** Your child should be reading 30 minutes a night, 5 nights a week. Please make sure to sign your child's reading log.**
September/October: Narrative Reading (Reading Fiction)
Learning Goals
Foundational Reading Skills
Read fourth grade texts with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Demonstrate independent reading habits.
Comprehension
Summarize a narrative text, including character traits, motivations, important events, cause and effect, and/or problem-solution.
Use details and examples from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly or when interpreting the text.
Infer about characters and other story elements drawing on specific details in the text.
November/December: Informational Reading (Researching Weather Topics)
Learning Goals
Comprehension
Determine the main idea(s) and supporting details in an informational text.
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) in an informational text.
Compare and contrast several informational texts on one topic, including differences in information presented and perspective.