Questions to ask your student this week:
Reading Students had time to read their fantasy novels on Monday. We also reviewed the requirements for our literary food truck festival, this unit's culminating project. You can find the rubric and project description under 'Reading Resources'. Writing Students worked on their newspaper contributions. We will be finishing these up next week, and then interested students will have a chance to turn it into a newspaper using Canva.
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Questions to ask your student this week:
Reading This week students continued reading their fantasy novels of choice. We talked about symbols and how they are often present in fantasy novels. We ended the week by introducing the culminating project for this unit, a Literary Food Truck Festival. You can find links to the project description and rubric under the 'Reading Resources' tab. Writing Students completed a 'pitch sheet', where they pitched three possible contributions to our student newspaper and explained why they would be topics our student population would be interested in. They then chose a topic and started writing it. Some students are choosing to include interviews with teachers and/or students, so we went over how to prepare for an interview and came up with questions ahead of time. These students also practiced how to write an email to a teacher asking to set up an interview time. Most students are choosing to work with a partner, and they'll be completing the first draft of their article next week. We're hoping to have an edition of the paper published in March! This week we continued reading fantasy books of choice, and practicing writing as journalists. Questions to ask your child:
Reading Students continued reading their fantasy novels of choice. On Wednesday we looked at how authors often present characters in one way, and then give readers new information so that gradually our perception of the character changes. We looked at how the movie Home Alone does this with the character of "Old Man Marley", and then students looked for complex characters in their own novels. We also continued our read aloud novel, Flora & Ulysses. Here is the second section of ELA cheesing it up and posing with their fantasy novels: Writing
Students practiced identifying and using complete and complex sentences. On Tuesday they chose a topic about Summers-Knoll and planned out an expository newspaper article. Topics included the composting program, the futsol team, and the Spinning Dot play production. In the next few weeks students will practice writing an editorial, and begin planning out the first issue of our school paper. |
AuthorLauren Yavor teaches ELA with a reader's and writer's workshop format to SK 5th and 6th graders. Archives
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