Reading

I love reading and throughout the year I hope that you and your child will come to enjoy reading together! The following are specific skills we will be learning.
*Reads fluently with expression.
*Uses skills to learn new words: decoding, context clues, and illustrations.
*Reads with understanding: context clues, identify main idea and details, predict outcomes, and recognize cause/effect relationships.
*Explain story elements: setting, characters, problems/solutions.
*Develop vocabulary and word meaning skills to expand comprehension.

We use the Macmillan/McGraw Hill reading and writing series in our classroom. We follow the basal stories and test weekly over concepts learned.