Language+Arts

==Houghton Mifflin is the reading program we use at Shawnee. The books are divided into themes. Each theme has 3-4 stories. For each story, there are core skills, vocabulary, and spelling. The following website contains plenty of information and activities for each theme of the series. [|Houghton Mifflin]==
 * [[image:thumbnail-5.jpg]] || = Reading, Writing, and Spelling = ||

Story 1- [|Lost and Found Skills] Story 2- [|Mulan Skills] Story 3- [|The Waterfall Skills]
 * Theme 1- Off to Adventure-Story links with skills**

Theme 2- Celebrating Traditions Story 1- [|Keeping Quilt] Story 2- [|Anthony Reynoso- Born to Rope] Story 3- [|The Talking Cloth] Story 4-[|Dancing Rainbows]

Theme 3- Incredible Stories Story 1-[|Dogzilla] Story 2-[|The Giant of Barletta] Story 3-[|Raising Dragons] Story 4-[|The Garden of Abdul Gasazi]

[|Theme 4- Animal Habitats]- Story 1-[|Nights of the Pufflings] Story 2-[|Seal Surfer] Story 3-[|Two Days in May]

Extra Resources for additional reinforcement
The Fry word list is a listing of the most commonly used words in writing and reading. The following website contains the Fry word list along with other helpful exercises and information for developing reading skills [|Fry Word List]