Materials & Resources

• Badwin's Third Year Reader or
• McGuffey's Second Reader and
• Reading Lesson report
• McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book pages 47-59 or
• Essentials of Spelling Grades 1-4 grade 4 or
• Sander's Union Speller pages 48-63
• Reeds Word Lessons Pages 36-72
• and Spelling Lessons
• Student dictionary for new words."Pupils should be required to keep a list of the words which they misspell, and to rewrite them frequently, in sentences and separately (Reed, Alonzo, 1896)."
• Continue Cursive writing practice or Brushup
• Free Reading 20 Min each Day and report
• The American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster

Topics to be covered this year

• Reading prose and poetry aloud
• Silent reading: see reading list Book Reports
• Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy
• Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word
• Dictionary skills
• Developing word-attack methods
• Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms Homophones
• Concept of paragraph
• Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks
• Writing short, original stories and poems
• Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Increasing indexing skills
• Complex Consonant Clusters

Extras

• Spelling Rules Worth Knowing
• 12 rules for Cursive
• Spell Checker
• Wordsearch Factory (Download free)