This Week in ELAR: February 18 - 22

Reading Workshop:

This week we will begin working with Paired Passages. Students will read Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, and Nonfiction texts to compare and contrast. We will also look at text features in both, and what purpose they serve.

Texts we will use this week: Faithful Elephants (click on link)
Although NF Texts will vary throughout the week, they will be over Elephants.


Writing Workshop:

This week students will choose different genres to write to, as well as learn how to combine sentences more effectively in writing.

Test # 2 - Revising/Editing Writing Test (60%) Grade: Thursday, February 21. 
*See Resources Tab for extra practice!

Test #3 - Written Composition (60%) Grade: Written Prompt
*Students will use a link this week, as they choose 1 of their three Writing Compositions to submit for their final test grade of the 9 weeks.

Work Work:

Students will continue to work with Idioms, along with syllabication, the breaking down of words.