Students will have reading instruction every day. The following lists the texts and focus for reading for the month of November:

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Objectives: Visualize what was read for deeper understanding; Use elements of poetry to facilitate understanding;  Identify and explain language that appeals to the senses and feelings; Use structural features such as structure and form including lines and stanza shape, refrain, chorus, rhyme scheme, and types of poems such as haiku, diamonte, etc., to identify poetry as a literary form and distinguish among types of poems; Identify and explain the meaning of words, lines, and stanzas; Identify and explain sound elements of poetry (Rhyme, rhyme scheme, Alliteration and other repetition); Identify and explain other poetic elements such as setting, mood, tone, etc. that contribute to meaning  • Elements of grade appropriate lyric and narrative poems that contribute to meaning

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Text: Sky Fish & various other poems

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Vocabulary Words: slithered, repetition, tacky

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SR: In the poem ”Sky-Fish,” the poet uses the words the lake was purpled out to describe:​
a) the color of the fish in the lake.​
b) the color of the water after sunset​
c) the color of the sky after sunset.​
d) the color of Uncle Stephen’s rowboat.

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Objectives: Visualize what was read for deeper understanding;  Identify and explain what is not directly stated in the text by drawing inferences; Understanding Plays: Identify and explain stage directions and dialogue that help to create character; Use structural features to identify a play as a literary form; Identify and explain the action of a scene;  Identify and explain stage directions that help to create character and movement

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Text: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

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Vocabulary Words: dialogue, rummages, reluctantly

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BCR: Explain how the stage directions help the reader to better understand the play.​
SR: What do the stage directions tell us when Peter is speaking in scene 2?​
a) where he is standing​
b) his emotions as he speaks​
c) who he is speaking to​
d) gestures he makes while speaking