Literacy

Hello Families,
I wanted to share a couple of pictures from some of the strategies we're working on in reading.  As a class, we started our Vocabulary Tree.  When we participate in read alouds, we "stop and think" about challenging words, and we discuss how we can figure out the meaning of these words.  Then, we add these words to our Vocabulary Tree.  Currently, we add "apples" to our tree.  Here is a picture of our tree.  Some of our current words are talons, prey, predator, and nocturnal.  We also have schema and respect.  Thank you for encouraging your child to think about interesting words at home too.

As you might have read in our weekly update, the students work on different reading strategies to make sense of the books they read.  We like to call these different strategies "tools".  They help us find meaning and there are many to choose from.  To symbolize all of the different tools we have in reading, we have a reading tool box.  Here is a picture of it.