Literacy

Literacy time encompasses a variety of language-based activities to engage students in reading, writing and developing their oral language skills.

Term 2 Big Ideas:
*Stories and other texts connect us to ourselves, our families and our communities
*Stories can be understood from different perspectives
Reading:  1) Recognizing text features in books  2) Exploring different book genres

Writing:  1) Recognizing sentence fragments and write complete sentences with capitalization and punctuation  2) Learning to write a simple paragraph

Big Idea: Playing with language helps us discover how language works
Activity:  Making and sharing sentences with cut-out words