During Daily 5 today we focused on the comprehension strategy "use prior knowledge to connect to text." Have you ever read a story and been able to connect on a personal level with the character or storyline? Do you notice that is is easier to read and comprehend something that you have background knowledge, or schema, of? This is because readers bring information from what they already know or what they have previously read about a topic and connect it with what they are reading. This increases their understand of the book and helps them remember what they have read. I used the story "Small Saul" by Ashley Spires as a mentor text to teach this strategy. Most students have prior knowledge of pirates that helped them better understand and make sense of the story.
In science today the students played a memory game to help learn some of our Rocks and Minerals vocabulary. Please ask your child what luster or color streak means!
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