sentences<\/li>\n<li>Order the words to create a sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Which word is a noun?<\/li>\n<li>Identify nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify nouns \u2013 with abstract nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify common and proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies<\/li>\n<li>Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies<\/li>\n<li>Is the noun singular or plural?<\/li>\n<li>Form and use irregular plurals<\/li>\n<li>Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular or plural possessive<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between subject and object personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Replace the noun with a personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with &#8220;I&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Identify possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Use action verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify action verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify main verbs and helping verbs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Is the subject singular or plural? (18)<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct subject or verb<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun-verb agreement (19)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Which sentence is in the regular past tense?<\/li>\n<li>Identify verbs in the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Identify the irregular past tense I<\/li>\n<li>Identify the irregular past tense II<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 5<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct form<\/li>\n<li>To have: use the correct form<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?<\/li>\n<li>Change the sentence to future tense<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Articles\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct article: a or an<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct article: a, an, or the<\/li>\n<li>Identify articles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? (93) Proficiency Ribbon<\/li>\n<li>Identify the adjective that describes the noun<\/li>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where?<\/li>\n<li>Identify adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Is the word an adjective or adverb?<\/li>\n<li>Use adjectives to compare<\/li>\n<li>Spell adjectives that compare<\/li>\n<li>Use adverbs to compare<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify prepositions<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositions and their objects<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Identify subordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Contractions\n<ol>\n<li>Pronoun-verb contractions<\/li>\n<li>Contractions with &#8220;not&#8221; (0)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commas\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with a series<\/li>\n<li>Commas with dates<\/li>\n<li>Commas with the names of places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect (85) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing days, months, and holidays (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization: review (100) Medal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviations\n<ol>\n<li>Abbreviate days of the week (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate months of the year<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate people&#8217;s titles<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate customary units of measurement<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate metric units of measurement<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate street names<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate state names<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate street names and state names: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Greetings and closings of letters (36)<\/li>\n<li>Formatting street addresses<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting and capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<li>Punctuating dialogue (24)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Fourth Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Use key details to determine the main idea<\/li>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<li>Combine main ideas from two texts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theme\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales (14)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s purpose\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the purpose of a text<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text structure\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the order of events in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match causes and effects in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match problems with their solutions<\/li>\n<li>Identify text structures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sensory details\n<ol>\n<li>Sort sensory details<\/li>\n<li>Identify sensory details<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify similes and metaphors<\/li>\n<li>Similes and metaphors with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish characters&#8217; points of view<\/li>\n<li>Compare information from two texts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Inference\n<ol>\n<li>Use actions and dialogue to understand characters<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast characters<\/li>\n<li>Draw inferences from a text<\/li>\n<li>Make predictions about a story<\/li>\n<li>Which book title goes with the picture?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Story elements\n<ol>\n<li>Identify story elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Visual elements\n<ol>\n<li>Compare mythological illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read graphic organizers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text features\n<ol>\n<li>Select and use text features<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Poetry elements\n<ol>\n<li>Label the rhyme scheme<\/li>\n<li>Identify elements of poetry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary texts: level 1\n<ol>\n<li>Read fantasy with illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read realistic fiction with illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read science fiction with illustrations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary texts: level 2\n<ol>\n<li>Read realistic fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read historical fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read poetry<\/li>\n<li>Read drama<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Informational texts: level 1\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals<\/li>\n<li>Read about art, music, and traditions<\/li>\n<li>Read about famous places<\/li>\n<li>Read about sports and hobbies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Informational texts: level 2\n<ol>\n<li>Read about famous people<\/li>\n<li>Read about business and technology<\/li>\n<li>Read about science and nature<\/li>\n<li>Read about history<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizing writing\n<ol>\n<li>Put the sentences in order<\/li>\n<li>Order items from most general to most specific<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<li>Remove the sentence that does not belong<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Introductions and conclusions\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the best topic sentence<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best concluding sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Summarizing\n<ol>\n<li>Summarize a story<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Linking words\n<ol>\n<li>Identify time-order words<\/li>\n<li>Use coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Use subordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best transition<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Developing and supporting arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify an author&#8217;s statement of opinion<\/li>\n<li>Choose reasons to support an opinion<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in literary texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Descriptive details\n<ol>\n<li>Show character emotions and traits<\/li>\n<li>Revise the sentence using a stronger verb<\/li>\n<li>Add imagery to stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sentence variety\n<ol>\n<li>Create varied sentences based on models<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis-<\/li>\n<li>Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review<\/li>\n<li>Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning<\/li>\n<li>Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern analogies<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern sentences<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Compound words\n<ol>\n<li>Form compound words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Form compound words<\/li>\n<li>Form and use compound words<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Categories\n<ol>\n<li>Select the members of a group<\/li>\n<li>Select the words that don&#8217;t belong<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonym<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence has the same meaning?