Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing our narrative nonfiction reading workshop lessons. We will learn about achievement texts and disaster texts, two templates in narrative nonfiction. We will also learn about envisioning (an other strategies) to figure out unfamiliar words.

WRITING NEWS:

We finished our final drafts of our personal essays! We will be starting research reports soon.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is compound words. Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

herself

nobody

airplane

grandfather

someone

rainbow

anything

grandmother

everything

afternoon

sunshine

himself

anybody

something

without

Our 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 April reading log. Those reading logs will be due May 1^st