A New Reading Series
We are fortunate this year to be able to have a new reading series McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders. It has been a long time since we have had new reading material. It finally arrived right before school started. It is all aligned to the Common Core State Standards and has all the components for Language Arts and has many on-line, digital sections for additional practice. We will have reading groups with leveled readers for differentiation, a Reading/Writing Workshop text, and a text for Literature Anthology. Our first lessons dove right into fables and then informational text using expository text examples - wow it is rigorous! To go along with our learning of expository text and facts, we wrote our own informational piece called "Who Am I". The students listed facts about themselves and drew a picture then, everyone was to guess who the information was about and underneath was an actual photograph of the student. They really enjoyed this activity and I am glad that it happened to work right in with the text example. The students are still looking and guessing who the authors are in the hall.
