Reader's Workshop
We are always working on comprehension skills to make us great readers. We are becoming experts at making connections, predicting, visualizing, inferencing, and summarizing just to name a few. You can help your child practice by reading with them at home and asking them questions. Have them tell you what we did in our Reader's Workshop that day!
October-November-Realistic Fiction
Questions to ask as you practice reading with your child:
November-December: Historical Fiction
January-Non-Fiction Text Structures
Definition: The way a text is organized. Understanding how to navigate through the text structure, helps us comprehend what the author is trying to tell us.
Types of Text Structure:
Look for these text structures in any type of non-fiction text. (Examples: newspapers, magazines, recipes, menus, directions, websites, etc...)
March: Iowa Assessment Preparation
May: Drama and Plays
Math:
Multiplication Facts 0-12
Rounding
Area and Perimeter
Multiplying using expanded form or regrouping
Multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers
Division Facts
Long Division
Factors and Multiples
Fractions-Adding, Subtracting w/ borrowing and regrouping, multiplying
Measurement
We are always working on comprehension skills to make us great readers. We are becoming experts at making connections, predicting, visualizing, inferencing, and summarizing just to name a few. You can help your child practice by reading with them at home and asking them questions. Have them tell you what we did in our Reader's Workshop that day!
October-November-Realistic Fiction
Questions to ask as you practice reading with your child:
- What is the setting of this story?
- Who is the protagonist? (the main character of the story)
- Who is the antagonist? (a negative force that creates conflict)
- What is the conflict of the story?
- What is the climax, resolution, and conclusion of the story?
- What type of conflict is happening in the story? (Person-against-self, person-against-person, person-against-society, or person-against-nature)
- What is the theme or main idea?
- What is the point of view? (1st person or 3rd person)
November-December: Historical Fiction
- Focus on Themes: Search for Freedom, Changes over time in cultures and attitudes, Devastation of War, Helplessness
- Author's Message (What is the author telling you about the theme?)
- Point of View (1st person or 3rd person?)
- Real vs. Imaginary
- Author's Note
- Setting (Why is setting so important in Historical Fiction?)
January-Non-Fiction Text Structures
Definition: The way a text is organized. Understanding how to navigate through the text structure, helps us comprehend what the author is trying to tell us.
Types of Text Structure:
- Description: Helps the reader visualize how something looked, felt to the touch, smelled, sounded, tasted, or felt
- Categorical: Presenting information in categories, often with subcategories, signaled by headings and subheadings
- Sequence (Procedural): Presenting a sequence of actions for doing something (a process that always happens in the same way)
- Sequence (Chronological): Describing a series of events in the order they happened in time
- Compare/Contrast: Comparing two ideas or events by showing how they're alike and different
- Cause and Effect: Giving the reasons or explanations for various events
- Problem and Solution: Identifying a problem and proposing a solution
- Question and Answer: Posing a question or series of questions that are then answered
Look for these text structures in any type of non-fiction text. (Examples: newspapers, magazines, recipes, menus, directions, websites, etc...)
March: Iowa Assessment Preparation
- Get enough sleep each night before Iowa Assessments
- Eat a well-balanced breakfast
- Come prepared with pencils and erasers
- Relax and do your best!
May: Drama and Plays
- Stage Directions
- Fluency
- Accuracy
- Comprehension
- Rate
- Phrasing
- Expression and Volume
- Speaking and Listening
Math:
Multiplication Facts 0-12
Rounding
Area and Perimeter
Multiplying using expanded form or regrouping
Multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers
Division Facts
Long Division
Factors and Multiples
Fractions-Adding, Subtracting w/ borrowing and regrouping, multiplying
Measurement
Social Studies:
Your child will be learning which states make up each region, the landforms, products/resources, tourist attractions, and historical events. They can always be practicing locating states on a map. Try quizzing them on capitals, too! :)
Your child will be learning which states make up each region, the landforms, products/resources, tourist attractions, and historical events. They can always be practicing locating states on a map. Try quizzing them on capitals, too! :)