Language Arts

We will be having our first Theme Test on Thursday, October 22 and Friday October 23.

A reminder sheet will be sent home with the students this week.

Here is a list of the topics that will be on the Theme Test.

Theme 1 Skills

Reading Skills:(Thursday’s Test)

Ø     Reading Strategy- Predict and Infer  ( The students will have to predict what will happen next in a given selection. There are no PB pages).

Ø     Sequence of Events- PB pages 48, 50-51, 64, 69

Ø     Making Inferences- PB page 32, 34-35

Ø     Cause and Effect- PB page 12, 14-15, 63, 68

Ø     Structural Analysis and Vocabulary- (alphabetical order, base words, syllabication, inflected endings –ed and –ing, and multiple meaning words) PB page 16, 20, 36, 40, 52, 70, 71.

Writing/Grammar Skills: ( Friday’s Test)

Ø     Proofreading (for spelling words: short vowels a, e, I, o, u; and Vowel-Consonant-E pattern) PB page 72-74

Ø     Proofreading (kinds of sentences, correct punctuation and capitalization, subjects and predicates) PB page 21-23, 41-43, 45, 57-59, 61, 75-76, 89

Ø     Writing Fluency: The students will be asked to write a personal narrative on a given topic.

Ø     Writing Skills- Using commas correctly, Capitalizing Days of the Week and Months of the Year) PB page 61 and 45

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