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November 28, 2024

7th Grade Reading and Writing

7th Grade Reading and Writing Students will:

improve their reading skills by reading classic literature, including both poetry and novels.
develop in their speaking and vocabulary skills.
develop their writing skills.

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November 27, 2024

6th grade reading and writing

The 6th grade reading and writing student:

Locates words in a dictionary, identifies word families, and defines new vocabulary words.
Reads and answers thought questions.
Uses visual discrimination.
Writes expository and descriptive paragraphs, essays, simple and detailed explanations, directions, personal diary entries; cause and effect; fact and opinion; and exposition, description, persuasion, and narration.
Identifies figures of speech, sensory detail, and climax and resolution of story.
Solves word and logic puzzles.

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November 26, 2024

4th grade Reading and Writing

The 4th grade Reading and writing student:

Uses imagination, deductive reasoning, and comparison and contrast.
Learns to draw conclusions and find the main idea of a paragraph.
Makes predictions about the end of a story and discerns between “alike” and “different.”
Increases dictionary skills, learns about biographies, autobiographies, and libraries.
Finds valuable lessons in character-building stories.
Writes a letter to a missionary, an invitation, an anecdote, a sketch, and a story ending.

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November 25, 2024

5th Grade Reading and Writing

The 5th grade reading and writing student:

Adds to his knowledge of short story elements—setting, characters, plot, and order.
Learns about the four types of conflict in stories.
Discovers personification, alliteration, anagrams, analogies, antonyms, homonyms, homophones, similes, and metaphors.
Considers time order and narrative, cause and effect, point of view, comparison and contrast, and the difference between fact and opinion.
Distinguishes between topic sentences and supporting sentences and persuasive and descriptive writing.

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November 19, 2024

Literature and Creative writing Resources for 8th grade

Literary skills focus on reading comprehension and text analysis. Students should apply their reading comprehension skills to documents.
They should be able to recognize the main idea, central theme, and supporting details. Students should have ample practice summarizing, comparing and contrasting, and inferring an author's meaning. Eighth-grade students should also learn to recognize and understand the use of language, such as figurative language, analog, and allusions.
Students should begin comparing and two texts that present conflicting information on the same topic. They should be able to identify the cause of the conflicts, such as contradictory or inaccurate facts, or the author's opinion or bias on the subject.
Provide eighth graders with ample opportunities practice their composition skills. They should a variety of essays and more complex compositions, including how-to, persuasive, and informational articles; poetry; short stories; and research papers

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Intermediate Reading – Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
8th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions
8th Grade Reading List - Freedom Homeschooling
Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Home Shakespeare- I know that it says for 3rd and 4th, but this is Shakespeare.
creative-writing prompts
50 Fun Writing prompts
Middle School books
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November 13, 2024

3rd grade Reading and writing

The 3rd grade Reading and writing Students will:

grow in their reading ability by reading poetry, short stories, plays, and challenging full-length novels.
summarize stories, learning to state the main idea and supporting details.
demonstrate comprehension through reading response questions.
continue to expand their vocabulary, learning words from their readings and making their own dictionary.

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November 12, 2024

2nd grade Reading and writing

The 2nd Grade Reading and Writing students will:

grow in their reading ability by reading poetry, short stories, and full-length novels.
practice retelling and summarizing stories.
demonstrate comprehension through reading response questions.
Vocabulary will be introduced from the literature and practiced for retention.

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November 10, 2024

1st grade Reading and Writing topics

1st grade reading and writing students will:

grow in their reading ability.
expanding their vocabulary and comprehension.
practice the art of narration in retelling and summarizing stories.

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Comprehensive 1st Grade Lesson Plans for Parents