We have been busy reading informational text passages and learning how to argue a claim by finding evidence and discussing our reasoning using talk to the text strategies and Socratic Seminar format. Most articles are taken from “Newsela”. The first article was about the sport of pigeon racing and the other was about the legality of lemonade stands in Denver.

We will continue practicing comprehension, vocabulary and fluency skills with narrative text using 5 W’s and 1 H summarizing strategy and talk to text.

This week we are continuing to work on summarizing strategy using the 5 W’s and 1 H Reading Strategy with narrative texts. We are continuing to practice this strategy and reviewing previous work to make corrections. This strategy will also be introduced with informational text as well.

Last week we read “There Were Two” focusing on the elements of a story. (Character, Setting, Conflict, and Resolution). We will continue to focus on those elements as we continue to explore fiction stories.

This week we will focus on identifying the theme of “There Were Two” as well as other stories as students learn to follow the characters changes within the story which usually leads to identifying the theme.

Also, we are focusing on summarizing using the 5 W’s and 1 H Summarizing strategy and applying it to a variety of stories.

Students need to bring their library books as we will be reading in class to build their stamina in reading.