Staying In-the-Know
with Mrs. Drayton
Dutch Fork Elementary The Academy of Environmental Sciences, Title I
11.21.19
VIP Folders & Reminders
- November 25 - Text Features and Summary Test
- November 26- READ IN! (send your child with a pillow, blanket, and favorite books)
- November 27-29 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 6 - Word Study Quiz
- December 19 - Book Talks and Reading Goals Sheets due
- December 4 - Internet Safety Student Program, 1:30PM
- December 4 - Internet Safety Parent, 6:00PM
- December 3-6 Holiday Store
Veteran's Day Parade: Thank you for all who have served and continue to serve!
Our Learning Through Photos
Developing Strategies as Nonfiction Readers
The ways complex nonfiction gets hard:
- headings and subheadings don't help or are misleading
- there are several main ideas
- the central ideas & main ideas are implicit
- the vocabulary is hard
- sentences are longer and may deliver more information
Strategies we use as nonfiction gets hard:
- reword confusing subheadings that don't match what we read
- create our own subheadings when they are missing
- annotate while reading and notice patterns or repeated ideas in details to determine main ideas
- break the sentences apart into smaller ideas
- look inside tricky words for words that I recognize
- use prefixes and suffixes to help me make sense of words
- use text features to help bring meaning
We have worked hard to identify explicit and implicit main ideas and supporting details. We have analyzing examples of summaries to determine what makes them well written. We have created our own summary checklist.
Summary Checklist
- objective (without opinions)
- 2 main ideas from the text
- supporting details for each main idea
- explicit evidence from the text
- transitional language
- central idea (why this matters)
*We realized videos are a form of text, too!
Book Talk
Reader's Theater
Building our fluency:
- oral delivery (clarity, volume, & expression)
- awareness of text (punctuation, appropriate voice change based on punctuation)
- noticing phrasing