Instructional Focus - Informational Text

• text structure and features
• research process
• 3-step FCAT strategy
  • preview questions--> circle key words + underline location of info
  • read--> take selective notes + skim
  • questions--> use process of elimination

• Word of the Day: epic, forsake, denounce, inept, celestial
• Focus Poetry: "Unfeeling Teens" by Alesha Faulkner
• Word Parts List #3 - quiz on March 7
• Small group rotations 2/27-2/29:
  • A/B/C - Book Journal Slide Show -- project sheet
  • B/C/A - Mini-Benchmark Assessment #2 (informational text)
  • C/A/B - Empower
• HOMEWORK: (7 days a week, 20 minutes per day) Read personal novel and fill out Novel Conversation Log with parent signature daily- due every day at the start of class and collected for the week on Fridays

• Students should have their novels and logs in their backpacks everyday so that they have an activity if class work is finished before the bell.  Students should also plan AHEAD of finishing the current book.  Get a new book (from class, media center before/after school or during lunch, or from a public library.