Writing+Resources

Here is the 5th Grade Writing Rubric:       Here is a link to an example color-coded/"Step Up" paragraph. The students are expected to be able to compose variations of this style of paragraph. The students have a packet of possible formats in their writing folders. The students wrote a letter to President Obama regarding his speech to the students. Here is an example letter.

Here are the assessment tools for the letter, the rubric and the student checklist:



[|Online Dictionary for Parts of Speech]   BuzzWord of the Day! __**POETRY LINKS:**__ Poetry for Kids A Kid's Guide to Poetry Poems, Poems, Poems! Giggle Poetry for Kids Children's Poetry  Poetry Portfolio Directions SONNET ACTIVITY: With a partner, you are going to try to figure out what a sonnet needs to be a sonnet. :-) Please follow these steps carefully before you begin:
 * 1) Find a place in the room for you and your partner to work...or decide to use the chat feature for discussion.
 * 2) Choose one partner to go to the template gallery to retrieve the document needed for the activity...the link is located below these directions.
 * 3) Once retrieved, the document should be shared with the other partner.
 * 4) The document needs to be renamed...take out SETTLE, and put in the 2 students names.
 * 5) Enjoy the activity!
 * 6) BOTH students need to drag the document into their student folders when the assignment is finished...please DO NOT share with Miss Settle. :o)
 * 7) Once you are finished with the observation activity, please get a sonnet definition/requirement paper from Miss Settle, and then you and your partner can work together to create a sonnet on a topic of your choice. This should be done in a new GoogleDoc, titled "Partner Sonnet."

__**GoogleDoc Template Gallery**__--please go here to search for the "SETTLE Sonnet Observations" document. Follow the directions on this document to see if you can figure out what a sonnet needs to be a sonnet. :-)  __**Example Sonnets **__    __**COMBINING SENTENCES **__ This site has information on complex and compound sentences. There are also activities to go along with the instruction.  **__WRITING FICTION__** Are you stuck while trying to think of a fictional storyline? Look below!