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To pass the word wall assessment

this nine weeks your child must read
26 words and this would earn a
grade of 2 on the report card
List of word wall words for the year:
Class I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are,
for, this, do, and, what, you ,little, said, here, was,
January 9th she, he, has ,look, with, my, me, where, when, who,
January 13th 2017 at, how, up, can , it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy,
girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love, or, but, went, get,
Dear Parents, had, want, not, on, us, that, him, her, they, could,
some, one, two, three ,four, five, six, seven, eight,
This week in Readers Workshop, we will nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green, orange, purple,
read, Mama Cat Has Three Kittens To increase black, white, brown
reading comprehension, we will work on
segmenting letter sounds in words, rhymes
substituting letter sounds, adding phonemes, Expectations for this nine
deleting phonemes, and language awareness
with sentences.WewillRecognizeStoryStructure weeks assessments:
(Storieshavestructure,orawayinwhichthethingsinthe Help your child sound out words and
storyhappen.Forexample,storieshaveabeginning,middle, write about a topic of interest using
andend.) details in a story and drawing
pictures to go with the words.
Make and Confirm Predictions (After we
make predictions, we can check to see if they are Use capitalization
correct. Sometimes you can tell what will happen Use punctuation
in a story by figuring out its pattern.) Use spacing between words
Informational Text: Expository (text that
explains or gives information; often contains We will have assessments on
photographs) the following skills this nine
weeks:
In Writers Workshop we will be learning to
write persuasive pieces. We will write about Count backwards from 20
problems and try to find solutions. We will work Write numbers to 20
on correcting our writing so it will make sense to Practice counting by 10s to 100
others. In Math we will be identifying, writing and orally
representing numbers to 20, rote counting to 100, Identifying 3-d shapes
counting backwards from 20, skip counting.
For Social Studies we will be talking Writing first and last name
about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In Science, we
will continue our scientist of the day lessons. *******************************
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Our Class Performance ******
January 13th Book Baggies
Our class will be performing at the morning assembly at Read every night
Your child should be reading every night. It is
7:35 on the stage. I wanted to give you plenty of notice so
important to read the books multiple times to work on
you can come and watch. Please have your child wear a white fluency. You should keep them at least two
shirt and a scarf! nights.

Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice

Wish List
reading with a high degree of success. Therefore, your child
Books we need for our persuasive writing unit: should practice rereading aloud texts that are reasonably
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman easy for them that is, texts containing mostly words that
Can I Keep Him? By Steven Kellogg they know or can decode easily. In other words, the texts
should be at the childs independent reading level.
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Williams
Can I Have a T-Rex Dad? By Lois Grambling Looking forward to a great week!
Dont Let the Pigeon drive The Bus by Mo Williams
Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
(512) 841-0326