Even though we started reading our new book Bud, Not Buddy, our Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing routines stayed the same! 📖

Learned two new vocabulary words and practiced using them in super sentences! 📝✅
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Chatter 🗣️, excitement 🤗 and applause👏🏼 as we finish reading The Westing Game!

After we finished reading, we had a final discussion on the book.

Stay tuned as we start our next book, Bud Not Buddy 📖!
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This might not look like anything important, but in reality these anchor charts are very useful to Ss!

During Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing shared reading, Ss help add content to the anchor charts, which helps keep track of what we are reading!📖

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After each day’s reading, Ss answer text-based oral comprehension questions. Many of the Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing questions begin with how or why, which allows for deeper understanding of the text. 📖

🗣️Listen to the Ss thoughtful discussions!
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Partner reading=rereading the text that was just chorally read, but this time with a partner! 👧🏼👦🏻📖

📸1: Partner Focus (what to be thinking of while partner reading)
📹1: Partners reading
📹2: Discussing focus
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Choral reading is SUCH an important part of our Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing reading block everyday! Fluency is improving daily!🗣️📖

📹1: Ss choral reading with teacher
📹2:Teacher interrupts choral reading briefly to model comprehension strategy
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Ss are provided with a “first focus” which helps Ss to read for a meaning-oriented purpose. 📖

➡️Listen to today’s focus on how The Westing Game characters have changed!🕵🏻

✅set first focus
✅choral read text
✅discuss first focus
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Another routine that Ss do daily is share their writing, first with a partner then with the class. 🔈🆙to hear a proud writer! 📝 📖

Pair-Share Responses:
🗣️share writing with partner
🗣️share writing with class
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One nice part about Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing is the daily structure of the shared reading block. Each lesson starts with word study. Listen to us learn about 2 new words! Science of Reading Classroom goyenfoundation

1️⃣say the word
2️⃣clap the word out
3️⃣identify the syllable types
4️⃣learn the meaning

We have busy reading The Westing Game and trying to solve the murder mystery 🔎🕵🏻‍♀️! These wonderful writers not only answered the written response question BUT also supported their answer with evidence from the book!! goyenfoundation Science of Reading Classroom Curriculum Matters Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing

Working on our 🗣️fluency while choral reading about unicellular organisms such as amoebas, euglenas and paramecium 🦠🧫! Science of Reading Classroom goyenfoundation Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing

💭🤔set focus
🗣️choral read
👩🏻‍🏫👧🏼👦🏻discuss focus after reading

Take a look at some amazing super sentences from our word study practice! 🌟📝Science of Reading Classroom goyenfoundation Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing

Part 2️⃣ of word study:
✍🏻plan super sentence using graphic organizer
1️⃣subject
1️⃣verb
✍🏻expand with details using ❓words
✍🏻write the sentence

Started the week with explicitly learning 2 new vocabulary words that we saw in our reading today…organ & organelle🫀🫁! Science of Reading Classroom goyenfoundation Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing

Part 1️⃣ of our word study:
🗣️say it
👏🏼clap it out
🔢how many syllables
🗣️discuss syllable types
💡learn meaning

One last photo as Milton Terrace Elem 5th Graders 💚! We will miss you all, but we know you are SO ready for Ballston Spa MS! 💜💛

We are SO happy that the 5th Grade Survivor Tournament returned this year! MTE Grade 5 had so much fun playing dodgeball this afternoon! 🤾🏻‍♀️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣🤾🏼Milton Terrace Elem #bscsd

Some movie, tv & book characters joined MTE Grade 5 classes today 😉! 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏼‍♂️🐭👑 #characterday Milton Terrace Elem

We were seeing double and triple today in MTE Grade 5! #twinday 👀👯‍♀️

We had a “beary” special Valentine’s Day with our 5th Grade Buddies! Milton Terrace Elem MTEKindergarten MTE Grade 5