3B Blog News from Mrs. Kerian: Yes, We are Learning Spanish

Friday, April 22, 2016

Yes, We are Learning Spanish

We are very fortunate to have new students speaking Spanish joining our Howard Winneshiek family and enrolling at Crestwood. We all know learning a foreign language is a great thing to do, but now our students have more reason to learn one. Communicating with students who are not strong in speaking English in their language is important. Thus, I decided we would try to do some Spanish lessons with my 3B kids. Well, I have not had Spanish since high school (which was a VERY long time ago) so I decided to seek out some help. Thanks Brooke's mom, Libby, who teaches Spanish at the high school, for helping us out.

On Tuesdays and Thursday, Anna and Katie will be in our classroom teaching the students sounds, words, and sentences in Spanish. They started last Thursday and it went very well!! The students were beyond excited and tried really hard. We have a ways to go but it is a great starting point. These two girls are working with Mrs. Schwade planning lessons and creating activities for the students to participate in.

I will be posting some of the new words, sounds, or songs they teach us either on this blog page or our class Facebook page for parents to see what they are learning. I encourage everyone to practice at home as well.

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Reading Comprehension Strategies

Inferencing: Experienced readers make inferences as they read. Readers use what they already know and think about what they have read to construct meaning. The reader should ask themselves, "What I already know in my brain" and "What did I just read or see?" to make an inferences that is not stated by the author of person.

Determining Important Information: Determining important information is a strategy that helps us pick out the most important ideas we read. The first line of a paragraph may say the main idea of the page, but a reader should read through the details to decide what is the important information. The reader should ask themselves, "What is the author trying to teach me?"

Summarize: A summary is a paragraph or a statement in your own words that gives the most important ideas from what you have read. Readers determine important information, make inferences, and visualize when summarizing. We use the graphic organizer of "Somebody....Wanted....But....So.....Then....". "Somebody" is the character. "Wanted" would be the what the character wanted. "But" would be the problem. "So" would be how the problem was solved, and "Then" would be the resolution or end.

Predicting:When a reader predicts, they use information from the text along with their own knowledge and experiences to make thoughtful or informed guesses about what will happen in the text. When your child is reading at home, encourage them to stop and share predictions he/she may have as they are reading.

Identifying Text Structure: Recognizing how a piece of writing is organized can help readers understand what is happening. There can be different ways a text is structured.

* Sequential - in order

* Cause and Effect

* Question / Answer

* Steps in a Process

When reading at home, discuss how the text is organized and structure.

Ask and Answer Questions: Experienced readers ask questions about the text in order to understand what they are reading. Asking questions helps readers visualize, monitor comprehension and determine important information. Answers to these questions may be found in the text, or put together from the reader's own experience. At home, parents can encourage students to stop and ask questions while they read and recognize when answers are within the text or needed to be answered by own experience.

Paraphrasing: When readers paraphrase, they tell main ideas using their own words. This helps them check their understanding of what they have read. At home, parents can encourage their student to read a selection, flip the book over, and tell them main ideas from their reading in their own words. Flip the book back over and read another section or page before flipping it over again and paraphrasing his/her reading.

3B Blog News from Mrs. Kerian

Friday, April 22, 2016

Yes, We are Learning Spanish

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