Throughout our day, students are using reciprocal reading strategies to help them better understand both fiction and non-fiction texts. While we are on our 'trip' to Peru, we have taken a break from our Book Club Reading groups in order to focus on our non-fiction reading skills. With their hotel 'roommates', students have been researching and creating a visual journal page all about Peru.
Students are also continuing to spend time investigating phonics and how phonics connects and supports the reading and writing process through our UFLI program.
In addition to this, students have been continuing to learn how to write paragraphs which are both informative and capture their readers' attention. Students have been especially excited to share their writing through our small group author chair coaching sessions.
During these author chair sessions, students read their paragraphs aloud, and then their small group members act as coaches by providing them specific complements on what aspects of their writing they have done well, as well as, a suggestion on what they could improve.
We have even started cursive writing! Students have been learning the importance of proper posture and using the proper formation for each letter.
Recent Literacy Learning Outcomes:
Recent Literacy Learning Outcomes:
- I can recognize and apply a wide variety of long and short vowel sounds when decoding unknown multisyllabic words.
- I can independently read and demonstrate comprehension of texts that vary in length or complexity.
- I can make predictions using background knowledge and information within a text.
- I can identify information from texts that support my predictions.
- I can modify predictions based on new or additional information.
- I can reflect on predictions to confirm or change understandings.
- I can use cursive handwriting to write some letters of the alphabet with appropriate letter formation, size, proportion and slant.
