HOMEWORK
Assignments will be given on Frontrow and must be complete by Thursday
Readers' Workshop
Launching Reader's Workshop
- Making good book choices - Readers learn the importance of choosing a “just right” book.
- Thinking and Talking-Readers learn how to quickly jot what they are thinking during the read aloud.
- Book Genres-Readers identify and list different kinds of book genres.
- Readers Workshop Routines-Readers learn how the workshop looks, sounds, and they learn the expectations of behaviour.
- Written Responses-Readers learn to pay attention to the details that support the 2Ws.
- Checking understanding-Readers deal with difficult text by reading , then pausing to reread and ask themselves, “What might this mean?”
- Solving unknown words-Readers deal with unfamiliar words in a text by pronouncing the word as best as they can, to see if any pronunciation sounds familiar.
Writers' Workshop
Launching Writer's Workshop
- What is a Writers Workshop ? How do writers discover stories?
- Use writers note book to generate ideas, stories and responses.
- Routines of a Writers Workshop.
- Using sensory details.
- Using capitalization in Proper nouns and beginning of a quote.
- Punctuation used in kids of sentences and commas in a series.
- Pre-writing
- Drafting
- Revising
- Editing
- Publishing
Personal Narrative Writing Unit 2
Students will apply classroom systems, routines and procedures of the writing
workshop by:
• Establishing habits of independent writers throughout the writing process
• Creating and learning to use resources, and applying them to independent
writing
• Writing daily
2. Students will come together as a community of writers by:
• Developing writing stamina in a productive, quiet writing space
• Collaborating and responding respectfully and thoughtfully
• Understanding where writers get their ideas (i.e. notebooks, conversations,
personal experiences, mentor texts, etc.)
• Exploring exemplary writing (mentor texts and student models)
3. Students understand that as writers they will:
• Explore topics and ideas they find meaningful (prewriting)
• Compose a first draft (drafting)
• Extend and rework selected writing (revising)
• Edit and proofread their work (editing)
workshop by:
• Establishing habits of independent writers throughout the writing process
• Creating and learning to use resources, and applying them to independent
writing
• Writing daily
2. Students will come together as a community of writers by:
• Developing writing stamina in a productive, quiet writing space
• Collaborating and responding respectfully and thoughtfully
• Understanding where writers get their ideas (i.e. notebooks, conversations,
personal experiences, mentor texts, etc.)
• Exploring exemplary writing (mentor texts and student models)
3. Students understand that as writers they will:
• Explore topics and ideas they find meaningful (prewriting)
• Compose a first draft (drafting)
• Extend and rework selected writing (revising)
• Edit and proofread their work (editing)
TERM 2
ADVENTURE UNIT
- Children can identify key features of adventure stories (plot/moral, setting, characters/heroes/villains, excitement)
- Children can explain reasons why a character has behaved in a particular way.
- Children can identify how the author engages the reader and maintains interest.
- Children can plan an extended narrative using the key features of the text-type.
- Children can write an extended adventure story with logically sequenced events and a resolution.
Literature Circles
This lesson provides a basic introduction to literature circles, a collaborative and student-centered reading strategy. Students begin by selecting a book together then are introduced to the five jobs in the Wordsmith, Word Wizard, Connector, Discussion Director and Summarize. The teacher and student volunteers model the task for each of the four roles, and then students practice the strategies. The process demonstrates the different roles and allows students to practice the techniques before they are responsible for completing the tasks on their own. After this introduction, students are ready to use the strategy independently, rotating the roles through four-person groups as they read the books they have chosen. The lesson can then be followed with a more extensive literature circle project.
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive writing, also known as the argument essay, utilizes logic and reason to show that one idea is more legitimate than another idea. It attempts to persuade a reader to adopt a certain point of view or to take a particular action.