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Students continued to enter parenthetical citations, correct punctuation, and re-write sentences. We will be in the academy lab tomorrow as students continue to type and revise their research paragraphs.

Parents, Please help your son/daughter with these paragraphs by: 1) reading them aloud for your son/daughter to hear their mistakes, 2) listen while they read to you and ask questions to help them improve their explanations or information, 3) circling errors that they have not noticed - but please don't tell them how to fix the errors - ask them leading questions or give suggestions for using the dictionary, grammar reference, or thesaurus. Thank you!

Report cards go home next Wednesday.

SKILLS:
Writing source citations and bibliography cards
Writing informational text from note cards
Paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism
Writing topic and clincher sentences
Writing Works Cited page
Transition words and phrases
Parenthetical citations
Editing for mechanics and conventions of writing

HOMEWORK:
Continue to work on editing your research paragraphs.
Read for 20-30 minutes 5 days each week/Book report-You should be working on your book reports as you read, adding information as you go along.

Posted by Mrs. Beals