Offsite Course Template
Offsite Course Name:
Easy Grammar
Grade Level:
5
Subject:
Language Arts
Class Description:
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This course will teach the 8 parts of speech in English grammar plus their role in the parts of sentences. Students
will learn how to both identify the 8 parts of speech in the context of sentences as well as learning how to use them
correctly in sentences. Students will also learn the rules for correct capitalization and punctuation and be provided
practice with these skills. Troublesome words that are often confused will also be addressed.
Learning Materials:
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Easy Grammar: Grade 5 and Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills – Grade 5
Easy Grammar Systems by Wanda C. Phillips,Ed.D
Learning Goals/Performance Objectives:
This section will be completed in Wings. Select the “GLE Chooser” button, enter grade level and
category/subject. Either select each item individually that pertain to your class or use the “select all” button then
“select” save at the bottom.
EALRS for this course:
Select WRITING 3.3.3 and 3.3.4 and 3.3.5 and 3.3.6
Learning Activities:
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SEPTEMBER
Daily Grams #1-20, one a day
Easy Grammar:
Week 1: Pre-Assessment for course (pages v – x); Learning the prepositions (pp.1-9)
Week 2: identifying subject and verb, helping verbs, compounds (pp.11-25)
Week 3: imperatives, distinguishing adverb from preposition, Review Prepositions (pp. 26-41)
Week 4: finish preposition review, preposition test, using prepositional phrases in writing (42-51)
OCTOBER
Daily Grams #21-41, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: VERBS: teaching “to be,” action verbs, contractions (pp. 54-69)
Week 2: contractions and confusing words, verb phrases, regular and irregular verbs (pp.70-97)
Week 3: direct objects, difficult verb practice, verb tense (pp. 98-121)
Week 4: linking verbs with predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives (122-135)
NOVEMBER
Daily Grams, #42-57, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: subject-verb agreement, transitive and intransitive verbs verb review and test (pp. 136-167)
Week 2: Cumulative Review and Test (pp. 170-179)
Week 3: NOUNS: concrete and abstract, common and proper, noun vs. adjective, plurals (pp. 182-205)
BREAK FOR THANKSGIVING
DECEMBER
Daily Grams #58-68, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: NOUNS: more on plurals, determiners (pp.206 – 225)
Week 2: possessive nouns, direct and indirect objects (pp.226-245)
WINTER BREAK
JANUARY
Daily Grams #69-89, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: predicate nominatives, noun review and test (pp. 246-265))
Week 2: Cumulative Review and Noun Test (pp. 267-289)
Week 3: ADJECTIVES: descriptive, limiting, proper (pp. 291-313)
Week 4: predicate adjectives, degrees of adjectives (pp.314-331)
FEBRUARY:
Daily Grams # 90-107, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: adjective review and adjective test (pp.332-339)
Week 2: cumulative review (pp.340-353)
Week 3: cumulative test, adjectives used in writing (pp. 354-365)
Week 4: adverbs: when, where , and how (pp.367-385)
MARCH
Daily Grams # 108-128, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: adjective or adverb? adverbs: how? when? where? to what extent? (pp. 386-403)
Week 2: comparative and superlative degrees of adverbs, review of adverbs (pp. 404-423)
Week 3: adverb test, cumulative review, cumulative test (pp. 424-447)
Week 4: PRONOUNS: personal, nominative, predicate, subject, object, and compound pronouns (pp.449-465)
APRIL
Daily Grams #129-144, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: reflexive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, and possessive pronouns, and antecedents (pp. 466481)
SPRING BREAK
Week 2: pronoun review and test plus cumulative review (pp. 482-505)
Week 3: cumulative test at end of pronoun unit (pp. 506-517)
MAY
Daily Grams #145-165, one a day
Easy Grammar:
Week 1: interjections, conjunctions, and capitalization through Rule 10 (pp.526 – 549) (note skipping pp. 518-525)
Week 2: capitalization (pp. 526-573)
Week 3: review and test on capitalization (pp.575-577); punctuation: periods and commas (pp.579-601)
Week 4: comma review (pp.603); question marks, apostrophes, colons, semicolons (pp. 604-619)
JUNE
Daily Grams #166-176, one a day
Easy Grammar
Week 1: hyphens, underlining, quotation marks, review of punctuation, test on punctuation(pp.620-643)
Week 2: make-up /catch-up OR learn the appositive (pp. 646-657)
Progress Criteria/Methods of Evaluation:
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For all learning activities, formative assessment will be conducted throughout the duration of the course and noted
in the monthly progress. Summative assessments will be scheduled as deemed appropriate in content and skill
areas where a summative assessment aids the teacher and parent to determine the student’s progress. Timelines for
student work samples and progress reviews are outlined in the Learning Activities section of this learning plan.
This student is on a continuous progress, individualized assessment schedule that is reviewed and modified as
needed. The POD teacher is the certificated teacher responsible for the student’s WSLP, including the on-going
review of all on-site and off-site classes.
Cedars Code:
This section will be completed in WINGS by the Teacher Consultant when approving off-site course.