3rd Reading and Writing Planning
April 15-19 and April 22-26, 2019
Last CPC - Thursday, April 25
SLO Goal Evidence uploaded by April 23
Reading
April 15 and April 22
Reading Blitz-(2 weeks) STAAR passages, see schedule
Coming Soon:
Reading Blitz-30 min whole group, 2- 30 min small groups, 15 min strategy practice, quiz
4/29 and 5/6 Reading Blitz (2 weeks) Monitor, clarify and reteach. Coaching specific students.
5/13-5/14 Reading/Math STAAR
Writing
Weeks of 4/15 and 4/22
Persuasive Writing 3.21 A
Write persuasive essays for appropriate audiences that establish a position and use supporting details.
**Using The Day the Crayons Quit (I have a prepared lesson if you choose to use)
**4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20 Research with Google slides presentation
Still using mentor sentences from books you are reading. Make sure they are on your lesson plans.
Process-3.17 A, B Planning, organizing, drafting and final draft (Spanish and English same)
Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific purposes.
Students are expected to: 3.20 (A) create brief compositions that establish a central idea in a topic sentence; include supporting sentences with simple facts, details, and explanations; contain a concluding statement.
- Edit using CUPS (Capitalize, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling)
- Revise using ARMS (Add, Remove, Move, Substitute)
Grammar:
ORAL AND WRITTEN CONVENTIONS / CONVENTIONS
3.22 Students understand the functions and use the conventions so f academic language when speaking and writing. Students are expected to:
3.22 (A) use and understand the follow parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: (i) verbs (past, present, and future) (ii) nouns (singular/plural, common/proper) (iii) adjectives (e.g., descriptive; wooden, rectangular ; limiting; this, that; articles: a, an, the) (iv) adverbs (e.g., time: before, next; manner: carefully, beautifully)
3.22 (B) use the complete subject and the complete predicate in a sentence
3.22 (C) use complete simple and compound sentences with correct subject-verb agreement.
ORAL AND WRITTEN CONVENTIONS / HANDWRITING, CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION 3.23 Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions. Students are expected to:
3.23 (A) write legibly in cursive script with spacing between words in a sentence
3.23 (B) use capitalization
3.23 (C) recognize and use punctuation marks including
3.23 (D) use correct mechanics including paragraph indentions
Social Studies Unit 4
There are several videos in Schoology for this unit. They are pretty good. Take a look.
Many resources in Pearson online. Sign in with T then ID# for login and password.
Unit 7 ( 6 weeks) 3/18-4/26
(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.
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?