5th Grade

Writing

May 4-8

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Writing Packet Directions

May 4-8

1- Monday - Thursday Daily Language (Do what you can in

5-10 minutes/day)

2- Read Little Rocket of the Airways

3- Complete Writing Summaries Page Tool 1-31c (See tool

1-31b as example)

4- Write summary paragraph

5- Edit /Revise

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Correct these sentences.

1. sammy please hand me them pliers said the instructor

2. its obvious you dont have no money to lend me

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Use this homophone pair in one sentence. (aloud, allowed)

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Tuesday ~1~b If the guide words on a page were "pause" and "payment," which word would be on the page?

1. payroll pattern patriot pavilion peacock

Correct these sentences.

2. it don't make no difference since my mom wont let me go with you

3. dr otis scolded you should of been more careful

What is the root or base word?

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Give the plural form of this noun.

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• Correct these sentences.

1. she has swam the english channel several times in the passed year

2. why did them mooses cross the river so near roberts cabin

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1 1 Subiect pronoun or obiect pronoun? 'SI" 0 0 N 4. They jogged three miles every day for a month. @

Which words have three syllables?

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2. Frozen drops of water fell from the sky, covering everything in a blanket of white. ·5 0

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3. the bishops asked margaret to sing the anniversary waltz at their celebration 1 3

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4. carlos has did his work correct

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5. Will you get warts if you pick up a bumpy toad? 51

Writing Summaries Four steps for writing the summary paragraph

Write a summary topic sentence using the three­part IVF topic sentence method (the burrito fold).

Identify the Item.

Barney Saltzberg in his book Phoebe and the Spelling Bee

Select a Verb.

describes

Finish Your Thought.

what happens when Phoebe decides to learn her spelling words in an unusual way.

Copy the sentence so it looks like a real sentence. (iUil·· Fix spelling and capitalization errors.

Barney Saltzberg in his book Phoebe and the Spelling Bee describes what happens when Phoebe decides to learn her spelling words in an unusual way.

Create a fact outline.

Friday Spelling Bee

Katie

not studying

hurts a friend

a clever idea

) ~ Use your fact outline to write the summary paragraph.

Writing to Improve Reading and Ustenlng Comprehension © 2008 Soprls West Educotionol Services. Slop Up lo Wrl llng • lnterrnadlate Tool 1-31 b

Writing Summaries Four steps for writing the summary paragraph

Write a summary topic sentence using the three­part IVF topic sentence method (the burrito fold).

Identify the Item. Finish Your Thought. Select a Verb.

Copy the sentence so it looks like a real sentence. Fix spelling and capitalization errors.

Create a fact outline.

Use your fact outline to write the summary paragraph.

Writing to Improve Reading and Listening Comprehension @ 2008 Sopris West Educational Services. Step Up to Writing • Intermediate Tool 1-31 C

Little Rocket of the Airways reprinted with permission from Ranger Rick Magazine

· written by Mike Johnson

Everything about the hummingbird is small. The egg from which it is hatched is about the size of a jellybean. The nest in which it is born 1s the size of a walnut. A baby hummingbird is only the size of a bee. When fully grown, it is all of two inches long and weighs less than a penny. It weighs so little that it can stand on a blade of grass and the grass hardly bends!

No bird can match the hummingbird in flight. It can hang in midair without moving up or down, backward or forward. The long, strong wings move so quickly that they can hardly be seen. It is said that they beat more than sixty times each second. You can hear them. They make a humming sound. That is how the hummingbird got its name.

The hummingbird is as fast as it is small. It zips, dips, and darts at speeds greater than fifty miles an hour. It can fly backwards or sideways and can rise straight into the air like a little missile. The bird has been known to fly five hundred miles without stopping for rest.

The hummingbird is a fearless fighter. It will pick fights with birds of all sizes. It is as likely to go after a crow or a hawk as a moth or a bee. It will fly at its enemies like a bullet, using its sharp bill as a weapon.

Hummingbirds spend most of their time in the air. Their feet are weak and not meant for walking. But then, a bird is born to fly, and no bird can fly like the little rocket of the airways, the hummingbird.