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.

 

 

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

Feb. 1-7, 2014 Reading & English

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.

 

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

 

Dec. 9-13 Reading & English

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

 

 

Dec. 2-6, 2013 Reading and English

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

Nov. 18-22, 2013 Reading and English

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?”

  • Students will be given three web sites to distinguish facts from myths
  • Students will compare facts/myths using a web
  • Students will write their findings into a paragraph
  • Students will present their findings to a student/teacher panel