Welcome Seagulls!!!!  

  Throughout February students will be reading and completing activities on biographies, working on Wordskills words in lesson 6,  writing a paper on the a person they admire,  learning a new set of 12 Powerful words, and continue to UNRAAVEL passages.

Information has been sent home explaining the book project that is due March 2. Students should be reading their book and deciding which projects they are going to complete. They have to present one of their projects to the class.

  We are now into Lesson 6 of our Wordskill words. Students are learning many new words. Students should make flash cards to review these words. Students should study all their words nightly for five to ten minutes.   They should study lesson 6 and review lessons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

 Students have a Reading Log due every Friday. They should read 100 minutes a week and get a parent signature. As your child reads, ask them about the characters, setting and plot(sequence of events) of the story.  

We will be going to the library Tuesday, February 2nd and February 11th. 

Here are a few books you might want to read :

Tuck Everlasting

Number the Stars

The Egypt Game

The Giver

Helen Keller The Story of My Life

The Upstairs Room

Bridge To Terabithia

Marley A Dog Like No Other

The 12 Power Words

Trace: Outline

Analyze: Bread down into smaller steps or parts

Infer: Read between the lines; read what the author doesn't say

Evaluate: Judge or determine value

Formulate: Build, create

Describe: Tell all about it

Support: Back it up; defend

Explain: Tell; Tell sequence, parts, or details

Summarize: The short version; key points or main idea

Compare: Things that are similar

Contrast: Things that are different

Predict: Think about the future

New 12 Power Words

affect - to change or alter

effect - the End result

demonstrate - to show how to do something

conclude - to come to a final decision

calculate - to figure out; to determine; to plan out

emphasize - to stress a lot; to make important or stand out

classify - to group based on a similarity or common trait

interpret - to determine or figure out the meaning of something

perspective - viewpoint; usually associated with the narrator of a piece of writing (first person, second person, third person)

generalize - to state something that is true for MOST of a whole group; to infer something that applies to most or generally all parts of a group/thing

illustrate - to make something clear using pictures, words, or diagrams as examples

mention - to discuss or talk about briefly, quickly; to say

UNRAAVEL

U - Underline the title

N- Now make a prediction about the text

R - Run through and number the paragraphs

A - Are you reading the questions?

A - Are the important words circled?

V - Venture through the passage(Read it.)

E - Eliminate wrong answer choices in the questions.

L - Let the questions be answered.

Students should use this strategy when they are reading a passage and have questions to answer. It helps them to focus in on important information.

Thanks for all you do!!  

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