Module 2A

GET INTO THE BOOK!!!

What a WONDERFUL first quarter!  Now, in second quarter, we are more deeply getting into the book!  During this next module, we will use a variety of comprehension strategies (making connections, predicting/inferring, questioning, monitoring, summarizing, evaluating) as we listen and respond to a variety of literature.  We will read cumulative tales, circle stories, and animal stories.  We will discuss the roles of the author and illustrator as well as define characters and setting.  Students will retell stories in a logical sequence and ask and answer questions based on the text.  We will continue our study of identifying words and pictures that rhyme, as well as producing our own rhyming words.  We will compare and contrast our Jan Brett stories as we think aloud about the characters, setting, and major events of each story.  We will read about "juicy" (descriptive) words while reading The Napping House and will include juicy words in our own conversations and individual work.  

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Snappy Words

                                 and, are, do, for, have, here, look, play, she, he, was

Please continue practicing sight word cards nightly :)

In Readers Workshop we will:
- Close our books and retell what happened in the book using the words first, next, then, last
- Monitor if we are reading too fast, too slow, or just right
- Practice using ALL of our strategies to help us figure out tricky words
- Make connections to the stories by sharing with our reading partner
- Re-reading our books to sound fluent
- Predict what will happen next or even after the story is over
- Choose fiction books to read for enjoyment and choose nonfiction books to learn new information
- Read a book and then tell facts/things they've learned from the book
- Ask questions before, during, and after reading a book
- Increase our stamina while reading independently

Please continue reading books nightly with your child.  

Our New Favorite Books

                                      The Napping House by Audrey Wood

                                  If You Give A … stories by Laura Numeroff

                                           
                                            Today is Monday by Eric Carle



                 I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (and other versions)

                                                 
                                                   The Hat by Jan Brett

                                  Fritz and the Beautiful Horses by Jan Brett

                                          Honey, Honey Lion by Jan Brett

                                          
                                           Hedgie’s Surprise by Jan Brett

                                              Annie and the Wild Animals

                                              
                                             Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

 In Writers Workshop, we will write narrative pieces again with a greater focus on print concepts, sight words, and awareness of sounds.  Students will focus on "true stories" about something that has actually happened to them.  We will work on:
- Beginning and finishing a new story every day (Beginning, Middle, End)
- Creating work that is "easy to read"
- Planning our stories first across our fingers or by touching our pages before we begin to sketch or write
- First sketching our pictures across pages so we don't forget our exciting idea
- Including the words "first," "next/then," and "finally/last" to show organization
- Stretching words out slooowly to write down one letter for each sound we hear
- Saying a sentence out loud before writing it down on paper
- Using finger spaces to make our writing "easy to read"
- Creating speech bubbles to make our people talk
- Including punctuation marks to show where the sentence stops
- Monitoring our own writing - writing a little, then re-reading our writing to see if what we have written makes sense
- Providing feedback to our writing partners to give tips on how to make our writing "easier to read"
- Including "juicy" words in our writing to describe people, places, or things
- Including sight words in our work and checking to see if we have spelled them correctly 
- Increasing our stamina while writing independently