Using Context Cues, Forming Sentences, and Questioning
This week many of the speech and language groups at Prairieview reviewed target vocabulary from a story they had read. They used context cues to infer meaning of unfamiliar verbs and adverbs and then made up their own sentences with the new vocabulary. Mrs. DeYoung gave examples to help students think of original sentences. For homework the children will be thinking of other descriptive words to use to write scary stories.
Students at Lakeview continued to practice the questioning strategy while reading from a novel. They thought of questions to anticipate characters' feelings and predict events. The sixth and seventh graders were encouraged to think about themes in the story as well as the plot. An author may use a narrative to teach a lesson while telling the story.
