Materials & Resources
- Baldwin's Readers 8th Year or
- Osgood's Fifth Reader pgs 1-101 pgs 100-200
- McGuffey's Sixth Reader
Free Reading (from below) 35 Minutes a Day and fillout... - Free Reading Report
- Reeds Word Lessons Pages 228-288
- Spelling Lessons
- Higher Lessons in English
- Year long Story: Once a week add to your year long story.
Topics to be covered this year
- Independent reading
- Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills (opt.: online test)
- Literary terms
- Novel, short story, narrative poetry
- Nonfiction
- Biographies of great Americans
- American poets and storytellers (opt: some stories)
- Creative dramatics
- Listening and speech activities
- Advanced dictionary work
- Extended vocabulary
- Figures of speech
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct and indirect object (alternative thorough explanation with exercises, tests, and answers)
- Kinds of sentences (optional quiz) and their parts
- Functions of sentence elements (optional subject/predicate quiz)
- Writing simple business letters
- Report-writing skills
- Study Skills
Additional Topics if Time permits
Extras
- Spelling Rules Worth Knowing
- Spell Checker
- Flash Cards
- Spelling game 1, game 2, drills, 50 most commonly misspelled words
- 250 most commonly misspelled words
Free Reading List
- Huckleberry Finn Study Guide
- David Copperfield Study Guide
- Moll Flanders Study Guide
- Ivanhoe Study Guide
- Beowulf Study Guide
- Frankenstein Study Guide
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Captain of the Polestar
- His Last Bow
- The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
- Study in Scarlet
- Chronicles of the Canongate
- Pickwick Papers
Extras