Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be starting Unit 2 of Reader’s Workshop, Navigating Non-fiction. We will start readying our minds to read nonfiction text by doing things like paying attention to details we see in nonfiction texts as well as finding out what differences we see while reading fiction compared to nonfiction texts. We will also start looking for structure in nonfiction text by learning that readers take in and remember what we read when we pause and also that ideas, not plot hold the text together.

WRITING NEWS:

While writing our personal narratives we will focus on sequence: what happened first, then, next, then finally. We will also practice choosing a seed idea to develop into a published piece.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling words went home today. (Words spelled with ew and oo)

crew

loose

news

school

drew

knew

smooth

pool

shoot

threw

roof

fool

chew

balloon

choose

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. Those reading logs will be due October 31^th.