ELAR WEEK: November 4 - 8

ELAR WEEK: November 4 - 8 

Reading Workshop: 
This week we will be working with Multiple Meaning Words and how they can have different meanings depending on how they are used within a sentence. 

For example, bank can mean the bank of a river, or bank can mean a place where you put your money. 

Students will also learn about how to understand vocabulary through using the clues within the context, Context Clues.

Writing Workshop:
Students will continue to learn about the concepts of grammar through building stronger sentences as well as more descriptive sentences. We will also continue to respond to our reading and prompt writing. 

Expected Assignments: October 21 - October 25

Expected Assignments: October 21 - October 25

- "Goin Someplace Special" Plot Questions (3)
- Assessment with Compare/Contrast Texts
- Ongoing (Reader Notebook: Plot ML, Annotations with IRA)

Week 3 (2nd 9 Weeks) October 28 - November 1

Week 3 ( 2nd 9 Weeks) October 28 - November 1

Reading Workshop:

This week we continue to dig deeper into ideas we've been studying such as Point of View, Non-Fiction Texts vs. Fiction Texts, and Text Evidence. 

Students will continue to build their stamina in reading and respond about their texts through literary responses.

We will also look at how well are we tracking our reading and our learning through our Reader Notebooks.

Writing Workshop: 

This week we will begin using our writing abilities to respond to images. This will cause us to have to think about the images we see, our own personal connections, and how we can use our thinking to be creative and tell/write a story.

 Handwriting: 
Students will work on connecting letters: fhkleb
We will begin to work toward letters: ijprsutw

Homework: October 28 - November 1

Homework Week: October 28 - November 1

New Homework Booklets went home Thursday, October 24. 
Homework Lesson 1 is due Thursday, October 31.

9 Week Student Standards

2nd 9 Weeks Student Standards

October 12 - December (2020)

At the end of the first 9 weeks, students are expected to do the following with texts: 

-Know the Plot Elements of a story (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution)

-Write the Plot of a story in a written response

-Poetry Devices

-Nonfiction Text Features / Text Structures 

1st 9 Weeks Student Standards

August 14 - October 9 (2020)

At the end of the first 9 weeks, students are expected to do the following with texts: 

- Understand the Reading Workshop 

- Discuss and Write an Author's Purpose ( the true message the author was trying to convey) with text evidence.

- Make Connections between texts, to themselves, and the world with text evidence.

- Book Talk: Speak about a book through a Book Talk

HOMEWORK: October 21 - October 25

HOMEWORK Week of October 21 - October 25

There is currently no homework scheduled. 

Homework booklets are expected to be passed out for the new 9 Weeks on Thursday, October 24.

Assessment Dates - 2nd 9 Weeks

4th 9 Weeks:
* Subject to change at any time*

No scheduled 60% assessments at this time. 

3rd 9 Weeks: Testing Dates

Summary Assessment ~ Thursday, January 23, 2020 (60%)

Personal Narrative Assessment ~ January 21 - January 31. 
Composition 60%
Conventions/Sentence Structure 60%

Unit Assessment ~ Wednesday, February 12 
(Inferencing and other Essential Standards) 60%