Week 17 Announcements

Week 17 Announcements (December 8 - December 12)

Parents,

This week is an important week because students are going to be taking the District’s CFA (common formative assessment) in both Revising/Editing and Reading. Students will be testing on Tuesday and Thursday, so make sure that they are well rested and in a test-taking mindset when they come to school on these days.

Reading

Last week we worked on “paired passages,” which is when a reader is asked to read two separate stories and answer questions about the similarities and differences between aspects of each story. This week we will be discussin two different skills--Fact and Opion and Poetry.

Writing

Last week we introduced how Expository essays are structured using something known as the “Funky E” organizer. It organizes the paper into 4 paragraphs--Intro, Body #1, Body #2, and Conclusion. Each paragraph has very important elements. In the Intro, students are to engage the reader’s attention with something known as a hook. After students have engaged the reader, they are to include a thesis statement, which is one sentence that tells the reader what the paper will be about. The first sentence of the first body paragraph is known as a topic sentence and it connects with the thesis statement from the introductory paragraph. It tells the reader what the paragraph is going to be about. Students are to use their body paragraphs to support to their main defends.

Sight Words

Parents, this will be our first week of sight word homework. Up until now, we’ve been completing many of these tasks in class, but as the year goes on and we continue to raise the rigor in our classroom, we will move this work out the classroom and hold our students accountable for learning beyond the school day.

Sight Word Work is due at the end of each week (on Fridays!)

Monday:     Write each word 5 times each

Tuesday:     Write each word using stairstep spelling ( students should know what this is)!

Wednesday: Write each sight word in a sentence.

Thursday:     Define each sight word and provide a synonym and antonym if possible.

prove	debate	opinion
demonstrate	illustrate	allowing
refuses	contribute	reveal

Reading Logs and Sight Word Homework are due on Fridays!

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