Tuesday – Topic sentence and parts of a paragraph. Class will view www. Studyzone.org
Wednesday – Students will select topic sentences to the corresponding short paragraphs. Green book pgs. 122-123
Thursday – Details in the body of a paragraph – Green book pgs. 124-125
Friday – Test – Parts of a Paragraph, Parts of a Friendly Letter, topic sentences
All students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading
Students will read aloud teacher selected stories and answer the comprehension questions.
English
Monday – Combining sentences – green book pgs. 26-27
Tuesday – Writing – Parts of a letter
Wednesday – Compound subjects – green book pgs. 28-29
Thursday – Writing an invitation
Friday – Compound predicates – green book pgs. 30-31
All students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
This week the students will be taking a writing benchmark. 7th grade will take the benchmark on two, half- days. 6th & 8th grade will have one, half-day of benchmarking. The tests days are still to be determined.
English
Contractions
Homonyms
Reading
Students will read selected stories and answer comprehension questions in their guided reading group.
All students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Monday
Introduce autobiography, discuss details required in writing an autobiography. Class will read together the autobiography, The Firefighter.
Tuesday
Students will begin their personal autobiography using a chart.
Students will read with the teacher selected stories.
Wednesday *Early Release*
Read with teacher
Revise and edit autobiography
Thursday
Computer Lab – Students will log onto www.readteachlearn.com, using their autobio. chart, complete the bio cube.
Friday
Running records
LA games if all work is complete
Tuesday
Classes will complete Universal screening.
Wednesday
Classes will write an essay responding to the topic of a major theme from their novel.
Thursday
Classes will read a short autobiography and discuss, How can you recognize an autobiography?
Friday
Classes will read a short biography and discuss, How can you recognize a biography?
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Monday – Wednesday – Read/listen to novel, complete plot chart on the chapters read. Students will write responses to question prompts.
Thursday and Friday – Students will take a Universal screening
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Students will begin a novel unit which will last for two weeks. The 6th & 7th grade will read Alistare Owl, the 8th grade will read The Giver.
6th & 7th grade – Genre – Fiction – Read/Listen to chapters 1-5, begin characterization chart, graph plot chart,and infer the mood through the use of figurative language.
8th grade – Genre – Science Fiction/Fantasy – Read/listen to chapters 1-11, Vocabulary and Concepts: theme, motif, symbols – Students will recognize the importance of memory, relationship between pain and pleasure, and the importance of the individual. Students will chart and explain the characters personality traits and development throughout the novel.
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading – Students will read the teacher selected stories to the teacher and answer the comprehension questions using strategies to locate the information in the reading.
English – Pronouns –
Monday – Subject Pronouns – green book pgs. 346 – 347
Tuesday – Object Pronouns – green book pgs. 348-349
Wednesday Possessive pronouns – green book pgs. 352-353
Thursday – Review capitalization rules for proper nouns
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading – Students will read teacher selected stories and answer comprehension questions.
Wednesday – Running records
English –
Monday – Comma usage with introductory words
Tuesday – Identify complete subjects in a sentence
Wednesday – Identify complete predicates in a sentence
Thursday-Sentence types – Declarative & Interrogative
Friday – Imperative & Exclamatory
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading – Monday – Tuesday
Students will read aloud teacher selected stories and answer comprehension questions.
English – Commas in a Series – Yellow book pgs. 274 & 275, Green book pgs. 286 & 287,
Combining Sentences – FANBOYS words, Green book pgs. 32 & 33
Wednesday – Friday – Students will conduct an investigation and gather information to support the view, “What Was the First Thanksgiving Really Like?”