This is the second semester of a two semester course. Students build and reinforce foundational reading, writing, and basic academic skills typically found in third through fifth grade for which they have not achieved mastery. Through carefully paced, guided instruction and graduated reading levels, students improve reading comprehension and strategies, focusing on literacy development at the critical stage between decoding and making meaning from text. Instruction and practice in writing skills help students develop their composition skills in a variety of formats. If needed, students can continue their remediation of reading and writing skills with English Foundations II.

Unit 1: Basic Concepts

· Main Ideas

· Syllables

· Story Details

· Word Families

· Sequencing & Classifying

· Writing Descriptions

· Verb Usage

· Details

· Noun Identification

· Unit 1 Test

Unit 2: Fact & Opinion

· Fact and Opinion

· Prefixes & Suffixes

· Cause & Effect

· Information

· Drawing Conclusions

· Five W Questions

· Sentences Defined

· Writing Complete Sentences

· Word Order in Sentences

· Subjects & Predicates

· Sentence Flaws

· Punctuating Complete Sentence

· Paragraph Types

· Developing Topic Sentences

· Ideas & Opinions

· Unit 2 Test

Unit 3: Summarizing

· Summarizing & Paraphrasing

· Compound Words

· Capitalization

· Contractions

· Special Uses of Capitalization

· Compound Words: A Review

· Ending Punctuation

· Questions & Exclamations

· Commas

· Simple & Compound Sentences

· Commas in Series

· Order within Paragraphs

· Apostrophes

· Unit 3 Test

Unit 4: Understanding Word Choice

· Synonyms & Antonyms

· Pre-writing

· Linking Verbs

· Writing Drafts

· Transitive Verbs

· Forming Contractions

· Conjunctions

· Unit 4 Test

Unit 5: Inferences

· Feelings & Motives

· Sensory Words

· Figurative Language

· Context Clues

· Pronouns

· Homophones & Homographs

· Pronoun Cases

· Revising the Draft

· The Importance of Proofreading

· Publishing

· Unit 5 Test

Unit 6: Purpose in Writing

· Point of View

· Journals

· Purpose in Writing

· Letters

· Objective Pronouns

· Possessive Pronouns

· Personal Pronouns

· Unit 6 Test

Unit 7: Structure in Literature

· Story Elements & Setting

· Titles

· Understanding Narrative, Expository

· Story Endings

· Connotation & Denotation

· Narratives

· Tricky Words

· Adjectives

· Adjectives as Articles

· Adverbs

· Unit 7

Unit 8: Reading Strategies

· Main Ideas & Supporting Details

· Asking Important Questions

· Words and Pictures

· More Figurative Language

· Structure of Stories

· Outcomes & Conclusions

· Unit 8 Test