Skip to main content

Ms. Papiernik, Language Arts, 3rd

Posts

Week of 8/18

This week in Language Arts, we will be reading the realistic fiction story Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout. Students will explore figurative language, focusing on similes and idioms, and learn about key literary elements. As we read, we will discuss these elements together and complete a graphic organizer to deepen understanding.

Students will also practice their reading comprehension by answering short response questions and taking a 5-question multiple-choice quiz on the story.

Please note, on Tuesday we will be conducting MAPS testing in Literacy.

Finally, we will begin working on personal narratives, with the writing prompt: "What is the most memorable day you've had?" This will help students express their experiences through storytelling.

Week of 8/11

What are we doing this week?  

We have MAPS testing this week

We will be working on retelling stories and including literary elements.  We will also be continuing to look at point of view in stories. We will be working on theme in stories. We will be doing all this with the story Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match. 

Next, we will read a new story, called Judy Moody, Mood Martian. With this story, we will be working on clarifying what we read and making sure we understand what has happened in the story. Students will take the comprehension quiz on this. We will also introduce figurative language to students this week.  

We will be continuing to work on types of sentences and what needs to be in a sentence to make a complete sentence. We will be learning about common a proper nouns as well.  

Start preparing to write our narrative essays and thinking of ideas to start our writing with. We will be focusing on the brainstorming process this week.  

Literary Elements: Characters, setting, plots, and events 

First Week Back

Monday: We will be in our advocacies all day going over rules and routines for our classes 

Tuesday: We will do a soft switch, this will look like practicing what it looks like going to our classes, learning routines in our core content classes, and looking at what we will be doing and learning during the school year.  

Wednesday: start content, starting our first module in HMH What a Character, going over vocabulary, context clues and how we can use them to figure out unknown words, literary elements, and point of view. 

Thursday: Read Marisol McDonald doesn't match, talk about point of view in the story and literary elements, parts of a sentence (subject and predicate), and talk about parts of writing and what needs to be in writing.  

Friday: Review things we have learned this week and practice them more, show them how to get onto HMH online and how they will take their exit tickets for our readings in class, and introduce types pf sentences