Hi Everyone,

I have enjoyed reading the assignments you have sent to me. Some of you have been very creative! I will be responding to you about these later today.

Some general things to focus on with your writing this week, would be paragraphing, capitalization, and punctuation. Remember some of the mini-lessons we did.

You need to start a new paragraph when there is a change in place or a passage of time. You also use a new paragraph every time there is a new person speaking when writing dialogue.

All proper nouns (names of people, places and important things and events) begin with capital letters. The first word in a sentence also begins with a capital letter.

A sentence (a complete thought) ends with a period, exclamation mark or question mark. Use a comma between items if you are listing three or more things. (There are other comma rules, but we will worry about them later.) Use quotation marks (“  “) around the words that someone is saying.

Here is an exercise to help you focus on capital letters and end marks (.!?). Use a red pen or marker and circle or highlight the end marks. Next, use a blue pen or marker and circle or highlight all the capital letters. There should be a blue mark AFTER every red mark. If you don’t have many red or blue marks, then you may want to try reading your writing aloud to help identify the end of your sentences.

For this week, you may continue to select writing assignments from the Choice Board I posted last week. I will be changing this next week.

I know some of you may be having a difficult time finding reading materials at home. I have found some online resources. I will attach them in a Word Document above. You may have to create an account in order to use them, but they are free. Have your parent help you with this. Many online educational resources are being offered free of charge until the end of June. You may find more. If I find any others, I will post them here.

Please send me an email if you have questions or concerns. We are using your feedback to help plan for future assignments. There is a link to my email address from the ‘Staff’ tab above.

Hope you are enjoying some time outside while practicing social distancing. Stay safe.

Mrs. C.