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October 1, 2013

Celebrities of the Day! Today in class we continued the R.A.T.E. reading strategy, while reading the informational article “After the Disaster”. Homework: Complete the reading quiz on the two passages using THE STOPLIGHT method. Study for the editing mark quiz if you still need to take it tomorrow. read for 20 minutes PROGRESS REPORTS SENT […]

September 30, 2013

Celebrities of the day!!! Today we introduced the R.A.T.E close reading method for students to use to better understand the text. They applied the R.A.T.E method to an informational text entitled, “Surviving Hurricane Sandy”. R ead- Read along using pen or pencil and make comments. […]

September 27, 2013

Celebrities of the Day! Today in class students took the first editing marks quiz. Kids will have 3 attempts to get a 100%! Review marks if you did not get them all correct today. We also had CAFE time, where we wrote and read for independence and to build stamina. Finally, we completed a Close […]

September 25, 2013

Celebrities of the Day! OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT! 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m. Today in class students worked on reviewing editing marks for a short quiz on Friday. We also worked on Reading and Writing Independence. Homework: Complete Lazy Editor Worksheet. Read for 20 minutes!

September 24, 2013

Celebrities of the Day! Today in class we worked on a journal, cafe, and summarizing using a Central Idea Web. We read an interesting article about a service dog named Mike. We also used our Vocabulary Tracker to highlight two new words from our reading. HOMEWORK is to read 20 minutes, 5 days per week. […]

September 20, 2013

CC Celebrities of the Day! Tell us that you saw your picture on the blog and get a treat! Today in class students reviewed Inference and the reading strategy, I SEE I THINK I WONDER . We went through a short story called, “Cemetery Path” and Talked to the Text, chunked, and used prediction. We […]

September 19, 2013

Welcome to the new school year! We hope you are learning a great deal so far! This year we are starting out with a student teacher, Mrs. Daoud. She comes to us from University of Michigan-Dearborn. Today in class students worked on Writing Independence in their journals and “Exploding a Moment”. Students also turned […]

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