October Reading Workshop

October Reading Workshop

In October we will assess our students’ reading by administering a grade-level reading test.  Students will read a short text and answer multiple choice and short response questions.  These grades will be shared with parents and appear on report cards.

We will be starting our character unit where we will continue to work on the reading skills taught in September and also focus on the skill of inferring.

Inferring

Inferring is using clues in a text to figure something out.  Not all of what the author wants us to know is explicitly stated in the text, especially as we move up in reading levels.  It is up to readers to figure out some important things.  Students also need to continue to work on building their reading stamina, pushing themselves to read for longer periods of time.

We will learn to infer character traits based on the things our characters say, do and think.  We will also work on increasing our character trait vocabularies.

·      What did my character say in this scene?

·      What did my character do in this scene?

·      What was my character thinking in this scene?

o   All of these things show me that this character 

is _____________.

What parents can do to support readers at home:

·      Continue to do the things suggested in the September blog post.

·      When you see your child reading, ask them questions such as “What kind of person is your character? How do you know that?”