Achieve Logs are due in class every Monday. Students are required to complete at ONE at home per week and complete the GREEN ACHIEVE HOMEWORK FOLDER. Please sign and return the logs by Monday.
Unit 1 Literacy Goals
In Marking Period 1 in Literacy, we will focus on using questioning and wondering to think about a story, as well as listening to confirm another person's thinking. We will also refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. In addition, the difference between poems and prose will be explored. Practicing making connections and identifying theme in texts we read is also a goal for this MP.
In order to become better communicators, the children will practice using discussion prompts to have meaningful conversations about what we are reading. Another important skill that will be learned while while delving deep into fiction will be working on citing evidence from text and videos using the RACE Strategy when responding to text. Infering character traits and determining the meaning of unknown words using context clues will also be applied this Marking Period.
We also will continue using discussion prompts to have meaningful conversations about what we are reading. We will also be delving deep into fiction while working on and citing evidence from text and videos using the RACE Strategy when responding to text.
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Study Island
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Skills Guide is posted below.
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-Several quizzes will be administered on the objectives taught. These tests/quizzes are difficult to study for as they are application of reading skills. Therefore, some may be announced in advance and some will not.
But you can help you child at home by consistently reading with him/her and having them apply the skills listed below to books or passages that they read at home.
Writing
We are focusing on Narrative Writing in MP 1. We will also continue to practice our proofreading skills, organizing our writing, using transition words, and including sensory details in our writing. The Grammar Skills we will focus on are include combining choppy sentences using conjunctions (and, but, or, yet, etc.) , using commas correctly, and continue to correcting run-on sentences.
Please help your child proofread at home using the proofreading marks we learned in class.
Achieve 3000 NEWS
Every week the children are expected to carefully read and complete the 8 Activity Questions for at least 1 article of choice and answer the Thought Question in full, complete sentences. (Please see the Include in your writing button to improve your responses). In MP 2, 3, and 4, we will assign 2 Articles for Independent Practice at home, along with 1 well written Thought Question. Try to earn a 75% or higher on the 1st try :) Let's increase those Lexile Levels monthly.
***Return Signed Achieve Folder every MONDAY*** Parents and students must sign. (If we do not have school on a Monday, the folder , article, and thought questions will be due on Tuesday)
** See directions and strategies to do well and improve comprehension and wriiten responses on Achieve 3000 in students' Achieve Folders.**
- Please continue to use Achieve 3000 at home when assigned. Your child may also read additional articles for practice in addition to the activities and stretch articles, but please do not complete more than 1 article at one time. Thank you!
