Reading This Week - Start Smart

This will be our final week of Start Smart. Start Smart is a unit in our Treasures book that introduces the format of our new reading program. It is important that the students get practice with the strategies and skills that they'll be expected to use throughout the year as we read a variety of texts. This week we are working on reading expository texts. Nonfiction will be used throughout the year and it's important that the students know how to use title, headings, pictures and graphics to enhance their understanding of what they read. The students will review five text structures that students will use as they summarize different texts. These can be found in their purple Start Smart books. We will also be reviewing reading strategies that will be a crucial part of what we focus on throughout the year. The students have used these in the past, but we will go over them again and discuss how they are used in our new reading series. Everything that we have gone over can be found on my teacher page. I've attached the files that we used while we were going over this information in class. This link will provide a good explanation of the strategies and skills that the students will use throughout the year.