Homework Direction Reminder!
Your child will be bringing home a reading book from the classroom each week.
Inside the back cover of the book are questions. Your child should answer the
highlighted questions in their journal that is sent home each week, as part
of their weekly homework assignment.
Your child should read the book each day, and answer one of the questions
daily. This is done so that students begin to write more lengthy answers,
using a "turn around", and details from the text to support the answer or
opinion, and examples or comparisons.
ONE SENTENCE IS NOT MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS!
See the rubric inside the notebook for the expectations.
If your child cannot read the story independently you can read it with/to
them. The discussion of what the story is about and your child's
comprehension of the story is what are most important.
The answers should be in complete sentences, written neatly with correct
spacing between words, punctuation at the end of each sentence, and should
make sense. ONE SENTENCE IS NOT MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS!
Please make sure your child does their best work.
The journal and the reading book are due at the end of the week.
Along with reading this book, your child should be reading a book of their
choice from the library, the at-home library, home or from the classroom each
day of the week for 15-20 minutes. This book should be a "just right book" on
their reading level.
A Reading Log should be kept in your child's homework folder to record
completed books and requires your signature. The book from the classroom with
the highlighted questions can be recorded in the Reading Log only once during
the week, when it is completed.
Math lessons sometimes include a take home math homework page to be completed
and returned the next day. If there is a house on the page it is homework. A
math review page will come home daily.
