Thursday, September 27th

Reminders and Announcements 

• Wednesday, October 3rd - Picture Day
• Friday, October 5th - Mid Term and 2 Hour Early Dismissal
• Friday, October 12 - Mobile Dentist at SRES

Reading 

Focus Standard

• RL.5.10   By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

We will wrap up our studies of informational text for this quarter Friday the 28th and move on to literary text for the remainder of the quarter.  The students are refining thier ability to identify the  main idea of small chunks of text in order to get an overall understanding of the main idea for an entire piece.  We will continue to practice chunking text and taking notes to help with comprehension of informational text in Science classes.  As we move into Literary text, we will be working on understanding the signposts that show up in literary text and how they help with comprehension.  Click the resource to check out this handy reference for Literary Signposts:  PDF Resource.

Writing

Focus Standards

W.5.5 - With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

W.5.3.d - Text Types and Purposes: Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.

W.5.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

We will strengthen our skills as storytellers by working with writing partners.  Over the next week, we will work on both giving productive feedback and revising based on feedback.  If you are interested in seeing your student's writing or following their progress, you can have them log into Chrome and show you their work in Google Drive.  Note that we are still in the process of gathering ideas and revising for content.  We will be learning how to edit for grammar, punctuation, and capitalization as we get closer to publishing later in this writing unit.