We finished Home of the Brave today- what an awesome book- I think the students would agree with me that this story was incredibly moving and well-written. Today was a reading day and our focus is writing about our reading...therefore after we finished the book I asked the students to do some writing about the book. I gave them a number of ideas about what they could focus their writing on- my one rule was that their writing must require them to THINK. They didn't like this so much because thinking is HARD! I want to move them past just writing predictions, their opinion of the book, and short summaries. This was not an easy task for them. On Friday we will be looking at some of our written entries and talking about ways in which we could improve them and things that we did well.
Homework: IXL: G1-G4 (Plural Nouns) and L1 (Helping Verbs), Theme Book Talk, Keeping a reading log this week
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