Week of February 16-20

Good morning!

This week we are continuing to review for the STAAR.

Students have vocabulary homework page 111 that will be due on Wednesday.

They also will have passage homework entitled Hurricanes p34-39 which will be given out Wednesday and will be due on Friday.

As part of our review students will be building their fluency to become better readers through a reading activity called Break the Record.

Students will be practicing question comprehension through an activity called Genre Sort.

Students will be making connections between previously read text through and activity called Connect the Dots.

We will also be completing practice passage throughout the week to prepare for STAAR.

The vocabulary words this week are all different names for people using the suffixes -er or -or.

There will be a vocabulary quiz on Friday.

As we draw closer to the STAAR test please encourage your student to practice listening well in class and practice their thinking about reading any change they get.  Encourage them to talk about the books they are reading with you at home.  Explore new vocabulary they find in their library books and have them keep a list of new words they discover and their meanings.  Vocabulary plays an important role in reading and there will be words they may not have experience with on the STAAR test.  Exposure to new vocabulary is one of the most important things fourth graders can experience to become better readers.

Thanks for all you do!