Dear families,

this post relates to my first block TAG Reading 5th grade class.

We are diving in to short nonfiction reading! Students are practicing some important skills as we read shorter articles in preparation for research reading coming up:

• identifying text features
• finding main ideas and details
• identifying and analyzing text structures
• distinguishing between fact and opinion
• starting to pick out bias
• identifying author’s tone
• summarizing and paraphrasing

Please encourage your child to continue reading a meal book every day on his or her own at home all month, as we do not have assigned books right now.

February has all but ended – please discuss with your child whether or not he/she met his/her reading goal and why! We will be making new reading goals for the month of March in the coming week in class.

Students just took the test on Wordly Wise Unit 7 on Friday, February 26, and that is coming home to be signed. Some students need to re-take the test this coming Friday, March 4 as they scored below 70%. If this is your child, please encourage him/her to study throughout the week as we will not spend class time on the words from that lesson. This week we have just begun lesson 8, on which we will have our test on Friday, March 11.