Reading
- In reading this week we will begin a new unit, Word Detectives!
- During this unit we will be learning several different strategies to help us solve tricky words and become "word detectives" when we look at words!
- This week we will learn how to notice a problem in a word and stop to solve it. Do a S-L-O-W check, use everything we already know (our schema), and looking closely from the start of a word all the way to the end.
Writing
- We will also begin a new unit in Writer's Workshop this week, writing How-To books!
- We will begin by brainstorming ideas of topics we know how to do and write step by step pages about. We will practice using transition words to make sure we are teaching how to do something step by step.
- We will practice how to write a teaching book and how we can look at different mentor texts to learn all about the different kind of how-to writing!
Phonics
- In phonics this week we will begin to investigate tricky words.
- We will look at the silent -e and how it changes the vowel sound (short/long) in words.