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📚 Teacher Directions (Do Not Publish) -4.6

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: How do you explain what you see in the sky? The first text is informational, Stargazing. The second text is a myth, Orion the Hunter. Both texts are in the one PDF named, Stargazing and Orion the Hunter. Students will use the Main Ideas and Details organizer to take notes while they read. Then they will use the Writing Graphic Organizer - Informational organizer to help them organize the details for their writing response to the Essential Question. They will use details from reading to support their answer to the Essential Question.

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 informational writing piece with details from Stargazing and Orion the Hunter that answers the Essential Question.
Essential Question: How do you explain what you see in the sky?
Download Stargazing and Orion the Hunter


Download Reading Graphic Organizer: Main Idea and Details
Download Writing Graphic Organizer: Informative Writing - Word Doc
Download Writing Graphic Organizer: Informative Writing -PDF
Download Revise Checklist
Download Edit Checklist
Here is the Download Explanatory Essay Expert Model that was used in the writing project from Unit 2 Week 6 if you'd like to use it for reference.
Writing Graphic Organizer: Informative Writing - Annotated
Informative Writing GO - Annotated.png

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 - Informative 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.