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Personal Belongings from lockers and classroom desk pick up
Students can come to pick up their personal items from your lockers and desk on Wednesday or Thursday, June 3rd or 4th from 12-2 pm. It will be a drive-through system. Please bring any library books, LLI books classroom books that you have at home they can be returned at that time.
Everything has been bagged up with your name on the bag. It will be a drive-through system for pick up.
Cause and Effect
Listen to the read aloud and see how many cause and effect relationships you can find.
Increase Your Vocabulary!
Increase your vocabulary! Listen to the read aloud and fill out the graphic organizer you can just use a piece of paper and create the headings yourself. Try to use the word when speaking or writing at least three times today.
10 AUTHORS THAT USE EXTRAORDINARY VOCABULARY WORDS
Here is a list of authors that use some fantastic vocabulary words. Included beside each author’s name are a couple of their books that are full of vocabulary words
- William Steig – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble & Dr. DeSoto
- Kevin Henkes– Chrysanthemum & Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
- Virginia Lee Burton– The Little House & Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
- Leon Lionni– Swimmy & An Extraordinary Egg
- E.B. White– Charlotte’s Web & The Trumpet of the Swan
- Tim Egan– Metropolitan Cow & Friday Night at Hodges’ Cafe
- Steven Kellogg– Paul Bunyan & Johnny Appleseed
- James Marshall– The 3 Little Pigs & Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Patricia Polacco– Thank You, Mr. Falker & The Keeping Quilt
- Cynthia Rylant– When I was Young in the Mountains & The Relatives Came
Prediction!
It is fun to predict what a text is going to be about before we read it! When we predict we take the information we already know and combine it with the text. Make a prediction using the sentence frame:
I think the story will be about____________because______________.
Now, look at the title: The Case of The Missing Carrot Cake and predict what it’s going to be about. Remember the word case means file.
Spring Is Here!!!!
Have you ever wondered about the food you eat and how it grows?
This non-fiction text explains many details about the food we eat. One way you can read a non-fiction text is to:
*Just read parts instead of the whole book
* Read the whole thing
Wait… tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable? What is one thing you learned after listening to this book?
Reading Strategies
| What To Ask To Encourage Kids To Read |
| Research shows that children need to talk about there learning in order to understand it. Here are five opening discussion questions that you can use with almost any reading that will help turn kids’ brains on, get them thinking, and encourage them to read: What was this reading about? What was the title? Why do you think the author chose that title? How does what you read relate to you? What do you think the author wanted you to take away from this reading? Why? What strategies did you use while reading? How well did they work? Which ones will you use next time? It’s possible to encourage kids to read even more by using elaboration questions. These questions encourage them to go deeper with more details about the book. Here are some example question-stems that will work with almost any reading: Can you tell me more about that? What would you compare that with? Why do you think that? Have you thought about…? Where did you find that information? Resource: Nickelsen, L. (n.d.). Professional Development – Transformational Training & Coaching. https://maximizelearninginc.com/ |
The Day the Crayons Came Home
Another super cute story by the same author. How are the two stories the same? How are they different? Use evidence from the texts to support your ideas.
Superintendent Message
English:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XRPvpmUYfCR_sRq14PSTYoyatM8n2SiccuMqG2ZwzC0/edit?ts=5ea2ec8a
Arabic:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1suKCDlHiHF-VurgbE5kP7fCTx4N2LQEq-VKmquXwZF8/edit?ts=5ea302be
The Day The Crayons Quit
Reading fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Reading fluency is important because it provides a bridge between just being able to read words and deep understanding.
Listen to this read aloud. How does it sound? Do the different crayon voices help you understand the text better? How are the different crayons feeling? How do you know? What do different feelings sound like?