Welcome to Mrs. Lipovsky's Language Arts Class
Topic outline
The Mystery of Missing Lunch Day 2
The Mystery of the Missing Lunch Day 3
The Mystery of the Missing Lunch Day 4
The Mystery of The Missing Lunch Day 5
Boxcar Children
Students will work on vocabulary development, reading skills such as making predictions and monitoring comprehension knowledge, write using complete sentences and then complete paragraph. They will complete a final project of their choice using the 4th grade planning map.
Boxcar Chapter 1-4
Boxcar Children Chapters 5-8
Boxcar Children Chapters 10-13
Sign of the Beaver
Reader's Notebook #1: Character and Story Development
Students will:
Make predictions, clarify information, gather great vocabulary as well as use evidence, work on story and character development, monitoring comprehension, with OWLS.
Stone Fox
There's just no stopping Little Willy. Determined to keep their farm going--and to give his ailing grandfather a reason to live--the ten-year-old boy hitches his dog, Searchlight, to the plow and harvests the whole potato crop.
Now little Willy needs five hundred dollars to pay off ten years' back taxes, or the farm will be taken away from them. Dauntless as ever, he stakes everything on one wild hope: That he and Searchlight can outrun the best dog--sled racers in the country--including the legendary Indian, Stone Fox. But the hugh mountain man is every bit as intent on winning the big prize money as little Willy is. And he and his five beautiful Samoyeds haven't lost a race yet..
Please connect to the link below to take a survey about the reading strategies that you use as you read. Remember You may choose as many strategies as you would like. Please choose "other" if you have another strategy you use that is not on the list.
Here is the link if you need it:
Learning new words is key point to reading. So what I would like you to do is the same reading strategy we have been practicing. I want you to skim each page, while looking for words you don't know. I want you to find 5 of the words and add them to our vocabulary word collector. Vocabulary word collector is the next task on the Stone Fox Moodle.
Type the word you find in Concept as well as YOUR NAME and then in the box below type the definition. To get the definition use the context clues of the words around it or open another tab and find the actual definition at dictionary.com. You may also write the word in a sentence.
Now it's time to draw a picture of the setting with all this description.
We will use the drawing tool on the computer called Paint. You go to the start menu. Click on Accessories. Select the Paint. When you are finished drawing the setting. Save it or copy/Paste it in Edmodo for everyone to see.
Here are some tools you can use at home to get some extra credit. Post what you create for all to see on Edmodo:
Your vocabulary for Chapters 1-4 are found in the program Spelling City. There are assignments there for you to practice your new words.
Here is the link in case you need it:
Make a Character Profile for each of the characters in our story on gliffy. Remember that a profile will share adjectives that describe the character. Be sure to save your work so that you can add to it as the story develops. You will need a profile for:__________________
Here is the link incase you need it:
This activity is a summary of pg. 3-21. You will use the words below to complete the sentences. The sentences need to make sense. Each time you have to redo the matching assignment you will be pentalized 10%.
Here are the words for you to choose from:
Communicates runs harvests successful unable alone
potato care refuses examines bed lost
decides signals
Test Password: success
After reading the pages listed above choose the word that makes sense in the sentence below. Finally read all the sentences together as they create a summary of what you have read. Remember you are look for the word that goes in the ____ area and that the XXXX are holding the place for another word choice to come next.
Test password: success
After reading the pages listed above choose the word that makes sense in the sentence below. Finally read all the sentences together as they create a summary of what you have read. Remember you are look for the word that goes in the ____ area and that the XXXX are holding the place for another word choice to come next.
After reading the pages listed above choose the word that makes sense in the sentence below. Finally read all the sentences together as they create a summary of what you have read. Remember you are look for the word that goes in the ____ area and that the XXXX are holding the place for another word choice to come next.
Create your own "cube" about the story. Choose to write a blank one based on the events that have happened so far or the character little Willy. You will use the bloom's verbs to help you write each square when you can. Also, use transition words to show what happens first, second, next, etc. You will need to have two windows open. You could actual open a third window tab and google "transition words".
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/files/2014/06/bloom-verbs-1yudwu0-379x1024.jpg
Use the following link:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/cube-creator-30850.html
There is a planning guide to help you prepare for each cube side.
How to Eat Fried Worms
"How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell
Students will:
make predictions, develop vocabulary, and monitor their comprehension
Topic 14
Comprehension Reading and Writing
Read the passages from the Comprehension Reading and Writing Book. Complete the assessment online.
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