What's New in Basic Skills

March into April:

It was so nice to see you at March conferences!

4th Grade: Our fourth grade language arts group completed unit 11 of 14 in Wilson Reading’s Just Words. Students have been incorporating vowel team “spelling options” into longer words.  The students are applying what they learn to the reading of grade level nonfiction passages.

  Fourth grade math students have been practicing mixed skills from the school year such as adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators and solving multi step number stories. They have also begun to tackle long division.

5th Grade LA: Our 5th grade readers have completed the first 23 units of the REWARDS program. (There are 25.) They decode words up to 7 syllables by analyzing prefixes and suffixes and identifying vowel sounds in order to know how many syllables to decode. They have been applying academic vocabulary to nonfiction passages which also serve as a basis for comprehension and fluency practice.

5th Grade Math: Our sessions have been centered around support of in-class lesson topics for unit 6.  The most recent fifth grade content was creating line plots and working with decimal operations.