This week in Language Arts we will continue reading Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters.  Students will read alone, with a partner, and follow along with me.  They will work on answering depth & complexity questions about what they read, and also complete a character study of Percy.

This week we will begin our whole class novel, Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters.  Students will be reading on their own, in pairs, and in groups.

This week we will earn about giving an oral presentation, and students will be delivering their persuasive essay as a speech.  We will also continue our study of important social causes and civil rights. 

This week in Language Arts we will be continuing writing our persuasive speech, as well as learning proper ways to deliver a speech. 

This week in Language Arts we will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr.  Each student will choose a cause that is important to them, and plan and write a persuasive paragraph on the importance of that cause. 

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This week in Language Arts we will be practicing reading and RACES on Newsela, as well as doing some full Winter activities! 

This week in Language Arts we will be continuing our study of nonfiction text features, and working on completing our All About Me books.

This week in Language Arts we will be continuing our study of non-fiction texts, as well as beginning a new snovel book! We will also be MAP testing this week. 

This week in Language Arts we will be doing a timed writing prompt, as well as beginning to study non-fiction texts. 

This week students will continue working on writing their fractured fairy tales.  They will write based off the plan that they made, and they will share with peers and edit, as well as drawing adding pictures to their story.  

This week we are taking all of our knowledge of story elements that we've learned, as well as our knowledge of fairy tales and their fractured versions, and writing our own fractured versions of fairy tales we've read.  Students will spend the week planning out, writing, and typing/publishing their own fractured versions of fairy tales. 

This week we will continue our work with story elements and fairy tales.  We read The 3 Little Pigs and then The TRUE Story of the Three Little Pigs, and began to compare and contrast them.  They will write some paragraphs comparing and contrasting the stories, as well as read other fairy tales this week. 

This week we are concentrating on story elements still, understanding the different parts.  We will be reading a fairy tale, as well as a fractured version of the fairy tale, and comparing and contrasting them.  We are also concentrating specifically on theme, and practicing writing with RACES. 

This week we will be learning about story elements - characters, character traits, setting, plot, point of view, author's purpose, theme, and summary.