Reading

Oct. 2

We continued practicing our comprehension strategy, asking questions. Our main reading story in our reading textbook this week was called How Ruby Came to the Farm.  We shared questions that came to our mind as we read this story together.  We also read The Erie Canal and Welcome to Miner Town!  We took our theme 2 progress test on Friday.

We also reviewed contractions.  A contraction is made up of  two words joined together with an apostrophe in the place of one or more letters.  For example, the contraction you’re stands for you are and the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter a.  In grammar, we learned about subjects and predicates and compound subjects and predicates.

We also studied word families this past week.  Next week our word study focus is long vowels.

Sept. 25

Our comprehension strategy this week was asking questions. Good readers think about the questions they have in their mind as they read. When you ask questions, you let your curiosity help you become a better reader. You can ask questions about words and ideas that are new or interesting to you.  Asking questions helps me as a reader to:

• ·      Make sure I am thinking about what I am reading
• ·      Make sense of something that is confusing me
• ·      Think about what might happen next
• ·      Reflect (think deeply) about the text when it is over

We also studied consonant blends this past week.  Next week our word study focus is word families.


Sept.6

This week we practiced procedures for Read-to-Self time.  Read-to-Self time is one of our daily routines in reading where students are independently reading books at their own level.  The purpose of this time is to become better readers and to practice strategies that we are learning during our whole group reading time.  We are building stamina as independent readers and are graphing our results.  We made it to 11 minutes of quiet reading where everyone was reading quietly and staying on task!

We also began our whole group reading lessons from our reading textbook. On Friday we read a story called OGBO: Life in an African Village.  

Sept. 25

Our comprehension strategy this week was asking questions. Good readers think about the questions they have in their mind as they read. When you ask questions, you let your curiosity help you become a better reader. You can ask questions about words and ideas that are new or interesting to you.  Asking questions helps me as a reader to:

• ·      Make sure I am thinking about what I am reading
• ·      Make sense of something that is confusing me
• ·      Think about what might happen next
• ·      Reflect (think deeply) about the text when it is over

We also studied consonant blends this past week.  Next week our word study focus is