My Language Arts Plan

This is my rough plan for Language Arts for the Grammar Stage (1st-4th grade). Many include curriculum I'm looking into and will chose from when the time comes. We don't/won't use all of these for all subjects in each grade. I plan the year for what the child needs and often drop and add things through the year. Some things can be covered in unit-type lessons and are not covered daily or even weekly. This is also goals for the entire year and work builds up to most difficult assignments. I'm very flexible and like having a buffet of options to teach from.

First Grade
Phonics – Explode the Code A, B, C, and possibly D.
Spelling – Reading Rod letters to practice ETC words. Spell to Write and Read.
Writing – Copy work of phonics words in sentences then paragraphs from early readers.
Grammar – Nouns and Verbs. Punctuation and Capitalization through copy work. Discuss quotation, when to capitalize, apostrophes.
Handwriting – Pages from Zaner-Bloser and copy work.
Reading – Explode the Code, Bob Books, early reader set, and then Step into Reading. Being read to.

Second Grade
Phonics – Plaid Phonics 2 (and 3)
Spelling – Reading Rods and Word Searches.
Writing – Copy Work from books, Dictation, Sentence building with Reading Rod word blocks then writing sentences. Story development: Beginning, middle, end. Simple book reviews. Alphabetizing through second letter of a word. Letter writing and addressing an envelope. Poetry writing and reading.
Grammar/Language - Primary Language Lessons. Adverbs and Adjectives. Subject and Predicate. Proper quoting, use apostrophes. Discuss comas. Primary Language Lessons. Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms.
Reading – Early Reader set, Step into Reading, beginning chapter books and free reading.

Third Grade
Writing – The Complete Writing Program (3-12), Story Writing program 1st yr of 2. Copy work from books 2x week, Sentence Building blocks then writing sentences, Dictation 3x week (tests Spelling, Punctuation, and Capitalization). Sentence Composing for Elementary School: A Worktext to Build Better Sentences, IEW?? Beginning cursive writing, Concept of paragraph, Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks, Writing short, original stories and poems, Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading
Reading – Reading Detective by the Critical Thinking Co (3-4grade)
Grammar – Intermediate Language Lessons. Looks boring. ??? Start Language Mechanics a year early?
Spelling – Work from list of misspelled words from child’s writing (sentence writing, writing 10 times, word searches, blocks). Spelling Power, Spelling Workout, Sequential Spelling, or Spell to Write and Read. Simply Spelling gr3-12. Five simple activities per week of one topic; based on America and classical writings.
Vocabulary – Thesaurus word swapping. Prefixes and Suffixes. Word Roots by the Critical Thinking Co.

Fourth Grade
Writing – Story Writing program 2nd yr, Sentence Building blocks then writing sentences, copy work, dictation.