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QUARTER3

ELA: Perseverance

Why is Understanding Others’ Perspective Important?

Our theme for the third quarter is “Perseverance”. We will analyze how characters and people show perseverance in times and events of adversity across nonfiction and fiction texts. Our common novel will be Bud, Not Buddy. 

In writing, we will begin with informational and research writing. We will learn how to research, take notes, cite evidence, and create an informational piece about topics related to the historical period of our novel.

In word study, we will continue learning the history and connections to Greek and Latin roots in words we encounter in our reading.

We will be focusing on the following skills for ELA this quarter:

Literature: making inferences while quoting details from the text, using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases, reading a text to summarize and determine the theme of a story, and lastly analyzing the point of view included first person and third person.

Information: making inferences while quoting details from the text, determining the main idea and details while writing a summary, choosing the best summary from a group of summaries, analyzing the meaning of unknown words and phrases in nonfiction text, and lastly, analyzing an author’s reasons and evidence for writing a nonfiction piece.