Reading Workshop -reading nonfiction text and using text features to guide our reading -making inferences about the text and supporting them with text evidence -determining the main idea and supporting it with explicit supporting details -writing a good summary of a text -identifying the structure of a text and supporting it with text evidence
Writing Workshop -brainstorming nonfiction topics -making a list of research questions -using multiple resources to find answers to research questions -sorting research into categories -labeling categories with subheadings
word work -reading sight words quickly -tapping out sounds to blend words -consonant digraphs and blends -vowel teams -using words you know to read other words -Sounding out words And blending sounds -working in small groups to learn spelling patterns -glued sounds -multisyllabic words