<\/li>\n<li>Find synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonym<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence uses an antonym?<\/li>\n<li>Find antonyms in context<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Homophones with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Identify homophones<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words\n<ol>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Which definition matches the sentence?<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence matches the definition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Idioms and adages\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shades of meaning\n<ol>\n<li>Shades of meaning with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Positive and negative connotation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Find words using context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Use academic vocabulary in context<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first letter<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first two letters<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first three letters<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically: challenge<\/li>\n<li>Use guide words<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<li>Use thesaurus entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete subject of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple or compound?<\/li>\n<li>Create compound sentences<\/li>\n<li>Order the words to create a sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Which word is a noun?<\/li>\n<li>Identify nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify nouns \u2013 with abstract nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify common and proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies<\/li>\n<li>Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies<\/li>\n<li>Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves<\/li>\n<li>Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves<\/li>\n<li>Is the noun singular or plural?<\/li>\n<li>Form and use irregular plurals<\/li>\n<li>Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular or plural possessive<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between subject and object personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Replace the noun with a personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with &#8220;I&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Identify possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify relative pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who and whom<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Use action verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify action verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify main verbs and helping verbs<\/li>\n<li>What does the modal verb show?<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct modal verb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Is the subject singular or plural?<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct subject or verb<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct subject or verb \u2013 with compound subjects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Which sentence is in the regular past tense?<\/li>\n<li>Identify verbs in the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Identify the irregular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4<\/li>\n<li>To be: use the correct form<\/li>\n<li>To have: use the correct form<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?<\/li>\n<li>Change the sentence to future tense<\/li>\n<li>Use the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Choose between the past tense and past participle<\/li>\n<li>Use the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Articles\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct article: a or an<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct article: a, an, or the<\/li>\n<li>Identify articles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? (100) Medal<\/li>\n<li>Identify the adjective that describes the noun<\/li>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Order adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where?<\/li>\n<li>Identify adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Use relative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Is the word an adjective or adverb?<\/li>\n<li>Use adjectives to compare<\/li>\n<li>Spell adjectives that compare<\/li>\n<li>Use adjectives with more and most<\/li>\n<li>Use adverbs to compare<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify prepositions<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositions and their objects<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Identify subordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Contractions\n<ol>\n<li>Pronoun-verb contractions<\/li>\n<li>Contractions with &#8220;not&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commas\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with a series<\/li>\n<li>Commas with dates<\/li>\n<li>Commas with the names of places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses<\/li>\n<li>Commas with introductory words and phrases<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing days, months, and holidays<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing the names of historical events, periods, and documents<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviations\n<ol>\n<li>Abbreviate days of the week<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate months of the year<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate people&#8217;s titles<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate customary units of measurement<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate metric units of measurement<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate street names<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate state names<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate street names and state names: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Greetings and closings of letters<\/li>\n<li>Formatting street addresses<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting and capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<li>Punctuating dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Fifth Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Use key details to determine the main idea<\/li>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<li>Combine main ideas from two texts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theme\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the themes of short stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s purpose and tone\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the purpose of a text<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence is more formal?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text structure\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the order of events in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match causes and effects in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match problems with their solutions<\/li>\n<li>Identify text structures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sensory details\n<ol>\n<li>Sort sensory details<\/li>\n<li>Identify sensory details<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify similes and metaphors<\/li>\n<li>Similes and metaphors with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast points of view<\/li>\n<li>Compare information from two texts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Inference\n<ol>\n<li>Use actions and dialogue to understand characters<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast characters<\/li>\n<li>Draw inferences from a text<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Story elements\n<ol>\n<li>Identify story elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text features\n<ol>\n<li>Select and use text features<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Visual elements\n<ol>\n<li>Compare mythological illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read graphic organizers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Poetry elements\n<ol>\n<li>Label the rhyme