Students have enjoyed learning about poetry in class. We have written some great acrostic poems and will continue to study this genre. Please follow the links below for additional resources that can be used at home.
Read Poems!
Practice Writing Poems!
Enjoy! 🙂
This week students will work on the Eagle Eyes reading strategy. Students will be encouraged to look at the pictures to help them understand unknown words. Even if students are not able to read every word of a story, they should be able to understand most of the story using the words they can read and the pictures. 
Students have been working on graphs this week. Have them practice at home using this website with free graphing games!
Enjoy! 🙂
This week students will continue to work on making connections whenever they read or listen to a story. Students should explain how the story reminds them of something else. For example, they can say how the story reminds them of something they have done or experienced, a movie they’ve seen, or another book that they have read. We will also work with the Stretchy the Snake strategy. Students will stretch out the sounds in each work then blend the sounds to read the word. Try to reinforce these strategies at home when reading with your child, to help them put what they learn in the classroom into practice at home. 
This week students will review the comprehension skills of summarizing, asking questions, visualizing, and making predictions. We want to ensure that students have a strong understanding of these important skills. After the April break, we will continue to practice these skills as well as learn others. This week we will also introduce the “flippy the dolphin” reading strategy. Students will learn the difference between consonants and vowels then the difference between long and short vowels. The strategy encourages students to read words with a different vowel sound if it does not sound correct the first time they read the word. 
Last week we focused on summarizing what we read. Students were encouraged to use their own words to retell what happened in the story. We also focused on the listening lion strategy which asks students to listen to themselves as they read. We are encouraging students to listen and think about whether or not their reading makes sense. If not, students are asked to reread the sentence. 
Our students are doing a wonderful job of reading! They have shown significant growth since the beginning of the year. As we continue to encourage students to become stronger readers, we will teach a new reading strategy and comprehension skill each week. Last week we discussed the importance of visualization. Students should try to make a mental image or movie while reading and listening to stories. Our anchor posters say “I can create a picture in my mind using my senses as I am reading.” Please encourage your children to do this at home too! Our first reading strategy is the Chunky Monkey strategy. Students are encouraged to look for word chunks. “They will find little words inside big words and look for a part that they know to help them read.” This week we are learning all about prediction. Students are encouraged to look at a book’s cover and title and make predictions prior to reading. They should make predictions and provide evidence for their predictions throughout the story as well. 
