05/03 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Realistic Fiction Book Club
• Book Club Outline:
  

  Book Club Members:

  Club Name:

  Meeting Spot:

  Materials All Members Bring to Meetings:

  Consequence of Not Being Prepared for Meeting:

• Set your reading assignments for the month (there are 10 meetings to divide your book into).
• Your Reading Response Assignment is about Point of View:  What point of view is your story being told from?  How does the point of view affect how the story is told?
2. Free choice read for at least 30 minutes
3. Small Group Meetings:  Point of View Practice
4. 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 or these riddles.