IHMCS Curriculum Overview

Link to Language Arts by Grades Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three Grade Four Grade Five Grade Six Grade Seven Grade Eight

Language Arts

Kindergarten (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Upper and lower case letters
• Auditory discrimination of consonant sounds
• Rhyming words
• Listen attentively and share ideas
• Print alphabet
• Print first and last name
• Sequence a story
• Types of literature, fictional and nonfictional
• Comprehension skills
• High frequency words

Grade 1 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Beginning sounds
• Ending sounds
• Phonics skills: long and short vowels
• Comprehension skills
• Writing for different purposes: personal narrative, research report and friendly letter
• Spelling using words from phonics skills taught
• Handwriting: reinforce letter and number formation
• Vocabulary building
• Nouns, verbs, adjectives and sentence structure
• Punctuation: period, question mark, exclamation mark
• Contractions and compound words
• Parts of a story: beginning, middle and ending
• Sequence of events in a story
• Fantasy and realism
• Base words and endings: s, ed and ing
• Capitalization

Grade 2 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Capitalization and punctuation
• Parts of a sentence
• Letter formation
• Phonics and decoding
• Parts of speech: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective
• Comprehension skills
• Reading strategies: predict, infer, clarify, summarize
• Spelling and vocabulary
• Reference skills: dictionary, glossary, index
• Writing process

Grade 3 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Grammar and editing skills and sentence structure
• Spelling and vocabulary skills
• Independent reading for fun and information
• Phonics and decoding
• Comprehension through predicting and inferring
• Comprehension through evaluating and summarizing
• Writing for a variety of fiction and nonfiction genre
• Information and study skills
• Listening and public speaking skills
• Word processing
• Upper and lower-case cursive writing
• Research via internet and print materials

Grade 4 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Phonics and decoding
• Spelling and vocabulary
• Genre comprehension
• Comprehension skills: predict/infer, summarize and evaluate
• The writing process: descriptive, creative poetry, personal and biographical writing
• Grammar skills, sentence and paragraph structure
• Parts of speech
• Research, information and study skills
• Informative writing
• Listening and public speaking skills
• Keyboarding skills
• Video production and presentation skills

Grade 5 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Phonics and decoding
• Predicting and inferring
• Evaluating and summarizing
• Descriptive and informative writing
• Personal and biographical writing
• Historical fiction and tall tales
• Poetry and plays
• Grammar skills and sentence structure
• Spelling and vocabulary skills
• Research, information and study skills
• Listening, speaking and viewing skills
• Keyboarding skills

Grade 6 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Stories of courage
• Stories of mystery
• Stories of growing up
• Stories of ancient cultures
• Stories of famous people
• Stories of frontiers in oceans and space
• Exploring novels
• Grammar
• Spelling and vocabulary
• Writing skills and different genres

Grade 7 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Topic selection for writing
• Writing process
• Research process
• Five paragraph essay
• Spelling and vocabulary
• Eight parts of speech and usage
• Rules for punctuation and dialogue
• Novel and short story
• Public speaking: role-play, skits
• Nonfiction reading

Grade 8 (LANGUAGE ARTS)

• Topic selection for writing
• Writing process
• Research process
• Five paragraph essay
• Spelling and vocabulary
• Eight parts of speech and usage
• Rules for punctuation and dialogue
• Novel and short story, parable and play
• Literary terms
• Nonfiction reading and test preparation
• Public speaking: debate