BLM Day 14

In Communications today, we started with Student of the Week. Went over our Daily Language.

Reviewed our Word Work for the week: Challenging Plurals. Then we read an article, determined what words were plural, and circled them. It included a lesson on possessive nouns (ask your fourth grader to retell Ms. Leom's story about how she remembers "possessives" ... two year olds ... blankets ... MINE!).

Then we talked about Vocabulary, how a word can have different meanings.

Followed by a discussion about why it matters:

Words with more than one meaning are important, because word meanings can change your understanding of what you read.

In Flex, we read our Reader's Theater books, "Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson". We made a list before we started of all the skills we should be using as we read:
- Main Idea and Supporting Details
- Asking Questions
- Biographies
- Word Work: Challenging Plurals
- Vocabulary - words have different meanings
- Fluency
- Characters 
and MORE!!

There is NO way we can be successful readers if we are focusing on ALL these skills. We practice the skills individually, so we can use them automatically when we read. As we are still progressing on these skills, we need to pick one for today. Within groups, students picked a skill to focus on, and use on their sticky note. Ms. Leom was able to monitor students by walking around and reading the notes they were taking (or not taking). She was able to sit with the groups and listen to students demonstrate their fluent reading.