04/01 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Historical Fiction Genre Book Club Meeting
• Review the Response Assignment
• Each member shares their Response
• Have your FINAL conversation about the book.
2. Free choice read for at least 30 minutes
3. What are the themes for your Historical Fiction Bookclub book?
4. Read "Ethan Allen: First Victor" and record the Main Idea of the text.
5. Complete activities that help YOU become a better reader:
• Read MORE Fiction and/or Non-Fiction
• Practice Spelling/Vocabulary
• Practice Fluency with a partner
• Practice comparing and contrasting two or more stories from the same genre by reading two texts from this site.
• Practice finding an author's evidence to support a point.
• Practice using correlative conjunctions (neither/nor, either/or) with Conjunction game or Conjunctions
• Compare and contrasts varieties of English used in stories, dramas, and poems.
  
• Practice grammar skills by completing and reading MadLibs