Dear Parents,
Thank you for visiting this very special page designed just for you! I created a ‘Parents’ section of my website to keep you informed and educated on the strategies that are being taught to your children in school. This page will provide useful information that you can use with your children, so that they are sure to have a successful year in first grade. Below you will find: common phrases that are used by myself and the children everyday, special parent newsletters that I created just for you. This is another wonderful way you can stay ‘in touch’ with your child’s education. Thank you, Sarah Lawless |
Parent Newsletters:
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Reading Lingo
- As good readers we . . . - Reading is thinking! - What is the genre of the story? - What are you thinking as a reader? - I wonder... - I predict... - This reminds me of...
T-S = text to self T-W= text to world - Did you paint a picture in your mind? - How much schema do you have for __(topic)___? - What do you infer about ______? - Using clues from the story and your background knowledge (schema), what do you infer about __ (a part in the story, a character, etc)__? Writing Lingo - As good writers we . . . - Good writers always start sentences with capital letters and end sentences with periods. - Did you check your punctuation? - Make sure your sentences are ‘juicy.’ (Adding adjectives to your sentences) - It is important to re-read your writing out loud so you can see if it flows (you can also check for mistakes). Math Lingo - What is the clue word in our number story? - How would I write the number sentence (equation)? - What strategy did you use to solve this problem? - What is the pattern unit? - Show me more than one way to solve the problem. |
Reading Vocabulary
- Author: the person who wrote the story - Illustrator: the person who drew the pictures - Noun: A person, animal, place, or thing - Adjective: describing words, they describes nouns - Genre: the type of writing a story is (i.e. fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, mystery, etc.) - Metacognition: thinking about your thinking - Schema: your background knowledge (what you know about something) - Inference: drawing conclusions (schema + clues from the text = inference) - Sequencing: putting a story in order - Fluency: how you read the story (choppy or smooth) - Comprehension: how well you understand the story (recalling events, telling the main idea, etc.) - Visualizing: painting a picture of the story in your mind Writing Vocabulary - Main Idea: what the story is about (first sentence) - Major Details: ideas that support your main idea - Minor Details: further ideas to support the major details - Ending: sum up the story with a sentence similar to the main idea. Math Vocabulary - Pattern Unit: the part in a pattern that repeats - Parts: - Whole: - Addends: - Sum: - Difference: |