My wonderful 5th grade teammate Dawn Schmucker and I decided to take on a new adventure this year----- A STEP TEAM!!! Yes that is right, a step team! The step team from a local high school came and performed for our elementary students and we became incredibly inspired. I was actually on the same step team when I was in high school (for a very short amount of time) and Dawn was very involved with color guard in high school and college. So, we decided to put our talents and knowledge together and create the very first elementary step team in the county. We performed at our February PTA meeting and the kids did awesome!!! Check out the video below!
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Summarizing, Summarizing, Summarizing
We have been working really hard in 5th grade on Summarizing both fiction and non fiction text. I use the strategy of SWBST (Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then) to help students create a fiction summary. On Pinterest and Teachers Pay Teachers there are lots of great bookmarks and organizers that go along with this strategy. However, as we switched our focus to non fiction text, I had a hard time finding resources to help students create a good summary of informational text. I wanted the acronym SWBST to remain the same since the students did so well with this strategy when working with fiction. So....I decided to make my own resources. For non fiction text, the SWBST stands for Somethings, Purpose, But, So,Then. I created a graphic organizer for students to use as well as non fiction summary bookmarks that the students can use as an aid when writing non fiction summaries. The only other difference is that in the acronym for non fiction the "then" comes before the "so".
Non-Fiction Summary Bookmarks
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Non-Fiction Summary Organizer Sheet
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