Welcome to HMS Open House! ELA/Team1 Mrs. Sullivan Mrs. Sullivan's Page Mrs. Sullivan's Page Your...

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Welcome to HMS Welcome to HMS Open House! Open House! ELA/Team1 ELA/Team1 Mrs. Sullivan Mrs. Sullivan Mrs. Sullivan's Pa ge Your student will be Your student will be interacting with literature, interacting with literature, both fiction and non- both fiction and non- fiction, in order to become fiction, in order to become independent readers, writers independent readers, writers and speakers. and speakers. Please take your child’s folder from the green “checkout“ folder box at the front of the room. Enjoy the letter written to you, but please be sure not to take it home with you. It should be left on the desk and I will collect them. Thanks!

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Page 1: Welcome to HMS Open House! ELA/Team1 Mrs. Sullivan Mrs. Sullivan's Page Mrs. Sullivan's Page Your student will be interacting with literature, both fiction.

Welcome to HMSWelcome to HMS Open House! Open House!

ELA/Team1ELA/Team1Mrs. SullivanMrs. Sullivan

Mrs. Sullivan's Page

Your student will be Your student will be interacting with literature, interacting with literature, both fiction and non-fiction, both fiction and non-fiction, in order to become in order to become independent readers, writers independent readers, writers and speakers.and speakers.

Please take your child’s folder from the green “checkout“ folder box at the front of the room. Enjoy the letter written to you, but please be sure not to take it home with you. It should be left on the desk and I will collect them. Thanks!

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Who is Mrs. Sullivan?Who is Mrs. Sullivan? Yes- mother of 5!Yes- mother of 5! 20 years of teaching20 years of teaching Elementary experience at all levels except Elementary experience at all levels except

for 4for 4thth grade grade

Dad, Me, Jason, Ashley, Meghan, Morgan and MickeyDad, Me, Jason, Ashley, Meghan, Morgan and Mickey

The Sullivan Family

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Content Overview:Content Overview:Reading Strategies: predict, question, visualize, connect, clarify, evaluate, main idea, context clues

Story Elements: characters, setting, plot, conflict, climax, resolution

Figurative Language: simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole

Literary: point of view, theme, tone, mood, symbol, genre, author’s purpose, flashback, foreshadowing, imagery, paraphrase

Poetry: stanza, line, repetition, rhythm, rhyme, free verse, limerick, narrative

Writing: paragraphs, poems, narrative essay, compare/contrast essay, argument writing

Grammar: capitalization, punctuation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, subject-predicate, conjunctions (GUM workbook used)

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Student Responsibilities?Student Responsibilities?•Class involvement, participation, Class involvement, participation, and and good listening skillsgood listening skills•Careful homework completionCareful homework completion•Nightly readingNightly reading•Regular completion of book Regular completion of book responses and reading record responses and reading record •Preparation for quizzes/testsPreparation for quizzes/tests•Awareness of class assignmentsAwareness of class assignments

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The Top 5 Reasons The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to to Go Back to

School!School!

by Team 1/ELAby Team 1/ELA

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

... ... To see our friends To see our friends again, and make again, and make some new ones!some new ones!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

... to finally have ... to finally have lockers.lockers.

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

... ... because it’s the because it’s the law!law!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

... to clean out the ... to clean out the cobwebs and refill our cobwebs and refill our brains after the summer.brains after the summer.

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

And the # 1 reason:And the # 1 reason:

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!Back to School!

...... to get away to get away from our crazy from our crazy families!families!

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*Be sure to leave the letter and *Be sure to leave the letter and folder in class.folder in class.

Thanks for coming and Thanks for coming and have a great night!have a great night!