English Language

Unit 1

• Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in reading words
• Use synonyms and antonyms to clarify and explain word meanings
• Use dictionaries and glossaries (print and digital) to determine or clarify word meaning
• Understand and use figurative language (similes, metaphors, idioms, adages, proverbs, etc.)
• Distinguish literal and nonliteral meanings of words in context
• Distinguish shades of meanings among related words
• Know meanings of most common prefixes and suffixes

Unit 2

• Learn and use grade-level general academic vocabulary
• Express ideas and feelings clearly
• Speak clearly and audibly in sensible sentences
• Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details
• Add visual components to a speech to clarify ideas, feelings, and thoughts
• Give and follow simple two-step directions
• Participate in conversations with diverse partners and groups

Unit 3

• Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
• Listen and respond to others with focus and care
• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text or in an oral presentation
• Present a report or tell a story with appropriate facts and relevant details
• Create audio recordings of stories or poems
• Identify nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs and their functions in specific sentences
• Form and use regular and irregular nouns and verbs and verb tenses

Unit 4

• Form and use conjunctions, superlative adjectives, and superlative adverbs
• Produce complete simple, compound, and complex sentences
• Capitalize proper nouns and appropriate words in titles
• Use end punctuation, commas, and apostrophes
• Punctuate dialogue correctly
• Correctly use the English language when speaking, reading, or writing
• Know when to use formal and informal English