Madeley Ranch Elementary School

1st Nine Weeks Focus:

• Launch Reader's Workshop
• Informational Texts: Science and Personal Narrative
• Draw Inferences
• Determine Main Idea
• Analyze Text Structure: Cause/Effect
• Use Context Clues
• Analyze First-Person Point of View

2nd Nine Weeks Focus:

• Literary Texts: Realistic Fiction, Poetry, Drama
• Informational Texts: Social Studies,  Historical Fiction
• Analyze Character Conflicts
• Analyze Character Relationships
• Explain Author's Purpose and Message
• Analyze Text Structure: Compare and Contrast
• Analyze Text and Graphic Features
• Use Context Clues
• Analyze First-Person Point of View, Third-Person Point of View
• Analyze Story Settings
• Use Context Clues to Define Homographs
• Identify Elements of Drama
• Analyze Author's Point of View
• Use Context Clues: Cause/Effect Relationships
• Use Context Clues and Create Mental Images
• Interpret Figurative Language: Hyperbole, Metaphor, Simile

3rd Nine Weeks Focus:

• Literary Texts: Folktale/Legend, Historical Fiction, Memoir
• Informational Texts: Social Studies, Argumentative (Opinion)
• Analyze Text Structure: Problem/Solution
• Use Affixes and Roots
• Analyze How Multimedia (Illustrations) Contribute to Meaning and Tone
• Determine Theme Using Text Evidence
• Use Context Clues
• Analyze Text Structure: Chronological Order
• Analyze Text and Graphic Features (Timeline)

4th Nine Weeks Focus:

• Informational Text: Science/Interview, Argumentative (Opinion), Social Studies, Science/Procedural
• Literary Texts: Realistic Fiction, Graphic Story
• Distinguish Relationships Between Events in a Science Text
• Explain Author's Purpose and Message
• Use Context Clues
• Analyze Author's Claim and Evidence
• Identify Elements of Argumentative Texts (Opinion)
• Distinguish Argumentative/Opinion Texts
• Explain the Relationships Between Ideas in a Science Topic
• Integrate Information From Multiple Text on the Same Topic
• Analyze the Influence of Setting on the Plot
• Analyze Character Relationships
• Determine the Author's Message in the Story
• Analyze Multiple Text Structures
• Identify Elements of Procedural Text
• Analyze Text and Graphic Features
• Analyze Plot