Week of September 30 - October 6

Tuesday 9/30
Entry: 1) Spelling: Write your five words on your Weekly Spelling Study Sheet. 2)
Write on one of the Xs on your Writing Treasure Map

Election Research: Who are the candidates?

Organize for conferences. Practice.

Wednesday 10/1 Conferences

Thursday 10/2
Entry: Read the directions for partner spelling test. Give your spelling tests.

Review Question Strategy.

Model and Apply with students to write “I Like Rain" paragraph. Here's what we did:

Share: Did we important questions? Did we answer them in their paragraphs? Did asking important questions help us write a detailed paragraph that is interesting to readers?


Apply: Work with partner to write "I Like Snow" paragraph using the questioning strategy.


Friday 10/3
Entry: Explain the “Question Strategy?” to write good details.

Review Question Strategy: Reread paragraph. Ask questions in margins. Ask questions the reader would want answer to.

Finish paragraphs from yesterday. Share.

Share: Did partners ask important questions? Did they answer them in their paragraphs?

Revise your paragraphs. Share.

Monday 10/6
Entry: On your own, create new words from these base words: quiet, relate, upset, like, love

Class work: Create class spelling lists.


Apply: Students independently write “_____ makes a good pet.” Use the Question Strategy to stay focused and detailed.

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Paragraph __________________________ Questions:
_____ makes a good pet. ||||||||||What makes a good pet? Why does ____ make a good pet?

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Share: Did you/partner ask important questions? Did you/partner answer them in their paragraphs?

9/29 Elaboration Energy

9/29 Entry: Spelling: It's Addition!

Divide your spelling paper into parts as we have practiced. In each section write one of these base words:

tan, confer, learn, confuse, understand

With a partner, use the base words and your affix list to create as many words as you can from the base words.

Reflection: Answer these two questions in your notebook for our parent conferences next week:

What do you like about writing class?
What do you wish would be different about writing class?

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Finish: Share roller skating paragraph. Were questions answered? Which one is the most real and most convincing? Why?

Conference Prep: Use checklist to practice. What writing pieces will you show?

Conference checklist:

Student-Parent-Teacher Conference

Procedures
__ Did I share procedures for entering the room?
__ Did I share my notebook, spelling folder, and writing?
__ Did I share how I put my work away?


Spelling
__ Did I share my spelling procedures for Monday?
__ Did I share my spelling procedures for Tuesday?
__ Did I share my spelling procedures for homework?
__ Did I share my spelling procedures for the Thursday test?

Writing
__ Did I share my Writing Treasure Map?
__ Did I share my writing treasure stories?
__ Did I share how we get ideas for writing?

__ Did I share my reflections?

Compliment from guardian to child:

Goal for child from guardian:

Question for teacher from guardian:
Tuesday: Checklist to complete with writing from today.

If time:

Apply Questioning Strategy:
Read your Treasure Map story to a neighbor. Neighbor follows along.
After the first reading, slowly read it again and your neighbor will ask you questions.
Write the questions in the margins if they help you to add details to your story.

5Es
elaboration: What else? What's another idea?
example: What is an example?
explanation: Could you explain what this is? what happened?
evidence: Where's the proof?
experience: Can you add a story or experience?

5W +H
who, what, when, where, why, how


Who will share and allow us to practice using the "Question Asking Strategy?"

Share stories. What else did each add? What else could each add? Was the piece elaborated? How do you know?

Finish. Share tomorrow.

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If time:

Elaboration of poem (finish): Add details [elaboration, examples, explanations, evidence, experiences (5Es) and who, what, when, where, why, how (5W +H)] to each line of your poem.

Who will share and allow us to practice using the "Question Asking Strategy?"

Finish. Share tomorrow.

9/24 Elaboration with a Question

9/24

Entry: Spelling Homework due. Describe the picture provided.

Australia’s largest butterfly, the birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus) blends into a green leaf. Female birdwings can have a wingspan of nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters).

