https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9 Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2022-01-23 20:04:29 UTC 2025-10-28 23:00:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2011501798 On nightly homework, have your child find the answers in the text by highlighting or underlining where it is located.

Have your child read one paragraph and then ask them what they just read or what was the most important part.

Choose a good book and read aloud to your child. Model fluent reading with expression. Talk about the book with your child.]]> 2022-01-25 15:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2011501798 https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2012541231 After reading a book to your child, have your child retell the story to you.  Then have your child tell about his/her favorite part of the book.

Guess Who?-After reading a book together, have your child describe a character from the story.   Family members try to guess the character that your child is describing.

Act It Out-Read together. Then have your child act out what happened in the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story.]]> 2022-01-26 01:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2012541231 holly_jenkins2 https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2013533211 For nonfiction texts, practice finding the main idea and details by having the child underline the main idea in red and the supporting details in blue (or any other colors you choose)

Read magazine and newspaper articles focusing on illustrations, graphs or charts.
Point out to your child what they show, ask her to help you interpret it and discuss how
they help explain or elaborate on the text.

Read and Research Together: Read the same book as your child either independently, together or a combination of both. Talk about the books as you read them, reviewing main ideas and plots and expressing your opinions on the book. Then read an additional book or books on the same subject and compare and contrast how the books both dealt with the same issue. For example, read two fiction books about family, or two different
topics about the same historical event or non-fiction topic]]> 2022-01-26 13:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2013533211 https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2013992327 ~Beginning, Middle, and End Chart
~BINGO Board that can be used for any story.
~Story Mapping whether it is done verbally or written down or using a template.]]> 2022-01-26 16:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2013992327 https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2016612012 In Kindergarten, we do a five finger retell for fiction and nonfiction.  Fiction-characters, setting, beginning, middle, end.  Nonfiction- main idea, and 4 key details. We use our hand and 5 fingers as a guide during the retell.




]]> 2022-01-27 19:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2016612012 https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2021287128 Making Connections:
★ text to text
★ text to self
★ text to world
Strategic readers connect what they know with what they are reading.
Always explain WHY you made the connection (because…).

Visualizing:
Strategic readers picture what is happening as they read.
Choose a piece of writing that contains descriptive language and strong verbs and share the image that was created in your mind.
Also EXPLAIN what visualizing helped you understand/infer about the story/characters.

Inferring:
Strategic readers “read between the lines” and make an educated guess based on evidence and reasoning.
When making an inference, you should answer two questions:
★ What is my inference?
★ What information did I use to make this inference?]]> 2022-01-31 13:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_zelando/gcb94g7vjabp66y9/wish/2021287128