Category: ELA – Reading

Your job today is to…

• Come up with a “good” day
  • Some samples are… (feel free to pick one of these)
    • Fresh laundry day
    • The weather forecast is wrong in a good way day
    • School’s closed because of snow day
• Type up one paragraph (see criteria below) on portal.office.com – you will need to create your own document as we don’t have a class MS Teams group setup yet.

Questions? Refer to our previous ELA Reading post here: http://sd41blogs.ca/cheungp/2022/09/14/09-14-22-ela-reading-one-of-those-days-connections/

1. Read/listen to this book.
2. Then, write 3 connections on a separate sheet of paper connecting to one of those events.
3. Use the chart below to quickly find all of the options you can connect to.

List of all the different days:

You should be connecting to the…

• The EVENT in the book
• The FEELING of what it feels like to experience the event in the book
• Be sure to write a bit about WHY you have this particular connection.

Sample to be uploaded soon:

Please see the image to figure out the criteria for each area of this book review.

We make inferences all the time! Inferences are times when readers make predictions about events in stories that authors do not include in their book!

Look at the following activity below and see what inferences you can come up with!

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Questions help us understand all things better. When you come up with your own questions as you read, it helps you understand things beyond what the author wants you to know.

See below our discussion notes about simple vs deep questions and try to read a picture book and come up with some on your own!

Try coming up with some questions using this story!

It’s December already! Today we are wrapping up with our final lesson focused on connections. We made deep connections and expanded on them in our paragraph response listing a minimum of 2 connections.

Critieria:

• Did you indent?
• Did you make a minimum of 2 connections?
• Did you supplement your connection with a brief description of what happened in the book?
• Did you include why this connection was special?

See the sample below.

We worked on summarizing our picture book into a condensed single paragraph. Please have it done and edited by Wednesday.

Criteria:

• At least 5 sentences long
• Does it include the author and the illustrator’s name?
• Does the summary describe the “gist” of the story?

Sample of the picture book we read last week: Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten.

We read a book about being okay at variety of activities. We discussed things that we are OKAY at. Afterwards, we wrote a little about why we are okay at our chosen thing. We emphasized writing with proper letter casing, grammar, and punctuation.

For the past two days, we read the book Saturdays and Teacakes. We told the story using only words and did not show the pictures. Each student was assigned one page to visualize.

Great visualizers…

1. Identify key words that help them see what’s happening in the story
2. Identify key images and note them down.
3. Can explain why they chose to draw and visualize what they did.

If you weren’t here, please try to read the story ahead of time and when you return, I will let you know which page you are responsible for. This is a class wide project, so I expect your absolute best to make this a success!

Read the story below. Pardon any spelling mistakes!

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