Dear Parents,                 April 14, 2014 Our reading strategy this week is evaluating.  The comprehension skill that will help us with evaluating is story structure.  Knowing the setting, the characters, the problem, and solution in the story and being able to sequence the events will help us evaluate […]

Dear Parents,                       April 7, 2014 We are starting theme 9 in our reading series – Special Friends.  Our reading strategy this week is “monitor/clarify”.  The comprehension skill that will help us with this strategy is noting details.  Using the text, pictures, and paying attention […]

Dear Parents,                   March 24, 2014 Our reading strategy this week is “evaluating”.  The comprehension skill that will help us in evaluating is topic, main idea, details, and summarizing.  After reading a selection, being able to identify the topic of the selection, the main ideas and the […]

Dear Parents,               March 18, 2014 We are starting theme 8 in our reading series – Our Earth.  Our reading strategy this week is “summarizing”.  The comprehension skill that will help with summarizing is categorizing or classifying.  Paying attention to what is the same or different in the stories […]

Dear Parents,                   March 10, 2014 Our reading strategy this week is “questioning”.  Good readers question before they start reading, as well as, during reading.  The comprehension skill that will help is “fantasy/realism”.  Using our everyday experiences to determine if events in a story can really happen […]

Dear Parents,                   March 3, 2014 Our reading strategy this week is “monitor and clarify”.  Stopping to reread especially if there are words we have difficulty reading and making sure the sentence and the story make sense to us are strategies that good readers use.  The comprehension […]

Dear Parents,     February 24, 2014 We are starting theme 7 in language arts – We Can Work It Out!  Our reading strategy is summarizing and our comprehension skill that helps us with this is problem solving.  In order to summarize a story, it is helpful to recognize the problem and the solution in […]

Dear Parents,                  February 18, 2014 I hope you all had an enjoyable three-day weekend! Our reading strategy this week is predict/infer and the comprehension skill that will help with that strategy is predicting.  Taking time to look through what we are going to read, to look at […]

Dear Parents,            February 10, 2014 I hope everyone enjoyed the three day weekend! Our reading strategy this week is questioning.  A good reader stops while reading and asks themselves questions about the story.  The comprehension skill that helps us in understanding what we read is noting details.  Paying close attention […]

Dear Parents,                  January 27, 2014 What a busy week!!  It is Catholic Schools Week this week and we have something special planned every day. We are finishing theme 5 in our reading series this week and will continue with the CVCe pattern.  Our reading strategy is “monitor and clarify” and our comprehension skill is cause […]