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The Richter Review Weekly Newsletter-November 16, 2015 Reading Calendar of Events In our reading groups we have been working on Week of 11/16/2015 identifying the main idea of different types of Monday 11/16-Reading log is due! text. In the coming weeks, your child will be Thursday 11/19-Dairy Queen Night 5-7 bringing home short, non-fiction passages where Friday 11/20- Spelling Test they will have to answer comprehension questions Looking Ahead-Thursday & Friday, November as well as find the main idea in the passage. Our 26th & 27th –No School! Happy Thanksgiving! strategy is to (1) read the passage (2) read the questions (3) reread the passage searching for Word Work the answers and the evidence. I encourage them Each week your child will be responsible for to use a highlighter or yellow crayon to underline mastering the following list. Students will take the evidence. These are skills that your child will a pretest on Monday to determine their need to be successful with our standardized testing this spring. I insist that they find the individual study words for the week. If they evidence in the reading to support their thoughts spell the word correctly on the pretest, you will and I attached a point value to this work. Please not see that word on their individual study list assist your child and discuss the passages. that week. Students will only have to study the Additionally, it is fine for student to put these words they missed for the Friday test. Please activities on their reading log the night that it is help your child prepare for the word test on assigned as homework. Thank you for your at Friday. This week’s word focus is using (oi & oy) home support. to spell words correctly. Fastt Math 1. joy 11. boy Now that the weather is turning colder and it is darker earlier, I would like to 2. point 12. soil encourage students to be working on 3. voice 13. choice Fastt Math from home in the evenings. 4. join 14. boil We do it 3 times a week here at school, but in order to increase fact 5. oil 15. come fluency we would like to see students 6. coin 16. are completing Fastt Math 5 days a week. 7. noise 17. poison Students know how to access the 8. spoil 18. destroy program from the SCOH website. It’s quick and fun and greatly improves 9. toy 19. though fact fluency, which leads to improved 10.joint 20. several

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