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.
This week 6th,7th,and 8th grade classes will be taking the Reading and English Universal Screener. The measurement tool will be the BRIDGE. I have planned to utilize 4 days to complete the two screeners. There will also be a 6 week test covering Prefixes, Suffixes, and past tense verbs. I will have a review on Monday and Tuesday. The test will be on Thursday.
Students will be working towards their grade level TEKS according to their IEP.
Monday – Holiday
Tuesday – Friday
The students will read aloud their selected stories, demonstrate reading strategies to locate answers in the reading, and answer the story comprehension questions.
English – Figurative Language Test, February 20
We will finish the Figurative Language study will the last two devices of Rhyme and Metaphor.
Tuesday – Friday – The writing project will probably take two weeks to complete.
6th grade – The students will be working on their Social Studies project of comparing the ancient civilizations of the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs. They will select and compile information from the Internet and printed sources. They will type the information onto their blog pages.
7th Grade – The students will begin an expository paper on an environmental issue. The students have selected their topic and will select and compile information from the internet and printed sources. They will type the information onto their blog pages. Students will chose the format of final product: report with poster, report with drawing, slide show, or power point presentation.
8th Grade – same as 7th grade assignment.
Reading
Monday – Thursday
Students will read selected stories and answer comprehension questions.
Friday – Running records
English
Monday – Friday
Figurative language devices – similes and metaphors
We will read simile poems and discuss the attributes of the poems, the students will practice writing similes and by weeks end, write and illustrate a simile poem.
Tuesday-Friday
Reading
Students will read aloud teacher selected stories and apply reading strategies to complete comprehension questions.
English
Figurative Language – Personification
Teacher will read the definition of personification and add it to the word wall.
Personification activity
Students will chose cards with objects named on them: furniture, an aspect of the weather, a toy, a building, a season.
Students will chose cards with a verb to go with it: takes, hopes, remembers, listens to ,tells, feels like, brings, dances, looks forward to, reminds, looks for, shows, helps, wants to.
They will have something like chair/remembers.
Now, they will expand this into a sentence. Ex. The chair remembers when it was new.
The children can extend this by asking asking questions about their sentence. Who, What, Why, Where, When, How, Which?
Wednesday
Personification handout -Identify the object being given human qualities
Identify the human qualities given to the object
Thursday
Show You Tube of New York City Subway
Read aloud City Dawn from Poem Maker, Word Shaker. The class will identify the lines of personification used in the poem.
Students will write a poem using personification.
Friday
Students will read 4 poems and identify the lines of personification used in the writings.
Students will complete the packet on dictionary skills.
Students will be working toward their grade level TEKS according to their IEP.
Reading
Spelling pre-test
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Students will read to the teacher the selected stories. This week the student will recall the important details from the story and organize them onto a summary star. After organizing the details, the student will work on an oral retelling of the passage.
Tuesday, Thursday Figurative Language -Alliteration
Teacher will give definition of alliteration and read examples from poetry books. Students will make up their own tongue twisters.
Teacher will show drawings of student’s work illustrating an alliteration which contains a noun, verb, and adjective. The students will select an alliteration and illustrate.
English
Students will write a personal narrative paragraph using the WWW W=2 How=2 chart to organize their writing.