Writing+Yearly+Layout

conventions will be taught throughout the year.
 * Journaling will be done daily throughout the year.**

Getting to Know You (Comic Life) Reflecting Over the Summer (sunglasses) Looking Back at the Summer (binoculars) Handwritten assessment of how students are writing.
 * August**

Mini-lesson Topics: subject, predicate paragraphing

"Quiet Place" - take pictures with a digital camera - (yellow book) (Teaching the Traits Through Picture Books) Getting to Know You (Comic Life Cont.) Descriptive writing "Fair Experience" begin book reviews (using Pages) - one per nine weeks
 * September** - ideas and content, organization

Mini-Lessons: unpack your writing suitcase - details Punctuation (commas, end punctuation), capitalization, quotes

Scary House - descriptive writing Persuasive writing - making healthy choices, are you too old to trick or treat? compare and contrast what parents believe and what I believe
 * October** - word choice

Mini-Lessons Proper and common nouns possessive nouns singular and plural nouns - with correct spelling hooks

Persuasive poster - coming to Colonial America
 * November** - sentence fluency and voice

Mini-Lessons verbs verb agreement helping, linking, state of being subject verb agreement "Hello Harvest Moon" "Bat Loves the Night" "Voices in the Park"

Letters to Santa - personal narrative Favorite Christmas Memory - personal narrative
 * December**

Mini-lesson letter writing - format Parts of a paper (beginning, middle, end) Clearly stated main idea in the introduction

Shoe story Prepare for writing assessment analyze writing samples
 * January**

Mini-Lesson figurative language similes metaphors Pronouns (subject, object, possessive)

writing assessment
 * February**

Written and Illustrated
 * March**

Written and Illustrated
 * April**

Create a fifth grade handbook for next year's students How-to Project
 * May**