Reading We love reading and care about books. Our goals are to: - Know the parts of a book. - Know the sounds of long vowels and short vowels. - Identify and read sight words. - monitor our accuracy in reading - use our strategies to make sure we understand what we read. - Find the author's purpose in books. - Read for pleasure and read for learning facts about a topic - Distinguish the traits of a nonfiction book and a fictional story - Recognize the story elements - Summarize stories (beginning, middle, end) - Read aloud grade level appropriate text with fluency (accuracy, rate, expression and phrasing) and comprehension. | Writing We care about our audience and try our best everyday to: - use modern script handwriting - write good sentences with a capital first letter and punctuation mark at the end - use finger spaces between our words. - make our illustrations match the words in our sentences. - learning the writing process (create a draft, edit, publish, share) - Write short stories that have a beginning, middle and end. - Write short poems - Capitalize the first letter of a sentence, the pronoun "I" and the names of proper nouns. | Spelling & Grammar We want to become better writers and spellers so we work on these skills: - Spell sight words correctly - understand and use the parts of speech correctly
- Alphabetize a series of words - Use letter/sound patterns to spell - Expanding our vocabulary by knowing and using words correctly |
