This course is designed to help students read fables, folktalkes, identify the elements of stories, learn and spell words and categorize them, sequence ideas, and identify main ideas. In addition, students will understand sensory details, characterization, purpose, and point of view of authors. Students will also be able to identify main ideas and connections within texts. Students will understand the basic elements of phonemic awareness, syllables, digraphs, and suffixes. Writing narratives, opinion pieces, and expository texts are also emphasized in this course, along with the grammar aspects of nouns, pronouns, capitalization, adjectives, tenses, and end punctuation.