The Kitchen Sink for the Week of 2/4/13

Readers’ Workshop

This week we will be studying various ways authors organize nonfiction texts.  Text structures include compare/contrast, progression through time, and problem/solution.  Look for these and other text structures during students’ 20 minutes of nightly reading. Also, students should continue to study and notice text features, as we will be having a text features quiz next week.

Writers’ Workshop

We will spend this week drafting a rough draft of our reports.  We will use the plans with the hands to form paragraphs as we draft.  Each paragraph needs to begin with a main idea topic sentence, followed by relevant, supporting details.  At the end of the week, students will begin searching for pictures to include in each section, per the report guidelines.  They will also begin drafting their captions.  Students may print out pictures online at home, make copies from their books at home, or they can draw or trace a picture.  Talk with your child about their plan.

Skills Block

There will be no spelling quiz or homework this week.

We will be having a vocabulary quiz this Friday.  To prepare, students should review the study guide they will receive Tuesday.