Monday

Objectives:

• Discover new books in the library.
• Choose a book to read.

Daily Grammar Practice Week  13 (Monday – parts of speech).  Miss Bowman has a lots of books waiting for you to explore in the library.  Use this activity to find more books that you want to read.  Record those titles and authors on the Some Day Books list in your Reading Journal.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.

Tuesday

Objectives:

• Preview nonfiction text features.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 13 (Tuesday – sentence parts).  We’re going to read and discuss two nonfiction articles about disasters:  “Don’t Touch the Water” and “The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.”  Before reading, look at the titles, pictures and captions, and headings.  Read both articles with a partner.  As you read, turn and discuss at each subheading.  Fill in the comparison chart.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.

Wednesday

Objectives:

• Support answers with details from the text.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 14 (Wednesday – clauses, sentence type and purpose).   Finish reading “Don’t Touch the Water” and “The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.”  Finish comparison chart.  Then answer the two open-ended questions.  Underline key words in the question.  Restate and answer the question.  Use details from the story to support your answer.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15 -30 minutes.

Thursday

Objectives:

• Write an essay to compare and contrast the two disasters.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 14 (Thursday – Correct capitalization and punctuation).  The two disasters you read about were alike in some ways and different in others.  Write an essay to compare and contrast the two events.  How are they similar and different?  What lessons can be learned from them?
Homework: Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.

Friday

Objectives:

• Set reading goals for the week.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 14 (Friday – Sentence diagramming).    Fill out the reading goal slip with the title and author of your book and write down what page you begin on.  Read for 10 minutes and write down what page you end on.  Subtract the beginning page from the ending page to find out how many pages you read in 10 minutes.  Multiply that number by 6 to discover how many pages you should be able to read in 1 hour.  Double that answer to find out how many pages you should be able to read in 2 hours.  That is your reading goal for the week.  If you finish or switch to a book that has a very different reading rate, you will need to redo your goal and let me know the new one. After you finish your reading, tell your partner what you read today.  If you can’t remember anything you read, you are reading too fast.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.