Language Arts stations
READING IS TO THE MIND WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Reading stations
Read with a Buddy for Fluency
Buddy reading for fluency is an opportunity to use leveled readers to read with a partner to increase stamina and fluency when reading text.
Word Work
In third grade the goal for spelling moves more towards word study. This means breaking down the word. Phonics will be a part of our instruction, but so will prefixes, suffixes, base words, and identifying compound words. The purpose to be able to identify new words by looking at all the part and being able to use word analysis skills to create a meaning when it is an unknown word.
istation.com
Istations is a resources that personally differentiates it's program to instruct your child in all the skills that are necessary to be a successful reader. We will be using istation.com daily as a resource for your child to work on their individualized assessed goals in language arts. Our goal is to gain greater vocabulary, listening, fluency,stamina, and text comprehension.
Reading Groups
Reading Groups time in my class is often characterized by small group study. Sometimes, we are reading short passages. At other times students may be engaged in novel studies or partner work related to our weekly feature text. Our goal is to become better, and more critically thinking readers!
Work on Writing
During Writing on Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursday Writing, students will be following the 5 steps of the writing process to further establish their writing skills. Our goal is to be able to construct strong paragraphs with a main idea and details that back up their topic.
Istation is a new and exiting program we will be using this year at Belle Heth. Istation will costume fit to your child's needs in reading and many of the concepts that encourage growth in their fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. Please feel free to have your child use it at home as an tool to cultivate their abilities in reading.
Istation Delivers:
Istation Delivers:
- Computer-adaptive assessments that dynamically adjust to each student's skill level
- Pre-K through 8th grade curriculum in reading and interdisciplinary studies
- Engaging, interactive content in a game-like format that kids love
- Differentiated instruction that corresponds to RTI tiers
- Assessments and lessons reviewed by a respected advisory board of academic scholars
- Measurable results in elevating students to on-grade-level reading
- Aspirational characters that engage students and serve as role models of achievement
- Automatic, real-time scoring that saves teachers time and reduces the risk of human error
- Immediate access to comprehensive, customizable, insightful reports
- A program that requires no manual data re-entry or manual syncing
- A rich library of teacher resources, including over 1,900 teacher-directed lessons, complete bibliographies for each lesson, online interactive books, a teacher's manual, a user's guide, and technical support