We completed another week of Greek & Latin root words. This time we focused on roots that mean "light". The kids are used to the weekly routine by now and they are able to do most of the work independently. (I do make sure that we do the first day together so that we can discuss why words that contain the root are or are not exceptions just so they don't get confused)
Right when we got back I had them review a lot of the skills that we have already learned this year by answering questions about the Scholastic News article Trotting for a Cause. You can find the article by clicking on that link & the questions are in my TPT store for free in case you are interested in using them!
We went through a week of practicing Context Clues using the unit that I created last year. You can read all about how I teach this skill in this post and check out my Context Clues Unit on TPT.
We went through a week of practicing Context Clues using the unit that I created last year. You can read all about how I teach this skill in this post and check out my Context Clues Unit on TPT.
This week we started working on Plot. To start off the unit, we completed an interactive notebook page. I had my students try to put the plot elements in the correct spots on the chart without help. Then, we discussed how all fiction stories follow this pattern and we glued the pieces down in the correct order.
Next we watched two Pixar short films (which are amazing for teaching reading skills by the way) Day & Night and Partly Cloudy and filled out these plot worksheets:
Finally, we practiced charting the plot of a text from our reading series and students answered questions taken straight from some of our standardized tests.
You can grab all of these worksheets and the interactive notebook page from my TPT store by clicking here.
