WRITING
This week our writing focus will be on direct quotations and their use in writing dialog. We will be using the picture book, The Snowman, as a basis for creating dialog within a narrative.
READING
This week will begin the novel Bridge to Terabithia. We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of a story can influence the plot, plot sequence, and language's influence on senses and mood.
SPELLING/WORD STUDY
This week's spelling/word study comes from chapters one and two of Bridge to Terabithia.
crouched
despised
grit
plunked
primly
cagey
endure
hypocritical
muddled
pandemonium
proverbial
pudgy
thrashed
The students' word study challenge is to come up with an analogy for each word or form of the word. Analogies describe the relationship between two things and are written in the following format ...
________ : ________ : : ________ :________
Analogies are read, "(blank) is to (blank), as (blank) is to (blank)"
For example, human : arms :: octopus : tentacles
The spelling test will be on Monday, December 12. The analogies (completed on loose leaf) are due on that date also.
In order to increase fluency and comprehension, the students will be reading each chapter of the book the night before we read and discuss it in class.
