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A Note About Week 6

Keep in mind that Week 6 is a great opportunity to go back and spend more time on skills from Weeks 1-5. Consider what skills and topics your students could spend more time on — reteaching, extra practice, or taking a skill deeper. Additionally, there are comprehension/writing lessons for days 1-5.

Comprehension into Writing This Week

This week students will read two texts that help form a writing piece to answer the Essential Question: Why is it important for one person to make a difference? The first text is a biography, Jacob Riis Champion of the Poor. The second text is also a biography, The Fight for Equality. Both texts are in the one PDF named, Jacob Riis Champion of the Poor. Students will use the Main Ideas and Details organizer to take notes while they read. Then they will use the Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer -  to help them organize the details for their writing response to the prompt. They will use details from reading to support their answer..

Here are this week's resources:

Objective:

I can use information from text to write a response to a writing prompt.
Success Criteria:

I wrote an opinion writing piece with details from Jacob Riis Champion of the Poor and The Fight for Equality that answers the Essential Question.
Essential Question:

In your opinion, who made a bigger difference in their community, Jacob Riis or Sylvia Mendez. Use examples from the text to support your opinion.


Download Jacob Riis Champion of the Poor.pdf

Reading Graphic Organizer: Main Idea and Details Download Reading Graphic Organizer: Main Idea and Details

Download Opinion GO.pdf

Download Features of Opinion Essay.pdf

Download Opinion Essay Boxes.pdf

Download Revise Edit Opinion.pdf

Opinion Writing Organizer.docx Download Opinion Writing Organizer.docx

Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer

graphic organizer

Although students have written this genre previously, consider your students' needs and where you can insert your instruction and modeling to help meet their needs. Your instruction added to these Canvas tools is what give them meaning and value.

Day 1: READ chapters 1 and 2, TAKE NOTES on each chapter using the Main Ideas and Details reading graphic organizer

Day 2: READ chapter 3 and the paired text, TAKE NOTES on both pieces using the Main Ideas and Details reading graphic organizer

Day 3: ORGANIZE IDEAS - Complete the Writing Graphic Organizer - Opinion Writing with details from the reading of both texts (using the four completed reading graphic organizers), and DRAFT

Day 4: REVISE, EDIT, and SHARE

Day 5: Finish REVISE, EDIT, and SHARE

Reader's Theater

In McGraw-Hill online, there is a reader's theater for this week. These are great for building fluency and confidence in reading. If your classroom situation allows, I encourage you to utilize this resource. For students who are reluctant to read aloud, you can assign their part for multiple students, so the student is part of a group of choral readers.