3rd Reading and Writing Planning
April 30 and May 7, 2018
Reading
CPC Plan:
4/23--Plan for 5/7, 5/14 (STAAR) Last Lang. Arts CPC
Coming Soon:
5/14 STAAR Review and STAAR Reading and Math
5/21 Last week...woohoo!!!!
Reading Blitz Phase 2 (5/7) STAAR Reading (5/15)
Reading Blitz Phase 2 (2 weeks)
- Using STAAR Passages
- Focus on academic vocabulary
- Mini Lesson
- Model
- Gradual Release
- Debrief
- Small Group-Those who got 50% or less correct on passage
- Independent Reading/Achieve
Blitz TEKS: May 7
Phase 2-Week 2
4/30-Fiction (poetry and/or drama)
5/1-Informational
5/2- Informational
5/3-Multiple Genre Text
5/4-Multiple Genre Text
May 14-15 STAAR Math and Reading
PBL/Research Ideas
What's your story?
Project #1: In this language arts project for the early elementary grades, students compose photographs that tell compelling stories about their school. To get ready for this challenge, they interview professional photographers for advice about composition. Then they identify locations that they think make their school special. They also write informational text to accompany their photos. To make their work public, students might produce a StoryMap to publish online or a kid-friendly travel brochure for their school visitors.
How can we redesign a space that makes us think our school is cool?
Project #2: Here's an idea suitable for any school that is overdue for a makeover. The teacher behind this idea has built in constraints to force creativity: proposals must make the building more efficient and student-friendly. Students will apply their understanding of math and art to generate scale drawings, which they'll pitch to school administrators (along with proposed budgets and rationale or justification for the change). I can also imagine students making prototypes in a makerspace or using an online tool like SketchUp to generate plans.
More ideas:
- Create and manage a YouTube channel for a self-determined and authentic purpose
- Design a book with educative physical exercises to keep students moving during the day
Writing
Writing Trait-Ideas and organization
Genre- Literary Texts-Imaginative
TEKS-Writing/Literary Texts Imaginative
3.18 A - write imaginative stories that build the plot to a climax and contain details about the characters and setting.
Social Studies
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Unit 8:
2(A) Identify reasons people have formed communities, including a need for security, religious freedom, law, and material well-being.
4(B) Identify and compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment in which they live such as deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains. 4(E) Identify and compare the human characteristics of various regions.
13(A) Explain the significance of various ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in the local community and other communities.
13 (B) Compare ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in the local community with other communities.
15(A) Identify various individual writers and artists such as Kadir Nelson, Tomie de Paola, and Phillis Wheatley and their stories, poems, statues, and paintings and other examples of cultural heritage from various communities.
15(B) Explain the significance of various individual writers and artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Bill Martin Jr. and their stories, poems, statues, and paintings and other examples of cultural heritage to various communities.
Chapter 8:
Essential Questions
1. How is culture shaped?
2. How is culture shared?
3. What is the significance of cultural celebrations?
4. How have different cultures and ethnic groups contributed to the United States?
Chapter 8: Concepts/Main Ideas
Culture is the way of life of a group of people: the food they eat, the language they speak, the clothing they wear, the stories they tell, the music and art they create, as well as the community they live in.
Different cultural groups meet their needs in diverse ways.
Cultural groups live together to create communities around the world.
Celebrations are a reflection of cultural heritage and tradition
Coming Soon:
Chapter 8 Lessons 1-4 (5 weeks)