Common Core Literacy:
The Common Core Standards for Literacy helps anchor cross-disciplinary literacy expectations that must be met for students to be prepared to enter college and workforce training programs ready to succeed. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year's grade-specific standards, retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades, and work steadily towards meeting these expectations.
Some 5th grade grade-specific standards are:
* Key Ideas & Details
* Craft & Structure
* Integration of Knowledge & ideas
* Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Literacy for the Month of September:
Reading Workshop:
This month, the fifth graders will begin by focusing on character studies. We will review the ways we can talk about characters placing emphasis on conflict and character motivation. Next, students will interpret and analyze the themes of various novels. They will read books independently and also meet in book clubs.
Writing Workshop:
The fifth graders will begin the year generating ideas for writing. Students will be guided to write about places and people that are important to them. In addition, they will write about pivotal moments in their lives. This will help prepare students for Narrative Craft Writing.
Please be sure that your child comes to school everyday with a book to read!!!
The Common Core Standards for Literacy helps anchor cross-disciplinary literacy expectations that must be met for students to be prepared to enter college and workforce training programs ready to succeed. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year's grade-specific standards, retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades, and work steadily towards meeting these expectations.
Some 5th grade grade-specific standards are:
* Key Ideas & Details
* Craft & Structure
* Integration of Knowledge & ideas
* Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Literacy for the Month of September:
Reading Workshop:
This month, the fifth graders will begin by focusing on character studies. We will review the ways we can talk about characters placing emphasis on conflict and character motivation. Next, students will interpret and analyze the themes of various novels. They will read books independently and also meet in book clubs.
Writing Workshop:
The fifth graders will begin the year generating ideas for writing. Students will be guided to write about places and people that are important to them. In addition, they will write about pivotal moments in their lives. This will help prepare students for Narrative Craft Writing.
Please be sure that your child comes to school everyday with a book to read!!!