We just finished learning how to summarize and retell narratives as well as an informational pieces. Students have been working on being able to tell the difference between the two.

This semester we will be working on informational text and learning how to use text evidence to support a claim. Each week students are receiving articles and using reading strategies such as Talking to the Text, Question-Answer-Relationships (QAR), and Claim/Evidence/Reasoning (CER) to understand text and understand how to make an argument.

We have been using IXL, READWORKS.ORG, and Newsela.com to support student learning.

Conferences will be this week. I will be in the Media Center on Monday and Wednesday from 4-7, with both Mrs. Hojeije and Mrs. Wiacek. Please stop by my table to discuss Language Arts Lab during this time.