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 […]

Dear Parents,              January 21, 2014 Thank you to those who were able to help in Primary Centers.  The children (and me) enjoy seeing you in our classroom and truly appreciate the help.  I hope that everyone enjoyed the three-day weekend! We have a busy week ahead of us! Tuesday […]

Dear Parents,               January 13, 2014 Our reading strategy this week is summarizing and the comprehension skill that will help us with that strategy is making generalizations.  Paying attention to the beginning, middle, and end of the story will help us with summarizing and paying attention to the details […]

Dear Parents,              January 6, 2014 Happy New Year!  I hope that you all enjoyed a peaceful, restful, and blessed Christmas. We are starting theme 5 (Home Sweet Home) in our reading series.  Our reading strategy is questioning and the comprehension skill that will help us with that strategy is compare and contrast.  We will […]

Dear Parents,                     December 16, 2013 The last week of school for 2013!!  What an exciting week it will be!  We have finished theme 4 in our reading series.  We will spend our language arts time this week making a special gift for our Secret Santa […]