Reviews and reinforces basic skills in the areas of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar and usage. In addition, it gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills. Your child will organize thoughts and information for writing, develop drafts, analyze, edit and revise work as appropriate for audience and purpose.
Students meet in small groups to discuss the core book they are reading.
Here they have the opportunity to share, ask questions, predict, and evaluate the readings. At the end of each meeting, students complete an evaluation form that they will share with the rest of the class. Your child will record the daily homework assignments and write about what happened during the school day. I require one complete sentence per activity and encourage the students to tell me if they thought something was difficult or easy for them. As the year progresses I hope to see more thought put into their writing as well as improvement on their penmanship.