This week I have 2 great read aloud books planned. First, we will continue empathizing with the main character, Elizabeth, in the book called The Perfect Pet. Elizabeth shows great strong-girl character traits of having her mind made up to get a pet, but when her parents won't allow any of the many animals she chooses she makes an interesting decision that shows she is really a flexible and easy going character.
We continue on in the week, and in our Understanding Characters unit, to "making a mental movies" of the text and coming to understand a character by "walking in our character's shoes." These lessons take us through the process of getting deep into our reading as if we were actually part of the story. As a mentor text for these lessons, I have chosen the book, Amazing Grace. We will listen to that book being read on an on-line video. This will be a lesson that allows us to gaining understanding of text through listening. We will then incorporate the think notes that we made about Grace with our notes we made about Elizabeth earlier in the week and write about the main characters similarities and differences. Both skills, comprehension through listening and comparing characters from different texts are valuable skills for comprehension and successful completion of the Smaterbalance assessment.
Additionally, we will continue our small group partnership book club reading that we got started on last week. Ask your child about our character trait unit and how he/she is enjoying the partnership book club.
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