04/15 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Historical Fiction Genre Book Club Meeting
• Review the Response Assignment
• Each member shares their Response
• Have a conversation about the book.
• Review new Reading Assignment
2. Post your "Character Conflict" response at Google Classroom.
3. "Making Inferences" Minilesson
4. Free choice read for at least 30 minutes
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 by choosing one of the poems from "We Are America" by Walter Dean Myers: Read it, reread it, then perform it for a friend.
• Learn more about conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections by leading yourself through the lesson and completing the activity.
• Practice using correlative conjunctions (neither/nor, either/or) with Conjunction game or Conjunctions
• Practice making inferences by answering these riddles.