Language Arts

My Spelling Group: None This Week

(The link is to Mrs. Fluegel's Spelling City practice games and activities.)

Shurley English - Overview

"Introduction Section: Sentence Building (Level 5 teaches the eight parts of speech: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, and interjection.)

The Shurley Method uses grammar to teach students the structure and design of their written language. Grammar provides students with a writing vocabulary, and it is the foundation of sentence composition. Students learn to write good sentences by using the basic sentence labels they are learning in grammar (A, Adj, SN, V, Adv) and by adding other labels as new concepts are taught. These sentences, written from grammar labels, are called Practice Sentences. Students then learn to improve and expand their sentences by using synonyms, antonyms, or complete word changes to improve different parts of the practice sentence. "

The subject-noun and verb are the main parts of a Pattern 1 sentence. (SN V)
The subject-noun, verb-transitive, and direct object are the main parts of a Pattern 2 sentence. (SN V-t DO)
The subject-noun, verb-transitive, indirect object, and direct object are the main parts of a Pattern 3 sentence. (SN V-t IO DO)
The subject-noun, linking verb, and predicate noun are the main parts of a Pattern 4 sentence. (SN LV PrN)
The subject-noun, linking verb, and predicate adjective are the main parts of a Pattern 5 sentence. (SN LV PA)

Shurley Parent's Guide - This guide goes into more depth of the Level 5 Shurley program. Use it to help review and reinforce lessons from class.

5th Grade Capitalization and Punctuation Rules

Shurley Kahoot! - Practice playing games with your parts of speech

Typing Club - It is very important for all Kinnikinnick students to become proficient with their typing skills. Because many of us are more used to a touch screen, it can be an adjustment to get used to using a keyboard. Practice makes progress! (User name is your first and last initial in lower case. Your password is your computer password )

Persuasive Essay Stuff

We have been using the Journeys Performance Assessment writing program to work on our first 5-paragraph essay of the year on a very hot topic: should students have homework, and if so, how much? We've been going one step at a time in reading sources, brainstorming both sides of the issue, finding credible evidence, and planning out each student's opinion and thesis statement and main reasons. We will likely be working on this through the beginning of second quarter, as this is an in-depth essay that students are just learning to tackle.

Persuasive Essay Planning Packet

Literacy eHandbook - This is a great resource for all of our reading and language arts standards, broken up by strand and specific skill.

Common Core Writing Standards goals and explanations for 5th grade

Student Exemplar writing samples for grades K-8 from the CCSS

ELA Google Classroom CODE = 85ggy6x

Writing Tips

Descriptive Language - Tips for creating images in the reader's head

Using strong verbs and vivid adjectives is a great start to improve your writing. However, taking it is step further is going to give your writing even stronger images. SHOW, don't tell.

Instead of telling us, "I am bored," describe how you look to us, describe your actions, your facial expressions, your posture... all without using the word "bored" or synonyms of "bored."

Think of it as a guessing game: clues to make us come up with the word "bored" on our own.

Of course, you cannot show all of the time. Sometimes, you just need to get to the point and tell the reader to keep a story moving.

I love this website that has a huge list of literary terms with examples! Check it out!

Expectations for “Where I’m From” Poems

Use this checklist to help you complete the task:

It must be typed, but not necessarily your final copy, by next Tues., Sept. 25.
It must in Google Docs, shared with Mrs. Irving.
You must use black ink only for now.
The title is this exactly: Where I’m From
Your font must be easy for Mrs. Irving’s eyes to see and read clearly.
You may NOT add images or clip art right now.
It must ALL fit on 1 PIECE of paper when you’re done.
Every sentence MUST have a capital letter.
Every sentence must have an appropriate end mark.
Every sentence must be complete and make sense.
You must use a variety of interesting adjectives.
You must use a variety of interesting adverbs.

Samples:

"Where I'm From..." (Anonymous)

I am from sweet smells, New books and paper. Reusable shopping bags, And sprinkle coated ice-cream that taste so good on hot days. From Germany and England.
I am from my bed, chair, and couch.I am from my family, My mom, dad, sister, and Grandma who comfort me when I'm sad.
I am from "I can hear you up there!" to, "Go for it!"From the old story of 'Princess Kate.' I am from the sugary taste of mint chocolate chip ice-cream, And salty, orange Play Dough From chicken frying on the grill, And candy apples waiting on a napkin.
I am from the beautiful pictures of my family, Coming from my mind, my pink, glistening camera, and my quilted scrap-book. It is these memories I will never forget.

"Where I'm From..." by Natalie Wright, Student Poet
I'm from small town America- woods and farms and barbeques, two lane highways and no lane rivers, a land of no subways, no buses, no Starbucks. I'm from a childhood climbing trees, jumping into rivers, playing with Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, Pound Puppies, He-man and Sheera.Playing Robin Hood and Huck Fin, playing soccer with the boys (so what if I'm a girl?)
I'm from Osh-Kosh and B-gosh, the Jetsons, ponytails and scrunchies, New Kids on the Block, and all those other embarrassing 80's moments. I'm from the Boxcar Children, Amelia Bedelia, the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, Nate the Great, The Babysitters Club.I'm from mucic- the piano, the harmonica, the clarinet. Baritone, trumpet, guitar. I sing with the Beatles, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby Stills and Nash.
I'm from Get Smart, Cheers, M*A*S*H, Taxi, Saturday Night Live, Singin" in the Rain, Duck Soup and Animal Crackers, Much Ado about Nothing. I'm from Just Say No, if all your other friends jumped off a building, it's time for the Muppet Show with our very special guest star, and why can't you be more like your sister?
I'm from a family of comedians and freaks, teachers and antique dealers, Lithuanians Scotts and Welsh, Seaford DE and Pottsville PA. I'm from jeans and flip-flops, surfboards and skateboards, CCD and Pre-K, family and friends, fog delays and snow days. I'm from the land of the free and the home of the brave.,From happy and sad, love and hate, life and death, pen and paper.

Where I’m From… by D.Irving

I’m from gray sidewalks and grayer curbed streets,

From noisy nights next to I90 and blaring O’Hare aircraft slicing the sky.

I am from a navy blue and white plaid jumper with white knee-high socks,

From nuns, white chalk on black slates, and banging erasers on bricks.

I am from walks to Sunnyside, toddlers in strollers alongside,

From laughing and running in the street during city block parties.

I am from the scent of snowball bushes in our backyard, chlorine in the pool,

From our personal fireworks displays on Kildare.

I am from the semi-sweet taste of chocolate chip pancakes, mac and cheese, and Tang.

I am from lemonade stands during the huge Chicago garage sales in sweaty summer,

From weekends with Grandma and Grandpa in Fort Atkinson, Manitowoc, and Two Rivers.

I am from the difficult move that winter of my third-grade year,

to the suburban fixer-upper with brown-orange carpeting,

...to be continued…

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