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Working With Contractions

Working With Contractions

Learning Targets:

  • Students will be able to apply conventional English to edit sentences and paragraphs with a focus on contractions.
  • Students will distinguish examples from non-examples.
  • Students will identify proper and improper contraction use.


Combining Sentences

Combining Sentences

Learning Targets:

  • Students will combine sentences to strengthen their message.
  • Students will apply knowledge of grammar to properly compose and combine sentences.


Introduction to Verb Conjugations

Introduction to Verb Conjugations

Learning Targets:

  • Students will be able to identify which family a verb belongs to.
  • Students will be able to identify key verb vocabulary.
  • Students will be able to distinguish examples from non-examples of conjugated verbs.
  • Students will be able to conjugate verbs in sentences.


Sentence Diagramming

Sentence Diagramming

Learning Targets:

  • Students will be able to diagram sentences that include compound subjects and predicates.
  • Students will be able to identify and sort words according to a spelling pattern
  • Students will be able to organize sentences in conventional English.


Highlighting and Annotating

Highlighting and Annotating

Learning Targets:

  • Students will highlight and annotate information pertinent to the main idea of the text.
  • Students will articulate the main idea of a text by analyzing and synthesizing highlighted and annotated sections.


Biography Writing (about anyone!)

Biography Writing (about anyone!)

Learning Targets:

  • Students will use a graphic organizer to organize biographical information on someone they choose.
  • Students will compile organized information into biography format.
  • Students will draft, edit, and publish a biography.


Ad About Me

Ad About Me

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify an ad to write.
  • Students will identify an audience.
  • Students will use the simple present to communicate about themselves in writing.
  • Students will use proper grammar, punctuation, and paragraph form.
  • Students will rate and record themselves presenting their ad.


Connecting Main Ideas

Connecting Main Ideas

Learning Targets:

  • Students will apply background knowledge to make predictions about a reading.
  • Students will identify words they do not know.
  • Students will use a glossary and context to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary.


Paragraph Construction

Paragraph Construction

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify the main idea and details of a paragraph.
  • Students will use key vocabulary to fill in details about a paragraph’s main idea.
  • Students will write their own paragraph to include main idea and details.


Writing a Feature Article

Writing a Feature Article

Learning Targets:

  • Students will organize information onto a graphic organizer to write an Op Ed article of their own.
  • Students will review and analyze Op Ed articles to develop familiarity with, and understanding of, the genre.
  • Students compile organized information into a full Op Ed article for publication.


Inferences to Evidence

Inferences to Evidence

Learning Targets:

  • Students will infer information from a text.
  • Students will gather and evaluate evidence from a text.
  • Students will draw logical conclusions using evidence gathered.
  • Students will apply a questioning process to make evidence-based conclusions.


Writing an Opinion Editorial

Writing an Opinion Editorial

Learning Targets:

  • Students will organize information onto a graphic organizer to write an Op Ed article of their own.
  • Students will review and analyze Op Ed articles to develop familiarity with, and understanding of, the genre.
  • Students compile organized information into a full Op Ed article for publication.


Read It, Fix It

Read It, Fix It

Learning Targets:

  • Students will apply fix-it strategies to new words.
  • Students will apply metacognitive strategies to what they already know about new words.
  • Students will rate themselves as new word learners.


Literature Webbing

Literature Webbing

Learning Targets:

  • Students will organize information from a guided reading into a literature web.
  • Students will make predictions about an upcoming reading.
  • Students will identify main idea.
  • Students will identify chronological order of events.


Peer Coaching

Peer Coaching

Learning Targets:

  • Students will articulate via images their need for assistance with their writing.
  • Students will act on feedback received about their writing to revise and edit their work into a final product.


Story Writing and Story Telling

Story Writing and Story Telling

Clunks and Clues

Clunks and Clues

Learning Targets:

  • Students will develop fix-up strategies to apply to new/unknown words.
  • Students will use context clues to understand new/unknown words.
  • Students will apply knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to determine the meaning of new/unknown words.


Essay Writing

Essay Writing

Learning Targets:

  • Students will write full essays on a theme of their choice.
  • Students will apply an internal editing process to write, draft, and finalize their essay.


Extended Paragraph Writing

Extended Paragraph Writing

Learning Targets:

  • Students will construct a paragraph in their own language in response to a reading passage.
  • Students will interpret a reading passage before translating it to English.
  • Students will write, translate, edit, and revise their paragraph.


Favorite Game

Favorite Game

Lesson Targets:

  • Students will organize instructional information into steps using their native language.
  • Students will translate and present instructional information into English.
  • Students will appropriate images to instructions.

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