Monday, October 20, 2014

Reading/Writing/Spelling News



READING NEWS:

This week we will be starting Unit 2 of Reader’s Workshop, Navigating Non-fiction. Before we fully jump into the non-fiction unit we will be reviewing text features commonly found in non-fiction text. We will become familiar with book summaries, the table of contents, captions and photographs, fun facts and finally, the glossary.

We will review a number of ‘Mentor Texts’ as a class while finding examples of these non-fiction text features while we are reading independently and with our reading partner.

WRITING NEWS:

While writing our personal narratives we will focus on the qualities of good writing: focus, detail, and structure. We will also learn what the writer’s job is in a conference with the teacher.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling words went home today. (Words spelled with oi and ou)

proud
boil
loud
house
join
cloud
sound
voice
oil
round
point
south
found
soil
ground

The spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their October reading log that was placed in their homework tool kit.

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