Chess Club
Both clubs will be meeting this week. We have been looking at opening moves and how important it is to get your pieces to the center of the board as early as possible.
ISAT testing
ISAT testing is happening this week. It is very important that students get a good nights sleep and have a healthy breakfast in order to do their best on the tests.
Soar-to-Success
Soar-to-Success is one of the reading interventions we use at Prairieview school. This intervention emphasizes four reading strategies while reading fiction and non-fiction texts. The strategies are summarizing, predicting, questioning and clarifying. Students should summarize what they have read often enough that they can tell you what they have read after they put the book down. As they read, they should make predictions about what might happen next or what they might read about next. This helps them to be active readers. They want to continue reading to discover if their predictions are correct. As they read, they should also be asking questions about what they are reading. Wondering questions are good questions to ask. I wonder why this character did that? I wonder why this animal does that? Questioning readers are active readers. They are engaging with the text while they read. The last strategy is clarifying. Clarifying can be at the word level - I don't know what this word is, how do I figure it out? It can be at the vocabulary level - I don't know what this word means? Or it can be at the concept level. I don't know what the author is saying here. We work on ways to clarify on all three levels. In small groups we work on using these strategies to improve our reading comprehension.
