Each month we will work hard to become better readers! Check out our reading goals. 

Sept.  

-Choosing "Just Right Books"

-staying focused during reading time 

-using reading strategies to help us read.

Oct. 

-Discussing the characters, setting, plot, problem and solution.

-Making Connections to a text: T-S, T-T, T-W, T-M

During reading conferences, students will choose reading strategies they would like to work on to assist them with decoding and comprehension when reading a text.  Click on the link below to view the 'Reading Strategies'.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C1XQDnfk0oXqsxkgGVeTVhCgy6xg2pYCs9MvWULMuZw/copy

Each week students will be introduced to a different group of words which we will review and practise throughout the week. We will be using an explicit and sytematic phonics program called UFLI Foundations.

• READING TO SELF for 15- 20 min.

• Reading conference with our teacher.

• Buzzing about our book (retelling) with a partner or our teacher.

• Word Study - Learning and playing with weekly UFLI words. 

• Shared Reading: Reading a text together repeatedly and fluently during the week and discussing prior knowledge, making predictions, asking questions, making connections and inferences, discussing author's identity and author's message, and discussing punctuation and capitalization.

• Read Alouds: Listening to texts read to us and talking about the book (retelling the story) : characters, setting, plot, problem, solution, author's message.

• Identifying texts as FICTION or NON-FICTION - justifying our choices.

• Completing oral and written retells to explain what happened in a text.

• Making Connections to a text: T-S, T-T, T-W, T-M

Each month we will explore different forms of writing and create writing goals for our entire classroom that we will work hard to achieve.

Sept. & Oct. 

-Brainstorm, make a list and create complete sentences about a big idea.

-Paragraph writing (5 or more sentences): iclude an introductory sentence, 3 supporting sentences and a closing sentence.

• Brainstorming ideas about an assigned topic.

• Creating a list of our brainstormed ideas.

• Creating at least 3 complete sentences about the big idea.

• Rereading and editing our work - checking for capitalization, punctuation, spelling and does it make sense?