THEME: Neighborhoods
and Communities
English Language Art
Treasures Unit 2 Week 3: Coasting to California
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Writing
Write on Demand: Expository
When you take a test, you may be
asked to write to a prompt.
A prompt introduces information
about a topic, and then provides
instructions about a specific
writing assignment.
W3.2.2 Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified
impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
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Writing
Write on Demand: Expository
Most prompts are expository or
narrative.
Expository prompts ask you to
explain something.
Narrative prompts ask you to
tell a story.
W3.2.2 Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified
impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
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Writing
Write on Demand: Expository
Before you begin writing, ask
yourself these questions:
Is the prompt expository or
narrative?
What is the purpose of the writing?
What is the actual assignment?
Does the prompt call for a specific
form or format?
W3.2.2 Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified
impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
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Writing
Write on Demand: Expository
Let’s look at page 220 in our
textbook.
You will write on demand for 8
minutes.
W3.2.2 Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified
impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
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Writing
Writing Skill: Expository
Description
Conversation – No. Please work quietly.
Help – Raise your hand if you need help.
Activity – Write on demand for 8 minutes.
Remember to focus on a setting, a moment, or an
object. Also, show, not tell by using descriptive
sensory details.
Movement – Stay in your seat.
Participation – I know you are on-task if I see you
writing quietly.
WA2.1 Develop plot with well chosen details.
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Writing
Daily Language Activities
1. I do not want mouses in my
house.
2. That is the trooth
3. Do like deers outside it?
LC1.1 Complete Sentences.
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Writing
Grammar:
Irregular Plural Nouns
Some nouns have special plural forms.
They do not add –s or –es to form a plural.
Their spelling may or may not change!
LC3.1.2 Subject and verb agreement.
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Writing
Grammar:
Irregular Plural Nouns
Proofread
1.
2.
3.
4.
Look at the deers in my yard.
Brush your teeths every day.
Those three mooses are very big.
We saw two sheeps and three mouses on
the farm.
LC3.1.2 Subject and verb agreement.
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Writing
Grammar:
Irregular Plural Nouns
Let’s do Practice Book, page 105.
We will do a little bit and finish the rest
during IWT.
LC3.1.2 Subject and verb agreement.
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Oral Language
“A Treat of a Street”
Focus Question: Do you think it was
important to save Olvera Street?
R3.3.1 Distinguish common forms of literature.
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Word Study
Vocabulary: Connect to
Words
Complete these sentence stems:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Immigrants are people who…
In a ____, there are many different
communities.
In my family’s culture, ….
A long time ago, settlers established…
In my house, a traditional meal
includes…
R1.4 Vocabulary – Use antonyms, synonyms to determine meanings.
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Word Study
Prefixes: AntiThe prefix anti- means “against”
or “opposed to”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Anti-immigration
Anti-slavery
Let’s add the prefix anti- to our
Anticrime
Writer’s Notebooks.
Anti-aging
antifreeze
R3.1.8 Use knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of words.
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Word Study
Suffixes: -ion
The suffix –ion means “the
result of” or “the act of”
1. Invention
add the suffix –ion to our
2. Subtraction Let’s
Writer’s Notebooks.
3. Collection
4. concentration
R3.1.8 Use knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of words.
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Spelling:
Proofread and Write
Word Study
Circle each misspelled word and
write the word correctly.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The boys trew balls at the
skreens.
He scrabs the streats.
We heard threigh screems.
The throan was scrached.
The sprey was pretty stroung.
LC3.1.8 Spell correctly one-syllable words.
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Spelling:
Proofread and Write
Word Study
Practice Book, page 103.
Let’s do some together.
Finish the rest during IWT.
LC3.1.8 Spell correctly one-syllable words.
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Show What You Know:
A Treat of a Street
Reading Comprehension
Author and Me Test-taking Strategy
Answers are not always directly stated in the text.
Authors provide clues that can help you answer a
text question.
Combine your knowledge with what the author has
provided to help you figure out the answer.
R3.2.3 Demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers in the test.
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Show What You Know:
A Treat of a Street
Reading Comprehension
Author and Me Test-taking Strategy
Let’s practice the Author and Me
strategy by doing pages 218-219.
R3.2.3 Demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers in the test.
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Oral Language
Reread for Fluency:
Pronunciation and phrasing
Pronounce the words clearly so
listeners will understand and enjoy
what you are reading.
Pause at the commas.
Stop at the period.
I will listen for your pronunciation
and phrasing this week.
R3.1.3 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately.
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Oral Language
Reread for Fluency:
Pronunciation and phrasing
Let’s practice using Practice
Book, page 98.
R3.1.3 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately.
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Word Study
Word Squares
The word
Your own definitions of the world
and any related words, synonyms,
words with the same base word
Simple illustration
Nonexamples and antonyms
R1.4 Vocabulary – Use antonyms, synonyms to determine meanings.
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IWT
Independent Workshop
Time (IWT)
Students will work independently.
By yourself
With a partner
In a group
Or with the teacher.
RC1.0 Reading Comprehension
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IWT
Independent Workshop
Time (IWT)
Green Go Time
DO NOT DISTURB THE TEACHER.
When you are done, read a book
from inside your desk.
RC1.0 Reading Comprehension
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IWT
Rotation/Independent
Workshop Time (IWT)
MUST DO
Vocabulary, Practice Book, page 95 and 101
Main Ideas and Details, Practice Book pg 96
and 97
Spelling, Practice Book pg 94, 102, and 103
Irregular Plural Nouns, Practice Book page
104, 105
Word Squares, Finish the rest of your
word squares.
RC1.0 Reading Comprehension
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