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A.C.O.S. Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including text features to gain meaning, summarizing passages, and drawing conclusions, to comprehend informational and funcational reading materials.

Skills: Compare and Contrast Author's Purpose Fact and Opinion Sequence

Monday: Whole Group Re-teach Text Re-teach BK+T=I Story from test booklet, ( do not use not current) read questions, look for key words,skills and strategies Use pencil method suggested in data meeting
 * Don't foget anchor chart*

Small Group: Fluency Practice- with partner, allow students to use timer and count words read Use Unit 2 materials for fluency practice Teacher Led Small Group: Review LR books, use teaching guide.. Re-read LR readers to reinforce skills ( See skills list above if needed)

Tuesday- Whole Group Story from test booklet Read Questions, look for key words, skills and strategies use pencil method Anchor Chart

Small Group: Continue Fluency Practice

Teacher Led Small Group: Students that needs skills, review those skills, you can your LR teaching guide reveiw skills.

Wednesday-Benchmark Test * This test will take entire reading block

Thursday- Whole Group Review Test with students using same process, as whole group lessons on Monday and Tuesday

Friday- Whole Group/ Theme Launch: What do people gain from the work of inventors and artists? TE 260-261 Finish if needed review of test Small Group: Fluency Practice

**Writing** ACOS 8.) Express meaning through writing varied sentence structure, detailed paragraphs, and multi-paragraph compositions in an organized manner. Monday- Begin the writing process. Start students by modeling the topic paragraph on the ELMO. Then allow students to finish their topic paragraphs for homework.

Tuesday- Start class by sharing some topic paragraphs aloud. Allow students to switch with a partner to share all topic paragraphs. After any corrections are made, allow the students to write a FINAL copy of their topic paragraph on loose paper to turn in so that you may take a grade.

Wednesday- Discuss paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 format. Model how to write by writing a paragraph 2 on the ELMO. Allow students to complete paragraph 2 for homework.

Thursday & Friday- **writing workshop**. Start class by asking a couple of students to share paragraph examples. Allow students to switch with a partner to share paragraphs 2, 3, and 4. Have students continue work on all 3 paragraphs. Meanwhile, council individually with all students to check for understanding.

Social Studies: COS: 5- Describe the early colonization of North America and reasons for settlement in the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies Monday-Extend Chapter 4 Lesson 3. Read "This New Land" pages 140-143. Complete Activities on page 143 for a classwork grade. Tuesday- Chp 4 lesson 4- Read about the Dutch and French Colonies. Make a main idea chart for reinforcement (exp on TE page 147). Complete the Skill and Strategy handout for Compare and Contrast (in your box) Wednesday- Extend Lesson 4 by reading "French and Fur Trading" on pages 148-149. Talk about the steps in Fur trading (Exp TE page 149) then have students complete the ELL box on TE page 149 where they draw and label different items that were mentioned in the trade. Thursday- Review and Test prep on page 150-151. Complete with partners Friday- Test in your box

**SCIENCE-COS # 9** Describe the relationship of populations within a habitat to various communities and ecosystems. Describe the relationship between food chains and food webs. Describe symbiotic relationships. *Be sure to collect at least 20 clear two-liter bottles! You will also need toothpicks. .**Friday**- Complete student sheets and water the terrariums. **Allow time for grass to grow before introducing animals because the animals will eat the seeds before they grow.**
 * Monday**-Pre-Unit assessment: Thinking about ecosystems. Make class charts of how living things depend on each other. Use student investigation books of a riverbank environment  **Tuesday**-Begin lesson 2-setting up the terrarium. Use student sheets 2-A (lesson 2)   **Wednesday**-Continue lesson 2   **Thursday-Vocabulary Quiz on Biomes and Ecosystems**