Yorkville School

Upcoming Events:

Writing assessments this year for 5th and 8th grades in February. 2 more school days!!!

PARENTS, PLEASE BE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS PENCILS, ERASERS, PAPER, ETC.

Phone:(731) 643-6598
Fax:
Email:hollism@k12tn.net

For our Learning Community...from Larry Bell
The 12 POWERFUL WORDS
Trace List in Steps	Analyze Break apart	Infer Read between the lines
Evaluate Judge	Formulate Create	Describe Tell all about
Support Back up with details	Explain Tell how	Summarize Give me the short version
Compare All the ways they are alike	Contrast All the ways they are different	Predict What will happen next
12 Powerful Words that increase test scores and help close the achievement gap A Resource for Educators and Parents

Writing- using more precise words to give extended detail (elaboration) including vivid words to make readers visualize our stories.

6-8- Foreign words (2 per week)

5-8-Analogies (1 per day)

5-8 Idioms (2 per week)

5-8 WOW word (word of the week) Lenient

8th- The Diary of Anne Frank

No stories 5-8

This first link below is a website containing all stories in the 5th grade textbook:

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/waltkek/fifthgrade.html

5th Dinosaurs.ppt
Size : 1858.5 Kb
Type : ppt

The Diary of Anne Frank.ppt
Size : 1209 Kb
Type : ppt