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Materials:
Large newsprint
Laptops

Warm Up:
How are technical directions important to you?

Activity 1:
Share last night’s night write with the students at your table.

Activity 2:
Students will read their chapter book for 30 minutes. Students are to record the total number of books read this year, and turn in their genre chart.

Activity 3:
Working in table groups, students are to write the technical directions for writing and submitting an essay into e-rater, directions to using the SmartBoard, downloading and saving pictures from a digital camera to a new file on the computer.

Night Write:
If students have Internet access at home, they are to type their problem-solution persuasive essay into e-rater. Be sure to print a hard copy of this essay.

Homework:
Read for 30 minutes and record the following on their reading on your reading log:
Genre (fiction or nonfiction)
Date
Title
Reading level
Actual pages read (example 21-47)
Minutes read
One-sentence summary

Posted by Mrs. Abrams