Scope and Sequence Phonics / Spelling auditory discrimination – beginning sounds – blends – consonant sounds – decoding new words – ending sounds – long vowel sounds – short vowel sounds – sight words – silent e – vowel pairs – word families Reading character development – context clues – compound words – comprehension – describing characters – dialogue – drawing conclusions – following directions – inferences – left to right progression – maps – moral of a story – oral reading – plot – poetry – predicting outcome – reading aloud – recalling detail – retelling story – rhyme – setting – types of stories Grammar adjectives – alphabet – alphabetical order – antonyms – apostrophes – capitalization – exclamation marks – homonyms – nouns – periods – plurals – possessive nouns – proper nouns – punctuation – synonyms – verbs Composition composing sentences – composing paragraphs – composing stories – letter writing – narration – narration based on a picture – writing sentences Research and Study Skills dictionary – encyclopedia – library – map skills – parts of a book: title page, table of contents, author, illustrator, publisher – reference skills – research – thesaurus – verifying information Higher Order Thinking Skills alphabetical order – categorizing – compare and contrast – context clues – describing – details – drawing conclusions – evaluation of a story – fact and opinion – following directions – grouping – inferences – interpreting illustrations – making a list – matching – memorization – ordinal sequencing – patterns – personal application – predicting outcome – real and make-believe – story recall – sequencing Creative Expression charades – choral reading – coloring – drama – drawing – illustrating sentences – illustrating stories – making a book – memory game – narrating from a picture – puppets – telling a story ​ Penmanship drawing shapes – lower case letters manuscript – upper case letters manuscript – punctuation – numbers – sentences