Mrs. Hopman’s Reading News 4/29/16 Second Grade Guided Reading Plus The Japanese Garden Reading focus: I can identify key story elements so that I can summarize a story. How Do Apples Grow? Reading focus: I can explain the purpose of diagrams, drawings, illustrations an photographs in informational text. Writing focus: Revising and editing Fifth Grade Comprehension Focus Group Reading Recovery “Children who have been particularly successful language learners and users are surrounded by adults who: • Create many opportunities for children to use language to think, problem-solve, and reflect on their learning; • Recognize and praise children often for little successes; • Provide specific praise when children accomplished something they initially found difficult learning; • Show, through their actions and words, high expectations for children’s ability; • Understand that children and students will live up to the expectations of their parents and teachers.” • Teaching Struggling Readers, Lyons, 2003 Fourth Grade Comprehension Focus Group Minerals, Rocks, and Soil Reading focus: I can identify main ideas and details in order to be able to summarize a nonfiction text. Students are cooperatively working on a graphic organizer to compile main ideas and details of the text. Did you know…..? The Top of the World Climbing Mt. Everest Reading focus: I can determine 2-3 places in a text where there is information that surprises me. I can determine what the author thinks I already know. Reading/thinking strategies from: Reading Nonfiction Notice and Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies by Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Florida Center for Reading Research has information for parents to use to support the growth of their children’s reading in grades K-4.