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In this Language Arts lesson from August 14, 2014, students focus on editing skills through engaging activities dubbed "Giggles #3 and #4". Students learn to identify and correct capitalization, punctuation, and possessive nouns, while reviewing dialogue formatting with quotations and managing homophones. With a fun story involving characters Felicia and Isabelle, who deal with magical mishaps, the session emphasizes creativity and language mastery. Students will finalize their edits, review vocabulary, and prepare for a quiz. The agenda includes thematic exploration through literature.
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Language Arts August 14, 2014
Giggles Editing #3 and #4 • Remember when you finish editing days 3 AND 4, it is silent reading time. • 3. uttering • Felicia began to mutter words of a spell to encourage her friend oliviaotiose to hurry. Isabelle ingenuous put her hand over felicias mouth to stop her from uttering her spell and she warned her friend. • (capitalization with proper nouns, possessive noun)
Giggles editing #3 and #4 • 4. putrid • you know it will backfire on you, Felicia, warned isabelleingenuous. you don’t want to ruin youre new black hairdo or start the seventh grade with putrid purple streaks in your hair as you did in the sixth grade last year do you • (new speaker, quotation marks around direct quotes, homophones)
Today’s Agenda… • Giggles editing 3 and 4 • Return vocabulary foldables • Take up forms, compo. books, etc. • Turn in 50 Things I Love • Vocabulary review-quiz tomorrow! • Theme review • Intro. to happiness unit
In your compo: • Pages 1-4 Table of Contents • Page 5 Theme • On page 5, in your own words, write a definition of theme. • After hearing The Giving Tree, write your interpretation of the theme in your compo on page 5.