Happy Tuesday!
Today, we spent the morning discovering text structure. We know that structure is how a piece of writing is built. Authors choose a specific structure to organize the thoughts they want to convey. It is our job to use that structure to help us understand. So far, we have studied:
-Cause and Effect
-Comparison and Contrast
-Problem and Solution
and
-Chronological (or Sequence)
We can skim for key words that help direct us as we read. The students did a nice job comparing two pieces about hurricanes, realizing that the text structure was related to the main idea.
In social studies, we will play a Jeopardy review game (now sent to the kids to help as an additional way to study!). I will remind students that the questions on the test will NOT be so straightforward. They will be more similar to the Study Island review questions, involving reading, interpretation, and application of the concepts we have learned.
Homework: Read for 30 minutes (a reading log has already been sent to their emails to complete for morning work)
Study for Social Studies---quiz a friend, use Study Island, make flash cards, cover half of your notebook page to quiz yourself, explain concepts to your parents, reread things that you struggled over
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