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Monday – House keeping – put away supplies
Begin reading assessment. Students will be working on 2-3 sections a day. The assessment will take a week to complete.
August 26-30, 2013 English/Reading
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May 6-10, 2013
Monday – Tuesday
Reading – 7th and 8th grade – complete the novel Tuck Everlasting, watch the remaining section of the movie, answer comprehension questions
Wednesday-Friday – The students will be given the end of the year Reading Benchmarks.
English – Monday – Friday
Students will be given the end of the year Writing benchmarks.
Reading – English – 6th grade
The students will be given the end of the year Reading and Writing benchmarks. The students will complete a section a day.
Jan. 28-Feb.1, 2013
Monday and Tuesday
Students will be taking the CLASS Writing assessment. This may take longer than two days.
Wednesday – Friday – Reading
Students will read selected stories and answer the comprehension questions.
Wednesday – Friday – English
Poetry – End Rhyme and Similie
Jan. 22-25, 2013 Reading and English
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.
Dec. 17-21, 2012 *Early Release Thursday and Friday
All English classes will be reviewing for the semester final Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
Reading class – Students will read aloud to the teacher a selected story and answer the comprehension questions.
Wednesday – 6th grade reading final
Thursday – 7th grade English final, 8th grade reading and English final
Friday – 6th grade English final, 7th grade reading final
Nov. 5-9, 2012
The students will be taking reading benchmarks. We will complete one story a day.
The 7th grade will be taking reading and writing benchmarks.
English – 6th and 8th graders will be covering pronouns all week.
Reading-9/17-9/21 *Early Release Wednesday 9/19
We have completed the Reading Assessments!!
Students will read aloud their assigned stories to the teacher and complete the comprehension questions. Students are working on increasing fluency, vocabulary development, and story components.
Friday the students will be given a one minute running record on the weekly story.
The students will be working on their I.E.P. objectives.
September 10-14, 2012 – Reading
Monday
6th grade – see Writing lesson plans
Students will be creating a research project. This project will take 5-8 days to complete.
Tuesday
All classes will continue CLASS assessments.
Wednesday
Continue with CLASS assessment
Thursday
Complete CLASS assessments
Friday
Teacher will introduce a new ELA game. Class will play game with teacher.
*All students will be working toward their grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.