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.
Students will be working towards their grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading
Students will read to the teacher the selected story of the week and answer the comprehension questions.
Spelling words
Prefixes and Suffixes
English
Monday
Lesson 4 from Powerful Writing Strategies – Review mnemonic WWW What=2 How=2
Tuesday
Apply organizational strategies by using the graphic organizer with the writing prompt.
Wednesday
Write story and edit
Thursday
Type story
Friday
Spelling test
Running records
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.
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.
Students will be working toward their grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Students will be reading teacher selected stories and answer comprehension questions.
Students will read orally to the teacher.
Friday – Running records on familiar readings.
English
Monday – Pronoun test
Students will be writing a Personal narrative this week incorporating the Powerful Writing Strategies.
Tuesday – 6th, 7th, & 8th grade
Lesson 1 from “Powerful Writing Strategies”
The POW + WWW, What=2, How=2 strategy will be introduced in this lesson. The teacher and students will collaboratively locate the story parts Who, When, Where, What=2, How=2 in two stories. The students will begin to learn the two strategies. They will establish writing partners and concept of transfer.
Wednesday – complete Lesson 1
Thursday
Lesson 2 – The POW + WWW, What=2, How=2 strategies will be reviewed. The students will examine a story that they had previously written and look for the number of story parts. This current progress for each students will be graphed and a goal set to get all seven story parts next time. The students will record their transfer efforts.
Friday – complete Lesson 2
Monday
All classes will be given 10 spelling words. The spelling test will be given on Friday.
Classes will continue with the unit, “What is a sentence?”
6th
The class will begin a writing project based off of their Social Studies unit on the affects of the sun on the regions in the low or high latitudes.
The project’s results can be typewritten with pictures explaining their findings. They may attach report and pictures on poster board, write a fictional story based on facts, or draw a cartoon story board of a fictional or non- fictional character.
Students will differentiate between complete sentences and sentence fragments.
7th
The students have completed the CLASS writing assessments!!
Students will review complete sentences and sentence fragments.
8th
Students will review complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Wednesday *Early release day*
6th grade
Students will begin to organize information onto a graphic organizer.
7th
Students will rewrite sentence fragments, adding the needed subject or predicate.
8th
Students will rewrite sentence fragments, adding the needed subject or predicate.
Thursday
6th grade
Subjects and predicates
7th
Complete/simple subjects
Complete/simple predicates, pgs. 46 and 47
8th
Same as 7th grade
Friday
Spelling test – all grades
6th grade
Students will identify which part of the sentence is missing. The students will then rewrite the sentence, adding the missing subject or predicate.
7th and 8th
Quiz-Subjects and Predicates
Thursday
Daily Lang. Workout
Journal writing
Proper nouns
Friday
Spelling test
Finish up weekly work.
Play ELA game with teacher