Review week for finals
Monday – Revising sentences
Tuesday – Verb agreements, tenses
Wednesday – Capitalization rules
Thursday – Comma rules
Friday – Apply revision skills on a passage
May 19 – 23, 2014
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Category Archives: 6.19
May 5 – 9, 2014
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.
March 31 – April 4, 2014 **STAAR Testing for 7th and 8th grade 4/1 & 4/2**
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
March 3-7, 2014
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
Feb. 24-28, 2014 *Early Release 2/26/2014*
Reading – Students will read teacher selected stories and answer the comprehension questions.
English – subject – verb agreements
Paragraphs – Attention to detail sentences: adding adjectives to make sentences “Sparkle”
Feb. 10-14, 2014 Reading and English
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
Jan. 27-31, 2014 Reading and English
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
9/30-10/4, 2013 Reading and English
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.
September 23 – 27, 2013 Reading and English
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.
September 16-20, 2013 Reading/ELA
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading
Monday – Friday – Guided reading:students will be reading teacher selected stories and answer comprehension questions. Friday will be running records.
ELA
The students have completed their research paragraph on Guinea Pigs. The classes spent several days on revising and editing.
The students began examining how prefixes can change the base words meaning.This week I will provide 4-5 more prefixes to their list. Thursday, the classes will begin suffixes and their spelling rules.
The 6th graders have been receiving Reading support in Science and Social Studies for the new vocabulary and chapter readings.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call me.
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.