<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Miss Wejman’s</p>
<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 December 14<sup>th</sup>-18<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">The readers in fifth grade will continue to meet in guided reading groups once a week.<span> </span>During the group meeting, they are required to answer a reader’s response question.<span> </span>These will be graded using the ISAT reader’s response rubric.<span> </span>Students have been given copies of these rubrics to help them in answering their questions.<span> </span>Before they meet in their group each week, they are responsible for reading their assigned reading and completing reading work in their red reader’s folder.<span> </span>This work accounts for 30% of their reading grade.<span> </span>If students do not finish this work during reader’s workshop, they can finish their work at home.<span> </span>Please ask your child what book they are reading in reader’s workshop.<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">This week, the writers of fifth grade will be writing the final drafts of their persuasive essays.<span> </span>As they are writing their final drafts, they will be concentrating on word choice, sentence fluency, and editing.<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">The students will be using the social studies text to answer reader’s response questions.<span> </span>The questions will focus on how the people of America, both Loyalists and Patriots reacted to life in a new independent country.<span> </span></p>