During the first few weeks of this school year, students in Mrs. Halterman’s, Mrs. Janzen’s, and Mr. Clymer Kurtz’s English and Reading classes were busy taking reading, writing, and spelling assessments. This information provides the groundwork for our classroom instruction that follows.
Students in some classes delivered Box Speeches early in the six weeks as a way to introduce themselves and get to know their classmates.
During this six weeks students are also writing a personal narrative and learning about nouns in addition to having new spelling words. Reading instruction is focused on writing summaries using the reading strategy "Somebody Wanted But So." We are also reviewing plot structure and introducing the different types of conflicts that can appear in literature.
Along with that, students are practicing making predictions and making inferences with the books they choose to read independently and the stories read together in class. Finally, students are reviewing personification.
