GENRE FOCUS EXPOSITORY TEXT - INFORMATIONAL
Essential Question: What do good problem solvers do?
For the next two weeks our class will study the genre of expository text. We will be focusing on how people find solutions to problems. We will be discussing how compromises helped to resolve differences in the early days of this country’s history.
Here are some resources that you can use with your child to help reinforce the skills we’ll be practicing.
Student Learning Goals
Have your child put a check next to the learning goals he or she completes.
Word Workout
You and your child will read about a solution to a problem. After discussing the solution, your child will write sentences describing the problem.
GENRE FOCUS ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT
Dear Family Member:
Our class will study the genre of argumentative text. We will be focusing on the benefits and drawbacks—the positive and negative aspects—of new technology. We will be exploring our ideas about technology and how we can support our opinions with facts and observations.
Here are some resources that you can use with your child to help reinforce the skills we’ll be practicing.
Student Learning Goals
Have your child put a check next to the learning goals he or she completes.
Word Workout
Your child will read two passages and then determine the author’s point of view. Have your child explain his or her answer.
Essential Question: What do good problem solvers do?
For the next two weeks our class will study the genre of expository text. We will be focusing on how people find solutions to problems. We will be discussing how compromises helped to resolve differences in the early days of this country’s history.
Here are some resources that you can use with your child to help reinforce the skills we’ll be practicing.
Student Learning Goals
Have your child put a check next to the learning goals he or she completes.
Word Workout
- Vocabulary In this activity, you and your child will play a question and answer game using the same list word in both a question and an answer.
- Spiral Review: In this activity, you and your child will make up a short story using the spiral review words.
- Week 1: Variant Vowel o- You and your child will spell and sort words that have different sounds made by the vowel o, and words with the same sounds but spelled with the letters aw or au. Some of these sounds are made when the o is combined with other letters, as in oi, oy, ou, ow, and ough.
- Week 2: Plurals You will use the word list and say the singular form of each word. Your child will make up a sentence using the plural form of the word and then spell the plural form.
You and your child will read about a solution to a problem. After discussing the solution, your child will write sentences describing the problem.
GENRE FOCUS ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT
Dear Family Member:
Our class will study the genre of argumentative text. We will be focusing on the benefits and drawbacks—the positive and negative aspects—of new technology. We will be exploring our ideas about technology and how we can support our opinions with facts and observations.
Here are some resources that you can use with your child to help reinforce the skills we’ll be practicing.
Student Learning Goals
Have your child put a check next to the learning goals he or she completes.
Word Workout
- Vocabulary Help your child choose a vocabulary word around which he or she can build a story. Then he or she will make up sentences using the rest of the words.
- Week 5: r-controlled vowels Have your child name the words that have the same vowel sound as the word you say aloud. Then help your child identify the letters that stand for the vowel sound in each word.
Your child will read two passages and then determine the author’s point of view. Have your child explain his or her answer.
GENRE STUDY ONE NARRATIVE NONFICTION
