MTE Grade 5

👩🏻‍🏫Miss Fitsik, 👩🏻‍🏫Mrs. Kinsey, 👩🏼‍🏫Mrs. Suchocki. Follow Miss Fitsik’s journey as a @goyenfoundation Literacy Fellow!📚

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

One last photo as @MTEGrade5 Class of 2024! @BSMS_Scotties they are ready for you!💜💛

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Our @BookwormsRW routines even work with non-fiction books! We read the book “How Does a Waterfall Become Electricity?” and started off learning new vocabulary words, then applied that knowledge to answer a writing prompt! 💦⚡️🔌💡@SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @CurriculumMatrs

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Even though we started reading our new book Bud, Not Buddy, our @BookwormsRW routines stayed the same! 📖

Learned two new vocabulary words and practiced using them in super sentences! 📝✅
@SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @CurriculumMatrs

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Chatter 🗣️, excitement 🤗 and applause👏🏼 as we finish reading The Westing Game!

After we finished reading, we had a final discussion on the book.

Stay tuned as we start our next book, Bud Not Buddy 📖!
@SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @CurriculumMatrs @BookwormsRW

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

This might not look like anything important, but in reality these anchor charts are very useful to Ss!

During @BookwormsRW shared reading, Ss help add content to the anchor charts, which helps keep track of what we are reading!📖

@SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @CurriculumMatrs

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

After each day’s reading, Ss answer text-based oral comprehension questions. Many of the @BookwormsRW questions begin with how or why, which allows for deeper understanding of the text. 📖

🗣️Listen to the Ss thoughtful discussions!
@SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @CurriculumMatrs

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Partner reading=rereading the text that was just chorally read, but this time with a partner! 👧🏼👦🏻📖

📸1: Partner Focus (what to be thinking of while partner reading)
📹1: Partners reading
📹2: Discussing focus
@BookwormsRW @SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @CurriculumMatrs

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Choral reading is SUCH an important part of our @BookwormsRW reading block everyday! Fluency is improving daily!🗣️📖

📹1: Ss choral reading with teacher
📹2:Teacher interrupts choral reading briefly to model comprehension strategy
@SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @CurriculumMatrs

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

@smorrisey I have used this passage as well with my students @smorrisey and I know the exact question you are talking about! My Ss struggled with it too! I had to specifically teach what was meant by diagram and what “new information” meant!

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Ss are provided with a “first focus” which helps Ss to read for a meaning-oriented purpose. 📖

➡️Listen to today’s focus on how The Westing Game characters have changed!🕵🏻

✅set first focus
✅choral read text
✅discuss first focus
@BookwormsRW @SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Another routine that Ss do daily is share their writing, first with a partner then with the class. 🔈🆙to hear a proud writer! 📝 📖

Pair-Share Responses:
🗣️share writing with partner
🗣️share writing with class
@BookwormsRW @goyenfoundation @SoRclassroom @CurriculumMatrs

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

One nice part about @BookwormsRW is the daily structure of the shared reading block. Each lesson starts with word study. Listen to us learn about 2 new words! @SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation

1️⃣say the word
2️⃣clap the word out
3️⃣identify the syllable types
4️⃣learn the meaning

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

We just finished middle of the year testing and check out the growth we have made already 🤩! Partner reading is just one piece of the puzzle that has helped improve fluency and comprehension!

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

We partner read DAILY in @MTEGrade5 which has improved our fluency IMMENSELY!! 🗣️📖@goyenfoundation @SoRclassroom @BookwormsRW @CurriculumMatrs

Partner reading structure:
1️⃣Go over focus for reading
2️⃣Read with partner for ~8 minutes
3️⃣Discuss partner focus with class

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

@ClassroomD4 @goyenfoundation @SoRclassroom 👏🏼👏🏼!! Love seeing this!! Happy to have been able to share!☺️

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

We have busy reading The Westing Game and trying to solve the murder mystery 🔎🕵🏻‍♀️! These wonderful writers not only answered the written response question BUT also supported their answer with evidence from the book!! @goyenfoundation @SoRclassroom @CurriculumMatrs @BookwormsRW

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Working on our 🗣️fluency while choral reading about unicellular organisms such as amoebas, euglenas and paramecium 🦠🧫! @SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @BookwormsRW

💭🤔set focus
🗣️choral read
👩🏻‍🏫👧🏼👦🏻discuss focus after reading

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

@mommagordon2 @SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @BookwormsRW It is from @BookwormsRW 🙂! 📚🐛

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Take a look at some amazing super sentences from our word study practice! 🌟📝@SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @BookwormsRW

Part 2️⃣ of word study:
✍🏻plan super sentence using graphic organizer
1️⃣subject
1️⃣verb
✍🏻expand with details using ❓words
✍🏻write the sentence

[MTE Grade 5 @MTEGrade5]

Started the week with explicitly learning 2 new vocabulary words that we saw in our reading today…organ & organelle🫀🫁! @SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @BookwormsRW

Part 1️⃣ of our word study:
🗣️say it
👏🏼clap it out
🔢how many syllables
🗣️discuss syllable types
💡learn meaning