We have been READING, READING, READING!!! We have been learning so much about reading and how to become better readers.
We have been working on finding the main idea of a story or passage. This is difficult for a lot of students because they want to retell the whole story instead of the main idea. We will continue working on this concept.
I have also challenged the students to begin to read with expression. I encourage them to change their voice to match the character when they see quotation marks. We have also been working on reading smoothly. This comes from reading a phrase at a time instead of word by word reading. I model for the students how to sound out new and hard words and then go back to re-read the sentence to help with comprehension. When your child reads at night, please encourage them to practice these things as well to become more fluent readers.
In writing we have been writing personal narratives. Most students like talking about themselves and something they have done. My goal is for students to write at least 5-6 sentences correctly. We are working on grammar and punctuation in our writing as well.
We have been working on finding the main idea of a story or passage. This is difficult for a lot of students because they want to retell the whole story instead of the main idea. We will continue working on this concept.
I have also challenged the students to begin to read with expression. I encourage them to change their voice to match the character when they see quotation marks. We have also been working on reading smoothly. This comes from reading a phrase at a time instead of word by word reading. I model for the students how to sound out new and hard words and then go back to re-read the sentence to help with comprehension. When your child reads at night, please encourage them to practice these things as well to become more fluent readers.
In writing we have been writing personal narratives. Most students like talking about themselves and something they have done. My goal is for students to write at least 5-6 sentences correctly. We are working on grammar and punctuation in our writing as well.
We practice partner reading and independent reading every day!