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.