Connections

Students are learning how to think deeply about what they are reading and to connect new texts to what they already know, what they have already read, and what they know about the world.

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

Using Writing Strategies

• using descriptive words (adjectives) to describe things and make our writing more interesting

• using what we know to come up with topics to write about

• putting together our writing in order using first, second, then and finally

Using Reading Strategies

• retelling using beginning, middle, and end

• making predications using clues from the text

• using the parts that we know in words to help us read tricky new words

• thinking about and discussing the characters, setting, problem and solution

• Fluency: how to read out loud with a more natural flow (with expression)

If you want to practice your writing, try one of the activities on our choice board.