Literacy - 10/15

As we gear up to launch our humanities unit on motivations to explore, we are frontloading some work in literacy around summarizing literary text. Students will be reading stories of explorers - both past and present - and working on the reading skills of pulling out key details and summarizing the text. To that end we have done a pre-assessment and are determining the areas of need for our students. We will be doing some repeated practice around reading passages, completing plot maps, and writing summaries. Please check your child's planner daily as there will likely be practice each day that needs to be completed before the following day's class. As always, please encourage your child to read independently at least 25 minutes a day. As with any skill, the more you practice, the stronger you become.