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Reading & Literature - Scope and Sequence Summary
 

Kindergarten
  • Letter/sound correspondence
  • Phonemic awareness
  • Listening skills, through read-aloud activities
  • Sequential ordering of stories and ideas
  • Development of oral language skills
First Grade
  • Phonemic awareness, decoding, and guided reading strategies
  • Phonics: consonants, short vowels, long vowels, blends
  • Sight words, spelling patterns, word families
  • Read-alouds and sustained silent reading
  • Literary concepts: author and genre
Second Grade
  • Phonemic awareness, decoding, and guided reading strategies Comprehension and vocabulary development
  • Sight words, spelling patterns, word families
  • Read-alouds and sustained silent reading
Third Grade
  • Literary concepts: author, illustrator, genre, purpose
  • Improving fluency, listening and speaking skills, and vocabulary
  • Guided reading strategies and sustained silent reading
  • Critical thinking and comprehension skills
  • Reading informational and narrative text
  • Literary concepts: plot, character, theme
Fourth Grade
  • Reading and responding to a variety of literary works
  • Reading informational text
  • Developing vocabulary, fluency and speaking skills
  • Summarizing and retelling information;
  • Read-alouds and sustained silent reading
Fifth Grade
  • Literary concepts: conflict and resolution
  • Improving fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
  • Understanding informational text
  • Reading and responding to a variety of literary works and genres
  • Giving effective oral presentations
  • Read-alouds and sustained silent reading
  • Literary concepts: simile, metaphor, personification
Sixth Grade
  • Developing critical thinking skills through written and oral literary analysis
  • Reading and analyzing a variety of literary workings, including myths and legends
  • Connecting literature and history
  • Understanding the structure and organization of different rhetorical strategies
  • Strategies for specialized vocabulary development
  • Literary devices: symbolism, imagery, metaphor
Seventh Grade
  • Reading and responding to historically significant works of literature; contemporary adolescent literature and poetry
  • The forms of prose
  • Understanding the structure and organization of narration, exposition, and description
  • Idioms and analogies
  • Literary devices: metaphor, similes, and recurring themes
Eighth Grade
  • Reading and response to historically significant works of literature; contemporary adolescent literature, poetry, and drama
  • Structure and organization of narration, exposition, and persuasion
  • Literary devices: dialogues and monologues
 


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Clairbourn School - 8400 Huntington Drive, San Gabriel, CA 91775
Phone: (626)286-3108 | Fax: (626)286-1528 | info@clairbourn.org