Here's what we're learning in reading this September:
🦄Character traits describe a character’s personality.
🦄You can infer traits by what the character says (words), what they do (actions), and why they say/do those things (motivations).
🦄Readers make inferences to “read between the lines” and figure out things that the author doesn’t explicitly state.
🦄We make inferences by combining what the text says/shows (evidence) with what we already know (schema). (The grid on the board shows the inferences we made for the books: This is Not My Hat, I Want My Hat Back)
🦄My goal is to read a book a day. Our “READ” bulletin board shows all the books we’ve shared together so far this year. We are also on chapter 5 of the book “Friendle” and episode 10 of the podcast “Six Minutes”.
🦄Last week we focused on Fiction Elements (characters, setting, plot, narrator).
🦄🦄🦄We have our first unit test in reading on Thursday 9/26 AND Friday 9/27 (We will split the test and take it over two days. The students will take it completely independently and receive a letter grade score.)
🦄🦄🦄I have now finished the DRA reading assessment for every student to find their level. Students must be between a level 28-38 to be considered on grade level for September of 3rd grade. If you would like to know your student’s level, please message me.
🦄🦄🦄Please make sure your child reads for 20 minutes a night. We have practiced logging into the site Raz-Kids for three days in a row. Students can access Raz-Kids on a computer or tablet (there is a free app). The teacher username for Wiggins is wiggins3 and for Alsheimer is mnessharks, student passwords are their last name.