Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Today's Assignment Unit 5 Week 3

Some students had to make up AIMS ELA Assessment, whiles other had to complete their test. (Time was shorten because the 5th grade team started late)

Reading language: central idea/theme, text structure/features, context clues, figurative language, summarize, relevant details, how do they develop/contribute plot, concluding paragraph

Mini Lesson 2

Homophones Links to an external site.

Flare/flair

I watched as the fire flared to life.

She had a flair for painting landscapes.

course/coarse

Regina is taking a course in art history.

The grains of sand on this beach are very coarse.

flour/flower

My dad uses two cups of flour in his recipe.

I smelled the first blooming flower of the spring.

Let's Practice

Censor/senor

daze/days

stationary/stationery

presence/presents

coward/cowered

  • Pronunciation & Context clues: "Affected" Teacher read aloud p.88 T. Ed
    •  Writing 

      • "Civil Rights-Martin Luther King"
      • Gathering info from the text to write para 2 (using a planning sheet)

      Reminders for writing a hook

        • Ask a question state a fact
        • Use a scenario
        • A. Picture this

        B. Imagine this

        • Use statistics
        • Onomatopoeia
        • Exclamation sentence
        • Flashback
  • Homework Assignment

    • "The Bull Dogger" (Q1)