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Skills for January 30-February 3 ELA: Space Central Text: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg Skills: Identify important story elements in Zathura. Illustrate and label a problem and solution in Zathura….

Skills for January 23-27: ELA: Outer Space Central Text: One Giant Leap/Moonshot Students build a depth of knowledge, noticing how different authors emphasize different elements of the mission and discovering…

Skills for January 17-20: ELA:  Outer Space  Central Text:  One Giant Leap  Students build a depth of knowledge, noticing how different authors emphasize different elements of the mission and discovering…

Skills for December 12-16: ELA:  Outer Space  Central Text:  Moonshot  Students learn about the courage and joy of the Apollo 11 astronauts through two accounts of the famous mission:  One…

Skills for December 5-9: ELA: Outer Space Central Text: Moonshot Students learn about the courage and joy of the Apollo 11 astronauts through two accounts of the famous mission: One…

Skills for November 14-18: ELA: Outer Space Central Text: Starry Messenger Through a mixture of powerful prose, elegant illustrations, and quotations, students discover Galileo’s brilliance was we read Peter Sis’s…

Skills for November 7-11: ELA: Outer Space Central Text: Starry Messenger Skills: Analyze the use of nonliteral language to support a main idea. Identify the introduction, body and concluding paragraphs…

Skills for October 31-November 4: ELA: Outer Space Central Text: Starry Messenger Skills: – Examine the function of adjectives in sentences. – Identify important facts about Galileo, based on a…

Skills for October 24-27: ELA: The Sea Students will write a multi-paragraph essay explain why scientists explore the sea. Central Texts: Amos & Boris, The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques…

Skills for October 3-6: ELA: The Sea Students learn more about scientific exploration of the sea by reading Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster, which describes Dr. Roper’s scientific…

Skills for September 26-30: ELA: The Sea Students gain basic information about the dangers of sharks and learn to identify a main idea and supporting details in a chapter, using…

Students examine two of ocean’s most fascinating creatures, sharks and the giant squid, in two more informational texts. Skills for September 19-23: ELA: The Sea Central Text: Shark Attack! By…