Language Arts​

Literacy Focus

Week 1-1 Weekly Concept: Clever Ideas
Essential Question: Where do good ideas come from?

Grammar Focus:
A statement tells something: I like to play soccer.
A question asks something: Do you like to play soccer?
A command tells someone to do something: Give me the soccer ball.
An exclamation expresses surprise, excitement, or strong feeling: Juan scored the winning goal!

Reading Comprehension Focus:
Skill: Sequence
The order in which things happen.
 
Strategy: Make Predictions
Use text clues and illustrations to predict what will happen as you read.

Vocabulary Strategy: Context clues are words surrounding an unfamiliar word that may be definitions, examples, or restatements of the unfamiliar word.
​Vocabulary Words:
  1. brainstorm- solve a problem by having group members all contribute ideas freely.
  2. flattened- made flatter or more level or smooth
  3. frantically- to act wildly excited due to worry or fear
  4. muttered- spoken in a low, unclear way
  5. official- to be properly approved or authorized
  6. original- to do, make, or think of something new or different
  7. stale- old or not fresh
  8. gracious- to show kindness and courtesy
Resources 

Writing Practice
Imagine Learning
​Too much hw video

eTextbook
Wonders Reading Basal 
Wonders Login Instruction

Class Handouts
Grammar Handbook
Reading Log
Wonders Reader's Theater              Scripts

Weblinks
​Book Recommendations
Dance Mat Typing
Dictionary
Dogonews
Follett eBooks
​    un: ebooks; pw: saltlake
Keyboarding Skills
​Newsela
​Tween Tribune
Pioneer Library
​Wonderopolis
Writing Resources
Quizlet
​QuizStar