ReadingIn our classroom students will work individually, with partners, in groups, and as a whole class. Students will do presentations and reports. Additionally, they will do reading groups, partner reading, and individual reading. Reading skills and strategies will be explicitly taught to them. At home, students should be reading 25 minutes each night. Make sure to be working on the monthly book report.
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WritingWriting will be informational, narrative, and opinion. Journaling, explicit instruction, and writers’ workshops will help students improve their writing. Students will write daily and will focus particularly on being able to write from sources. They will need to inform or make arguments that respond to the ideas, events, facts, and arguments presented in the texts they read.
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