Monday, March 7, 2016

Language Arts UNIT 8 (Mrs. Taylor)

     With ISTEP+ wrapping up last week, we are able to get back into our normal routines here at school. We are in Unit 8 of our Benchmark Reading Series. Our main objectives (goals) are to evaluate author's purpose, summarize, and synthesize new information as we read. Synthesizing is using our schema (prior knowledge) and combining that with new text information to come up with new ideas and thoughts about what we are reading and/or what is happening. We will be using photographs, posters, short passages, picture books, and novels to work on these skills and strategies. Our genre focus is "tall tales" and we will be comparing and contrasting those over the next three weeks.
     Our vocabulary test will be next Friday, March 18th. We will be testing over the "assessment" vocabulary words I gave students three weeks ago. I only tested them on the commonly misspelled words last week and wanted to give them a few more weeks with the vocabulary portion. I will attach a picture of the list below. Please let me know if you have any questions.