Communication+Arts

=Here's what we're working on in C.A........=

**Reading Skills:**
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 * **Inferences:** Making predictions/drawing conclusion based off of information in the text and by looking at the pictures.
 * **Summarizing/Main Idea and Details:** We are working on identifying the main idea in text and details that support that idea. Usually in non-fiction text, the main idea is in the first sentence or right after. The supporting details are the "meat of the paragraph" and then the main idea is usually stated again at the end of the paragraph or story. Check out the video below to review this skill!

-text to self -text to text -text to world
 * **Making Connections:** While reading, we are learning to make deep connections. The types of connections we are learning about are:

**Interactive Reading Resources for KIDS:**
We use these sites at school and your child has their own login.
 * RAZ-KIDS: http://www.raz-kids.com/main/LoginStudents can read, listen and record books read and take quizzes over them. They earn stars and then buy things to but in their RAZ Rocket! (my username is kpittmanl)
 * Blogging: Students have used this more in Library to blog about the books they are reading. http://kidblog.org
 * Treasures Resources: http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/national/students
 * Accelerated Reader: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx
 * Into the Book: http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.htm
 * Acuity Practice (MAP practice) https://www.acuityathome.com/index.jsp