Our focus will be on building reading stamina, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Below are the skills that we will be working on this year.

• Using text evidence to make and support inferences

• Drawing conclusions

• Making inferences

• Learning important vs. non-important details

• Rank evidence in supporting a claim

• Find theme or a central idea and explain how it's supported by key details

• Summarize a text

• Using strategies to determine meaning of words

• Using figurative language

• Make connections to other texts and personal experience

• Identify similarities and differences between two texts

• Writing informative, argumentative, and narrative texts