In ELA the past few weeks we have been working hard on understanding the Plot of a story, as well as the different vocabulary and parts that go along with it. Students learned about the introduction in the plot, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. Students also took a small quiz on it a week ago. It is important that students know these terms and can identify them in a story because we are also using these terms in their own writing! It is amazing and extremely beneficial when they can connect their reading to their writing.
We are about to switch to learning about Point of View. Students learned this a bit last year, but now, it is even more important that they understand what it means. Point of view is connected to the narrator, who tells the story. A narrator can tell a story as if they are a part of the story and in it (first person), as if they are telling their audience, reader, or another character the story (second person), or if they are overlooking the story (third person). Students are identifying the narrator in stories, learning that there can be several narrators, and we are about to start learning about how perspective also affects the story! There is a lot to a narrator, and since students are writing their own stories as narrators, they need to learn the ins and outs of being one!
On top of learning about plot and point of view, students have also been learning about similies, and students are even finding similes in their writing, as well as in their reading. We are about to start learning about metaphors soon!
Students have even been learning about independent and dependent clauses during morning meeting. We have also learned about subordinating conjunctions, and we are about to learn about coordinating conjunctions and how to combine two independent clauses.
There is a ton of learning going on here in the 5th grade!
No comments:
Post a Comment