Reading Overview
Weekly Reading:
Students will be reading from novels, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction books throughout the year. Along with active reading, students will be taught important comprehension skills, i.e. making inferences, predictions, drawing conclusions, and context clues. Many times novels will relate to topics being studied in science or social studies. Worksheets and other projects will be used to reinforce the concepts taught in class. 4th grade students have been assigned to a teacher for reading. This is to give students the opportunity to experience other teachers and to get used to moving from room to room for different subjects (something they also do at East Prairie).
Outside Reading:
I encourage outside reading in my class. I encourage students to read at least 100 pages a week. Students will complete a record for their outside reading that requires them to fill in the number of pages read each night and respond to a question three nights a week. Each week I track the number of pages a student has read and keep a running page total for the quarter. Small rewards are given as students reach the goals of 500 pages, 1000 pages, and 1,500 pages.
Students will be reading from novels, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction books throughout the year. Along with active reading, students will be taught important comprehension skills, i.e. making inferences, predictions, drawing conclusions, and context clues. Many times novels will relate to topics being studied in science or social studies. Worksheets and other projects will be used to reinforce the concepts taught in class. 4th grade students have been assigned to a teacher for reading. This is to give students the opportunity to experience other teachers and to get used to moving from room to room for different subjects (something they also do at East Prairie).
Outside Reading:
I encourage outside reading in my class. I encourage students to read at least 100 pages a week. Students will complete a record for their outside reading that requires them to fill in the number of pages read each night and respond to a question three nights a week. Each week I track the number of pages a student has read and keep a running page total for the quarter. Small rewards are given as students reach the goals of 500 pages, 1000 pages, and 1,500 pages.