Friday, December 4, 2015

Our Reading Focus for December 7th-11th!

Dear Families,

We'll begin this week with a humorous fiction story called Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type. Farmer Brown's cows have found a typewriter, and they're using it to demand better working conditions. What will Farmer Brown do? We'll also read about how real animals communicate in the informational text Talk About Smart Animals! Throughout the week we'll consider the question "How can people and animals help each other?"

This Week's...

Target Vocabulary: problem, impossible, understand, impatient, furious, demand, gathered, believe

Phonics Skills: Base words with ending -s -es

Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes pre-(means "before") and mis- (means "not" or "badly")

Comprehension Skill: Conclusions-use details to figure out more about the story parts or important ideas

Comprehension Strategy: Infer/predict--use clues to figure out more about the story parts or important idea

Spelling: hens, eggs, bikes, boxes, wishes, dresses, names, bells, stamps, dishes, grapes, jets, frogs, stitches, fences

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