literacy resources
Throughout the year we will post anchor charts and examples of student work to showcase what we are currently learning. We hope that you will be able to use these charts and examples of student work to reinforce our daily learning in your own home.
IDENTIFYING WHO IS TELLING THE STORY
For the next three weeks, first graders are working on identifying who is telling the story and providing evidence to support their answer. Most of the time, a story will not explicitly tell the reader who is telling it and the reader will need to use clues to infer who is telling the story. Please see the example below...
COMPARING TWO TEXTS ON THE SAME TOPIC
If you attended curriculum night, then you got to see this standard in action! Students are reading two non-fiction texts on the same topic and are comparing and contrasting the information. They should be able to identify the topic/main idea of both texts, facts that are found in BOTH texts, and facts that are found in only the first text and then only the second text. They should also be able to identify and then compare and contrast the text features in each text. Here is a strong example...
INFERRING
Students have been working on making inferences. Making inferences while reading greatly strengthens comprehension. To make an inference, students need to combine what they see in pictures or read in the words with their own background knowledge. Students can infer the events of the story and also the feelings of characters. Here are a few examples of strong inferences with complete and clear sentences.
text features
comparing and contrasting characters' adventures
identifying information from pictures and words
character change
opinion writing
fiction vs nonfiction
character traits
Character feelings
Retelling
Students should be able to read a fiction text and write the important things that happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Use this chart to see what should be included in each section of the retelling.