scheme<\/li>\n<li>Identify elements of poetry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary texts: level 1\n<ol>\n<li>Read fantasy with illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read realistic fiction with illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Read historical fiction with illustrations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary texts: level 2\n<ol>\n<li>Read realistic fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read historical fiction<\/li>\n<li>Read poetry<\/li>\n<li>Read drama<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Informational texts: level 1\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals<\/li>\n<li>Read about art, music, and traditions<\/li>\n<li>Read about famous places<\/li>\n<li>Read about sports and hobbies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Informational texts: level 2\n<ol>\n<li>Read about famous people<\/li>\n<li>Read about business and technology<\/li>\n<li>Read about science and nature<\/li>\n<li>Read about history<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizing writing\n<ol>\n<li>Put the sentences in order<\/li>\n<li>Use coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best transition<\/li>\n<li>Order items from most general to most specific<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<li>Remove the sentence that does not belong<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Introductions and conclusions\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the best topic sentence<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best concluding sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Summarizing\n<ol>\n<li>Summarize a story<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Developing and supporting arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify an author&#8217;s statement of opinion<\/li>\n<li>Choose reasons to support an opinion<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in literary texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in informational texts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Descriptive details\n<ol>\n<li>Show character emotions and traits<\/li>\n<li>Revise the sentence using a stronger verb<\/li>\n<li>Add imagery to stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sentence variety\n<ol>\n<li>Create varied sentences based on models<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct frequently confused word<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with frequently confused words<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research skills\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and correct plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Words with pre-<\/li>\n<li>Words with re-<\/li>\n<li>Words with sub-<\/li>\n<li>Words with mis-<\/li>\n<li>Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-<\/li>\n<li>Words with -ful<\/li>\n<li>Words with -less<\/li>\n<li>Words with -able and -ible<\/li>\n<li>Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning<\/li>\n<li>Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern analogies<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern sentences<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Categories\n<ol>\n<li>Select the members of a group<\/li>\n<li>Select the words that don&#8217;t belong<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonym<\/li>\n<li>Find synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonym<\/li>\n<li>Find antonyms in context<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analogies\n<ol>\n<li>Analogies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Homophones with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words\n<ol>\n<li>Multiple-meaning words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Which definition matches the sentence?<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence matches the definition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Idioms and adages\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shades of meaning\n<ol>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Positive and negative connotation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Find words using context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Use academic vocabulary in context<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first two letters<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically based on the first three letters<\/li>\n<li>Order alphabetically: challenge<\/li>\n<li>Use guide words<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<li>Use thesaurus entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Identify dependent and independent clauses<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple or compound?<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?<\/li>\n<li>Create compound sentences<\/li>\n<li>Order the words to create a sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify nouns \u2013 with abstract nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify common and proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y<\/li>\n<li>Form plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular or plural possessive<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between subject and object personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Replace the noun with a personal pronoun<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with &#8220;I&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with personal pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify relative pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who and whom<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Identify main verbs and helping verbs<\/li>\n<li>What does the modal verb show?<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct modal verb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct subject or verb<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct subject or verb \u2013 with compound subjects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the regular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the irregular past tense<\/li>\n<li>Form and use the simple past, present, and future tense<\/li>\n<li>Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense<\/li>\n<li>Use the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Choose between the past tense and past participle<\/li>\n<li>Use the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Order adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Identify adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Use relative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverb<\/li>\n<li>Is the word an adjective or adverb?<\/li>\n<li>Use adjectives to compare<\/li>\n<li>Spell adjectives that compare<\/li>\n<li>Use adjectives with more and most<\/li>\n<li>Use adverbs to compare<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify prepositions<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositions and their objects<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Identify subordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Fill in the missing correlative conjunction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Contractions\n<ol>\n<li>Pronoun-verb contractions<\/li>\n<li>Contractions with &#8220;not&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commas\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with a series<\/li>\n<li>Commas with dates and places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses<\/li>\n<li>Commas with introductory elements<\/li>\n<li>Commas with compound and complex sentences<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Correct capitalization errors<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Formatting titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting and capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting street addresses<\/li>\n<li>Punctuating dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviations\n<ol>\n<li>Abbreviate days of the week and months of the year<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate people&#8217;s titles<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate units of measurement<\/li>\n<li>Abbreviate street names and state names<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Sixth Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<li>Combine main ideas from two texts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theme\n<ol>\n<li>Match the quotations with their themes<\/li>\n<li>Determine the themes of short stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s purpose and tone\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the author&#8217;s purpose<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence is more formal?