LANGUAGE
WRITING
The Grade 4’s are working on Procedural Writing.
They have written “How to Make Hot Chocolate in Partners” bumping up a level
1/2 procedural writing piece they were given to a 3/4. They also wrote as a
whole class “How to Plan Your Birthday Party”. This week they will be writing
their own Procedural piece on a topic of their choice and focusing on the
revising/editing part of the writing process.
The Grade 5 ‘s are working on Explanatory Writing.
They have examined some samples and used those to create our success criteria.
They were given leveled samples of explanatory writing and focused on the text
features pulling out the information and placing it on a graphic organizer.
They were searching for the topic, definition, components/parts, operation, and
applications. As a whole class we used the Internet to search for “How a
toaster works” and filled in our graphic organizer for our prewrite. This
coming week we will write our draft and students will be given time to use our
school I-pads to search for information on a topic of their choice that either
“Explains why something happens, or How something works”.
Both grades have looked at examples of the text
form they are focusing on and created their success criteria.
Procedural Success Criteria
In addition students
choose a writing goal that they needed to focus on when it came to their
writing. Using the 6+1 writing traits learned at the beginning of the year
students selected a goal that they know needs improvement in their writing
(e.g. revising, editing their work, spelling, punctuation, organizing their
ideas, etc.).
Students have been doing a fantastic job using
their prior knowledge of place value of whole numbers to help with our decimal
unit.
We compared and ordered decimals, and came up with
some great strategies to add decimals. This coming week we will be focusing on
equivalent decimals, subtracting decimals, and solving word problems involving
decimals.
