Friday, January 31st – February 7th
• Thank you for your kind thoughts about my dad’s passing.
• Story 16 is A Mr. Rubbish Mood. We will have our test on Friday, 2/7.
• Math Chapter 9 Test will be on Monday, 2/3.
• Feel free to type your spelling homework and vocabulary story.
Reading Log:
Please read for 20 minutes a night and complete the reading log on the reverse side. Use these ideas to help you show me you are making a connection to class:
Story Elements: Tell the characters, setting, problem, solution, plot.
Genre: Name the genre of the book that you are reading and give an example from the story that proves it.
Background Knowledge/Schema: Explain how your background knowledge helps you to understand the story that you are reading.
Questioning strategy: Read with a question in your mind.
Character traits: Tell me some words you would use to describe your character.
Visualizing Strategy: Picture the story elements in your head.
Inferring Strategy: Read between the lines by making connections of your experiences with what you read.
Author’s Purpose: Did the author write this to persuade, inform, or entertain you?
Determining Importance: Tell me an important detail from the story and explain why it is important.
Making a Judgement: Tell me how the author feels and wants you to feel about what he/she is writing. Tell me if the story you are reading is good or not. Explain to me why a character made a good choice or not. Tell me how you believe a character will act in a given situation in the story…
Compare and Contrast with another story/character or between characters.
Fact and Opinion: Tell me how you know it is a fact or opinion.
Cause and Effect: Tell how one cause affected the outcome of the story or caused a chain of events.
• Thank you for your kind thoughts about my dad’s passing.
• Story 16 is A Mr. Rubbish Mood. We will have our test on Friday, 2/7.
• Math Chapter 9 Test will be on Monday, 2/3.
• Feel free to type your spelling homework and vocabulary story.
Reading Log:
Please read for 20 minutes a night and complete the reading log on the reverse side. Use these ideas to help you show me you are making a connection to class:
Story Elements: Tell the characters, setting, problem, solution, plot.
Genre: Name the genre of the book that you are reading and give an example from the story that proves it.
Background Knowledge/Schema: Explain how your background knowledge helps you to understand the story that you are reading.
Questioning strategy: Read with a question in your mind.
Character traits: Tell me some words you would use to describe your character.
Visualizing Strategy: Picture the story elements in your head.
Inferring Strategy: Read between the lines by making connections of your experiences with what you read.
Author’s Purpose: Did the author write this to persuade, inform, or entertain you?
Determining Importance: Tell me an important detail from the story and explain why it is important.
Making a Judgement: Tell me how the author feels and wants you to feel about what he/she is writing. Tell me if the story you are reading is good or not. Explain to me why a character made a good choice or not. Tell me how you believe a character will act in a given situation in the story…
Compare and Contrast with another story/character or between characters.
Fact and Opinion: Tell me how you know it is a fact or opinion.
Cause and Effect: Tell how one cause affected the outcome of the story or caused a chain of events.