3rd Reading and Writing Planning
April 2-6, April 9-13 and April 16-20, 2018
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Reading
4/2: Fiction 3.8
Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.
3.8 A-sequence and summarize the plot's main events and explain their influence of future events.
3.8 B-describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes they undergo.
STAAR STEMS - Fiction:
- Which of ___ actions helps the reader visualize why ___?
- Paragraph ___ is important to the development of the plot because it is where ____.
- _____'s interaction with ____ shows that he ------
- What is the best summary of this story?
- What does _____ learn in this story?
- Read ___ from the story. Why does ____ think ------?
- What does ____ mean when he says "_______"?
- As it is used in paragraph _____, the word ____ means ------
CPC Plan:
3/26--Plan for 4/2, 4/9, 4/16
4/9--Plan for 4/23, 4/30
4/23--Plan for 5/7, 5/14 (STAAR) Last Lang. Arts CPC
Coming Soon:
4/2 Fiction 3.8 A, B
4/9 and 4/16 Reading Blitz-Phase 1
4/23 and 4/30 Reading Blitz-Phase 2 and STAAR Review
5/7 Phase 3 Reading Blitz
5/14 STAAR Review and STAAR Reading and Math
5/21 Last week...woohoo!!!!
Reading Blitz (handout)
Phase 1-Week 1
4/9- summary/main idea 3.19 E
4/10-Prefix/suffix 3.4 A
4/11- Inference 3.9, 3.19 D
4/12- Plot/Theme 3.5 A, 3.8 A
4/13 - Synonyms/ Antonyms 3.4 C
Phase 1-Week 2
4/16- Poetry 4.6A
4/17-Context Clues 3.4 B
4/18-Text Features 3.13 D, 3.15 B, 3.16
4/19- Nonfiction Inference 3.12, 3.13 B, 3.19 D
4/20-Finding Information 3.13 A, 3.19 E
Writing
Write From the Beginning-Expository
Genre- Expository
TEKS-Writing/Informational Texts Expository —
3.20 . Students write expository texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes.
Students are expected to:
(B) create a brief composition that (i) establish a central idea in a topic sentence (ii) include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations (iii) contain a concluding statement
Mentor Texts for Voice:
Wemberly Worried
How to Lose All Your Friends
I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat
Hey World, Here I Am!
Harris and Me (Chapter)
The Gift of Sacred Dog
Earth Dance
Desert Voices
December
Dear Children of the Earth
Roller Coaster
Tell Me Again About the Day I Was Born
Creativity
Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type
The Carousel
Bull Run (Chapter)
The Block
Between Earth and Sky
Alexander and the Terrible...
Benjamin Brody's BackyardBag
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
The Teacher from the Black Lagoon
What Mary Jo Shared
Tough Cookie
Tar Beach
Shaq and the Bean Stalk
Sleeping Ugly
Thank you, Mr. Falker
A Symphony of Whales
Anansi and the Talking Melon
Paper Bag Princess
My Many Colored Days
Pink and Say
Social Studies
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Unit 7 Lessons 3 and 4:
(6) Economics. The student understands the purposes of earning, spending, saving, and donating money. The student is expected to: ®6(A) identify ways of earning, spending, saving, and donating money. 6(B) create a simple budget that allocates money for spending, saving, and donating. (7) Economics. The student understands the concept of the free enterprise system. The student is expected to: 7(A) define and identify examples of scarcity. 7(B) explain the impact of scarcity on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. ®7(C) explain the concept of a free market as it relates to the U.S. free enterprise system. (8) Economics. The student understands how businesses operate in the U.S. free enterprise system. The student is expected to: 8(A) identify examples of how a simple business operates. 8(B) explain how supply and demand affect the price of a good or service. 8(C) explain how the cost of production and selling price affect profits. 8(D) explain how government regulations and taxes impact consumer costs.
Chapter 7: Lessons 3-4
Essential Questions
1. How do people get what they need?
2. What is the difference between needs and wants?
3. How do people make choices when there is scarcity?
4. What are the differences between goods and services?
5. What are the differences between producers and consumers?
6. How is price influenced by supply and demand?
7. What are the differences between spending, saving and donating money?
8. How does specialization and division of labor help people make products?
Chapter 7: Concepts/Main Ideas
- People have to make choices about needs and wants because all resources are limited.
- People trade goods and services within communities, with other states, and with other countries.
- People are both producers and consumers of goods and services.
- The price of a products is influenced by supply and demand.
- People depend on each other as producers, consumers, savers, and borrowers.
- Specialization and the division of labor help people make products
Coming Soon:
Chapter 7 Lessons 1-5 (6 weeks)
Chapter 8 Lessons 1-4 (5 weeks)