5th Grade English - $400 per year + $25 copy/materials fee

The 5th Grade English/Language Arts program is designed to build strong grammar and writing skills necessary for success in middle and high school and beyond. Through the Shurley Grammar curriculum, students build strong grammar and vocabulary. Additionally, students will be introduced to various writing genres including expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative. The IEW stylistic guidelines will be taught to enhance the richness of student writings and several IEW writing techniques will be taught including KeyWord outlines and Story Sequence Charts. Students will be assigned 4 to 5 literature books to read for the year and 4 end-of-quarter assignments.

Weekly Homework Expectations: Students will be assigned exercises in the Shurley Grammar workbook to review grammar skills introduced in class. Students will complete periodic at-home, parent-graded Shurley Grammar tests, located in the workbook, to evaluate their grammar competency. Students will be assigned between 1 to 3 MLA formatted paragraph writing assignments every other week during the program year focusing on various writing skills. Families should plan to spend 2 to 4 hours a week completing English assignments.

Parent-Teacher Expectations: Parents are expected to serve as editors to all student writing work. Prior to signing up, it is understood that parent-teachers have thoroughly vetted the literature books to your home/lifestyle choices and beliefs. Parent teachers are also responsible for grading any grammar tests and submitting grades to Google Classroom before the due date.

Before beginning this course, students should have successfully completed a 4th grade ELA home or school-based curriculum and can write complete sentences and follow directions.

Due to the rigor of the Shurley Grammar program, and because the 5th grade class utilizes Shurley Grammar 6, if your student is new to Shurley Grammar, it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that your student participates in Mrs. Kang's Shurley Grammar summer prep class, which typically happens in early August. I will provide information regarding her prep class with the syllabus.