Read With Me Cultivating a Literary Community 

1. jimmy carter
2. mountains
3. I would
4. et cetera
5. barefoot
6. ineffective
7. balloons of the clowns
8. timid little boy  (loud  shy  big)
9. Water slides are fun in the summer.
10. local — logic  (lobster  logical  loft)
11. sky is to blue: as grass is to ______
12. friendly
13. i want to live in a castel but mom sayes their too hard to heat
14. Ted Williams was a great baseball player.
15. nibble  next  nifty  never

1. clouds
2. mountains
3. wasn’t
4. organization
5. lamppost
6. repainting
7. lead of my pencil
8. a grave mistake (serious  spare  foreign)
9. I eat cold cereal at night.
10. jazz — jerk  (jersey  jaw  jelly)
11. threw is to through: as there is to ____
12. Hawaii
13. the girl in tar beach named cassie louise lightfoot is ate years old
14. Alligators are reptiles.
15. Japan  jerk  jazz  jaw

We’re moving onward and upward!

This week, we will unveil a brand new resource to help us in our study of the English language: our “working” wiki.

Not only will this wiki become a wealth of information for our readers and writers to refer to, but it will also house our new language board form.  Each week, students have been working independently on a set of practice prompts that review a range of skills: guide words, syllabication, affixes and roots, compound words, abbreviations, common and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, alphabetical order, and more.  Now, students will be submitting this work online!

Check it out…

As students complete one question, the form will automatically prompt them to answer the next.  Each item has reminders, tips, and explanations alongside the answer choices or space.  And as students complete their work, their responses are automatically added to a spreadsheet for Mrs. Nash to see.

This week, students will use our laptops to learn the new format and begin building the working wiki.  Be sure to check back soon for results!