Reading Update (Grades 3-5)

Benchmark Skills of the Week:

Continue working on the following benchmark items during your daily

instruction:

- Main Idea/Details

- Author's Purpose

- Cause and Effect

- Vocabulary

* Refer to the vocabulary task card in reference to multiple meaning words.

FCAT Writing Benchmark Focus:

- Ms. Carter will continue to pull all fourth graders for writing instruction.

- Fourth grade students will take an expository writing assessment on

Tuesday.

FCAT Reading Benchmark Focus:

- Follow Grade Level "Instructional Focus Calendar" based on Houghton

Mifflin series Theme 2

Date(s) to Remember:

- Reading PLUS - All students must utilize the computer

based reading program twice a week for 30 minutes a day.

- Accelerated Reader - Teachers, make sure that all of your students are

visiting the media center and are taking AR test daily. All students must

read and take 10 AR test by October 25.

- Expository Writing Assessment - Teachers, please place your scores in

my mailbox by Friday, October 19, 2007.