week of 10/15
This week the Comic Book project is due on either Tuesday or Wednesday. During class, we will be discussing the recent Reading Benchmark results and beginning practicing strategies. Students should be bringing home their test and going over passages again using the strategies discussed, and will be changing their answers if necessary. Don’t forget that Reading logs are due on Friday.
Parents – Reading logs are a vital component to your child’s improvement in reading. Studies have shown that the more a child reads, the more advancements are made in vocabulary knowledge and overall comprehension skills. Please take the time to be sure your child is reading at least 10 pages per day and giving you a verbal summary of those pages before you sign off. Students should be averaging at least 50 pages per week. Thank you for your help in improving your child’s reading.
Next week, we will begin work on the Vocabulary 3 words, as well as continuing our TAKS strategies practices. Students will be bringing home a TAKS practice passage, and will need to follow the strategies taught in class for note-taking and answering the questions. For 6th and 7th grade, Lesson 4 in the Word Explorer book will be due on Monday or Tuesday. Students will also be taking notes on Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root words during class time, and will need to be reviewing these every night until they are fully committed to memory. There will be a test over these the following week.
