Reading this year:
Standards:
Lexile Goal: 830-1010, Fluency Goal 130
- Informational: text evidence, main ideas, relationships between concepts, vocabulary, compare text structure, analyze multiple accounts, use multiple sources to solve a problem, author’s reasons and evidence; integrate information from several texts. Books used: Animal Cells, Plant Cells, Volcano, Oceans, Ice to Steam, The Sun, How Does a Waterfall Become Electricity
- Literature: Drawing inferences; theme; summarizing; compare characters, settings, & events; vocabulary, story structure, point of view, visual connection, compare and contrast stories Books used: Walks Two Moons, Bud, Not Buddy. Code Talkers, Watsons Go to Birmingham, Maniac Magee, The Westing Game
Resources:
Here is an ultimate listening library! Just click on a basket to visit a virtual classroom full of books on that topic. Then, click on a book to hear it read aloud. (This virtual library is very extensive, therefore it may be difficult to access from a smartphone.)