ELA / Reading

May- These next few weeks we will be working on poetry. I think this will be fun unit and I believe most of the class will enjoy it. Perhaps you could share a favorite poem of yours with your student or write a serious or silly one together. Poems are also great Mothers Day ideas as well!

This week, we will be reviewing the steps to picking an independent reading book that is just right! This is a strategy that students can use when choosing a book to read at school, home, at the public library etc.

This week, we are learning two reading strategies. The first, is our post it note strategy. As students read, they can keep track of their thoughts by identifying different funny, scary, surprising, exciting etc. moments in their books. We are also reviewing how to write a summary after reading a fiction text. We used the organizer below to help us with organizing a summary.

Using the organizer explained above, we will challenge ourselves to write an organized paragraph. We also learned some revising strategies. Students are learning about what it means to revise and reflect on our revisions.

Our reading groups have been learning about the elements of Reciprocal teaching strategies that good readers do while they read. The four elements are "Prediction, Clarification, Question, and Summarize". Support your readers use of this strategy by encouraging them to use them at home.

We are currently working on Colonial Times! We are using this time period to evaluate primary and secondary sources and extend our writing. To assist students at home have them make a claim about what they are reading and support it with at least two details from the text. Students will continue to make inferences about what they are reading and seeing in text, pictures, timelines, and authentic documents.