Ms. Bien's Bulletin

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This Week:

Chapter 5: Chapter Books, Dramas, & Poetry

We are learning about how chapter books, dramas, and poems are structured and how they are read differently. We are enjoying learning more about figurative language and inferring meaning through visualization and context clues.

Curriculum Chapters

Beginning 


the

Literacy


Year

*Picking a just right book

*Ask & Answer questions

*Use illustrations to infer mood, setting, and character aspects

Fiction 


Story 


Elements

*Summarizing

*Main Idea & supporting details

*character traits

Nonfiction 


Foundation

*Text features

*Main idea & supporting details

Traditional 


& Multicultural


Literature

*Exploring fairy tales, folktales, myths & legends

*Morals

*Summarizing

*Point of view

Poetry & 


Drama

*Chapters, scenes, stanzas

*Context clues

*Multiple meaning words

*Prefixes, suffixes, root words

*Figurtive language

Nonfiction


Application

*Comparing points of view

*Comparing paragraphs

*Ask * answer questions

Biography

, Autobiography, 

& 

Memoir

*Use maps & photographs to demonstrate understanding

*Cause & effect

*Connections between a series of historical events

Fiction 


Literary 


Analysis

*Compare & contrast moods, themes, & plots of stories

*Literal & nonliteral langage

*Synonyms 

Nonfiction 


Across


Genres

*Compare 2 different texts on the same topic

Reading at Home

These websites are all teacher approved! Encourage your child to read at home using any of the websites below!

Raz Kids is an leveled reading site. The best news is that the students in O-5 already know how to use this tool. Their reading levels are already set up, allowing them a plethora of stories to read at their disposal. Students should listen to the story, then read along with it, and finally answer comprehension questions at the end. More books are unlocked as students prove their comprehension within each story.

Storyline Online allows students to chose books and listen to them being narrated.

Story Jumper is a website that stores a plethora of books made by kids! Click on any book, and enjoy! Students can even create their own books to put on the website.

Interactive Read Alouds

The following are a list of texts to refer to that your child has been read to in class:

Fiction

Non Fiction