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- Check Your Understanding - Back Up and Reread - Monitor and Fix-Up - Make and Adjust Predictions - Make a Mental Picture or Image - Cross-checking - Read Appropriate Level Texts that are a Good Fit - Tune into Interesting Words - Voracious Reading to Expand Vocabulary
 * __August 24 - September 9__**
 * Building our classroom routine
 * Building Strategies for our Literacy Cafe Menu
 * Comprehension:**
 * Accuracy:**
 * Fluency:**
 * Expand Vocabulary:**
 * Building stamina while we Read to Self ( up to 25 minutes)
 * Working on Words with Word Ladders
 * Cursive Handwriting Packet (letters: l, h, k, t, i, and u)
 * Learning and practicing Reading to Someone
 * Developing Writing Territories for writing workshop

This allows us to read with one another books that are the same or different and use one another as resources for unknown words and for comprehension. We can help one another check for understanding of what we read and remind each other to use our reading strategies. 1. worked on the practice of "Coaching or Time" as we read together 2. added strategies for coaching as we read: back up and reread, does tis make sense, what sounds right 3. read together the same story twice for practice and answered comprehension question -Use Prior Knowledge to Connect to Text
 * __September 12 - September 16__**
 * continued to build classroom routine
 * practiced **Read to Someone**
 * practiced looking back to a text as we read
 * built up RSQ further and had a quiz
 * took the Study Island Reading OAA Benchmark
 * completed and turned in first 6 cursive letters
 * built our stamina to 32 minutes: We will now use this as we begin our workshops in the upcoming weeks
 * added addition writing territories to our Writer's Notebook
 * Added strategies:
 * ACCURACY**
 * -**Chunk Sounds Together
 * COMPREHENSION**
 * began read aloud: __The Indian in the Cupboard__
 * introduced WORK on WRITING (or writer's workshop) and set our expectations for what it should look like and sound like

__**September 19 -September 23**__ -Read to Someone: SS Weekly - Work on Words: spelling, vocabulary, and cursive -Study Island -Read to Self -Students scoring less than 89% have the spelling words to study - Students who scored above 89% have vocabulary words - all can be found on the Spelling City website: []
 * created our Literacy Logs and practiced responding to what we have read in writing
 * began looking at Ohio History and Growth in our Ohio Weekly Studies magazine
 * worked on using CONTEXT CLUES to determine unfamiliar word meanings, both within a text and in isolation
 * introduced the Daily Five Workshop: consisting of daily rounds of:
 * took first Spelling Pretest: