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Each student is given a reading street textbook in the beginning of the year. We will be reading many different genres from this textbook as the year continues.
Students also have TWO test prep workbooks.
1) READY workbook
2) COMPREHENSION PLUS
Each student is given a reading street textbook in the beginning of the year. We will be reading many different genres from this textbook as the year continues.
Students also have TWO test prep workbooks.
1) READY workbook
2) COMPREHENSION PLUS
Visit our interactive E.L.A. Board.
Students are asked questions each week on fiction and non-fiction texts. They respond on a post-it and create a beautiful flower bulletin board! Take a look!
Reading Street!
Week of 1/28-2/1
Title: "Learning to Swim"
Author: Kyoko Mori
Genre: Autobiography
Vocabulary: customary, emphasized, frantic, stunned, treaded
Skill: Sequencing
Author: Kyoko Mori
Genre: Autobiography
Vocabulary: customary, emphasized, frantic, stunned, treaded
Skill: Sequencing
Short Response Questions
Ms. Russo's Reading Group
1. What helps Kyoko and her mother to make it to the rock?
2. When does Kyoko realize what her mother did to keep her from becoming afraid? Which words or phrase in the text gives you a clue? **Hint** pg. 338
3. How can what we've learned from Kyoko's experience in the Sea of Japan and what we know about riptides help us write one or two generalizations about riptides and currents?
4. SEE PAGE 340 in your READING STREET TEXTBOOK Answer questions 1-3
2. When does Kyoko realize what her mother did to keep her from becoming afraid? Which words or phrase in the text gives you a clue? **Hint** pg. 338
3. How can what we've learned from Kyoko's experience in the Sea of Japan and what we know about riptides help us write one or two generalizations about riptides and currents?
4. SEE PAGE 340 in your READING STREET TEXTBOOK Answer questions 1-3
Skill: Sequencing!
Students will be learning how to sequence events in a story. Ask your child as the week continues what strategies they are using to sequence the order of events!
Reading Street
Werk of 1/21-1/25
Title: "When Marian Sang"
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Genre: Biography
Vocabulary: dramatic, momentous, prejudice, enraged, opera, recital, formal, privileged
Skill: Generalizing
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Genre: Biography
Vocabulary: dramatic, momentous, prejudice, enraged, opera, recital, formal, privileged
Skill: Generalizing
Skill: Generalizations
Students practiced making generalizations while reading "When Marian Sang". Ask to view your child's notebook to see the different graphic organizers created while reading. Also, ask them how they ask themselves questions while reading. All GREAT reading ask questions!