Houghton Mifflin Reading Expeditions Grade 5 Theme 2 Give It All You've Got, Teacher's Edition: Focus on Poetry

Objectives: Reading Strategies - evaluate, summarize, predict/infer; monitor/clarify, phonics/decoding; Comprehension - fact and opinion; story structure; predicting outcomes; topic, main idea, and supporting details; Decoding Longer Words - compound words, roots spec/t and opt; suffixes -ward and -ous; suffixes - ive and -ic; silent consonants;/ou/, /o/, and /oi/ sounds; /or/, /ar/, and /ar/ sounds; /ur/ and /ir/ sounds; Vocabulary - word families; multiple-meaning words; homophones; syllables in a dictionary; Spelling - compound words; /ou/, /o/, and /oi/ sounds; /or/, /ar/, and /ar/ sounds; /ur/ and /ir/ sounds; Grammar - common and proper nouns; singular and plural possessive nouns; action verbs; direct objects; main verbs and helping verbs; linking verbs; verb tenses; more about verb tenses; Writing - announcement; summary; clarification composition; business letter; process writing; personal essay; Listening/Speaking/Viewing - dramatize a scene; make an announcement; tell a story; evaluating media; Information and Study Skills - using the Internet; selecting reference sources; using parts of a book; summarizing text graphically