Thursday, April 17, 2008
Theme 5
Practice Evaluating
- With "The Story of Nicodemus" use these evaluation questions to review how to evaluate:
- 2nd paragraph...Evaluate the reason why the town was named nicodemus.
- Evaluate What information does the author provide to let you know how difficult it was going to be to start Nicodemus.
- Evaluate How the fourth paragraph helps you understand how important Nicodemus was to the country, slavery or its ancestors
- Make a big puzzle.
- the puzzle pieces are the 6 tested strategies
- Use the poems from "I never said I wasn't Difficult" to synthesis
- Use the synthesis starters
- About civil rights
- For synthesis
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Non-Fiction
Weekly readers on eduplace.com
- each week has a new non fiction weekly reader
- Good for non fiction practice
- http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/
Read Alouds
Number the Stars
- kids love it when you read it with them and they have a book to follow along
- use a venn diagram to anchor the reading, on the outside make connections
Independent Reading
Reading Response Buddies
- Use another teacher to send correspondence with reading response journals
- Each quarter, snap a photo of the kids holding their favorite book.
- Under the photo, include a summary etc.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Cards Online
- http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=1445
internet vocabulary games
- Each story in Houghton Mifflin has a game for the vocabulary words http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/index.jsp?grade=5
vocab image walk
- students create an image of a vocabulary word.
- The next day, students take a walk and write on a sticky note
- what the image reminds them of
- an antonym or a synonym
- put that sticky around the card.
Guided Reading
Synthesis Language
- Use synthesis language card on card stock, laminate it
- use stickies to make synthesis
- could do in independent reading as well
- poetry as well
- look in synthesis folder
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