<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Determine the author&#8217;s point of view<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text structure\n<ol>\n<li>Compare and contrast in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match causes and effects in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match problems with their solutions<\/li>\n<li>Identify text structures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify sensory details<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Interpret figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Classify figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing literature\n<ol>\n<li>Draw inferences from literary texts<\/li>\n<li>Analyze short stories<\/li>\n<li>Label the rhyme scheme<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals<\/li>\n<li>Read about famous places<\/li>\n<li>Read passages about business and technology<\/li>\n<li>Read about science and nature<\/li>\n<li>Read about history<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Trace an argument<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Novel study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from The Lightning Thief: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from The Lightning Thief: Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Esperanza Rising: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Esperanza Rising: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nonfiction book study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from I Am Malala: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Comparing texts\n<ol>\n<li>Compare information from two texts<\/li>\n<li>Compare two texts with different genres<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Visual elements\n<ol>\n<li>Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects<\/li>\n<li>Read graphic organizers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Expository writing\n<ol>\n<li>Order topics from broadest to narrowest<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive and opinion writing\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Choose evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in literary texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Classify logical fallacies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Descriptive and creative writing\n<ol>\n<li>Use personification<\/li>\n<li>Create varied sentences based on models<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Writing clearly and concisely\n<ol>\n<li>Transitions with conjunctive adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Revise the sentence using a stronger verb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct frequently confused word<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with frequently confused words<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors in everyday use<\/li>\n<li>Suggest appropriate revisions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research skills\n<ol>\n<li>Identify relevant sources<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Use in-text citations (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Words with pre-<\/li>\n<li>Words with re-<\/li>\n<li>Words with sub-<\/li>\n<li>Words with mis-<\/li>\n<li>Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-<\/li>\n<li>Words with -ful<\/li>\n<li>Words with -less<\/li>\n<li>Words with -able and -ible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonym<\/li>\n<li>Find synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonym<\/li>\n<li>Find antonyms in context<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<li>Which definition matches the sentence?<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence matches the definition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Idioms and adages\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Word choice and usage\n<ol>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Positive and negative connotation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analogies\n<ol>\n<li>Analogies<\/li>\n<li>Analogies: challenge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Find words using context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<li>Use academic vocabulary in context: informational<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Domain-specific vocabulary\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Alphabetical order<\/li>\n<li>Use guide words<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<li>Use thesaurus entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Identify dependent and independent clauses<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify common and proper nouns<\/li>\n<li>Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y<\/li>\n<li>Form plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular or plural possessive<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns and antecedents\n<ol>\n<li>Identify pronouns and their antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent<\/li>\n<li>Identify vague pronoun references<\/li>\n<li>Identify all of the possible antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun types\n<ol>\n<li>Choose between subject and object pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with &#8220;I&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use possessive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?<\/li>\n<li>Identify relative pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who and whom<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Identify main verbs and helping verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify transitive and intransitive verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns<\/li>\n<li>What does the modal verb show?<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct modal verb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct subject or verb<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct verb \u2013 with compound subjects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Irregular past tense: review<\/li>\n<li>Simple past, present, and future tense: review<\/li>\n<li>Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense<\/li>\n<li>Use the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Choose between the past tense and past participle<\/li>\n<li>Use the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Order adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Identify adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Use relative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Is the word an adjective or adverb?<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify prepositions<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositions and their objects<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Direct and indirect objects\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a direct object or an indirect object?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Use coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Identify coordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Identify subordinating conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions<\/li>\n<li>Fill in the missing correlative conjunction<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Contractions\n<ol>\n<li>Pronoun-verb contractions<\/li>\n<li>Contractions with &#8220;not&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Punctuation\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with series, dates, and places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with compound and complex sentences<\/li>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters<\/li>\n<li>Commas with coordinate adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<li>What does the punctuation suggest?<\/li>\n<li>Commas with nonrestrictive elements<\/li>\n<li>Use dashes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Correct capitalization errors<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Formatting titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting and capitalizing titles: review<\/li>\n<li>Formatting street addresses<\/li>\n<li>Formatting quotations and dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Seventh Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theme\n<ol>\n<li>Match the quotations with their themes<\/li>\n<li>Determine the themes of short stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s purpose and tone\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the author&#8217;s purpose<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence is more formal?