Reading Information
Our 90 minute Reading Block will integrate reading, word work, and vocabulary skills. We will be using the Pearson Realize- My View Literacy textbook as a guide; we will also read a few novels during the school year and use Sadlier’s Vocabulary Workshop workbook. We will have vocabulary and spelling lists each week that students will bring home. Students will write the weekly spelling words in their agenda every Monday. Please practice these words with your child. In addition, we will focus on comprehension skills, vocabulary development, fluency skills, and story elements. Weekly story comprehension, spelling, and story vocab words will be tested over on Fridays. We will use the Workbooks and teacher made materials to practice skills students are learning in class.
The Blue Vocabulary Workshop Workbook contains words that are often used at 5th grade level. We will cover a unit over a 2 week period. Students need to study the meaning of these words. Blue Vocabulary tests will usually be every other Thursday.
Accelerated Reader is a very important part of the Reading curriculum. Students will meet with me to determine their reading goal for each nine weeks. The main goal of AR is to give the students opportunities to continually strive to read at a challenging level so that their reading level will improve over the course of the school year. An AR test average grade and a goal percentage will be averaged into the student’s reading grade each quarter. Every Friday, students will record their points on a bar graph. Please sign and return the AR graph on Mondays. Please encourage your child to read at home.