This course is designed to help students read fables, folktales, identify the elements of stories, learn and spell words and categorize them, sequence ideas, and identify main ideas. In addition, students will understand literary devices, characterization, purpose, and point of view of authors. Students will also be able to identify main ideas and connections within texts, along with understand the structure and feature of texts. Illustrative and pictorial texts are provided to understand the purpose behind using them. Writing narratives, opinion pieces, and expository texts are also emphasized in this course, along with the grammar aspects of collective and proper nouns, reflexive pronouns, capitalization, adjectives and adverbs, tenses, and end punctuation. Understanding root words, context clues, and figurative language to determine meanings of words are also emphasized in this course.