We continue reading fiction and working on annotating this week. Kids have learned to highlight when they read and add a word or phrase near it to show their thinking. We talk about this and do this A LOT! It seems to help us focus and understand what we read. Theme and summarizing is also still a big focus. They have two strategies to use for summarizing and seem to be able to use these well.
We also started more plays this week-ask your child which one he or she is part of! We will practice this week and perform next week.
Next week, we will have a reading summative covering the skills of theme, summarizing, compare/contrast characters and events, making inferences, and supporting our ideas with evidence from the text.
In writing, we continue our work on writing narratives. All students created a "roller coaster" story map for the story they are writing. In class today, we color coded the narrative to see the different parts- lead, problem, rising action, climax, and the resolution. We will continue to work on "showing, not telling" and using dialogue, etc. to polish and publish these stories.
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