October Read Aloud

At the beginning of this month we will be reading Magic Tree House Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne. The students will continue to learn about their characters, understand character relationships, agree and disagree with each other and have conversations about the text. They will pay attention to what the character's say, think, and do in order to formulate ideas about them, understand their feeling and provide a trait for to describe their character.

We will then continue the  month reading non fiction books.

We are working on different skills to help us become better readers. Some of these skills include:

1. After each paragraph we STOP and think  - What was the main idea? (What the paragraph was mostly about?)

2. When there is a picture on a page we STOP and think  - Why is this picture here? What paragraph does it belong to?

3. We notice the different features of non fiction and compare it to fiction books. (EX: italics, sub headings, captions, question and answer, zoom in and zoom out, definitions, table of contents, etc...)



Here are the different non fiction book we are reading this month:


Endangered Animals by Elise Forier                      Apes by Martin Jenkins     

   

                                 

Almost Gone by Steve Jenkins                           Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Dinosaurs 

                                                                                         by Mary Pope Osborne