Announcements and Reminders for Monday/Tuesday, February 26/28, 2018:
Tomorrow (February 27) is your day to job-shadow. Come back to school on Wednesday!
Leave (or put back) your composition books in your haning folders. Book Sign-Ups are due February 28! Biography Autobiography/Memoir Literary Nonfiction If you weren't here to get the Nonfiction Book-of-the-Month Assignment, you can download it from here: Finding the Central Idea Graphic Organizer.docx Recommended Nonfiction See the tab above for required reading for more information. |
Targets for Today:
I can recognize these expository (informational) text structures: descriptive, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, sequence (and chronological), problem and solution. |
Today’s Agenda for Monday/Tuesday, February 26/28, 2018:
Leave your composition books in their hanging folders.
1. Quiet, individual reading time -- If you can, use this time to read your nonfiction books.
If you have not picked a book yet, sample the nonfiction books available on the rolling table at the front of the room. 2. Sign-up for your nonfiction books -- by Wednesday, February 28. 3. Sentence Types Practice. Students practiced recognizing simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Here are a couple of games for practice with sentence types:
4. Students practiced recognizing expository text structures.
Note that Sequence and Chronological are different because sequence shows the order of what repeatedly happens (the metamorphosis of a butterfly) or what should happen (recipes or science experiments or assembling a bicycle).
Chronological order, on the other hand, is about what happened. Example: You were born, then you learned to talk and walk, then you went to kindergarten, then first grade, and so on. It’s time order using days, weeks, months, years. |
If You Were Absent:
See above.
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