Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, September 20, 2013

Busy, Busy Week!

MAPS and DIBELS testing kept us quite busy this week!! Fortunately, we are almost finished!! Next week we will culminate assessments!

In DAILY 5, we continued to build our

stamina in read to self, read to someone,

and listen to reading. We were also

introduced to Work on Writing. We began

learning how to use the Kid Blog website to

write our thoughts. We also used a journal to

free-write.

Vowels, Vowels, Vowels

We continue practicing vowel identification

and vowel sounds. These silly letters continue

to confuse us! I will be sending a “short a”

word list home tonight. Please practice

reading these words to your child and having

them spell those words. Please send these back to
school! I would love to see them! The more exposure
to vowels, the more comfortable

we will be with them!

Short /a/

map

tap

ham

hat

sat

mat

Tricky Words:

had

all

In math we began a new unit of study. This

next month we will be exposed to everyday uses

of numbers! Please refer to the parent

handout that was sent home on Wednesday

for more information!!

Last Friday we celebrated international DOT

DAY. Please look in to BookFlix and find the

book “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds. We

also read his book “ish.” See our pictures below

to observe our celebrations:

A Peek into Next Week:

Monday: Library

MAPS Testing

Tuesday: Art

Wednesday: 3 Hour Early Dismissal

Thursday: Music

Friday: PE

Have a GREAT weekend J

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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, September 20, 2013

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