9-9-2009

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September 9, 2009

To all involved, I break the class period into chunks of time for Writing, Spelling/phonics, and Reading. As students enter they copy the agenda (learning goals) into their planners and then copy/write in their journal notebooks for G.R.O.W. My time schedule looks like this: 20 mins Learning Goals, collect and/or review Homework, and G.R.O.W. 10-20 min. Spelling/phonics (problems with pronunciation of English words) 20-30 mins. Practice Books Lessons 20-30 mins. Grammar Book Lessons {Benchmark lessons fit in at this time too!!} 10 Min. and Homework--Fluency Building
 * G.R.O.W. is a warm up activity to enforce and introduce editing mechanics, usage, and spelling or revising text.
 * Each day this Grammar Rule Of the Week is worth 20pts. (2009 I called it Daily Editing And Revising [DEAR])

AGENDA

School Pictures during each period today.

G.R.O.W. obj. What makes a sentence? ( ELD Writing Standards) a NOUN + a verb aka: a subject + a predicate!

1. My teacher is lovely (no period) 2. My family is happy (no period) 3. My friend. (this is not a sentence. why?) 4. My friend is ___^___. (^ means add a word)

Spelling: Write the Roman Alphabet twice, once in CAPITALS and then in lower case. Instruct students to circle the vowels. (aeiou) no y or w at this time! Tell students that all the other letters are called consonants and that they are easy to pronounce. Review & repeat their sounds.

Reading:

Review p. 1 in practice book (PB from now on) On separate sheet of paper have student write the definition of each word as a sentence. 1. A personality is how you act and feel. 2. A name is what a person, place, or thng is called. 3. A family is people that are related to you.

Fluency and HW. Randomly call students to read a different sentence until bell rings Assign Homework...Call school phone 401-4828 and leave message. " Hello this is (student name). Period (#2, 3 4) This is my homework..." Student then read the above sentences onto my teacher message machine.