1. Monday, September 19: 1.Make your lunch count, turn in ride changes. 2.Sharpen two pencils. 3.Get a drink, use the restroom. 4.Do you need to switch out your browsing books? 5.Begin your vocabulary work. How will you show kindness to someone today?

2. RW: How can we use questions and connections to help us as readers? Browsing Challenge: As you read from your fiction BB, track your questions and connections on post it notes. Finished: Read or work on your Readers Response Journal. Share time: What questions/connections did you make today?

3. WW: What is brainstorming, and where will we do it? Author’s Challenge: –Choose a topic on your “Things I Can Write About” list –Create a circle or bubble map about that idea. –Place a star next to the idea you are going to write about tomorrow. Finished? –Work on another draft –Add to your “Things I Can Write About” list

4. Tuesday, September 20: 1.Make your lunch count, turn in ride changes. 2.Sharpen two pencils. 3.Get a drink, use the restroom. 4.Do you need to switch out your browsing books? 5.Get ready for your spelling test! 6.Begin your vocabulary work. How will you show kindness to someone today?

5. RW: How can we use questions and connections to help us as readers? Browsing Challenge: As you read the story, track your questions and connections on post it notes OR on the paper. Finished: At the blue counter, choose which assessment you want to go on the SBBB. The one you WANT on the board goes to Mrs. Carlile’s table. The one you DON’T want on the board stays on the blue counter. Fill out your reading log in your reading journal. Continue to work on your draft. Share time: How did your questions and connections help you as a readers?

6. WW: The Writing Process: What is planning, and how/where will we do it? Author’s Challenge: –Using the 3-box you created yesterday, begin your draft. Finished? –Work on another draft –Add to your “Things I Can Write About” list –3-box another writing idea you have

7. Wednesday, September 21 1.Make your lunch count, turn in ride changes. 2.Sharpen two pencils. 3.Get a drink, use the restroom. 4.Do you need to switch out your browsing books? 5.Continue your vocabulary work How will you show kindness to someone today?

8. RW: When do wise readers make and adjust their predictions? Browsing Challenge: As you read, track your predictions and text evidence on the sheet given. Finished: Read or work on your Readers Response Journal. Share time: When did you make predictions? When did you adjust them?

9. WW: The Writing Process: What is drafting, and how/where will we do it? Author’s Challenge: –Complete the draft you began yesterday –Revise carefully, looking for ways to make your piece the best you have ever written. Finished? –Work on another draft –Add to your “Things I Can Write About” list –3-box another writing idea you have

10. Thursday, September 22: 1.Make your lunch count, turn in ride changes. 2.Sharpen two pencils. 3.Get a drink, use the restroom. 4.Do you need to switch out your browsing books? 5.Today is library day – are you ready? 6.Begin your vocabulary work. How will you show kindness to someone today?

11. RW: How can wise readers use word chunks to help their comprehension? Browsing Challenge: As you read, track the word chunks you found that helped your comprehension. Finished: Read or work on your Readers Response Journal. Share time: When did you make predictions? When did you adjust them?

12. WW: The Writing Process: What is revising & editing, and how/where will we do it? Author’s Challenge: –Using the draft on which you have been working, begin to edit carefully, looking for the mistakes you may have made and ways to improve your paper. Word choice, spelling, punctuation, lead, ending … is this the BEST writing you have ever done? Finished? –Turn your draft in on the blue counter –Work on another draft –Add to your “Things I Can Write About” list –3-box another writing idea you have –Have you been adding to your “Words for Rent” section?

13. Friday, September 23: 1.Make your lunch count, turn in ride changes. 2.Sharpen two pencils. 3.Get a drink, use the restroom. 4.Do you need to switch out your browsing books? 5.Complete your vocabulary – it’s due today! How will you show kindness to someone today?

14. RW: How can wise readers use context clues to help their comprehension? Browsing Challenge: As you read, track the context clues you found that helped your comprehension. Finished: Read or work on your Readers Response Journal. Share time: When did you use context clues? How did they help your comprehension? The sky darkened as a menacing rumble filled the air.

15. WW: The Writing Process: I’m done … Now What? Author’s Challenge: –Look back carefully over your paper – is it the best you can possibly make it? If yes – publish it! If no – fix it! Finished? –Work on another draft –Add to your “Things I Can Write About” list –3-box another writing idea you have