Family Book Clubs - Thank you to all of the students and parents who came out to our Family Book Club evening. It was such an enjoyable evening. I just love hearing students discuss important topics and interacting with their parents and others. It is impressive to hear the thoughtful, wise comments students make.
Small Groups - Our RTI (Response to Intervention) small groups continue to work on the three big areas of reading: fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. We work on fluency by doing phonics work, word families, sight words, repeated readings, reader's theater, book reading, and Read Naturally, our computer program. We work on vocabulary by working on the words they encounter in their reading. We work on comprehension by explicitly teaching and practicing the six reading strategies of predicting, connection, visualizing, inferring, summarizing and questioning. Like I said last week, reading and writing go hand-in-hand so we continually read and write and then write and read.
