Dear Parents,
Tomorrow afternoon I hope you'll look over all the corrected papers your child should be bringing home. For three weeks now, I've been giving the students assignments that review all the standards in English-Language Arts(ELA) and Mathematics that they've been taught this year. You may see, however, that your child hasn't mastered certain concepts. If you go over the papers with your child it can help. I'll be going over many ELA concepts in class tomorrow.
For example, here is a typical sentence the children were supposed to correct by circling the first letter of each word that should begin with a capital letter and by then adding the correct punctuation marks:
donnas dog, skipper, ran across meyer ave to palm park
There are 9 errors to correct in that sentence. Many children missed a number of them; only a few children got 8 out of 9 corrections made.
Another area where I found many errors was in writing common contractions, such as they're for they are, or it'll for it will.
Still another area where students had difficulty in ELA was adding a second part of a compound sentence after a conjunction such as "and", "or", "for", or "but". The directions said the second part must contain a subject and a predicate. A number of students asked me what a predicate is. This word (concept){predicate} has been taught since 3rd grade at least, and is a word that all students should know and understand at the end of 5th grade.
Once again, please go over the corrected papers with your child. The diagonal mark means the answers are correct, the x means the answers are wrong. The numerator means the number correct, and the denominator means the number of items graded.
Have a great day!
Sincerely,
Ruth Landmann
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