Book Studies
Four Book Studies are provided for your student's enjoyment of good literature.   Each story contained encourages students in English grammar and vocabulary building, reading for content, and comprehension. Exciting activities bring each story to life and give your student many opportunities to be creative. LLATL allows for flexibility in how you use the Book Study units depending on your student's individual  reading skills and reading comprehension.  Each story has a convenient summary, listed with the readability level.

Dictation Lessons
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 English grammar skills appropriate for this grade level.  Your student will write the passage from dictation.
Dictation 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.

Research Unit
There are two units of study on research in this program:  How To Conduct Personal Research, and The Research Essay. In the personal research unit, your student will explore this enjoyable form of research written in the form of a story, and based on something that interests them personally.  In the research essay writing unit your student will learn how to use the library for research.

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- able, ance, ant, ence, ent, ible, sion, tion• adding prefixes • compound words • contractions • copy words • double consonants • plurals of irregular words • plural rules • spelling rules for: ck, dg, ear, er, gn, ie, igh, ir kn, ou, ough, ow, ur, wor, wr • spelling rules for changing: f to v, y to i, • studying words • syllabication

Reading
• a Book Study on: Carry on, Mr. Bowditch, The Bronze Bow, Big Red, The Horse and His Boy • alliteration • autobiography • biography • bound base • choral reading • climax • comprehension • conflict • context clues • couplet • dialect • dialogue • discussing content • duolog • end rhyme • etymology • exposition • fable • falling action • fiction • first person • foreshadowing • free base • internal rhyme • irony • mood • narrator • news story • personification • plot • poetry • point of view • prose • reciting poetry • repetition • resolution • rhyme scheme • rising action • second person speech • stanza • syllables • third person • topic sentences • triplet • vocabulary • words analogy

English Grammar
• adjectives • adverbs • antecedents • antonyms • apostrophes • articles • being verbs • capitalization • colon • commas • common nouns • comparative adjectives • complete predicate • complete sentences • complete subjects • compound sentences • compound subjects • compound verbs • compound words • conjunctions • contraction • declarative sentences • dependent clause • direct address • direct object • direct quotation • double negative • exclamation marks • exclamatory sentences • fragment • helping verbs • homonyms • hyphen • imperative sentences • independent clause • interjections • interrogative sentences • irregular verbs • linking verbs • nouns • object of the preposition • parts of speech • periods • possessive nouns • possessive pronouns • predicate adjectives • prefix • preposition • prepositional phrase • principal parts of verbs • pronouns • proper nouns • question marks • quotation marks • regular verbs • semicolon • simile • simple predicate • simple subjects • subject/verb agreement • suffixes • superlative adjectives • syllables • synonyms • titles • transitional words • underlining • verbs • verbs phrase • verbs tense

Composition
• advertisement • bibliography • biography • business letter • caricature • character sketch • circle words picture • closing paragraph • closing sentences• creative writing • dialogue • duolog • essay • figurative language • first draft • first person • friendly letter • journal • main idea • mood • news story • opening paragraph • outline • paragraph • paraphrase • personification • plagiarism • poetry • prose • research • similes • summary • supporting detail • supporting sentences • thesis statement • titles • topic • topic sentences • types of sentences • writing a fable • writing dialogue • writing instructions

Research and Study Skills
• alphabetical order • Bible translation • Caldecott Award • Dewey decimal system • dictionary • encyclopedia • etymology • illustration • interview • library • map skills • Newbery Award • news story • organizing thought • research • sequence • thesaurus • timeline

High Order Thinking Skills
• analogies • circle word pictures • conducting a research • context clues • giving directions • memorization

Creative Expression
• creative writing • oral presentation • poetry

Penmanship
• copying passages • final drafts