Text Structures

Dear Students,

Watch these clips to review how author's organize the information 

they write about and take notes.  Then go to NewsELA or time for kids and 

select an article to read and then determine what structures are evident in 

the article. 

Text Features Clips: Take notes as needed because after you will be going to be analyzing and reading an expository text with the focus on text features and making annotations too. 

Thesis statements

Dear students, watch these clips about developing and writing your own thesis statements for expository essays in which you are explaining your opinion and stance on a topic. Take notes on the information and examples given in your journals to have them ready and handy as you needed when we write expository essays in class. 

Conflict clips for review & character design

Students watch these clips and take notes as needed.  Once you have your notes annotated, select a narrative book from the baskets, read it and name the big conflict in the story, collect evidence in  your notebook and explain how does does the conflict impact/affeect the character in the story you have selected.

Plot Review Clip

Dear Students,

Watch this clip to review plot and take notes as needed.  Once you have taken your notes then you will work with a short story from our textbook or a narrative picture book to work with plot. You can create a foldable or do the traditional Freytag Plot Pyramid if you choose in your journals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffAOkGg2Lr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5jlkK4aUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcr-BJ4BkV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8eCm8DL4pA

Literal vs. Inferential questions and Using text evidence!

Watch this video to see how we tackle various types of questions as we work with ELA.  Take notes and then think of the kind of questions we answer with our texts.

Text features details in expository?

Students watch these videos to take notes as needed to hear the think aloud about the text features or mystery novels to make connections to the text.  Then pick one of our classroom scholastics magazines and pick an article of interest to  you to apply what you can infer from its text features!