1. Today Mrs. Sapp and Ms. Clawson will be teaching together Hello Without talking to anyone, draw a line under the last thing in your Writer’s Notebook. Write down all the spelling mistakes you find in this sentence: I beleive that ether Maya or Franklin stoped the ball from goying over the fense ‘cuz no body els was cloze enuf to cach it.

2. CONVENTIONS checking spelling

3. The TRAITS OF WRITING CONVENTIONS IDEAS ARE including SENTENCE FLUENCY ORGANIZATION including Checking Spelling including VOICE Finding a Topic Well-Built Sentences including WORD CHOICE Creating a Lead including Establishing a Tone including Applying Strong Verbs

4. Read it backwards!

5. Think About: • Have I used standard English spelling unless I chose not to for a good reason? • Have I checked words with ieand ei? • When adding suffixes to words, have I changed y to i, doubled the final consonant, or dropped the final e when necessary?? • Have I checked my work for words I have trouble spelling?

6. Excuse