Speeches

If you have been doing the Monthly Memory writing having your students complete a speech is a great way to provide a purpose to combine the skills your students have been learning and to extend their single paragraph writing into multiple paragraphs. Since September we have learned how to write a basic paragraph, how to "show" rather than "tell", using writing hooks to begin our paragraphs, and adding transitional words and phrases to our writing. I send a package home to include parents in the topic choices first. Grab your copy of this letter HERE. Grab your copy of the Speech Booklets HERE.

Freckle Juice

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume was a quick read aloud that my students thoroughly enjoyed! We had already been studying making predictions, text to text connections, determining character qualities using proof from the text and our own ideas, as well as using a plot diagram to summarize stories. It was the first time we looked at how to answer open response questions as well using the RAP Framework. Grab your copy of the activities HERE.