English Overview
Miss Berndl's Fabulous Fours
Notebooks, Duo-Tangs & Texts
Reading Writing
Oral & Visual Communication
Types of Narratives in Speaking & Writing
Research Sources
Notebooks, Duo-Tangs &
Texts that each student has
- Handwriting Notebook - cursive practice, timed writing drills,
rough draft of speech
- Writing Notebook - used for writing exercises, grammar lessones, yearbook articles
- Home Journal - notebook in which student writes weekly letters to
parents & parents write letters back to students. This is the only notebook
that can be decorated - i.e. doodled on
- Talking Book Summaries - notebook for chapter summaries of
Talking Books listened to
- FMTW Notebook - Five Minute Timed Writing - timed writing activities on topics from which
yearbook articles can be written, printing and in cursive, to determine
writing speed - w.p.m.
- SSQ Duo-Tang
- Spelling Skills Quizzes - handouts for grammar & spelling skills
- Spelling Notebook - weekly spelling assignments based on text: The
Canadian Spelling Program
- Spelling Duo-Tang - weekly spelling tests
- Text: The Canadian Spelling Program
- Reading Log Duo-Tang - Reading Record Sheet followed by 20 Novel
Summary Sheets that are completed when a student finishes reading a novel
- Novel - students are expected to have a novel in their desk at all
times to read during SQUIRT or when other work is completed
- Resources in the classroom
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Impressions Series Readers - Cross The Golden River, Run Forever
- Magic Lines - to write neatly on blank paper
- Handwriting Guides & Samples - to use until cursive writing
becomes second nature
Writing Overview
For more details, see Writing
Reading
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Reading Aloud
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| choral reading |
| duet reading |
| script performance |
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Reading Comprehension
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Standard Resources
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dictionary
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atlas
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| tests
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Research
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Internet sites |
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locating text material in library. within a specific book |
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locating print resources in the school & public library using the
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Forming an Opinion
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Reader Responses |
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Self-Evaluations |
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Reflection pieces |
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Oral &
Visual Communication Overview
For more details, see OralVisual
Oral
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Presenting Information
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Entertaining an Audience
| 8 & 12 Line Poem |
| Entertainment at the Feast |
| Light & Sound Science Fair |
| Harmonica Performances |
| Speech |
| Public Speaking Tour |
| Junk Art Sculpture Exhibition |
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| Class Participation
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| Listening Comprehension
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Getting The Main Idea |
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Mental Math Number Chains |
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Quicksolve Whodunnit Puzzles |
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Listening Behaviours
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| Listening for Information |
| Classroom lessons |
| Teacher instructions |
| Daily announcements |
| Student presentations |
| Assemblies |
| Interviews |
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Media Presentations
| Video - viewing & note taking |
| CD Music - Harmonica - listening & copying example |
| CD Music Appreciation - storytelling set to classical music |
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| Interviewing |
| IRP - interview an expert & record information gained |
| find information for articles in yearbook |
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Types of Narratives in
Writing & Speaking
Adapted
from Moffett and
McElheny
- 1st Person Interior Monologue - train of
thought or stream of consciousness
- 1st Person Dramatic Monologue - narrator
speaking to someone else; audience "overhears"
- 1st Person Letter Narration - narrator
writing a letter
- 1st Person Diary Narration - narrator
writing diary entries
- 1st Person Autobiography - narrator is
main character, often reflecting on a past "self."
- 3rd Person Eyewitness Point of View -
narrator presents story in eyewitness account; does not present
characters' thoughts
- 3rd Person Single Character Point of View
- narrator knows all about ONE character in the story; story
presented from one character's vantage point.
- 3rd Person Multiple Character Point of
View - narrator presents inner life, thoughts, actions of several
characters
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| all sources of information must be acknowledged |
| information does not only come from books - there are many sources
of information |
| if books are used, they should be written at the student's reading
level or else the words have no meaning |
| students may not plagiarize - namely represent someone else's work
or words as their own |
| printing something off from the Internet, gluing it up on paper
& handing it in, is not research |
| when students write notes, they need to use their own words |
| when doing a major project sources of information need to be
recorded |
| for the IRP, a Bibliography needs to be completed |
| click here for instructions on how to write up a
Bibliography |
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