Photograph by Nicole Duplaix

From: http://old-packerpedia.wiki.packer.edu/Bio+Ulysses+Butterfly

Ulysses Butterfly (papilio ulysses)
by Nick Foretek

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Model Review: Asking questions of draft (draft on board). Discuss how questions helped to add detail/elaboration.

Apply--Rollar Skating paragraph: Write questions with neighbor. Share. Rewrite paragraph with partner.

Ask questions related to the 5Es and 5Ws if you get stuck.

5Es
elaboration: What else? What's another idea?
example: What is an example?
explanation: Could you explain what this is? what happened?
evidence: Where's the proof?
experience: Can you add a story or experience?

5W +H
who, what, when, where, why, how

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Who will share and allow us to practice using the "Question Asking Strategy?"


What questions do you think were asked? What else did each add? What else could each add? Was the piece elaborated? How do you know? What else could b asked? added? deleted?

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Elaborate! Elaborate!

Dance to the music!
Tuesday 9/23

Entry:
1) Choose your five (5) spelling words for this week from your Personal Spelling List in your Spelling Folder. Write them in the first column on your "Weekly Word Study Sheet." Keep it out for me to check while you complete the next activity.

2) Write about one of the "Xs" in your "Writing Treasure Map" Be Specfic -- Elaborate detail to detail and another detail. Keep focused on that one X -- nothing else. Just keep adding elaboration, examples, explanations, evidence, experiences (5Es) and who, what, when, where, why, how (5W +H).

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Spelling homework due tomorrow (no school Thursday or Friday).

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Model: Asking questions of draft (draft on board). Discuss how helped to add detail/elaboration.

Apply:
Read your story to a neighbor. Neighbor follows along.
After the first reading, slowly read it again and your neighbor will ask you questions.
Write the questions in the margins if they help you to add details to your story.

5Es
elaboration: What else? What's another idea?
example: What is an example?
explanation: Could you explain what this is? what happened?
evidence: Where's the proof?
experience: Can you add a story or experience?

5W +H
who, what, when, where, why, how


Who will share and allow us to practice using the "Question Asking Strategy?"

Finish. Share tomorrow.

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Elaboration Energy

Mon 9/22 Acrostic Poem Entry
Write your name vertically down the left side of your paper.
Write an adjective or word phrase that describes you after each letter of your name.

Draw a sketch of yourself showing your adjectives.

SHERI

Silly
Healthy
Eccentric
Rigorous
Inquisitive

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Spelling with base words: catch, tackle, write, work, agree; choose five for personal spelling list.

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Elaboration: Digging Deeper in one area to add specific details. Explain the story told in class about digging for treasure to another student.

What kind of a digging was our entry task poem?

Model and Apply: How could we turn the poem into a 2? 3? 4 score?
I asked questions about my first poem to add enough detail in my fourth draft. I kept asking myself, "What else could I say about this idea? What other details could I add? How could I be more specific?"

Here's what happened each time I asked, "What else?"

Level 2

Silly: Sometimes sings in class
Healthy: Brings my own lunch
Eccentric: Wears her own styles
Rigorous: Thinks carefully
Inquisitive: Asks more questions

Level 3:

Silly: Sometimes sings “Hey Hey Paula” in class
Healthy: Brings a protein and fruit lunch to school
Eccentric: Wears loose flowered shirts and colored socks in her own way
Rigorous: Thinks carefully and creates extra examples for students
Inquisitive: Asks more questions about the Arctic and about how students start ideas

Level 4:

Silly: Sings “Hey Hey Paula” in class; Acts out events in stories, like Casey at Bat
Healthy: Chomps down a ham and grape lunch
Eccentric: Wears loose purple-flowered shirts, matching colored socks, and comfortable Birkenstock shoes
Rigorous: Thinks carefully, creates extra examples for students, and revises lessons each day so students learn
Inquisitive: Asks more questions about the effect of global warming on the Arctic people and animals; Asks students to remember how to start ideas and add details to reach a level four score

Your Turn:
Work with a partner to ask questions about your poems so you can add more details and examples.

(Will finish tomorrow in work session).

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