Reading
We are using a Daily 5 model in our classroom this year. Students participate in small groups, independent reading, and reading with partners. They also work on reading reponses regularly along with word work activities. See more of what we are learning in reading this year below.
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Unit Two
Students will work on building their comprehension throughout this unit by using elements of a text to make inferences and using various strategies to figure out the meaning of words. Students will also practice finding the main idea and details explaining why text features are used in informational texts.
Third Quarter
Unit Five
Students will read traditional stories noticing patterns found in folk tales and myths across cultures. They will organize details from two traditional stories to compare and contrast the plots.
Vocabulary for this unit:
literary language
traditional literature
myth
fable
legend
fairy tale
literary elements: character, setting,
plot, event
oral story
allude
quest
pattern Herculean
Achilles’ Heel
Pandora’s Box
Unit Six
Students will review text structures from Unit Four and use them to draw inferences and find the main idea of a text. Students will read informational texts about scientific and historical events and processes. Students will also compare and contrast texts about the same event focusing on firsthand versus secondhand accounts.