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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Week of February 1<sup>st</sup>-5<sup>th</sup></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Reader’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">During the month of February, the fifth graders will practice for the ISAT using the ISAT practice books that the school purchased.<span> </span>Each day, the students will be taught a strategy to help them with the ISAT.<span> </span>This week, all strategies will focus on vocabulary.<span> </span>For example, Monday’s lesson will be centered on prefixes, suffixes, and root words.<span> </span>During the remainder of the week the students will review using synonyms, antonyms, analogies, and idioms to identify unfamiliar words.<span> </span>After each lesson, the students will be given a practice test.<span> </span>Since we will be involved with this every day during the month of February, these practice tests will account for fifty percent of their reading grade.<span> </span>Students will not be required to respond to letters during the third quarter.<span> </span>However, I will accept and respond to letters.<span> </span>These letters will count towards extra credit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">The writing genre of the month will be writing the expository essay for the ISAT.<span> </span>This week the students will practice writing strong introductions.<span> </span>On Monday, the students were instructed that every introduction needs a strong “grabber” lead, the topic sentence, and a preview of the essay.<span> </span>A strong grabber lead can be a question, dialogue, use of description, or onomatopoeia.<span> </span>The topic sentence answers the question and the preview states the three specific details that support the answer.<span> </span>Every day this week, the fifth graders will be given a writing prompt and write an introduction.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Computer ISAT Prep</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">In addition to practicing for the ISAT during reader’s and writer’s workshop, the students will be practicing taking the test during computer.<span> </span>The scores that the students receive in computer will count for 10% of their reading grade and 10% of their writing grade.<span> </span>Students can also practice these tests at home.<span> </span>The tests are available on Ms. Zivko’s blog.<span> </span>The students are all familiar with the program.<span> </span>If students want to practice at home, they must print out the first page of the results so that I know their grade.<span> </span>I will average the scores for their final computer reading and writing grades.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">To further practice for ISAT, the fifth graders will use the social studies book as a practice text.<span> </span>They will be given questions to answer.<span> </span>In addition to answering multiple choice questions, they will also answer an extended response question.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">New Grading Scale</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Because of the changes in the quarter, the grading percentages will also change.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Reader’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">50% ISAT Practice</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Homework</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Behavior</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Book Recommendation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Computer ISAT Test</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Running Record</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">50% ISAT Practice</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Homework</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Behavior</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">10% Computer ISAT Test</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">20% March Writing Work</p>