This week we’re continuing our Wonders reading curriculum. Our focus question is: “How do people from different communities contribute to a community?”

We’ll be reading a new story titled Gary the Dreamer. Students will practice finding text evidence, responding to reading questions, and building skills in chronology and text features (such as maps and headings).

 Last week, students completed a pre-assessment based on a reading about ants. This week, we’re diving into the writing process using some helpful anagrams from the Think SRSD curriculum:

• POWER (Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, Revise)
  
  

• TIDE (Title, Information, Details, End)
  
  

We’ll read a passage about animals and their characteristics, then write a GIST statement (a short summary of the main idea).