Literacy
Thanking you for ensuring that your child read daily. Please sign the Reading Log
that your child has read. Encourage he/she to share three things about what they
read to you. If by chance your child has misplaced his/her reading log, please request an additional copy from your child's teacher.
Students will be focusing on reading and understanding vocabulary words within a text. Students will utilize strategies to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words to build their reasoning and comprehending skills. This particular skill will be used a great deal on the EOG.
Questions Stems and Prompts:
Thanking you for ensuring that your child read daily. Please sign the Reading Log
that your child has read. Encourage he/she to share three things about what they
read to you. If by chance your child has misplaced his/her reading log, please request an additional copy from your child's teacher.
Students will be focusing on reading and understanding vocabulary words within a text. Students will utilize strategies to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words to build their reasoning and comprehending skills. This particular skill will be used a great deal on the EOG.
Questions Stems and Prompts:
- Find similarities and differences between poems, drama or text.
- Find a poem, create a word picture describing moments or expresses feelings from the poetry.
- Using a thinking strategy, what specific details in the text lead you to make a conclusion?
- What can you infer from what you have read so far?
- Why do you think that ____________?
- Can you give specific examples from the text that support your thinking?