Mrs. Dewar, Language Arts, 5th Grade

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Dewar's Language Arts- Week of Aug. 30

We have Outdoor Ed Mon-Wed and students not participating will be completing comparable activities in the classroom with Mrs. Cundari. 

Writing:

Personal Narrative Unit

-Narrative Revision:

-Revising Leads

Reading:

-We are reading Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix

-This week we will read Chapters 17 & 18

-Vocabulary and skill review (these are completed in the reading half of our notebooks. Digital copies available in our LA Team)


No School Friday

Dewar's Language Arts- Week of Aug. 23

Writing:

Personal Narrative Unit

-Narrative Pre-Writing: (this is located in a narrative writing portfolio at school, but digital copies are also available in our LA Team)

-Planning and Putting Events in Order

-Narrative Drafting:

-First draft containing a beginning, middle, and end

Students will be able sequence events in their narrative, so that they can have a beginning, middle, and end.

Reading:

-We are reading Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix

-This week we will read Chapters 9-16

-Vocabulary and skill review (these are completed in the reading half of our notebooks. Digital copies available in our LA Team)

Dewar's Language Arts- Week of Aug. 16

Writing:

-Narrative Reflection

-Narrative Pre-Writing: (this is located in a narrative writing portfolio at school, but digital copies will soon be available)

-Brainstorm and Graphing

-Selecting a topic

-Planning and Putting Events in Order

Reading:

-We are reading Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix

-This week we will read Chapters 5-10

-Vocabulary and skill review (these are completed in the reading half of our notebooks. Digital copies will be available by the end of the week)


*All Language Arts work will be available on Teams in our class LA Team by the end of the week!

Dewar's Language Arts- Week of Aug. 9

Writing:

-Ways We Live in our Notebooks- we will be doing daily journaling with provided writing prompts (this will be in the first half of our notebooks)

-The Writing Process- what is it and how we will be using it to structure our writing.

-Narrative Writing Overview

-Narrative Writing Rubric

Reading:

-We will be reading Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix

-Book cover discussion and inferences

-This week we will read Chapters 1-4

-Vocabulary and skill review (these will be completed in the reading half of our notebooks)