English Language Arts Assignments

Some useful links for free reading:

Junior Library Guild - Here you can access many excellent, unlimited FREE books online!

https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/jlgdigital-free

Scholastic's Book Wizard - At this site you can search for a book by title, topic, or your child's guided reading level. Many of these books can easily be found at the public library for free! http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard

King County Library Booklists - KCLS has a number of resources on their "kids" page to browse booklists by grade, genre, and topic. https://kcls.org/browse/kids/

For homework, please remember to respond with complete sentences and to revise your work before you give it to Mrs. Skelton.

Week 3

Complete pages 12 and 13 in Springboard including all of the table.

For Check Your Understanding, please write a paragraph describing each of those terms for your free read book. For example: The main characters in ...book... are....

Respond to the Narrative Writing Prompt with an alternate ending to "The Circuit". After you have written this alternate ending, edit your work and have your parent edit your work to hand in a final draft. Please hand in first draft and revised version to show growth.

Week 4

Complete Grammar Packet(I would break this into parts, maybe a rule per day or a couple rules on a couple days)

Free Read at least 15 min. per day

Complete Character Trait Worksheet(*graphic organizer) on character from your free read book

Write a paragraph describing your character(using your *graphic organizer)

Explanation of paragraph/essay:

• Write a topic sentence/intro that includes each of the three traits you claim your character has. (For example: "In the book Flora and Ulysses, Flora displays creativity, loyalty and persistence.")
• Use one example for each trait from the graphic organizer as supporting examples in the body of the paragraph.

Week 5

Complete/read pages 15 through 23 in Springboard.

For "My Superpowers", respond to questions 1-4 ( DO NOT do Check for Understanding this week)

For "Flipped", respond to questions 1-3.

Week 6

Complete/read pages 24 to 25 and 30 to 34(do not do #8 on p. 34) in Springboard.

Week 7

Free Read

Analogies Worksheet 2

Similes&Metaphors/Self Portrait Poem worksheet

Descriptive Writing Brainstorm Sheet(sensory brainstorm)

Write a descriptive paragraph using at least one simile and one metaphor. Choose a short event memory to describe, i.e. riding a rollercoaster, visiting the lake, walking through a corn maze...

Make sure to include a topic sentence introducing what you are describing and at least 5 sentences describing it.

*Watch out for vague sentences. Eliminate vague sentences like, "The walk was nice."

* Use concrete detail to describe the memory. What did you hear? What did you see? What did you smell? What did it feel like?

Week 8

Free Read

Complete preparation for personal narrative writing Springboard pages 36 to 41