3rd Reading and Writing Planning
Feb. 26-March 2 and March 5-9, 2018
TELPAS
2/19/18 Personal Narrative
2/20/18 Academic Science
2/23/18 Academic past tense
2/26/18 Academic Social Studies.
2/27/18 Free choice
Reading
2/26: Theme and Genre 3.5 and 3.10 (Week of SS DCA)
Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
3.5 (A) paraphrase the themes and supporting details of fables, legends, or stories.
3.5 (B) compare and contrast the settings in myths and traditional folktales.
3.10 (A) identify language that creates a graphic visual experience and appeals to the senses. □ sensory language- picture things or events as they read □ similes- compares two things using the words like or as □ metaphor- compares two things without the use of the words like or as
3/5: Nonfiction Expository Text (Careers):
3.13 A Main Idea
3.13 B Draw conclusions
3.13 C Cause and Effect
3.13 D Text Features
Coming Soon:
2/26 Theme and Genre 3.5 and 3.10 (DCA week)
3/5 (Last week of grading period) we need to incorporate careers into this week
New Grading Period:
3/19 and 3/26 Expository 3.14
4/2 and 4/9 Literary Nonfiction 3.9
4/16 and 4/23 Fiction 3.8
4/30 and 5/7 STAAR Review
5/14 STAAR Review and STAAR Reading and Math
5/21 Last week...woohoo!!!!
Writing
Write From the Beginning-Expository Procedural
Genre- Expository -Procedural (5 weeks) 2/26, 3/5
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 Sentence Fluency:
The Napping House
The Important Book
Henry's Freedom Box
Dog Team
Home
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
Wombat Diving
Flower Garden
Casey at the Bat
Harlem
I Swim an Ocean in my Sleep
Market Day
The Sign of the Seahorse
The Big Box
Wild Child
Water Dance
Slugs
A River Dream
The Table Where Rich People Sit
The Pooh Story Bookl
Old Black Fly
Polka Bats
Night Noises
Nappy Hair
My ManBlue
My Little Sister Ate One Hare
Social Studies DCA-Feb. 21
Social Studies
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Unit 6 Lesson 3:
1(A) describe how individuals, events, and ideas have changed communities, past and present.
2(B) identify ways in which people in the local community and other communities meet their needs for government, education, communications, transportation, and recreation.
16(A) identify scientists and inventors, including Jonas Salk, Maria Mitchell, and others who have discovered scientific breakthroughs or created or invented new technology such as Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, and Louis Pasteur. ®16(B) identify the impact of scientific breakthroughs, and new technology in computers, pasteurization, and medical vaccines on various communities
17(E) interpret and create visuals, including graphs, charts, tables, timelines, illustrations, and maps.
Lesson 4:
8(E) identify individuals, past and present, including Henry Ford and other entrepreneurs in the community such as Mary Kay Ash, Wallace Amos, Milton Hershey, and Sam Walton, who have started new businesses.
14(A) identify and compare the heroic deeds of state and national heroes, including Hector P. Garcia and James A. Lovell, and other individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Juliette Gordon Low, Todd Beamer, Ellen Ochoa, John “Danny” Olivas, and other contemporary heroes
16(A) identify scientists and inventors, including Jonas Salk, Maria Mitchell, and others who have discovered scientific breakthroughs or created or invented new technology such as Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, and Louis Pasteur.
16(B) identify the impact of scientific breakthroughs, and new technology in computers, pasteurization, and medical vaccines on various communities
17(D) use various parts of a source, including the table of contents, glossary, and index as well as keyword Internet searches, to locate information
Chapter 6: Lessons 3-4
Essential Questions
1. How does life change throughout history?
2. How did innovations in transportation and communication influence the growth of the United States?
3. Why do people immigrate to new lands?
4. How do innovations in technology and medicine change people’s lives?
5. How did human-rights activists change the lives of many Americans?
Chapter 6: Concepts/Main Ideas
- Communities change over time.
- Technological developments affect how people live.
- Individuals can affect communities.
- Some things change over time and some things remain the same.
- People’s lives change when they move to a new country
Coming Soon:
New grading period:
Chapter 7 Lessons 1-5 (6 weeks)
Chapter 8 Lessons 1-4 (5 weeks)