All students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.

Classes will continue reading/listening to Number the Stars. Students will chart plot, conflicts, and character development.

All students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.

Monday – Apply reading strategies on teacher selected stories.

Tuesday – STAAR testing: 8th grade, Social Studies, 7th and 6th grade, Math

Wednesday – STAAR testing: 8th grade, Science, 7th and 6th grade, Reading

Thursday – Begin the novel Number the Stars -Intro to background, listen/read chapters 1&2

Friday – Listen/read chapters 3&4, begin filling out plot chart

Monday – Cause and Effect – KAMICO pg. 216

Tuesday – Drawing Inferences – KAMICO pg. 344

Wednesday – Compare/Contrast – KAMICO pg. 408

Thursday – Theme – Folk tales

Friday  – Off – Good Friday

I will be reviewing literature elements and strategies this week.

Monday – Analogies – activity from KAMICO pg. 30

Tuesday – Summary – KAMICO activity pg. 130

Wednesday – Character – KAMICO activity pg. 160

Thursday – Plot – KAMICO activity pg. 175

Friday is a clean up day to finish incomplete work.

6th grade

Monday – read story aloud with teacher, begin to answer comprehension questions

Tuesday – Comma usage – introductory

-Complete story comprehension questions

Wednesday – Commas usage – interjections

– read story aloud with teacher

Thursday – Complete story comprehension questions

Friday – LA games

 

7th and 8th grade

Monday – 7th grade review writing strategies

8th grade read stories, review strategies

Tuesday – 7th grade STAAR writing test

8th grade – STAAR math test

Wednesday – 7th grade STAAR writing test

8th grade – STAAR reading test

Thursday – Students will read stories aloud to teacher and answer comprehension questions

Friday – LA games

 

 

All students will be working toward grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.

Monday – Students will read aloud teacher selected stories and answer the comprehension questions.

Tuesday – Figurative language – Hyperbole – Students will read a Tall Tale and find examples of hyperbole.

Wednesday – Personification – Classes will read poems with the use of personification.

Thursday – Students will match figurative language terms. Test review.

Friday – poetry test

All students will be working toward grade level TEKS according to their IEP’s.

Classes will begin a figurative language/ poetry unit.

Monday – Go over poetry terms and definitions. Students will read a collection of idioms and discuss the meanings.

Tuesday – Alliteration – Students will read several poems that use alliteration. They will write phrases focusing on repetition of beginning consonant sounds.

Wednesday – Rhyme – End rhyme – Students will read poems and  identify the rhyming words in the poems.

Thursday – rhyming patterns – students will analyze various poems for rhyming patterns.

Friday – Students will write a short poem using alliteration or end rhyme.

All students will be working toward grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.

 

Monday – 6th and 7th grade will be taking a reading benchmark.

Tuesday and Wednesday – Students will read The Hollow.  They will determine the lesson or theme of the story, how the setting influences the character, and generate a summary based on the lesson the character learned.

Thursday and Friday – Adverbs

Thursday – green book pgs. 412-413

Friday – green book pgs. 414-415