Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing Unit 2 of Reader’s Workshop, Navigating Non-fiction. We will start the week by choosing Just Right Texts and reading with stamina. We will do this by learning that the strategies we used while reading fiction text can be used in non-fiction text as well. We will also become experts and teach others from non fiction text by learning that we can teach using voice, gestures, and illustrations. Lastly, we will grasp main ideas from text by using boxes and bullets to organize information into larger categories.

WRITING NEWS:

While writing our personal narratives we will continue our discovery drafts and focus on replacing words with more descriptive words. As always, we will do our 20 minute quick write on a number of different topics to wake up our brain!

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling words went home today. (Words spelled with a vowel-consonant-e : The Magic E Rule)

state

close

slide

face

globe

pave

size

smoke

flame

broke

prize

skate

smile

plane

stone

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 November reading log that was placed in their homework tool kit. Those reading logs will be due December 1^st.