March Ice breaker

The new standards for ELA (English Language Arts) are organized into which four categories?

• Writing, Speaking and Listening, Literature, and Art
• Art, Poetry, History, and Language
• Speaking and Listening, Art, Language, and Writing
• Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language

What do you do when you first begin a new passage?

• Lay your head down and give up.
• Figure out what type of text it is.
• Draw pictures all around it.
• Get a dictionary to look up every unknown word.

What do you do as you read a passage?

• Think about your reading by asking questions, highlighting important parts, and jotting quick notes out to the side.

• Write down every single thought you have.

• Outline every paragraph with your pencil.

• Highlight all of the words that look important.

What do you do when you come to an unfamiliar word?

• Immediately ask for a dictionary and look it up.

• Skip past the word and don't do back to figure out the meaning.

• Stop reading completely and stare at the word until you know it.

• Use your context clues to read around the word and think of what would make sense based on what is happening in the text. Use a dictionary to check if you are not sure at all.

When you get to the questions and answer choices, you should -

• Read the question and answer choices without stopping.

• Skim through the question and pick an answer.

• Read the question, analyze the key words to figure out what the question is asking, and jot what you think before looking at the answer choices.

• Spend a lot of time writing down all of your thoughts around the question.

WHO is going to rock the reading STAAR?!

• 3rd grade

• 4th grade

• 5th grade

• All 3rd-5th

Which one of these ways helps you understand a story?

• predicting what will happen next
• pausing after reading a part to ask yourself what just happened (giving yourself a comprehension check)
• retelling the BIG parts of the book 
• all of these choices

When using this Reading Strategy, you the reader are asking yourself questions to see if the text makes sense.

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Make-believing

• Questioning