Review week for finals

Monday – Revising sentences

Tuesday – Verb agreements, tenses

Wednesday – Capitalization rules

Thursday – Comma rules

Friday – Apply revision skills on a passage

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.

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”

Tuesday

Classes will complete Universal screening.

Wednesday

Classes will write an essay responding to the topic of a major theme from their novel.

Thursday

Classes will read a short autobiography and discuss, How can you recognize an autobiography?

Friday

Classes will read a short biography and discuss, How can you recognize a biography?

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.

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.