Today students answered the following question in their Writer's Notebook: What is something you've done only one time so far in your life that you can't wait to do a second time? Students had some really interesting answers. Remember, you can always view or review our Writer's Notebook questions by looking at the updated slideshow on the "Writing" page. Afterwards, students continued to work on their reading fluency using "Cinderella" as their text. Students did NOT read through "Cinderella" twice with the TOC last Thursday as I had previously thought; they had read it through once. So, today students read the text through again, practicing improving their ability to follow the text's punctuation marks and making choices about their reading rate. Tomorrow we add more expression to our reading! Students also practiced identifying the key story elements of this Fairy Tale (problem, solution, character traits, etc.). Students were also asked to draw conclusions about the characters - this is building off of the inferring strategy that we used earlier this year. Some of us really struggled to draw conclusions about the characters from the text. We had practiced making inferences about what would happen in the story, but this was a new form of inferring for us. This is something that we will continue to practice in upcoming classes. Don't forget that tomorrow is the due date of January's Book Talk!
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