Fifth Grade Language Arts Skills

A blend of dictation and units, lessons integrate all the fifth grade language arts skills: grammar, creative writing, composition, spelling, higher-order reasoning, and study skills.

Spelling:  adding suffixes - copying words - plurals of irregular words - plurals of words ending in: ch, f, fe, o, s, sh, x, y, z - spelling tips: ai, ck, ear, el, er, gh, gn, ie, igh, ir, kn, le, ou, ough, ow, sion, tion, ture, ur, wor - words ending in f, l, s,z - studying words - syllabication - vowel pairs: ai, ie, ou, ow

Reading:  a Book Study Unit on: Farmer Boy, Trumpet of the Swan, Meet Addy, Caddie Woodlawn - accent - biography - character sketch - characters - choral reading - compound words - conclusion - conflict _ drawing conclusions - dialect - exaggeration - facts - figurative language - fold tale - introduction - legend - meter - opinion - plot - poetry - point of view - problem solving - quotations - comprehension - rhyme - rhyme scheme - root or base words - setting - similes - skim and scan - solution - summary - super human qualities - supporting sentences - syllables - tall tale - topic - topic sentences - vocabulary

Grammar:  action verbs - adjectives - adverbs - antecedents - antonyms - apostrophes - base or root words - being verbs - capitalization - commas - common nouns -comparative - adjectives - complete predicates - complete sentences - complete subjects - compound sentences - compound subjects - compound verbs - conjunctions - contractions - dates - declarative sentences - direct address - double negative - exclamation marks - exclamatory sentences - fragment - helping verbs - homonyms - hyphen interjections - interrogative sentences - irregular verbs - irregular words - italics - nouns - number words - past tense - periods - plural possessive nouns - plural nouns - plural of irregular words - prefix - possessive nouns - prefix - preposition - present tense - pronouns - proper nouns - question marks - quotations - regular verbs - simple subjects - singular nouns - singular possessive nouns - suffixes - underlining - verbs - verb phrases - verb tense

Composition:  copying literature - character sketch - descriptive writing - dialogue writing - editing - envelope - exaggeration - figurative language - indentation - letter writing - list making - outlines - paragraph - parts of a letter - reporting - rhyme - summary - supporting sentences - tall tales - topic - topic sentences - writing poetry - writing from dictation.

Research and Study Skills:  atlas - Bible references - dictionary - encyclopedia - family tree - globe - guide words - interview - list making - newspaper - outline - proofreading - reporting - research - skim and scan - thesaurus - time line

Higher Order Thinking Skills:  analogy - decision making - directions - facts - memorization - narration - opinion - sequencing events

Creative Expression/Games:  choral reading - family tree - interviewing - memorizing - meter - poetry - rhyme - role playing - scheme - speech making

Penmanship:  copying passages - writing final drafts

Learning Language Arts Through Literature is available at: Homeschool Essentials