Post date: Sep 15, 2014 9:00:50 PM
This week's writing focus will be on the graphic organizer we will be using to help us plan our personal narrative. We started with our jot page of ideas, then analyzed those ideas for "watermelon ideas" and "seed ideas." Our next step was to choose a "seed idea" to write about. Now we begin our planning/drafting stage of our personal narrative.
In spelling, our pattern words all follow the pattern of ending in -ar. There are so many different spellings for that r-controlled sound: -er, -ir, -ur and -ar. Seeing words in text during reading practice is the best way to recognize the vast number of possibilities of this spelling. We will study these lovely English language gifts all year!
In reading, we are completing our DRAs and will be discussing elements of fiction. We also will be working on plot/story structure.