<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Determine the author&#8217;s point of view<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text structure\n<ol>\n<li>Compare and contrast in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match causes and effects in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match problems with their solutions<\/li>\n<li>Identify text structures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify sensory details<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Recall the source of an allusion<\/li>\n<li>Interpret figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Classify figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing literature\n<ol>\n<li>Draw inferences from literary texts<\/li>\n<li>Analyze short stories<\/li>\n<li>Label the rhyme scheme<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read about animals<\/li>\n<li>Read about science and nature<\/li>\n<li>Read about history<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Trace an argument<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Novel study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from A Long Walk to Water: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from A Long Walk to Water: Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Anne of Green Gables: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Anne of Green Gables: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nonfiction book study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from A Night to Remember: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from A Night to Remember: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Comparing texts\n<ol>\n<li>Compare information from two texts<\/li>\n<li>Compare two texts with different genres<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Visual elements\n<ol>\n<li>Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects<\/li>\n<li>Read graphic organizers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Expository writing\n<ol>\n<li>Order topics from broadest to narrowest<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive and opinion writing\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify thesis statements<\/li>\n<li>Choose evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in literary texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements<\/li>\n<li>Classify logical fallacies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Descriptive and creative writing\n<ol>\n<li>Use personification<\/li>\n<li>Create varied sentences based on models<\/li>\n<li>Revise the sentence using a stronger verb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Writing clearly and concisely\n<ol>\n<li>Transitions with conjunctive adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Use parallel structure<\/li>\n<li>Remove redundant words or phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct frequently confused word<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with frequently confused words<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors in everyday use<\/li>\n<li>Suggest appropriate revisions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research skills\n<ol>\n<li>Identify relevant sources<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Use in-text citations (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Identify plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Words with pre-<\/li>\n<li>Words with re-<\/li>\n<li>Words with sub-<\/li>\n<li>Words with mis-<\/li>\n<li>Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-<\/li>\n<li>Words with -ful<\/li>\n<li>Words with -less<\/li>\n<li>Words with -able and -ible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonym<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonym<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<li>Which definition matches the sentence?<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence matches the definition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Word choice and usage\n<ol>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Positive and negative connotation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analogies\n<ol>\n<li>Analogies<\/li>\n<li>Analogies: challenge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Find words using context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<li>Use academic vocabulary in context: informational<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Domain-specific vocabulary\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Alphabetical order<\/li>\n<li>Use guide words<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<li>Use thesaurus entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Phrases and clauses\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a phrase or a clause?<\/li>\n<li>Identify appositives and appositive phrases<\/li>\n<li>Identify dependent and independent clauses<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?<\/li>\n<li>Combine sentences using relative clauses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Form and use plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals of compound nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular or plural possessive<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns and antecedents\n<ol>\n<li>Identify pronouns and their antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent<\/li>\n<li>Identify vague pronoun references<\/li>\n<li>Identify all of the possible antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun types\n<ol>\n<li>Choose between subject and object pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with &#8220;I&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who and whom<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Identify transitive and intransitive verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Correct errors with subject-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct verb \u2013 with compound subjects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Irregular past tense: review<\/li>\n<li>Simple past, present, and future tense: review<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense<\/li>\n<li>Form the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Identify gerunds and their functions<\/li>\n<li>Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Order adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Identify adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Is the word an adjective or adverb?<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Direct and indirect objects\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a direct object or an indirect object?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers\n<ol>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Select the misplaced or dangling modifier<\/li>\n<li>Are the modifiers used correctly?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements\n<ol>\n<li>What does the punctuation suggest?<\/li>\n<li>Commas with nonrestrictive elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commas\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with series, dates, and places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with compound and complex sentences<\/li>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters<\/li>\n<li>Commas with coordinate adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Semicolons, colons, and commas\n<ol>\n<li>Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses<\/li>\n<li>Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses\n<ol>\n<li>Use dashes<\/li>\n<li>Use hyphens in compound adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Correct capitalization errors<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Formatting titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting and capitalizing titles: review<\/li>\n<li>Formatting street addresses<\/li>\n<li>Formatting quotations and dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Eighth Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theme\n<ol>\n<li>Match the quotations with their themes (38)<\/li>\n<li>Determine the themes of short stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s purpose and tone\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the author&#8217;s purpose<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence is more formal?