The students will not receive new vocabulary words this week.  We will continue our discussion on Story Elements, verbs and plot development.  Key terms we are defining in class are Setting, Characters, Genre, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution, and Theme.  We will have a quiz on the vocabulary, verbs, and story development this Friday. […]

This week we will be reading “Let The Bullies Beware” (non-fiction article) and Priscilla and the Wimps” (short story).  Our literature focus for non-fiction will be on determining the central idea and summarizing.  We will discuss plot, rising action, falling action, climax and resolution for our short story.  The grammar focus will be on verbs. […]

Progress Reports will come home on Wednesday the 16th!  This week the students will read two short pieces on the subject of bullying.  The first is a non-fiction article dealing with cyberbullying.  We will read a short story fiction together in class.  The students will continue to work on summarizing and story sequencing.  We will […]