Our reading series is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt- Journeys. A vocabulary and comprehension test will be given over each story read in class. We will not cover all of the stories in the text. However, we will study skills such as context clues, main idea, character descriptions, cause/effect, and supporting details in additional works of literature. Tests will be posted in advance. A minimum of two novels will be read this year. More information on that will come later.
Accelerated Reader- Your child should read every night and always have a book at school to read. The STAR test will determine the number of points required per nine weeks for your child. Your child will receive two reading grades from AR each nine weeks. One grade for the total number of points achieved and one grade from the average of the test scores on the AR tests.
Accelerated Reader- Your child should read every night and always have a book at school to read. The STAR test will determine the number of points required per nine weeks for your child. Your child will receive two reading grades from AR each nine weeks. One grade for the total number of points achieved and one grade from the average of the test scores on the AR tests.