<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Point of view\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Determine the author&#8217;s point of view<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Text structure\n<ol>\n<li>Compare and contrast in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match causes and effects in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Match problems with their solutions<\/li>\n<li>Identify text structures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify sensory details<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Recall the source of an allusion<\/li>\n<li>Interpret figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Classify figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing literature\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze short stories<\/li>\n<li>Label the rhyme scheme<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Read and understand informational passages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Trace an argument<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Novel study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from The Giver: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from The Giver: Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from The Outsiders: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from The Outsiders: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nonfiction book study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Comparing texts\n<ol>\n<li>Compare information from two texts<\/li>\n<li>Compare two texts with different genres<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Visual elements\n<ol>\n<li>Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects<\/li>\n<li>Read graphic organizers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Expository writing\n<ol>\n<li>Order topics from broadest to narrowest<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive and opinion writing\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify thesis statements<\/li>\n<li>Choose evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in informational texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting details in literary texts<\/li>\n<li>Identify counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements<\/li>\n<li>Classify logical fallacies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Descriptive and creative writing\n<ol>\n<li>Use personification<\/li>\n<li>Create varied sentences based on models<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Writing clearly and concisely\n<ol>\n<li>Transitions with conjunctive adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Use parallel structure<\/li>\n<li>Remove redundant words or phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Active and passive voice\n<ol>\n<li>Identify active and passive voice<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite the sentence in active voice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct frequently confused word<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with frequently confused words<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors in everyday use<\/li>\n<li>Suggest appropriate revisions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research skills\n<ol>\n<li>Identify relevant sources<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Use in-text citations (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Identify plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Words with pre-<\/li>\n<li>Words with re-<\/li>\n<li>Words with sub-<\/li>\n<li>Words with mis-<\/li>\n<li>Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-<\/li>\n<li>Words with -ful<\/li>\n<li>Words with -less<\/li>\n<li>Words with -able and -ible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Synonyms and antonyms\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the synonym<\/li>\n<li>Choose the antonym<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Word choice and usage\n<ol>\n<li>Describe the difference between related words<\/li>\n<li>Positive and negative connotation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<li>Which definition matches the sentence?<\/li>\n<li>Which sentence matches the definition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analogies\n<ol>\n<li>Analogies<\/li>\n<li>Analogies: challenge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Find words using context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<li>Use academic vocabulary in context: informational<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Domain-specific vocabulary\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Alphabetical order<\/li>\n<li>Use guide words<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<li>Use thesaurus entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?<\/li>\n<li>Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Phrases and clauses\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a phrase or a clause?<\/li>\n<li>Identify appositives and appositive phrases<\/li>\n<li>Identify dependent and independent clauses<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?<\/li>\n<li>Combine sentences using relative clauses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Form and use plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals of compound nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives<\/li>\n<li>Form the singular or plural possessive<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns and antecedents\n<ol>\n<li>Identify pronouns and their antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent<\/li>\n<li>Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person<\/li>\n<li>Identify vague pronoun references<\/li>\n<li>Identify all of the possible antecedents<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronoun types\n<ol>\n<li>Choose between subject and object pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with &#8220;I&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Compound subjects and objects with pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Use reflexive pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who and whom<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Identify transitive and intransitive verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Correct errors with subject-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct verb \u2013 with compound subjects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense and mood\n<ol>\n<li>Irregular past tense: review<\/li>\n<li>Simple past, present, and future tense: review<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense<\/li>\n<li>Form the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Identify participles and what they modify<\/li>\n<li>Identify gerunds and their functions<\/li>\n<li>Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases<\/li>\n<li>Identify the verb mood<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with verb mood<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Identify adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Order adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Identify adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Is the word an adjective or adverb?<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prepositions\n<ol>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Direct and indirect objects\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a direct object or an indirect object?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers\n<ol>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Select the misplaced or dangling modifier<\/li>\n<li>Are the modifiers used correctly?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements\n<ol>\n<li>What does the punctuation suggest?<\/li>\n<li>Commas with nonrestrictive elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commas\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with series, dates, and places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with compound and complex sentences<\/li>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters<\/li>\n<li>Commas with coordinate adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Semicolons, colons, and commas\n<ol>\n<li>Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses<\/li>\n<li>Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses\n<ol>\n<li>Use dashes<\/li>\n<li>Use hyphens in compound adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Correct capitalization errors<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Formatting titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting and capitalizing titles: review<\/li>\n<li>Formatting street addresses<\/li>\n<li>Formatting quotations and dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Ninth Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Audience, purpose, and tone\n<ol>\n<li>Which text is most formal?