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 and non- fiction, in order to become independent readers, writers 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!

2. Who is Mrs. Sullivan? Yes- mother of 5! Yes- mother of 5! 20 years of teaching 20 years of teaching Elementary experience at all levels except for 4 th grade Elementary experience at all levels except for 4 th grade Dad, Me, Jason, Ashley, Meghan, Morgan and Mickey The Sullivan Family

3. 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)

4. Student Responsibilities? Class involvement, participation, and good listening skills Class involvement, participation, and good listening skills Careful homework completion Careful homework completion Nightly reading Nightly reading Regular completion of book responses and reading record Regular completion of book responses and reading record Preparation for quizzes/tests Preparation for quizzes/tests Awareness of class assignments Awareness of class assignments

5. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School! by Team 1/ELA

6. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School! # 5...

7. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!... To see our friends again, and make some new ones!

8. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School! # 4...

9. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!... to finally have lockers.

10. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School! # 3...

11. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!... because it’s the law!

12. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School! # 2...

13. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!... to clean out the cobwebs and refill our brains after the summer.

14. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School! And the # 1 reason:

15. The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!... to get away from our crazy families!

16. *Be sure to leave the letter and folder in class. Thanks for coming and have a great night!