December 18-22
Happy Martin Luther King day! Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
- phonics: adding a suffix to phonetic skill #5 words - to add a suffix to a word that has adjacent vowels, just add the suffix
- phonics: review spelling with /k/, digraph blends, and adding suffixes to phonetic skill #5 words - then test
- phonics: words with /gh/
- phonics: the many jobs of Y
- writing: final write of the personal narrative we started last week
- writing: begin new narrative - this one will be an assessment (meaning they will need to do it on their own - without my help). Prompt is "write a short narrative about a character who makes a decision about money."
- STAR (reading & reading comprehension) testing this week
- reading: continue reading Money Matters! - (objective: identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text, ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, use various text features to locate key facts or information in the text efficiently, explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text, describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in the text)
