Week 9, Friday: Use base-ten drawings and straw bundles to add · Use text features to locate information

Reading Celebration

Your child gives a one-minute 'tour' of the 'Sharks' book to a family member, pointing out the table of contents, a heading, a caption, a bold word, the glossary, and the index and telling what each is for. Connect to last week: 'Which feature tells the main topic of a section fastest?'

Reading Response or Assessment

Using a library nonfiction book your child has not read before, give six written tasks: find the page number for a topic using the table of contents, find the meaning of one glossary word, use the index to find a page about one topic, copy one caption, write one bold word and what it means, and write one heading and what that section is about. Score each lookup.

Publishing and Author's Chair

Your child copies the finished narrative onto three pages (First, Next, Last), draws a picture for each with a caption, and adds a title page. Read it aloud from the Author's Chair; the audience retells the three events in order to prove the sequence was clear.

Phonics Check

Dictate ten two-syllable words and have your child divide and read each: rabbit, tiger, cupcake, turtle, magnet, paper, inside, little, picnic, candle. Note which syllable type gave trouble for a Monday warm-up next week.

Independent Reading

Your child reads a self-chosen book for 15 minutes; if it is nonfiction, they flag one feature that helped them; if fiction, they flag a place with a two-syllable word they figured out.