Language Arts

     Our reading program is the Benchmark Advance system, in coordination with Daily 5 and Cafe. We read many stories, write stories and poems, and have many opportunities for speaking and listening. Reading is a skill that is learned throughout the curricula, but phonics, grammar and reading comprehension skills are explicitly taught during our Daily 5 period.
    We integrate all curricular areas with the language arts (listening, speaking, reading, and writing).

Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

We use the research-proven Daily 5 and CAFE methods for Language Arts Instruction & our District
​Benchmark Advance Curriculum

September: Being a Good Community Member
October: Many Kinds of Characters
Daily 5 Introduction and Work On Stamina
                                                  Read to Self    Listen to Reading   Word Work
                                                  Work on Writing      Read to Someone

November: Plants and Animals Grow and Change 
December: Stories Have a Narrator
Daily 5 and CAFE: Goal Setting, using CAFE board
                                                                      C - Comprehension
                                                                      A - Accuracy
                                                                      F - Fluency
                                                                      E - Expanding Vocabulary

January: Technology at Work
Daily 5 and CAFE: continue adding strategies and monitoring goals

February: Stories Teach a Lesson
March: Past, Present, Future; Why is the past important?
In addition to continuing to add strategies and monitor goals, we'll be working on making our writing more exciting with adjectives, verbs, and transition words.

April: Observing the Sky
May: We Use Goods and Services 
Continue Daily 5 and writing

June: Exploring Sound and Light
Developing a plan for summer reading. Research tells us, those students who read throughout summer, come to school in the fall better prepared and motivated for the new school year!