DECEMBER:

Reading Concept:  Comprehension:  Preduction

Graphic Organizer:  K-W-L

JANUARY:

Reading Concept:  Punctuation & Capitalization (Review)

Reading Concept:  Describing Words   -   Graphic Organizer:  Word Web

Reading Concept:  Fluency (high frequency words - 30 words per minute.)

FEBRUARY:

Reading Concept:  Rhyming Words (Revisited)  -  Graphic Organizer:  Word Web with word family

Reading Concept:  Poetry  -  Graphic Organizer:  Compare/contrast

MARCH:

Reading Concept:  Word Chunks  -  Graphic Organizer:  Column chart or mind map

APRIL:

Reading Concept:  Comprehension:  Inference (Elements of a read aloud:  beginning, middle, end, setting, characters, problem, events, resolution)  -  Graphic Organizer:  Inference graphic organizer

Reading Concept:  Blending (Revisited)  -  Graphic Organizer:  r-controlled vowels (Story of Bossy "r")

MAY:

Reading Concept:  Vocabulary builder  -  Graphic Organizer:  Word splash (ex. sad, said, big, little)