*Standards to Introduce*

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills	Fifth and Sixth Six Weeks
Standard: Fluency	Suggested Activities
4.Read emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding	*Rigby Readers *Harcourt Readers *Sight Word Readers
Standard: Production and Distribution of Writing
.5. With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.	*Internet4Classrooms: Young Writers Workshop Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme Writing Workshop Thinking Maps Writing Conferences Writing Reports Group Writing Response Students share their work (author chair activity)

*All Standards to Reinforce*
Language Arts	Fifth and Sixth Six Weeks
Speaking and Listening Standards
1. Participate in collaborative conversations with peers and adults. a.Following rules for discussions b.Continue conversation through multiple exchanges	*Guiding the questions toward the solution. *Thinking Maps Promethean Planet -Who Goes Next- use balloons with names for partner to write in when taking turns talking -Sing Whisper Shout- use during literacy centers
2.Confirm understanding of a text presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.	*Students retell stories, poems, etc. Promethean Planet -Asking wh questions about a topic Thinking Maps -continue using thinking maps and let students create their own during writing time, with a partner at literacy center time on active board, to respond to stories at listening center
3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.	Thinking Maps -Bubble/Circle Maps- with who, what, when, where questions -Double Bubble- compare stories, situations
4. Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.	Promethean Planet -Describing_words.flp -
5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.	*When modeling whole group writing add illustrations *Author/Illustrator Study- students can write and illustrate in similar ways
6.Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.	Promethean Planet -guidance.flp United Streaming -Life Skills101: Speak Your Mind

Standard: Language-Acquisition and Use
4.Clarify meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases. a. Identify new meanings for familiar words b. Use inflections and affixes	Brain Pop Jr. -a. Reading and Writing- Word-Homonyms Promethean Planet -a. shades of meaning -a. comprehension multiple meaning words
5. Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. a. Sort objects into categories b. Understanding opposites (antonyms) c. Identify real-life connections between words and their use d. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general actions	United Streaming b. Beginning Social Studies Vocabulary
6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
Standard: Language-Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammer and usage when speaking or writing. a. Print upper and lower case letters b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs c. Forms regular plural nouns by adding –s and –es d. Understand and use question words e. Use the most frequently occurring prepositions f. Produce and expand complete sentences	Promethean Planet -Grammar_Fun-Planet.flp-also parts of speech, prefix/suffix United Streaming -b.Introduction to Parts of Speech:The Royal Principality of Pronouns Internet4classooms.com Reading Simple Sentences: - f. Easy Word Drop-drop the word to complete the sentence -f. Sequencing Sentences-put the word in the correct order to form a Sentence -f. Word Drop-Drop the word to complete the sentence Thinking Maps -d. Tree Map- Use same map for thematic books and add to each “branch” who, what, when, where as stories are read -f. Bubble Map/Circle Map- complete and incomplete sentences (use laminated sentences and phrases from big group activities) -a. Bridge Maps- match upper lower case at literacy centers
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. capitalize first word in a sentence b. Recognize and name ending punctuation c. Write letters for consonants and vowels d. Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound- letter relationships.	Education City-Kindergarten-Language Arts d. Garden Adventure d. Bongo Beat 1 d. DISCO 2 d. Fluffy Clouds 1 d. Meet An Alien 1 d. Wooly Watch 1 Starfall.com c. http://www.starfall.com/n/skills/the-lonely-vowel vowel at the end of a word c. http://www.starfall.com/n/skills/two-vowel sort words with two vowels c. http://www.starfall.com/n/picture-hunt/control-or find objects in picture that have d. http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/control-ar make words with ar d. http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/control-r make words with er c. http://www.starfall.com/n/sorting/r-controlled sort words with r controlled vowels c. http://www.starfall.com/n/matching/more-vowels more matching practice for vowel sounds Internet4classrooms.com Phonics Practice: d. Froggy Phonemes-create CVC words with frogs d. Make A Word- Find the vowel that completes the CVC word to make a new word d.Phonemic Segments-deletion and substitution d. Sounding Out Words- printable cards to put in centers for phonetically using sound letter relationships to create words

Reading	Review
Craft and Structure	Suggested Activities
4.Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.	*Reading strategies *Vocabulary Introduction *Picture Walks 29 *Predictions
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
9.Identify basic similarities in differences between two texts	*Double Bubble Map *Venn Diagram
Print Concept	Suggested Activities
b. Recognize words are represented by sequence of letters. d. Name all upper and lowercase letters of alphabet.	*Magnetic Letter activities *Dry Erase Board activities *Alphabet Chart *Letter Factory *Education City
Phonological Awareness
2. Demonstrate understanding syllables and phonemes. a. Rhymes b.Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables d.Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in (CVC) words.	*Nursery Rhymes *Rhyme Card Match *Poems *Education City *Clap syllables *Letter Patterns *Letter Patterns *Build Words *Starfall: Word Activities *Internet4Classrooms Activities
Phonics and Word Recognition	Suggested Activities
3. Grade level phonics and word analysis a. One to one letter sound correspondence b. Read Sight Words c. Long and Short Vowels	*Tap Letter Sounds *Education City *Letter Patterns *Rigby Readers *Word Match *Spelling City *Education City *Word Building *Starfall *Flip Charts *Harry Kindergarten *Word Work
Key Ideas and Details
2. Retell Familiar Stories	*Thinking Maps *Beach Ball Questions 31 *Puppets/ Flannel Board
Fluency
4.Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding	*Rigby Readers *Harcourt Readers *Sight Word Readers *Spelling City Sentences
Writing
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7.Shared Research and writing	*Shared Writing