<\/li>\n<li>Identify audience and purpose<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for subjective and objective tone<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Recall the source of an allusion<\/li>\n<li>Interpret figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox<\/li>\n<li>Classify figures of speech: review<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing literature\n<ol>\n<li>Match the quotations with their themes<\/li>\n<li>Analyze short stories: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze short stories: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Identify elements of poetry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Trace an argument: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Trace an argument: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Novel study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from To Kill a Mockingbird: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from To Kill a Mockingbird: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nonfiction book study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from Night: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Night: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Business documents\n<ol>\n<li>Read workplace emails and memos<\/li>\n<li>Read business letters and notices<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Graphic organizers\n<ol>\n<li>Read graphic organizers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizing writing\n<ol>\n<li>Order topics from broadest to narrowest<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Topic sentences and thesis statements\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea<\/li>\n<li>Identify thesis statements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Developing and supporting arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting evidence in a text<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim<\/li>\n<li>Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Classify logical fallacies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive strategies\n<ol>\n<li>Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements<\/li>\n<li>Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Creative techniques\n<ol>\n<li>Use personification<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Writing clearly and concisely\n<ol>\n<li>Transitions with conjunctive adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons<\/li>\n<li>Identify sentences with parallel structure<\/li>\n<li>Use parallel structure<\/li>\n<li>Remove redundant words or phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Active and passive voice\n<ol>\n<li>Identify active and passive voice<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite the sentence in active voice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct frequently confused word<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with commonly misspelled words<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors in everyday use<\/li>\n<li>Suggest appropriate revisions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research skills\n<ol>\n<li>Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Use in-text citations (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Identify plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Word pattern analogies<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern sentences<\/li>\n<li>Words with pre-<\/li>\n<li>Words with re-<\/li>\n<li>Words with sub-<\/li>\n<li>Words with mis-<\/li>\n<li>Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-<\/li>\n<li>Words with -ful<\/li>\n<li>Words with -less<\/li>\n<li>Words with -able and -ible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with homophones<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Foreign words and expressions\n<ol>\n<li>Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct foreign expression<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Word choice and usage\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence<\/li>\n<li>Use words accurately and precisely<\/li>\n<li>Replace words using a thesaurus<\/li>\n<li>Explore words with new or contested usages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analogies\n<ol>\n<li>Analogies<\/li>\n<li>Analogies: challenge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage<\/li>\n<li>Use thesaurus entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?<\/li>\n<li>Identify sentence fragments<\/li>\n<li>Identify run-on sentences<\/li>\n<li>Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Phrases and clauses\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a phrase or a clause?<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<li>Identify appositives and appositive phrases<\/li>\n<li>Identify dependent and independent clauses<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?<\/li>\n<li>Combine sentences using relative clauses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Form and use plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals of compound nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Subject and object pronouns review<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns after &#8220;than&#8221; and &#8220;as&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct pronoun errors with &#8220;who&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who and whom<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that<\/li>\n<li>Identify vague pronoun references<\/li>\n<li>Identify all of the possible antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Identify transitive and intransitive verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify participles and what they modify<\/li>\n<li>Identify gerunds and their functions<\/li>\n<li>Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense and mood\n<ol>\n<li>Form the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense<\/li>\n<li>Identify the verb mood<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with verb mood<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers\n<ol>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Select the misplaced or dangling modifier<\/li>\n<li>Are the modifiers used correctly?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements\n<ol>\n<li>What does the punctuation suggest?<\/li>\n<li>Commas with nonrestrictive elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commas\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases<\/li>\n<li>Commas with series, dates, and places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with compound and complex sentences<\/li>\n<li>Commas with coordinate adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Semicolons, colons, and commas\n<ol>\n<li>Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses<\/li>\n<li>Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists<\/li>\n<li>Semicolons, colons, and commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses\n<ol>\n<li>Use dashes<\/li>\n<li>Use hyphens in compound adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Apostrophes\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Correct capitalization errors<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Formatting quotations and dialogue<\/li>\n<li>Capitalizing titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting titles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting and capitalizing titles: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Tenth Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Audience, purpose, and tone\n<ol>\n<li>Which text is most formal?<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for subjective and objective tone<\/li>\n<li>Identify audience and purpose<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Recall the source of an allusion<\/li>\n<li>Interpret figures of speech<\/li>\n<li>Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox<\/li>\n<li>Classify figures of speech: review<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing literature\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze short stories: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze short stories: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Identify elements of poetry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Trace an argument: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Trace an argument: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Novel study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nonfiction book study\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Business documents\n<ol>\n<li>Read workplace emails and memos<\/li>\n<li>Read business letters and notices<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizing writing\n<ol>\n<li>Order topics from broadest to narrowest<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Topic sentences and thesis statements\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea<\/li>\n<li>Identify thesis statements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Developing and supporting arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting evidence in a text<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim<\/li>\n<li>Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Classify logical fallacies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive strategies\n<ol>\n<li>Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements<\/li>\n<li>Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Creative techniques\n<ol>\n<li>Use personification<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Writing clearly and concisely\n<ol>\n<li>Transitions with conjunctive adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons<\/li>\n<li>Identify sentences with parallel structure<\/li>\n<li>Use parallel structure<\/li>\n<li>Remove redundant words or phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Active and passive voice\n<ol>\n<li>Identify active and passive voice<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite the sentence in active voice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing and revising\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct