ReadingWe have been working hard on identifying text structure, learning new vocabulary, and writing summaries with our nonfiction reading. We will continue using these skills as we form research teams. Through our talk and writing in our research teams, we will demonstrate our new learning from our reading. We will practice taking notes based on text structure, vocabulary, main ideas and details. Thank you for your support and helping our students with reading at home every night! In word study we are looking at diphthongs this week! WritingIn writing this week, we will be continuing our opinion unit! We will do a self reflection to make sure our writing is easy for readers to read. We will also take some time to celebrate all of the hard work we have done and create a class anthology of our opinion pieces/reviews! Later in the week, we will learn about a new form of opinion writing- speech writing! As fourth graders with a lot of opinions, we will be looking to back up our claims with reasons and examples in our speeches.
Here are a few examples of opinion pieces:
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