Helpful Links to Improve Your Literacy Skills:
Reading Focus:
Asking Questions
Learning Goals:
Learning Goals:
High Tech Farming | |
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Reading Strategies Introduction | |
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How to Respond to Reading Comprehension Questions | |
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Making Connections to Understand Text
Responding to Questions - Written Responses Steps | |
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Writing Focus:
Organizing Writing - How to Write Informational Texts
Developing Ideas Learning Goals:
- generate appropriate ideas about a topic
- identify and order main ideas and supporting details for a writing piece
- narrow down ideas so writing is focused
Oral Language Focus:
Presentation Skills
Effective Listening
Fluency
Media Literacy Focus:
Creating a Comic
Parts of a Comic:
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Recognizing Purpose and Audience in Media Texts
Learning Goals:
Word Study:
Learning Goals:
- Learn the correct spelling for high-frequency, commonly misspelled words such as they, friend, could, there, their, they're, right, write, etc.
- learn that spelling rhyming words is not as easy as decoding them because some rhymes have two or more spelling patterns
- learn how to use cross-checking while reading and a visual cuing system while writing to apply what is being learned in other subject areas
- to improve the use of grammar rules in own writing
Word Wall
A B C D E F G audience compare description entertain fiction
contrast effect
cause evaluative
connections evidence
H I J K L M N inform literal nonfiction
informational
inferential
O P Q R S T U
purpose questions sell
persuade solution
problem sequence
prediction support
V W X Y Z
contrast effect
cause evaluative
connections evidence
H I J K L M N inform literal nonfiction
informational
inferential
O P Q R S T U
purpose questions sell
persuade solution
problem sequence
prediction support
V W X Y Z
Creating a Crossword: Using your Word Wall words from December, create a crossword using the following website: Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker. Either print it and put in your notebook or you can email it directly to [email protected].