All students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
The students will be given a writing prompt and develop their paper using the writing process. I will be conferencing with the students daily. This assignment will take all week.
Students will read a teacher selected story and answer the comprehension questions.
Thursday and Friday – Students will be given the reading CLASS assessment.
All students will be working towards grade level TEKs according to their IEPs.
Monday – Students will write Plot vocabulary terms from the word wall. They will need to study the terms for Friday’s test. Notes will NOT be used on this test.
Review WWW What=2 How=2 chart
Students will read teacher selected stories. They will have all week to complete the story and answer the comprehension questions.
Tuesday – Students will begin write a story summary of Number the Stars using the format of the WWW What=2How=2.
Review Plot chart – practice placing the elements in the correct section
Wednesday – Read with teacher, make revisions and edits to story summary, review vocabulary terms and Plot chart
Thursday – Write final copy of story summary, review vocabulary terms and plot chart
Friday – Vocabulary and Plot chart test, story summary due.
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.
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
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?”
Reading – Students will read teacher selected stories and answer comprehension questions using reading strategies to locate answers in the text.
English – Students will write the final copy of their personal narrative.
Working together as a class, students will identify revision and editing mistakes in teacher selected passages.
Students will begin working on Reading comprehension in Odyssey.
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Students will be reading teacher selected stories and answering reading comprehension questions. Students will use reading strategies to locate information in the text.
English
Students will begin the writing process on a personal narrative. The POW + TREE mnemonic and graphic organizer chart will be introduced. The students will complete the personal narrative by Nov. 5th.
Students will apply the conventions of capitalization for proper nouns and abbreviations.
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading – 6th and 7th grader will read teacher selected stories and answer comprehension questions.
8th grade – read “Just Once” from Literature book. Students will provide support of their understanding of the main characters internal/external conflict.
English
Monday -Continue with Suffixes.
Tuesday – Present tense verbs
Wednesday – Past tense verbs with -ed
Thursday – Past tense verbs with -ed, -ied
Friday – Irregular verbs
Grading: Please be aware that the posting of your child(s) grades will vary according to the subject area ranging from three (3) days to two (2) weeks determined by the complexity of the assignments. Minor assignments: 1-3 days: Major assignments: (3-5) days. Major writing assignments, major projects: 10 days. Please check your child’s teacher website for additional information.
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading
Spelling pretest
Students will read aloud teacher selected stories and answer comprehension questions.
This week students will study prefixes, suffixes, and root words.
Friday – spelling test and running records
Writing
The classes have enjoyed researching facts about guinea pigs. You may have heard quite a few interesting facts about guinea pigs from your student. The kids loved sharing the facts with the class. This week the students will write a rough draft, revise, edit, and write a final copy of their paragragh.
Grading: Please be aware that the posting of your child(s) grades will vary according to the subject area ranging from three (3) days to two (2) weeks determined by the complexity of the assignments. Minor assignments: 1-3 days: Major assignments: (3-5) days. Major writing assignments, major projects: 10 days. Please check your child’s teacher website for additional information.