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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Peek at the Week</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Week of November 2<sup>nd</sup>-5<sup>th</sup></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Reader’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">This week, the students will be summarizing non-fiction text.<span> </span>While reading non-fiction books, they will be changing each subtitle into a question.<span> </span>Using the question as a guide, the readers will be able to summarize the text with the answer to the question.<span> </span>Because it is the last week of the quarter, they will also be responsible for completing a Book Recommendation for a book that they have read during the quarter.<span> </span>The Book Recommendation is worth 10% of the final reading grade.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">In November, the students will be writing in the expository (non-fiction) genre.<span> </span>Today the students brainstormed possible topics that they would be interested in writing about.<span> </span>They then asked questions of what their reader would want to know about their topic.<span> </span>The questions will help them to focus on their audience and purpose for writing.<span> </span>For the rest of the week, the writers will focus on using their own personal voices in their expository writing.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">This week in social studies, the students will be practicing what they are learning in reader’s workshop to summarize the non-fiction text in their social studies book. To learn about colonial America, every fifth grader will be given a section of the social studies text to summarize.<span> </span>The student will change the subtitle into a question and use the answer to the question to summarize the text.<span> </span></p>