2024 - 2025 School Year

Welcome!

As we work our way through third quarter, we shift our focus to informational texts and standards. Our main focus will be on utilizing multiple texts to write about one topic or to answer one question. In addition, we continue to work on identifying relationships between two or more ideas or concepts in a text, determining the meaning of unknown words and phrases, and using exact text evidence to prove what the author is trying to say. 

This quarter, my homeroom students will be participating in STEM class. 

**Please see "Week at a Glance" section for more detailed plans for each day of the week.**

Important Dates    

Tuesday, March 18 - ELA IAR 

Wednesday, March 19 - ELA IAR

Thursday, March 20 - ELA IAR

Friday, March 21 - End of quarter 3

Monday, March 24 - LWSRA Wheelchair Basketball Assembly 

Friday, March 28 - Report cards sent home; early dismissal 2:30; Spring Break begins!

Remind Updates 

Kois/ Torres ELA (Block 2)

Our Encore classes for the year are as follows: 

Quarter 3 - STEM with Ms. Jozaitis 

Quarter 4 - Music with Mrs. Zito 

We have PE every day - please remember to have appropriate gym shoes with you each day. 

My ELA classes will visit the library on Mondays. 

 

Quarter 3 Overview

Essential Question: What is the value of adapting?

Novel: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Word Study:  During word study, we will be utilizing Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) to increase our vocabulary and spelling skills. We will be learning about Greek and Latin roots along with prefixes and suffixes. 

 

Sentence Study: We will be using mentor sentences from our quarterly novels to identify parts of speech, types of sentences, and figurative language. We will also be making connections to SWI.

 

 

Writing: 

• Prose Constructed Response (PCR): Literary analysis: writing a continuation; rewriting part of a text from a different perspective  

• L 5.2 – I can demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

 

Reading Literature Standards:

•  RL 5.1 I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 

• RL 5.2 I can determine a theme of a text, including how characters respond to challenges; summarize a text 
• RL 5.4 - I can use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words.
• RL 5.5 - I can explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a story, drama, or poem. 
• RL 5.6 - I can describe how a narrator or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. 
• RL 5.9 I can compare and contrast stories in the same genre with the same themes and topics.

 

 

Reading Information Standards:

• RI 5.1 I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• RI 5.3 - I can explain the relationship or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. 
• RI 5.4 I can determine the meaning of general academic and domain specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject are and by using context clues. 
• RI 5.9 I can integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably 

E-Learning Plan 

In the event of the need to call an e-learning day, we will be utilizing the schedule located at the bottom of my page. E-learning days will only be called if we have fair warning of severe inclement weather and have time to send students home with all their materials and devices.