In Science, we wrote conclusion statements about the most valuable material to make our towers tall for our 2nd engineering project.
A new very simple assignmnment has been posted to Benchmark. We have been using evidence from the text to tell about characters from our stories. For example:
What kind of character was Henny Penny?
She was not very smart.
How do you know?
An acorn hit her on the head and she thought the sky was falling.We have also been summarizing narrative stories. A summary is different than a retell in that it is a very short statement which tells what a selection is about, usually no more than 2 sentences. The sentence tells where and/or when who did what and how without giving away the ending. Example: Once upon a time (when?), the Little Red Hen (who?) tends to some grains of wheat (did what?) and bakes bread (how?) without help from her friends.
We will also write sentences about important events in a story. Example: The Prince placed a pea under 20 matresses and 20 quilts to discover if she was a true princess.
Please note: Children are able to annotate texts as they read with the tools in Benchmark. The site compiles comments and sends their remarks to the teacher. (So, parents are able to annotate as well.) There is also a button for writing a review of the books the children have read.
New fluency and comprehension scores will be posted this week on the inside door of the classroom.
Ultimately, (for future testing sake) students will need to be able to compare and contrast 2 unfamiliar texts.
Is there a format/structure to be followed if students want to write a book review about the topics they read in benchmark? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your question. There is no official format; however, later in the year we will learn to write an opinion while giving reasons/evidence from textalong with an introduction and closing. Please submit reviews online.
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