Lessons for Writing Grade 5
Second Quarter
11/30 Revise
- Sentence Structure: With a partner, do skillbook, page 77.
- Review how Brian revised his first draft on pages 14-15:
- Cut clutter: extra/repeated words or off topic words
- Add details.
- Add examples.
- Clarify ideas with details.
- Be more specific with details.
- Check precise words (not stuff, things, etc.)
Redo the following, taking careful look at your partner's work:
- With a partner, assess your writing using the Peer_Assessment.pdf:
- How many ideas do you have in each paragraph?
- How many details for each idea?
- How could you improve? Where in your writing? Add ideas in blank areas.
- How would you rate your ideas?
- How organized are your paragraphs?
- Do you have a topic sentence? concluding sentence? transitions?
- How could you improve? Where in your writing? Add transistions and or reorder in blank areas.
- How would you rate your organization?
Thoughtful Thursday
Word Origins
Today, learn the origins of five different words from your spelling list. You will need a dictionary. If you don’t have a dictionary at home, go to study hall in the morning.
Directions:
1. Choose five different words. (The base words are different.)
2. Write one of those words.
3. Write its base word.
4. Look up the base word in the dictionary.
5. Find its word origin (English, French, Latin, Greek, etc.)
6-8. Write the language origin, the origin words, and their definitions.
9. Repeat 2-8 for each of your five words.
Example:
1. First word chosen: “theory”
2. Write one of the words: theory
3. Write its base word: theorem
4. Look up the base word in the dictionary.
5. Find its word origin: Greek
6-8 Write the language origin, the origin words, their definitions:
6 Greek 7 theoria 8 to look at (I had to look up the base word theorum to find the meaning).
Are you ready for Friday’s test?
11/29 Review and Poetry
- Sentence Structure, p. 433. Do number one.
* Spelling
Wordy Wednesday
Practice getting to know your words.
1. Say each of your spelling words in parts. These do NOT need to be correct syllables.
Examples:
Exercise ex er cise
Certain cer tain
Forcible forc I ble
Efficient e ffi cient
2. For each of twelve of your hardest words, do the following:
a. Write the word.
b. Say the word and count the word parts
c. Draw a line for each word part
d. Say the word again, and write each part as you say it.
e. Say the word again, writing it as one word as you say the parts.
f. Example:
a. Exercise
b. “ex” “er” “cise” 3
c. ex/er/cise
d. “exercise” ex er cise
e. “exercise” exercise
Partner read the poems at least twice, looking for a part of the poem with which to connect. In your notebooks, write
1. The title of the poem
2. What phrase(s) grabbed you? What did you like?
3. What images did you see?
4. What would you improve?
Rotate around the room to read most poems.
Share poetry connections.
Go to one poem to:
Read a part of the poem again.
Answer:
Why was that poem placed in that spot?
What audience would read it there?
What purpose does the poem share in this spot?
Could it fit in another spot?
What does the dedication do?
Share
11/28 Review & Poetry
Poetry Places Project
Poetry Places: Reading Spaces
Sheri Edwards
Around the room in many places
Look for words in everyday spaces.
Take time now to enjoy the sense
That words create pictures: intense.
What do you see? What do you know?
Why are they there? Are they just for show?
Or do they send a bit of truth
To all of us, old and youth?
Think of a place around the school
Where you can place a poem, a priceless jewel.
A poem in place for others to read and feel
In a special spot; its space revealed.
Partner read the poems at least twice, looking for a part of the poem with which to connect. In your notebooks, write
1. The title of the poem
2. What phrase(s) grabbed you? What did you like?
3. What images did you see?
4. What would you improve?
Rotate around the room to read most poems.
Share poetry connections.
- Spelling: Terrible Tuesdays
Good spellers can write words different ways to find the right way. This fun practice helps you learn the many different ways “sounds” are spelled in English while helping you learn the correct pattern for each of your words.
Choose five different words (the base words are different) from your spelling list. Write each word correctly twice. Then write each word in as many different ways as it could be spelled phonetically, but isn’t. Box in the correct words. This exercise helps you learn all the possible spellings so you can learn to pick the correct one. Use a dictionary, if necessary.
- exorsise exorsize exersighze
- sertin sertun surtin scurtin
- forsible forsable phorsable phorscabel ghorscible
- ephishant uphishant eghitiant ephiciant
- leef leiphe lleaphe lief leif
11/27 Spelling & Sentence Structure
Affixes: Prefixes/Suffixes Write Source 468-469
__Spelling__
* soft c and g when followed by e, i, y
* add endings: s ed ly
receive received
species
exercise exercised
emergency emergencies
muscle muscles
special especially
scissors
gymnasium
genuine genuinely
gentle gently
danger dangerously
December
__Sentence Structure __
Write Source 432
The basic parts of a sentence are a subject and a verb.
