Expected Assignments:Week November 5 - November 9

Expected Assignments this past week: November 5 - November 9

- Complete Performance Task
- Station Work: ( Cursive D, Greek/Latin Root "Ped" work, )

HOMEWORK: DUE Nov. 16 / Nov. 30

Homework DUE - Friday, November 30

Page 5: NF Text with Text Features

Page 6: Present, Past, and Future Tense

Students should be reading independently each night for 20 minutes or more. Students have been working toward setting their own goals and working toward increasing their minutes to read. 

Homework DUE - Friday, November 16. 

Page 3: Plot Homework
Page 4: Grammar Work

Students should be reading independently each night for 20 minutes or more. Students have been working toward setting their own goals and working toward increasing their minutes read.

ELAR WEEK: November 12 - November 16

Reading Workshop:

This week we will continue to look at how Nonfiction texts are organized with Cause and Effect as we prepare to choose how we want to organize our own writing pieces. We will also begin discussing Main Ideas and Supporting Details, while also locating them within a text, and summarizing the information.

Mentor Text: Weird and Wonderful Octopus
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Word Work / Grammar:

This week students will continue working with the Greek/Latin Root "ped". We will also learn about Prepositions.

Writing Workshop:

This week students will decide on the topic they will research. This will be their Unit 3 writing piece. Students will use the Nonfiction graphic organizer as they work through the next few weeks to organize their writing. We will also learn how to create strong Nonfiction Leads, while creating one for our own writing.

Homework: DUE Friday, November 9

New Homework Books were given out last week!

The first homework Pg 1 and Pg 2 are due Friday, November 9!

This Week in ELAR: November 5 - November 9

ELAR WEEK: November 5 - November 9

Reading Workshop:
This week in ELAR we will finish up our Performance Task over Rumplestiltskin (60%).
Wednesday, November 7 we expect to begin Unit 3 our Nonfiction Unit. We will be discussing the following:
- Text Features ( captions, real pictures, fun facts, glossary, index, etc. all the things that are included in an Expository Nonfiction Text.

- We will be looking at 2 ways Nonfiction Texts can be organized (Compare/Contrast; Cause/Effect)

Mentor Texts - Nonfiction 
* What if You Had Animal Teeth? ( Compare/Contrast Organized)
* National Geographic- Amelia Earhart (Cause/Effect Organized)

Word Work / Grammar Conventions:
We will be discussing Homophones ( Their, They're, There)
Greek and Latin Root (ped)

Writing Workshop:
In Writing Workshop this week we will look at the difference between Narrative Nonficton and Expository Nonfiction Texts.

- Narrative Nonfiction: Texts that are true, but told in storybook form with the elements of a "story".
- Expository Nonfiction: Texts that are told to inform or teach you something. They are organized usually with text features such as (glossary, index, real pictures, captions, etc.) that inform you of a topic.

We will also use the text, "The Weird and Wonderful Octopus" to discuss Main Ideas and Supporting Details as we learn how to dissect a text preparing for our own research of an Nonfiction Topic.