Week 34: 5/1-5/5

Monday 5/1: Morning Work: Benjamin Franklin's Many Firsts passage with questions. Students will also complete a spelling practice sheet.

We will continue our review of reading skills taught this year. Today we will review plot/story elememts.

Students will view a powerpoint about plot.

Students will work on completing centers in small groups about plot.

Those students who need additional targeted practice with this standard will be pulled for small group instruction with Mrs. Richling.

We will continue our cursive packets.

Tuesday 5/2: Morning Work: Benjamin Builds a Clock passage with questions.

     We will continue our review of reading skills taught this year. Today we will review text structures.

Students will view a powerpoint about text structures.

Students will work on completing centers in small groups about text structures.

Those students who need additional targeted practice with this standard will be pulled for small group instruction with Mrs. Richling.

We will continue our cursive packets.

Wednesday 5/3: Morning Work: Sam Walton passage with questions.

  Social Studies: Students will continue our unit on Regions of the US. We will read about the Northeast Region resources/culture.

    Students will take an open notes quiz on the information that we read.

   We will continue practicing nonfiction text structures.

Students will begin complete a color by text structure page to decipher between the 5 types of text structures.

Thursday 5/4: Morning Work: Belling the Cat passage with questions.

We will continue our review of reading skills taught this year. Today we will review comparing and contrasting.

Students will view a powerpoint about comparing and contrasting text.

Students will work on completing centers about comparing/contrasting.

Those students who need additional targeted practice with this standard will be pulled for small group instruction with Mrs. Richling.

We will continue our cursive packets.

Friday 5/5:  Spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension assessment **LAST spelling and vocabulary test for the school year!**

                  Students will finish up any unfinished center work from the week.

Standards covered this week:

ELA.3.R.2.1: Explain how text features contribute to meaning and identify the text structures of chronology, comparison, and cause/effect in texts.

ELA.3.R.1.1: Explain how one or more characters develop throughout the plot in a literary text. 

ELA.3.R.3.3: Compare and contrast how two authors present information on the same topic or theme. 

ELA.3.C.3.1: Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level. 

ELA.3.C.1.1: Write in cursive all upper- and lowercase letters.