Resources/Homework/Studying
Students will receive a Spelling Word packet on Monday's. We will have our Spelling Tests on those words for the week on Friday's. I will have students write in their planners to study each night and I will have them put the packet in their Take Home Folder at the Return to School side each day. We will work on the packet some days in class, and some days they might have a homework page (or pages) from the packet. Please remind your student to be studying at home and be checking their planners. Most weeks will be the same routine. Most weeks we will have Spelling Words but some weeks we will not have them.
Students will also write in their planners to read 20 minutes each night (Monday-Thursday...if they want to read Friday and/or over the weekend that is fine, but they do NOT have to). Reading 20 minutes every night will help students with word recognition, fluency, phonics skills, vocabulary, reading comprehension, etc. Students will receive a Nightly Reading chart, that I have created, for every month with fun suggestions of ways and of books to read. This paper will be put in their Take Home Folder. Directions and information will be on the page.
In addition, I will email a document that can help when your child reads at home. I encourage you to ask these reading comprehension questions, that are found on the document, to your students about the story or the pages they read each night (or whenever you can). You can ask these questions verbally and have a conversation, or you can write them down and have multiple choice/fill in the blank/short response type questions that the students answer on paper. These things little by little each night for a few minutes will help students greatly as we continue working on reading comprehension strategies in class. This is a skill that starts to be taught more and tested more as students get older. Students in 3rd grade are now not only reading, but having to pay attention to the information they are reading, so they can answer easier questions (what is the main character's name) and harder questions (what is the main idea of the text/story and provide text evidence) about the story they just read.
Thank you so much for working with and supporting me, as well as our students! We are going to have a great year!