3B Blog News from Mrs. Kerian: We are Loving Book Clubs!

Monday, April 14, 2014

We are Loving Book Clubs!

Book clubs are on to round two with many groups starting their second book. They are reading like crazy and loving every minute of it! I am very pleased with the effort from most of the students and their eagerness/excitement to read and discuss with their book club! Their discussions are powerful and meaningful!

Thank you to parents for signing and returning contracts for book clubs. There are a few students who have yet to return their contract so if you, parents, have not signed or seen one, please chat with your student or let me know and I will send another one. Book clubs are the students responsibility to read and complete at home so that they are ready to discuss their reading with their group at school.

Those students finished with their first book for book clubs are currently working on a video review. The video reviews will be posted on the student's individual blog pages so check them out this week!

Below is a picture of the book clubs in action!

Keep it up 3B!

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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

Monday, April 14, 2014

We are Loving Book Clubs!

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