Thursday, September 5

This week is flying by.  I can not believe that tomorrow is already Friday.  We will take the week 5 assessment tomorrow.  The test will include the following learning objectives:

• Identify Main Idea and Supporting Ideas in text.
• Apply all Reading Comprehension Strategies: Predict, Question, Clarify, Summarize, and Connect.  
• Identify and classify compound words (hyphenated and not) as nouns, adjectives or adverbs.
• Increase vocabulary skills through the study of prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

If you would like to review with your child at home, here are some questions you could ask:

If the main idea of a story is, Snow days are fun, what supporting ideas could prove it?

     Example answers: building snowmen, sledding, drinking hot cocoa.

Name five reading comprehension strategies that good readers use?

     Answer: Predict, Question, Clarify, Summarize, and Connect. 

What is a compound word? 

     Answer: Two small words set together.

Name two types of compound words. 

     Answer: Hyphenated (fifty-fifty)and regular (baseball)

Then have them sing their Language Arts Jingles

REMINDER: The 3 Home Connection Choices are due tomorrow.  I am so impressed with the projects I have seen so far, I can't wait to see the rest!