Fifth+Grade



SMART Goal: Each PLC team was asked to devise a SMART goal to guide them in their work. S: Specific + Strategic M: Measurable A: Attainable R: Results-oriented T: Time-bound

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PLC 2-3-2010

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 * The percentage of 5th graders scoring proficient and higher in Language Arts will increase from 87% to 90% by the end of May 2010 as measured by MAP reading administered in the beginning of May.

Sundance aims to:** []
 * Reinforce **key comprehension strategies** while fostering a love of reading for all your students.
 * Monitoring and Clarifying
 * Making Connections
 * Visualizing
 * Asking Questions
 * Predicting and Inferring
 * Summarizing
 * Expose students to a **variety of genres and text types** with high-quality **nonfiction** and **fiction** books.
 * Promote **successful independent reading** sessions by helping students select the right book and encouraging feedback and discussion.
 * Motivate children with books that are just right for them, using engaging titles at **three levels of difficulty** for each strategy.

**Writing Units of Study Overview:**
 * [|Launching the Writing Workshop] by Lucy Calkins with Marjorie Martinelli, contributing author
 * [|Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing] by Lucy Calkins with Ted Kesler, contributing author
 * [|Breathing Life into Essays] by Lucy Calkins with Cort Gillette, contributing author
 * [|Writing Fiction: Big Dreams, Tall Ambitions] by Lucy Calkins and M. Colleen Cruz
 * [|Literary Essays: Writing About Reading] by Lucy Calkins with Medea McEvoy, contributing author
 * [|Memoir: The Art of Writing Well] by Lucy Calkins and Mary Chiarella

From [|http://www.unitsofstudy.com/iuos/default.asp] 

Fifth Grade has appreciated the time to collaborate as a team and to view/assess student work samples together. By doing this, we have established common benchmarks for assessment. We have also appreciated having the time to plan our units of study and to identify essential learning targets for our writers. In terms of how the work of PLC’s has contributed to the growth of our student writers, we believe our students have a much clearer understanding of the purposes associated with different types of writing, and they are better able to reflect upon and express their individual strengths as writers. As a team, we also want to celebrate the students’ ability to showcase greater clarity and sustained focus and elaboration on a given writing topic/theme.
 * Highlights/Insights/Successes From the 2008-2009 School Year:**