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English Language Arts
What are We learning?
Throughout the year we will be learning so many wonderful things, and every couple of weeks we will begin learning a new skill! Here are the ELs we will be learning this year:
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Text Features (Non-Fiction)
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Main Idea
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Compare/Contrast (Non-Fiction)
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Context Clues
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Ask & Answer
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Summarize
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Central Message
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Sight Words (ALL 1,000)
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Persuasive Opinion Writing
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Fluency
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Presentations
Phonics Skills
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Even though the students learned all their phonics skills in first grade, I will spend two weeks reviewing some very important phonics skills throughout the year and even introducing new ones! Here are just a few:
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Long Vowels/ Silent E
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Blends
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Vowel Diagraphs
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Sounds of Y
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Diagraphs
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R Controlled Vowels
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Plurals
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Silent Consonants
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COntractions
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Word endings
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possessives
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prefix/suffix
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Websites to Use at home
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Mobymax.com
getepic.com
funbrain.com/books
pbskids.org/games/reading/
starfall.com/
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