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Wonders
The reading program your students will be using this year is Wonders. Wonders is a kindergarten through fifth grade reading program designed to accelerate reading levels through engaging text and instructional support. Wonders incorporates science and social studies content and standards to motivate students while supporting the new Common Core State Standards. With strategies to access complex text, research and inquiry, collaborative technology, integrated writing, and differentiated support in all areas of reading, Wonders will help students advance and prepare them for success in today’s world.
There are 6 units in our language arts curriculum. Each unit takes 6 weeks to complete. Here is a list of the sight words and theme vocabulary words that your child will review/ learn in each unit.
Go Math
Go Math Supports the Following 8 Standards for Mathematical Practices:
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Wonders Reading Strategies
Ask and Answer Questions – Readers ask and answer questions while reading to make sure they understand what they read. Sometimes the answers can be found right in the story. Sometimes readers have to use clues in the selection together with what they know to answer the question.
Determine Important Information - Readers determine important information by picking out the most important idea or ideas in a story.
Make Connections - Readers connect what they read to their own knowledge and experiences at home or school. They also connect topics and themes between different books that they have read. Finally, readers connect what they read to issues and ideas in the world.
Make Inferences - Readers make inferences to fill in the gaps that the author has left in a story. Readers use what they already know along with what they read to “read between the lines.”
Monitor Comprehension - Readers monitor comprehension as they read. Periodically, they stop and check that they have understood what they have read so far. If they do not understand what they read, they use fix-up strategies, such as rereading, reading ahead, or seeking help.
Predict - Readers make predictions by making a thoughtful guess about what will happen next in a story. Predictions can change as readers continue reading.
Summarize - Readers summarize by telling in their own words what the story is mostly about.
Visualize - Readers visualize by using the words in a selection to make pictures in their minds.Forming pictures helps readers make sense of what they read.