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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 16<sup>th</sup>-20<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 continue to summarize 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>During the week, the readers of fifth grade are also responsible for responding to their reader’s response letter, writing book recommendations and reading their independent reading books.<span> </span>Since it is the beginning of the quarter, I am also in the process of assessing their reading through a benchmark assessment.<span> </span>During this assessment, the readers are being assessed on their fluency, word identification, and comprehension skills.<span> </span>This results in 10% of their final 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">For the last two weeks, the writers of fifth grade have been writing expository pieces.<span> </span>Every day after the taught mini-lesson, the writers have an opportunity to practice the skill taught while writing the topic of their choice.<span> </span>This week, the writers will begin to draft a topic that they will publish next week.<span> </span>Today, the students were given a rubric that will be used to grade their writing.<span> </span>Mini-lessons taught to the writers this week include writing appropriate leads for an expository text, using transitions, and making comparisons.</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">Last week, the students were introduced to their social studies project of the month.<span> </span>Because the students are learning about Colonial America, every fifth grader will write their own historical fiction book taking place in Colonial America.<span> </span>Last week, they chose the colony of the setting of their story.<span> </span>They also identified facts about their colony. This week, they will continue to write their book.<span> </span>Corresponding with Colonial America, <span style="text-decoration: underline">The Witch of Blackbird Pond</span> by Elizabeth George Speare is being read to the students.<span> </span>This book is an historical fiction book that accounts a Puritan community in Connecticut in the 17<sup>th</sup> century.<span> </span></p>