Language Arts

 July/August 

Theme 1: Nature’s Fury

Skills making predictions, inferring and sequence of events   

OARS Assessment #1August 11-August 15

 August/September 

Theme 2: Give it All you’ve Got

Skills: Evaluate, Summarize and Clarify. Fact and Opinion. Story Structure, Predicting Outcomes   

OARS Assessment #2Sept 15-Sept 19

 October/November 

Theme 3: Voices of the Revolution

Skills: Evaluate Cause and Effect, Author’s Viewpoint, Following Directions   

OARS Assessment #3Nov. 17.-21

 December/January 

Theme 4:Person to Person

Skills: Making Inferences, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Noting Details and Compare and Contrast  

OARS Assessment #4January 20-23

 February/March 

Theme 5: One Land, Many Trails

Skills: Drawing conclusions, Propaganda, Making Judgments and Story Structure 

 OARS Assessment #5March 2-March 6

 April/May/June 

Theme 6: Nature-Animal Encounters

Skills: Evaluate, Making Generalizations, Main Idea, Supporting Details and Drawing Conclusions   

OARS Assessment #6May 4-May 8