READING
Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.
We’re staring a new class novel! YIPPEE! We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and then completing a quiz following.
Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:
- Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
- Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
- Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
- Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
- Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
- Monitor their own comprehension
GRAMMAR
- Replace weak adjectives with exact adjectives.Use comparative and superlative forms of good and bad.
- Proofread for forms of good and bad.
- Replace weak adjectives with exact adjectives.
- PLEASE NOTE: We will be having Grammar tests next week, focusing on our adjectives unit, as well as topics that we’ve covered during Term 1. The kids should have brought home their text books this week to already begin reviewing.
WRITING
Write and share opinions about a specific topic using facts and details.
Inform their readers of the source of their facts and details.