• May Curriculum 
     
           **  Reading Logs**:  Please read daily with your child to foster a love for reading. Encourage your child to look at the illustrations and talk about what is happening in the story.  Listen for rhyming words and ask simple questions about the story.  For example, what is the character's feeling? How do you know?  Where does the story take place?  What do you think will happen next? Why?
     

    Reader’s Workshop

    Unit 5 - Becoming Avid Readers 

    Bend I: We Are Avid Readers

    Bend I, Session 1: What is an Avid Reader?

    Bend I, Session 2: Avid Readers React

    Bend I, Session 3: Avid Readers Wonder: Having and answering questions about books

    Bend I, Session 4: Video Session: Learning from books, then explaining your new learning to others

    Bend I, Session 5: Avid Readers make playdates

    Bend I, Session 6: Reading with different voices

     

    Bend II: Playing with Phonics

    Bend II, Session 1:  Avid Readers Make phonics playdates 

    \Bend II, Session 2: Playing with blends

    Bend II, Session 3:  Reading words that end in NG

    Bend II, Session 4: Writing decodable books like a teacher

    Bend II, Session 5: Being the teacher while school

    Bend II, Session 6: Video Session: Doing shared reading while playing school

     

    Bend III Avid Readers Find More Ways to Grow

    Bend III, Session 1: Reacting to books

    Bend III, Session 2: Capturing thinking about books

    Bend III Session 3:  Avid readers reach for just-right words to describe feelings

    Bend III, Session 4: Video Session: Close reading and book-based pretending 

    Bend III, Session 5:   Reading for meaning and rhythm and fun

    Bend III, Session 6:  Readers bring out a poem's meaning and feeling

     

     

     

    Writer's Workshop -

    Unit  - Persuasive Writing of All Kinds - Using Words to Make a Change 

    Bend I: Exploring Opinion Writing: Making Our School a Better Place

    • Words are like magic wands, they can make things happen.

    •  Convincing people: providing reasons and consequences

    •  Don't stop There! Generating more writing for more causes

    •  Writers read and fix up their writing

    •  Spelling strategies give writers word power

    • Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Writing to spread the word (A Mini- Celebration)

    • Bend II: Sending Our Words Out into the World: Writing Letters to Make a Change   

    • Writing Letters That Reach Readers

    • Studying a Mentor Text ( a Guided Inquiry)

    • Knowing just what to say: angling letters to different audiences

    • How can we make it better? Imagining solutions

    • Letters to Teachers: Wait! What's that say? Fixing up letters before mailing them

    • Bend III: Persuasive Writing Project

    • Draw on a repertoire of strategies to write about a world problem

    • Sound like an expert! Teaching information to persuade your audience

    • Letter to Teachers: More on adding detailed information to persuasive writing

    • Writing How - To Books to make a change

    • Letters to Teachers: Editing for punctuation: partner work

    • Speaking up and taking a stand: Planning and rehearsing speeches

    • Fixing and fancying up for publication using the super checklist

    • Letter to Teachers: The Earth Day Fair: An Author's Celebration 

     

    Math Workshop