Happy Columbus Day!
This week we will be reviewing spelling, conventions (used with our writing) and reading strategies that we have covered to this point this year. As we spiral back to these words, writing, grammar concepts and comprehension focus to our reading, it is important to reflect their importance.
Spelling for the week:
all right, among, autumn, awareness, course, current, driveway, false, forehead, friendly, government, haircut, make-believe, portion, sentence, thorough, thought, twenty-two, United States, write,
There will be no bonus words this week as these are review words.
Spelling test will be Friday. There will only be word dictation this week.
Writing:
What are pronouns and when do we use them?
What descriptive words help make our writing more interesting? How do we help our nouns? How do we make our verbs more powerful?
Understanding homophones (to, two, too, they're, their, there, your, you're, it's, its)
Reading Comprehension
We will revisit the structure of nonfiction or informational text verses fiction / literature.
We will also explore the importance of the characters in the stories we read. Can we use inference to better understand them and what we read? How does recognizing the problem help us to understand our characters or do our characters better help us understand our problem?
Understanding our reading structure helps us to understand what we read.
We will read Storyworks articles: "How Candy Conquered America", "When Candy Was a Healthy Meal (not really!), "How Bad Could It Be?", "The Lion and the Mouse", "An Unlikely Friendship".
Grammar assessment this week (pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, homophones) will be Monday, 10/19. Reading assessment for above articles will not be until Tuesday, 10/20.
