Book Studies
Four Book Studies contained in this language arts curriculum encourage students in vocabulary building, reading for content, and  reading comprehension. Exciting activities bring each story to life and give your student many opportunities to be creative.  Each Book Study is conveniently placed prior to the Everyday Words lessons which use the literature passages from the book. LLATL allows for flexibility in how you use the Book Study units depending on your student's individual  reading and comprehension skills.  The Book Study units are provided for your student's enjoyment of good literature.  Each story has a convenient summary, listed with the readability level.

Everyday Words
Each lesson found in this section contains a passage of literature and learning activities.  These activities are designed to help your student learn language skills in their context while developing writing and thinking skills.  An emphasis is placed on grammar skills appropriate for this grade level.  In each lessons, the student will either copy the passage or write it from dictation.
Copying material is a very powerful learning activity.  It trains a student to look for details, strive for accuracy, and learn to write.  Using your voice to stress pauses and indicate punctuation marks during lessons using dictation teaches the student important listening skills, sentencing structure, and punctuation.

Oral Presentation and Tall Tales Unit
This unit starts with selecting, preparation, and oral presentation of a story, poem, or Scripture passage. Through this process the student gains ability and confidence as they increase their knowledge of words and learn to orally express the emotion (feeling) behind the words.  The student also learns to emphasize punctuation through oral presentation, and increases his comprehension skills as he seeks the meaning of what the author is wanting to communicate. 
This unit ends with the Tall Tales section.  Tall Tales are a very important part of America's folk tradition.  Originating as simple stories told, and retold, by common people about things, situations, or occupations that were well known to the listeners.  Your student will gain an understanding and enjoyment of the fun characteristics found in this type of literature.

Poetry Unit
Designed to help the teacher and the student gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of poetry.  By reciting, copying, creating, illustrating, and listening to various types of poetry, the student will become acquainted with various aspects of punctuation, parts of speech, rhythm, and rhyme involved in poetry.

Speech Making Unit
This unit teaches the different types of speeches and their purpose.  The Student also learn the skills of speech making such as topic selection, information gathering, and presentation. Your student will gain confidence and self esteem as they create and recite their very own speech.

Review Activities
Review Activities are found directly after each Everyday Words section.   New skills taught in each lesson are included in the Review Activities.   It is not necessary to do each activity.  Simply choose the skills your student needs to review.

Assessments
Following each Everyday Words section, you will find an assessment.
An I C.A.N. Assessment has been created for each Book Study and Unit.   You may use these assessments to grade your student accordingly.

Skills Index
The Language Arts Skills Index is located in the back of the Teacher's Book.   To ensure that skills commonly held appropriate for this grade level instruction were adequately covered, much research was involved in the writing of this curriculum.   This information was primarily gleaned from these sources:

You CAN Teach Your Child Successfully by Ruth Beechick
Teaching Children: A curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level Through Sixth Grade by Diane Lopez

If your child has a particularly strong or weak area, you can easily locate lessons that will address specific skills using the Skills Index.

Enrichment Activities
In each lesson you will find the treasure chest icon for the Enrichment Activities.  This is your cue to look for the activity located in the Student Activity Book where they are listed in full. Answers to these activities are found in the back of the Teacher's Book.  While optional, these activities develop thinking and reasoning skills necessary for higher level learning.

Bibliography
Next you will find the bibliography.  This will give you all the information you need to locate the books quoted in the lessons.  The selection includes wonderful books that we hope your family will read and enjoy.

Materials To Use
To use the program you will need basic materials such as pencils, paper, colored pencils, construction paper, etc. Additional materials are listed at the beginning of each lesson.  Frequently in the lessons, the student must find a book he is familiar with, so children's books are needed from time to time.   Reference books, such as a dictionary and thesaurus, will be used as well as encyclopedias.  Availability of these materials in either the home or library is adequate.

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 • folk 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

English Grammar
• action verbs • adjectives • adverbs • antecedents • antonyms • apostrophes • base or root words • being verbs • capitalization • commas • common nouns • comparative adjectives • complete predicate • 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 • plurals 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