Reading Strategies:
Main Idea and supporting details
Inferring- to make a well informed guess
Context Clues- finding the meaning of the word by looking around the word in the text.
Reflecting on Reading: reread, make connections, visualized, looked at text features, sound out words
Writing:
Forming letters (Upper case, lower case, the right shape)
Capital letters
Spelling Strategies: Chunk word, sound blends, look around the room and use word books
Double Spacing
writing 3-5 sentences
Sight Words:
changes the meaning of the word
er/or words
actor creator inventor sailor
visitor teacher reader sweeper
writer player leader farmer
eater dancer closer climber
Closed syllables
end in a consonant
short vowel sound
Examples:
panic tennis plastic kitchen cabin
pencil comic insect lesson pumpkin
napkin admit gossip kingdom hidden
helmet metric contact campus
suspect tactic velvet admit
Suffixes Examples:
Ending of a base word playing sleeping walking typing heating
plural, present and past tense played cooked typed vaccumed watched
tables books pencils poppies foxes babies
Greek Root Words
auto=self
bio=life
graph=written down
hydro=water
meter=measure
Examples:
autograph centimeter dehydration telegraph
biography automobile photograph hydropane
graphics biology perimeter biophysics
hydrogen thermometer automatic geography
Read Aloud during October
Discussion on descriptive words to describe the monster
Character Traits in characters and how they change during the story
Students work on drawing their own monster and describing it in a paragraph:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HKS2oruckejzhSY3brHAeDxX5UfONEprDcU81scv3QI/edit?usp=sharing
Consonant + le
bub Bubble
ti title
lit little
Poetry
Haiku Poems about "The Moon"
Haiku poems do not rhyme and are usually about the natural world
Format
Line 1:5 syllables
Line 2 :7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
Students are choosing a chapter book at their reading level. Books should be read by May 4th and Paper bag book report is due May 14th. We will be reading and working on the report in class but it is highly encouraged to read at home.