Dibels Testing

Big Ideas in Reading and Dibels testing

Fluency

Fluency (automaticity) is reading words with no noticeable cognitive or mental effort. It is having mastered word recognition skills to the point of overlearning. Fundamental skills are so "automatic" that they do not require conscious attention.
Examples of automaticity:

• shifting gears on a car
• playing a musical instrument
• playing a sport (serving a tennis ball)

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Point to Remember:

Fluency is not an end in itself but a critical gateway to comprehension. Fluent reading frees resources to process meaning.

For students to develop fluency, they must:

• perform the task or demonstrate the skill accurately, and
• perform the preskills of the task quickly and effortlessly.

Once accurate, fluency develops through plentiful opportunities for practice in which the task can be performed with a high rate of success.

Walters Art Gallery

http://www.thewalters.org

http://thewalters.org/teachers/pdf/visit-activities/ancient%20greece%20and%20rome.pdf
March 7th

History Test on Chapters 1-6 Monday - details

Dear Parents,

The test tomorrow will only have material that was reviewed extensively with students this past week.  There will be 25 multiple choice questions and all the questions will be taken from the review sheets that your child has in their binder under history.  

My apologies concerning not having a review on the blog. 

Mrs. Gowin

Onward and Upward!

How to "Grow" a Reader

Frederick County Public Library Summer Reading Program

"You become a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you could read, let you taste the magic of stories, took you to the library, and allowed you to stay up later at night to read in bed." - Jim Trelease (20th century). The New Read-Aloud Handbook, ch. 1 (1985).

Children's List of Good Reads from FCPL including a list of new books.
For children in grades K-5

“The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.” 
― Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook


Recommended series books: 
Amelia Bedelia, Flat Stanley, Henry and Mudge, Magic Tree House, Magic School Bus, My Father's Dragon Trilogy (we are reading book 1 this week!), Rainbow Fairies, A to Z Mysteries and whatever books your child self-selects!


Good Reads 2nd Grade Reading List

Education.com Summer Reading List

The Best Books on Reading I've Ever Read (For Parents!)

 The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease 

and Read All About It! (book excerpts and reviews for teens and preteens).

STEM In Class Activities

Recycling old crayons

(Solids to liquids to solids--

Energy in the form of HEAT makes the change possible)

Just out of the oven...The class loved their mini cupcake crayons!

Ordering animal tails in inches from least to greatest and greatest to least...

Ask your child if they remember the animal tails they had and how their lengths.

Did you know a bobcat's tail is only 8 inches long?

A lion's tail is 36 inches!

Fountain Rock Field Trip!

Living Organisms Program 

May 2013

Ms. Alice discussed the walking stick's adaptations with us.  It's hard to see, but it's on her palm!

We observed the toad eating and the food chain in action.

Rosy the tarantula

Having fun on the pond observation deck!

Observing the quarry pond organisms...we could see the turtles, but not much else due to the algae.

Ms. Terri had us demonstrated the food chain with puppets. 

We touched a snake!

Thank you parent chaperones!