ELAR WEEK: December 17 - 21

This Week in ELAR: December 17 - 21

This week we will have 3 normal classroom days, Mon. Tues. Wed. then we are on the countdown!

Monday - Wednesday: December 17 - 19
Monday: Library Day
These few days we will continue working on our NF Writing.
We will also continue with our Independent Reading, along with some extra fun little activities thrown in along the way with designing a Snowman, and Winter Breakouts that require us to read and think how we can break the code to solve a mystery. We will also take time to celebrate each other and what we have accomplished this first semester!

December 20:
Winter Wonder Read! This day we will do fun activities all day that require us to READ! It's also PJ Day so we will be nice and comfy with our books, and listening to other readers throughout the day!

Friday, December 21 
We will have some last minute fun in class before we pack up for early dismissal!

Expected Assignments: December 10 - 14

Expected Assignments: December 10 - 14

- Theme Practice with pictures
- Revising / Editing of Text
- Boxes and Bullets Graphic Organizer being completed

NO HOMEWORK: December 17 - 21

NO HOMEWORK: December 17 - 21

New Homework Booklets will be given out in January 2019 

HOMEWORK DUE: December 14

Homework Due: Friday, December 14

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Students should continue to set nightly reading goals with the minimum of 20 minutes.

Expected Assignments: December 3-7

Expected Assignments:

-A Fire for Liberty ( Comprehension Questions)
-Whoo's Reading #6 (Responding to Literature)
- Complete Final Exam
- Paragraph 1, Main Ideas, Supporting Details, and  Topic Sentences Completed in Writer's Notebooks

This Week in ELAR: December 10 - 14

ELAR WEEK: December 10 - 14

Reading Workshop:
As we begin to wrap up our units, this week we will focus on the reteaching of any concepts needing to be addressed again; for example, Main Idea/Supporting Details, Text Evidence, Plot, etc. through assigned tasks as needed. Students will continue to respond to texts they are reading, as well as Independently read.

Writing Workshop:
We are in the "good stuff" of our Nonfiction Writing! Students have created leads, thesis statements, topic sentences, etc and are now diving into the research! Students will continue to work on their Nonfiction Writing over the next several days.

THIS WEEK in ELAR: Week December 3 - 7

ELAR WEEK: December 3 - 7

Reading Workshop:
This week we will continue to discuss and reteach Implicit and Explicit Relationships. These relationships are a continuation of some of our previous study of "Literal and Interpretive Relationships". In Explicit, we will look at texts that literally state facts and information, along with Implicit, where we as readers are required to "infer" what is really being said within a text.
Reminder: Whoo's Reading #6 Due: Wednesday, December 5.

We will also take our Final Exam (60%) on Friday, December 7. See below for what will be covered:

Students will read 3 passages containing Fiction and NF texts that will focus on the following:

• Correct usage of words in a text
• Literal / Interpretive Questioning 
• Inferencing 
• Organization of Text Structures 
• Summary of a text 
• Author's Purpose
• Theme
• Main Idea / Supporting Details
• Types of Genre 

Word Work: 

Possessive Pronouns and how to correct them within a text.

Analogies 

Writing Workshop: 

We have been working on building our Nonfiction Leads along with writing Thesis Statements. We have also been learning how to set up our Main Ideas and what Supporting Details we believe support those ideas. This week we will dive into the researching and writing of nonfiction as we read and learn new things from our NF texts. We will also learn how to construct Topic sentences as well as begin to learn the importance of citing our references from the information we find! 

Expected Assignments: November 26 - 30

Expected Assignments Week November 26 - 30

- Main Idea and Supporting Details Task Cards
- Homophones
- Prepositions
- Main Idea/ Supporting Details "Weird, Wonderful Octopus" passage
-Checkpoint #7 Implicit and Explicit Relationships

HOMEWORK: DUE - December 7 (Friday)

HOMEWORK DUE: December 7, Friday

Nonfiction Text
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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.