READING
Students are expected to read for a MINIMUM of 20 -30 minutes daily. You may read chapter books, picture books, periodicals, the sports page, etc... make it enjoyable! Independent reading, reading with a family member, and reading along to a book on CD, app or website are acceptable. Your reading time should be uninterrupted and meaningful. Starting in October, or so, there will be weekly reading assignments. The focus of that assignment will directly relate to the reading skills and strategies we are currently learning. Students will respond by either answering questions, or write a reading response of some sort. This encourages students to also share and discuss what they read with family, friends, and teachers to help improve comprehension. "Reading is Thinking"...and writing about their reading helps further build and expand our thinking. No written response is considered to be incorrect or invalid, AS LONG AS you can justify or support it with evidence from the text and/or your personal knowledge and experiences. The assignement will be assigned on Monday, and turned in every Friday.
Our Current Focus:
Resources:
The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), Ebooks and Audio Books which may be viewed online or downloaded for 90 days, Tumble Puzzles & Games, and TumbleResources for teachers and students.
To log on go to our account, please visit https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com
Username: crim
Password: books
PebbleGo has a series of easy readers on a variety of topics, including animals, social studies, biographies and earth and space. Kids can read the books independently or they can listen along as the books are read to them.
Username: crimps
Password: school
Celebrities read aloud popular books. Kids can listen and follow along with the words of the text. Great for fluency!
Magazines for Kids:
WRITING
Our current writing focus:
Our units of study in writing workshop include:
- Narrative Writing
- Response to Reading
- Creative Writing
- Informational Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Argument Writing
The Six Traits of Writing:
For each unit of study in writing, we will focus on the six traits of writing:
- Ideas
- Organization
- Voice
- Word Choice
- Sentence Fluency
- Conventions