Beginning of the Year Pre-Assessments:  We will spend the first few weeks of school assessing our reading skills to see what areas we need to focus on this year in class. Our assessments will also include discovering what type of learner we are as well as other test that will allow us to be more aware of ourselves as readers.

Reading Short Text: Our focus in reading this quarter will center around short text. These short text can be short stories, memoirs, essays, poetry, etc. By focusing on comprehension with short text, we will become more prepared for reading longer text such as novels. The short text will be used to practice learning many of the literary terms/skills need in order to comprehend the selection.