Wonders, a McGraw-Hill Education product, is designed to help students meet high academic standards and prepare them for future success. Teachers will use Wonders to help your child

• Master foundational skills of phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and word study

• Engage in close reading of complex text and find text evidence

• Take part in daily academic conversations with peers

• Develop the love of reading through engaging literature and student choice.

In class, your child will be close reading, writing analytically, and practicing foundational skills using Wonders books and support materials.

Students will read and reread short, complex texts in the Reading/Writing Workshop. They will learn to take notes, ask and answer text-dependent questions, and cite text evidence. Then, students will apply what they have learned to longer texts in the Literature Anthology and Leveled Readers.

As we transition into Wonders, students will find the texts to be more complex and therefore, challenging.  The conversations they will have about the texts will push them to think more deeply and critically.  The rigor will be noticed and teachers will support your child along the way.

Students will write in multiple modes for a variety of purposes and audiences.  Some of which will be across disciplines.

Writing will focus on the 6 traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions.

Writer’s craft is the focus on skills and strategies

Students will be introduced to a weekly grammar concept.