THE GENRE OF THE TEST
How do good readers navigate a standardized test?
How does understanding the structure of a test help us prepare for that test?
How can we apply the reading skills and strategies we have learned throughout our elementary school career to be successful when we take this test?
How do good readers approach and comprehend different genre?
How do good readers successfully answer multiple choice, short answer, and extended constructed response questions about a passage or passages?
How does understanding the structure of a test help us prepare for that test?
How can we apply the reading skills and strategies we have learned throughout our elementary school career to be successful when we take this test?
How do good readers approach and comprehend different genre?
How do good readers successfully answer multiple choice, short answer, and extended constructed response questions about a passage or passages?
Feedback Frenzy
February Spotlight Genre - Biography
In the month of February our SPOTLIGHT GENRE was biography, an account of someone’s life written by someone else. We read incredible accounts of trailblazers, legends, innovators, and creators, and enjoyed creating project-based displays to showcase our learning.
DANGEROUS CROSSINGS
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
Target Strategy: Visualize
Supporting Skills: Visual Elements, Primary Sources
Target Strategy: Visualize
Supporting Skills: Visual Elements, Primary Sources
Reading Widely: Historical Fiction
As we enter into 2020, we are focusing not only on reading what we love, but also reading widely! Exploring lots of different genres exposes us to different words, different kinds of images, and whole new worlds.
In the month of January our SPOTLIGHT GENRE is historical fiction, a fictional story with real and invented characters that takes place during a historical time. We traveled back in time to pioneer life or ancient civilizations, as the books within this genre inspired the historian within each of us.
In the month of January our SPOTLIGHT GENRE is historical fiction, a fictional story with real and invented characters that takes place during a historical time. We traveled back in time to pioneer life or ancient civilizations, as the books within this genre inspired the historian within each of us.
Old Yeller
Target Skill: Understanding Characters
Target Strategy: Visualize
Supporting Skills: Dialect, Author's Word Choice
Target Strategy: Visualize
Supporting Skills: Dialect, Author's Word Choice
QUEST FOR THE TREE KANGAROO
Target Skill: Cause and Effect
Target Strategy: Question
Supporting Skills: Quotes and Description, Domain Specific Vocabulary
Target Strategy: Question
Supporting Skills: Quotes and Description, Domain Specific Vocabulary
Understanding Text Structure
OFF AND RUNNING
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Supporting Skills: Idioms, Formal and Informal Language
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Supporting Skills: Idioms, Formal and Informal Language
Exploring Idioms
To make dialogue more realistic and livelier, authors may include idioms,or phrases with meanings that differ from the literal meanings of the words. In Off and Running, by Gary Soto, Rudy says, “We can’t push our luck.” Real fifth graders might use this idiom when talking to each other. It means, “We can’t be too greedy, or we won’t get anything.”
Class 5-206 explored common examples of idioms to learn and become more familiar with these creative, crazy phrases. We continue to try to use them to express ourselves in more interesting ways!
Class 5-206 explored common examples of idioms to learn and become more familiar with these creative, crazy phrases. We continue to try to use them to express ourselves in more interesting ways!
Book Buddies
Reading in partnerships and teams gives us opportunities not only to practice our fluency as we read together but to also work together to make meaning of the texts we are reading.
Twin Twins
Target Skill: Theme
Target Strategy: Question
Supporting Skills: Elements of a Play
Target Strategy: Question
Supporting Skills: Elements of a Play
A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Target Skill: Story Structure
Target Strategy: Summarize
Supporting Skills: Irony, Point of View
Target Strategy: Summarize
Supporting Skills: Irony, Point of View
Story Structure
How can we use the story elements of character, setting, plot, conflict, and resolution to better comprehend a story?
As we read “A Package for Mrs. Jewls,” we kept track of the story's characters, setting (where and when), and plot. We looked for the main character’s problem, or conflict, the events surrounding the conflict, and the resolution of the conflict. These elements make up the story’s overall structure, or organization. We used a tree map to record the important parts of the story.
As we read “A Package for Mrs. Jewls,” we kept track of the story's characters, setting (where and when), and plot. We looked for the main character’s problem, or conflict, the events surrounding the conflict, and the resolution of the conflict. These elements make up the story’s overall structure, or organization. We used a tree map to record the important parts of the story.
Irony
Strategies for Reading Longer Words
LAUNCHING READER'S WORKSHOP
What does an effective Reading Workshop look like?
What does an effective Reading Workshop sound like?
What routines and tools can help us create an effective Reading Workshop?
How can we set personal goals to help ourselves improve as readers?
What does an effective Reading Workshop sound like?
What routines and tools can help us create an effective Reading Workshop?
How can we set personal goals to help ourselves improve as readers?
Where will you do your best reading at home?
We know that reading everyday both at home and at school is so important. So, in order to read intensely at home, we organized the best possible reading environment with all the tools we will need to do our best reading. We then set goals for our independent reading. Here we are reading good books in our special reading nooks.