A Week of Preparation!!!!!

What Is Going On?
Since we are beginning our GRADE assessment next week, we will not be having spelling words this week. We are reviewing this week. We are hoping that students will have more time to read without having to study for spelling tests. The GRADE test is broken into listening comprehension, word reading, sentence comprehension, word meaning, and passage comprehension. The best way to prepare would be to get a good night’s sleep and have a healthy breakfast.
Other ways to prepare:
Ask questions about what your child has read (who, what, when, where, why, and how questions).
Have your child read for at least 20 minutes nightly. This will increase your child’s fluency. It will also help your child with the GRADE assessment in that it requires independent reading.

Phonics:
Homophones, multi-syllable words, -ing Endings,
The –er ending in two-syllable words Contractions -le ending in
two-syllable words Sound of y at the end of longer words; the prefix un,
--ed, -ing Endings, silent Consonants, gh, k(n), b
Comprehension:
Summarize, Understanding Chapter Books, Visualizing Making Generalizations
Following Directions Making Judgments, Sequence of events;
Vocabulary:
High Frequency Words; Puns ;word families, Dictionary Word Meanings
Dictionary Guide Words with Endings
Fluency:
Decodable Text; Leveled Readers