Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, August 30, 2013

Welcome back to school!

7 days down... 171 to go!! If your child is anything like mine, back to school is EXHAUSTING! A new classroom, new friends, new structure, new routine is difficult for children to cope with! I am excited to announce that we have had an AMAZING week!! See some "back to school" pictures below:

Cadet Pride...

Our class read the book "Big Me, Little Me." The book taught us how to take advantage of the day and make good choices! We then came up with a list of ways that we can make great choices in the classroom and in our school!! We all sign our list... promising that we would TRY to make great choices!

See our picture:

Launching "Read to Self"

Daily 5 will be a huge part of our school year, as it was in kindergarten! We discussed 3 ways to read a book: Read the pictures, Read the words, and Retell the story. We practiced reading leveled readers as well as picture books. Our "stamina" is built to 8 minutes of independent reading!

Let's Look at Next Week:

Monday: NO SCHOOL -- Happy Labor Day!

Tuesday: Library & Media Center

** Please return your library books! **

Wednesday: No Special

Thursday: Music

Friday: PE

** Wear your tennis shoes **

Please send your child's 4*6 picture if you have not!

Please send your child's "math money" next week!

Thanks for a GREAT first week of school! Let's have many more!

Reading Strategies

Determine Important Information

When students read, they should pick out the most important ideas. The most important ideas are the ones the author wants readers to remember.

Compare and Contrast

When we compare certain things, we tell how they are alike or the same. When we contrast things, we tell how they are different!!

Make Inferences

Making inferences helps readers make sense of what they read. Sometimes the author doesn't tell us everything we need to understand. We can use clues in the story and what we already know to help fill in gaps which the author has left in the text. This is called MAKING INFERENCES!

Identify Text Structure

Stories are set up in different ways. They usually are told in sequence, or the order in which events happen. Knowing how a story is set up, or its structure, can help a reader remember the story.

Identify Details & Facts

Finding small bits of information that tells us more about important ideas.

Making Predictions

Using clues from the story and what you already know to guess what will happen next.

Summarize

Tell in your own words what has happened in the story or text.

Ask and Answer Questions

Asking questions and looking for answers in the text or pictures will help you to understand what you read!

Facts and Opinions

Facts and be proven! They are TRUE!

Opinions are people's thoughts. They might not be true! When giving an opinion, you might hear "I think...."

Monitor Comprehension

Stop and think about what you are reading. Are you understanding what you are reading? If not, use an accuracy strategy to help.

Recall and Retell

Tell about the setting, characters and most important events in the beginning, middle, and end of the text. Readers gain a better understanding of what a story is about when they can recall events from a story.

Make Connections

Use what you already know to understand what you are reading. We use text to text connections. We use text to self connections. And we use text to world connections.

Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, August 30, 2013

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