February 12-14

 I can incorporate a variety of strategies to comprehend, interpret, and manage information from fiction and non-fiction texts (Grade 6 ELAL)

In grade 6, we continue to practice comprehension skills by reading increasingly complex texts. We use critical thinking skills such as predicting, inferring, making connections, summarizing, synthesizing, and visualizing. 

Students are supported with these skills through small and large group reading instruction. We just started a new full-class read-aloud, "Alone," by Megan Freeman. While students are listening to the novel, they have been using their visualization strategies and adding little bits to their visual journal page. They are able to use summarizing skills and deeper thinking skills to choose the images and words to add to their page. 

This week, we also read some information about Black History Month together as a class in order to practice our non-fiction reading strategies and learn more about the importance of Black History in North America.

Students then had the opportunity to choose an article to read about a specific person who demonstrated the Power of One. The choices were Viola Desmond, Willie O'Ree, Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela. Ask your child which article they chose! 

After reading, students answered some comprehension questions then used the visualization strategy to create a page representing the information they learned about important people in Black History. 

We are so proud of our grade six group for their ability to read or listen to different texts and engage in rich discussion connected to our learning!