What's Happening in 2A?: Mystery Readers

Monday, November 9, 2009

Mystery Readers

In order to improve our reading even more, we've started something new in 2A...Mystery Readers!! Each Friday, I will assign a new mystery reader. Only that student and I will know who the reader is. The reader will bring home a book in a manilla envelope. Please have your child read the book each night. For the first time you may want to read the book to your child. This way he/she can hear your expression!! Have your child read with expression and a strong voice. Practicing each night will improve fluency and accuracy as well.

On Friday the book needs to come back to school. After the 10:00 recess I will give clues to the class and they will try and guess the reader. Then...your child will read the book to the class!!!

It is important that your child practices each night. I do not want them to stumble on words or not know the story on Friday.

Thanks for helping with this!

1 comment:

UnknownNovember 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM
This sounds like a lot of fun!!! We look forward to being a mystery reader.
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Comprehension Skills and Strategies

Distinguish Fact and Opinion: Your child learned that facts are statements that can be proved. Opinions are what someone believes. The words I believe, I think, and in my view are clues that someone is expressing an opinion. Most students are able to state a fact; however, opinions are more challenging. Please practice this at home.

Sequence Events: Sequence is the order in which event take place. Clue words such as first, next, then, and last help readers know when events occur. When your child is summarizing have them sequence the events using the clue words.

Make Inferences: This is a strategy that readers use to understand what they are reading. When making an inference, readers need to fill in information that the author did not include. Readers must combine what they know with details from the text.
Pictures and words (text clues) + background knowledge (what we know) = an inference

Summarize: A summary is a paragraph or a statement in your own words that gives the most important ideas from the text that was read. Step 1: find the main ideas from the selection. Step 2: shorten and combine those ideas.

Categorize and Classify: We can categorize and classify objects, evens, ideas, and characters by how they are alike and how they fit into groups. When students are reading they can find types of things that are similar and group them into the same category.

Monitor Comprehension: Students must ALWAYS monitor their comprehension while they are reading. If they don't understand what was read they need to reread it. When readers are confused they can use "fix-up" strategies. Here is a list of those strategies:
*reread more slowly
*look up words
*read on
*use picture clues
*summarize
*ask for help