Reading / Writing / Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing in our Understanding Characters unit. We will start the week by learning about our characters by noticing when characters act differently from themselves. We will do this by reading more from our mentor text “Because of Winn-Dixie” and building theories about our main character ‘Opal’. We will also use empathy for characters to make predictions about what characters will do next by discussing that as we actively read and empathize with our characters we can predict what they will do.

WRITING NEWS:

We will focus on two new types of leads in our writing: action and snapshot leads. We will review a number of examples of both types of leads and then practice writing our own leads. 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 yesterday. (Words spelled with a long i sound, spelled i and igh)

night

bright

find

light

wild

high

blind

fight

sight

kind

sign

knight

mild

right

sigh

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 December reading log that was taken home yesterday. Those reading logs will be due January 5^th.