frequently confused word<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with commonly misspelled words<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors with signs<\/li>\n<li>Correct errors in everyday use<\/li>\n<li>Suggest appropriate revisions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research skills\n<ol>\n<li>Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Use in-text citations (MLA 8th\u20139th editions)<\/li>\n<li>Identify plagiarism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Prefixes and suffixes\n<ol>\n<li>Word pattern analogies<\/li>\n<li>Word pattern sentences<\/li>\n<li>Words with pre-<\/li>\n<li>Words with re-<\/li>\n<li>Words with sub-<\/li>\n<li>Words with mis-<\/li>\n<li>Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-<\/li>\n<li>Words with -ful<\/li>\n<li>Words with -less<\/li>\n<li>Words with -able and -ible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Greek and Latin roots\n<ol>\n<li>Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophones\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct homophone<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with homophones<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Foreign words and expressions\n<ol>\n<li>Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words<\/li>\n<li>Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions<\/li>\n<li>Use the correct foreign expression<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Word choice and usage\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence<\/li>\n<li>Use words accurately and precisely<\/li>\n<li>Replace words using a thesaurus<\/li>\n<li>Explore words with new or contested usages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analogies\n<ol>\n<li>Analogies<\/li>\n<li>Analogies: challenge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Context clues\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context<\/li>\n<li>Use context to identify the meaning of a word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference skills\n<ol>\n<li>Use dictionary entries<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary definitions<\/li>\n<li>Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage<\/li>\n<li>Use thesaurus entries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar and mechanics<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Sentences, fragments, and run-ons\n<ol>\n<li>Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?<\/li>\n<li>Identify sentence fragments<\/li>\n<li>Identify run-on sentences<\/li>\n<li>Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Phrases and clauses\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a phrase or a clause?<\/li>\n<li>Identify prepositional phrases<\/li>\n<li>Identify appositives and appositive phrases<\/li>\n<li>Identify dependent and independent clauses<\/li>\n<li>Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?<\/li>\n<li>Combine sentences using relative clauses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouns\n<ol>\n<li>Form and use plurals: review<\/li>\n<li>Form and use plurals of compound nouns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Subject and object pronouns review<\/li>\n<li>Pronouns after &#8220;than&#8221; and &#8220;as&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct pronoun errors with &#8220;who&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who and whom<\/li>\n<li>Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that<\/li>\n<li>Identify vague pronoun references<\/li>\n<li>Identify all of the possible antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb types\n<ol>\n<li>Identify transitive and intransitive verbs<\/li>\n<li>Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify participles and what they modify<\/li>\n<li>Identify gerunds and their functions<\/li>\n<li>Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Subject-verb agreement\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Verb tense\n<ol>\n<li>Form the progressive verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Form the perfect verb tenses<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjectives and adverbs\n<ol>\n<li>Choose between adjectives and adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<li>Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conjunctions\n<ol>\n<li>Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers\n<ol>\n<li>Misplaced modifiers with pictures<\/li>\n<li>Select the misplaced or dangling modifier<\/li>\n<li>Are the modifiers used correctly?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements\n<ol>\n<li>What does the punctuation suggest?<\/li>\n<li>Commas with nonrestrictive elements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commas\n<ol>\n<li>Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases<\/li>\n<li>Commas with series, dates, and places<\/li>\n<li>Commas with compound and complex sentences<\/li>\n<li>Commas with coordinate adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Semicolons, colons, and commas\n<ol>\n<li>Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses<\/li>\n<li>Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists<\/li>\n<li>Semicolons, colons, and commas: review<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses\n<ol>\n<li>Use dashes<\/li>\n<li>Use hyphens in compound adjectives<\/li>\n<li>Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Apostrophes\n<ol>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns<\/li>\n<li>Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalization\n<ol>\n<li>Correct capitalization errors<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Formatting\n<ol>\n<li>Formatting quotations and dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Core\u00a0\u00a0 Elementary School\u00a0\u00a0 Middle\u00a0School<\/p>\n<h5>Eleventh Grade Language Arts<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reading strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Main idea\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the main idea of a passage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Audience, purpose, and tone\n<ol>\n<li>Which text is most formal?<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for subjective and objective tone<\/li>\n<li>Identify audience and purpose<\/li>\n<li>Compare passages for tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Literary devices\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the narrative point of view<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source<\/li>\n<li>Recall the source of an allusion<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the figure of speech<\/li>\n<li>Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox<\/li>\n<li>Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement<\/li>\n<li>Classify the figure of speech: review<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing literature\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze short stories: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze short stories: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Identify elements of poetry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing informational texts\n<ol>\n<li>Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Trace an argument: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Trace an argument: set 2<\/li>\n<li>Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1<\/li>\n<li>Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Book study\n<ol>\n<li>Coming soon: Analyze passages from The Great Gatsby: Part 1<\/li>\n<li>Coming soon: Analyze passages from The Great Gatsby: Part 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Business documents\n<ol>\n<li>Read company policies and procedures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing strategies<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Organizing writing\n<ol>\n<li>Order topics from broadest to narrowest<\/li>\n<li>Organize information by main idea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Topic sentences and thesis statements\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea<\/li>\n<li>Identify thesis statements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Developing and supporting arguments\n<ol>\n<li>Distinguish facts from opinions<\/li>\n<li>Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Choose the best evidence to support a claim<\/li>\n<li>Identify supporting evidence in a text<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim<\/li>\n<li>Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims<\/li>\n<li>Classify logical fallacies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive strategies\n<ol>\n<li>Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements<\/li>\n<li>Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Writing clearly and concisely\n<ol>\n<li>Transitions with conjunctive adverbs<\/li>\n<li>Avoid double, illogical, and 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