Reading Literature and Information R.5.2

Our reading focus for second quarter is around Reading Standard 2: Use and identify details in a text in order to summarize and determine the theme or main idea of a text. We have been using the text "Eaglesmount: Silverhorn" to practice this work. Here is the process we are using to meet this standard.

We began this work by identifying important details in a text. We used a color code to help us easily see the character, setting, event, problem and solution information we identified.

Then we worked as groups to write a summary using the information we identified.

While doing this work we have also done some work with vocabulary - recognizing important or unfamiliar words, using the context clues within the text to help us understand, and finding the definition in the dictionary (either online or in print).

Next week we will be doing more work around theme, starting with a teacher model. We will go more indepth with Step 4 from our Process Anchor Chart, helping us more independent in our work of identifying the theme of a text. 

We will be doing similar work during writing to help us with the informational side of this standard. More to come on that!