Students will write informative, narrative, and descriptive papers of at least 1-paragraph length in cursive, using the writing process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing. Students will identify the subject and predicate of simple and complex sentences and will learn the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and the proper use of end punctuation.
Given oral presentation of subject matter, students will identify and share main points, and copy from visually presented material. Students will participate in classroom and small group discussion with relevance. Students will be taught spelling based on phonetic families in an integrated language arts program. Students will begin writing all assignments in cursive.

Goals By Term
Term 1 – Writing: Narrative, descriptive paragraph, a story, personal narrative, timed narrative, paragraph of information, how-to paragraph.
Grammar: sentences, statements / questions, commands / exclamations, subject / predicate, compound subjects and predicates, compound sentences, common & proper nouns
Term 2 – Writing: News story, paragraph of information, persuasive paragraph, persuasive letter, paragraph that compares.
Grammar: Singular and plural nouns, singular possessive nouns, plural possessive nouns, abbreviations, singular and plural pronouns, subject pronouns, object pronouns, adjectives.
Term 3 – Students begin writing all work in cursive beginning in term 3.
Writing: paragraph that contrasts, paragraph that classifies, comparison and contrast, research report, present tense verbs, subject/verb agreement.
Grammar: adjectives, articles, action verbs, main and helping verbs.
Term 4 – Writing: unrhymed poem, friendly letter, rhymed poem.
Grammar: past tense verbs, irregular verbs, the verb “be”, contractions, adverbs, comparing with adverbs.