Weekly Class Work Skills (11/2/15-11/6/15)~Week 13
Skills for Comprehension~
Inner voice, tracking (post it notes), straying, mind
movie, recording in margins, merging our thoughts,
text features, connect new to known, question the
text, discover answers
I CAN~ identify and successfully review, identify, write, and apply all previously
taught skills.
SKILLS TO REVIEW~ Identify complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation,
simple sentences, subject and predicate, declarative and interrogative sentences,
imperative and exclamatory sentences, compound and simple sentences, common
and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, irregular plural nouns, singular &
plural possessive nouns.
Sitton~ Week Lesson 13
Dictation Test Friday
I CAN SPELL THE
FOLLOWING WORDS
CORRECTLY~
first
earth
there
night
people
almost
around
picture
new
study
off
anywhere
house
light
world
really
don’t
being
without
second
I CAN IDENTIFY,
PRONOUNCE, & WRITE THE
FOLLOWING WORDS WITH
THE GIVEN SKILLS &
PATTERNS BELOW~
Skill~ syllables~ letter
combinations for long e, sounds
when h follows c, t, s, or w;
spelling patters for k are c, k, ck,
qu, ch.
Pattern~ Make SURE you study
these phonics skills! They come
home daily for homework!!!
I CAN IDENTIFY AND
WRITE THE FOLLOWING
TYPES OF WRITING~
INFORMATIONAL
TEXT writing
Final Copy is due at the
end of the 9 weeks for
a SUMMATIVE grade!
Informational Text Web
due for a FORMATIVE
grade at the end of the
2nd nine weeks.
I CAN SUCCESSFULLY SOLVE & COMPLETE THE SKILL S
LISTED~
Skill~ Unit 7~ Multiplication with and without regrouping~ lessons 1-3
***Pretest are given before every new chapter begins! Please go over all pretest
and review any problems that your child missed!!! They will see them again on the
Post Test!!! Ch. Summative Test once the unit is complete (Friday~ expected
day)!!!
I CAN EXPLAIN, IDENTIFY, AND APPLY information from current unit ~ Unit 6 Chapter 12
Skill~ Unit 6 Chapter 12 ~ Holidays and Heroes
Lesson Review~ pp. 336-365~ OPEN BOOK TEST Thursday!!!
Narrative poem~ tells a humorous story
Fable~ a story that teaches a lesson or moral
Tall tale~ a story that uses exaggeration
Expository text~ describes real things and places
Realistic fiction~ a story that could really happen
Fairy Tale~ imaginary story that includes heroic acts, often begins “Once upon a time” and ends
“and they lived happily ever after”, characters are usually all good or all bad.
Fantasy~ make-believe events and situations that could not happen
Drama~ uses a dialogue to present characters and plot
Narrative Nonfiction~ tells about real people and real events
Biography~ story about a persons life, written by another person
Narrative Folk Tale~
Historical Fiction~
Spelling Test
Language Skill Quiz
Math Facts Test
Math Test~ Quizzes are given weekly on
Common Core objectives. These problems
come directly from the packet of problems we
complete each day in class!! (please see MATH
portion of this letter for more details)
Lucy Calkins Writing~ Final copy due at the end
of the week (we are doing this in class together)