Can dogs fly?
Who or what? dogs = subject
What do dogs do? fly? = verb (predicate)
Practice sentences on page 432.
Make one long sentence to share tomorrow.
11/22-26 Thanksgiving
11/21 Model First Draft: Assess and Revise
- Read how Max revised his first draft on pages 14-15:
- Added a definition.
- Add details.
- Cut clutter: extra/repeated words or off topic words
- Add details--synonyms for better word choice.
- Add examples--how the glove helps.
- Clarify ideas with details--what does "great" and "a good thing" mean?
- Check precise words (not stuff, things, etc.)
- With a partner, assess your writing using the peerreview1trait.doc. Use these questions to guide you:
- How many ideas do you have in each paragraph? (Put a dot in the margin.)
- How many details for each idea?
- How could you improve? Where in your writing? Add ideas in blank areas.
- How would you rate your ideas?
- Now check and revise your partner's writing.
11/20 Model First Draft
- Continue discussing Max's first draft.
- Here is a link to a Six Trait Rubric: Rubric
- Rate Max's ideas.
- Rate Max's organization.
- Rate Max's voice.
- What did you like about Max's draft?
- How could Max improve?
- Make a list of what we learned from Max's example.
- Rate your own first draft. How could you improve?
11/17 Model First Draft
- Interview a partner about your topic.
- Read and discuss pages 12-13: Max's first draft.
- What can we learn about writing from Max's example?
- Homework: Interview two more people about your topic.
11/16 Gathering Information
- Choice Time Friday for students who consistently work towards our school goals:
Try your hardest and do your best.
Stay focused and think carefully.
Complete and turn in work on time.
Ask questions when needed.
Help others and yourself to learn.
Listen.
Participate appropriately (independently, partners, teams).
Work on task.
Manage yourself.
Keep your work, folders, materials organized.
Prepare for classes with supplies, completed assignments.
Use your planner.
Respect all persons, spaces, feelings, property.
Be courteous to all.
Follow directions and corrections without comment.
Treat others with kindness and respect.
Be courteous to all.
Encourage others.
Include all in groups.
Take care of property.
Organize your own areas and work.
Put litter in its place.
Handle equipment safely and carefully.
Leave others' property alone.
- Find your quote
- Computer work in groups: each person takes one of the following: keyboard, mouse, reader, note-taking
- Pep Assembly
11/15 Analyze Assignment, Prewrite
- Pages 10, 11 Write Source
- Review six traits of writing for assignment, "Explain something very important to you."
- Follow Max's ideas and strategies to prewrite.
- Google a quote on your topic.
Go to Google. Type: "quote" and your topic.
* Example: quote family
Choose the best search result (often the top one), in this case a site that specializes in quotes.
* Read the quotes. Copy the one(s) you like.
Open an Appleworks document. Paste the quotes.
Go back to the quote site. Copy the URL (address).
* Paste below your quote so you know where the quote came from.
Save your document.
11/14 Essays; Spelling
- Write or type 15 minutes on essays
- 20 word spelling tests
- Organize room
- Licorice :)
11/13 Work on essays
- Work 15 minutes on essays:
- Confer with teacher
- Type of second draft and print
- If completed, work on make-up work
- Reminder: Make-up work due tomorrow at 9:15 am. This is an extension from the 11/2 due date.
- Awards Assembly at 2:00 pm
11/09 Workshop
- Be sure you have 20 starred words for spelling tests next week.
- Work on your missing essays: How to be a citizen in your community; I'm proud to be an American; Explain something important to you.
- Confer with teacher.
- Note: Basketball players left at 1:10.
11/08 Veterans Assembly
11/07 Workshop: Write on essay
- Cursive Penmanship: Cats poem
- Finish first draft of essay
- Confer with teacher
- Type essay
- Note: Basketball players left at 10:45 a.m.
11/06 Penmanship & Workshop
- Cursive penmanship workshop
- Write your most important idea and 3 ideas that support it
- Share your ideas with three other people who help you think of more ideas by asking:
- Tell me more.
- Help me understand.
- What makes you say that?
- Prove it.
- Use your new ideas to revise your essay about something that is important to you.
11/03 Penmanship & Workshop
- Penmanship: Cursive Practice
- Vocabulary Review
- Workshop time: Revise or Redo: Write an expository essay about something that is important to you. It can be a person, place, thing, or idea.
11/02 Workshop
- Time to complete and type citizenship papers:
- I'm Proud to be an American
- What it means to be a citizen in my community"
11/01 No School
First Quarter Lessons
peerreview1trait.doc
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