Reading Workshop: 

• Mini Lesson, Active Engagement, Share

• Fiction-Non-Fiction novels (Just Right Books)

• Units: Interpreting Characters, Reading the Weather,  Details & Synthesis, Reading History- American Revolution,  Test Prep, Historical Fiction Book Clubs 

• Reading notebooks connected to writing about reading

• Conferencing with students about their reading experiences

• Morphology (vocabulary program- see additional page)

• Read Alouds

Writing Workshop: 

Mini Lesson, Active Engagement, Share

• Units: Realistic Fiction, Boxes & Bullets/Persuasive Essay,  Literary Essay, Research Report, Writing about Complex Texts, and Graphic Novels 

• Conference with students to improve writing

• Writer’s Notebook connected to related skills

• Writing Celebrations