What's New in Basic Skills

December into January: MIS Grades 4-5

Have a wonderful new year!

4th Grade: Our 4th grade Wilson Just Words students are combining their first three syllable types to read and spell multisyllabic words.  Practice with y’s role as a vowel has been included in open syllable work. Each lesson involves work with individual wordlists, sentences, and passages.  In addition to passages for decoding practice, brief leveled texts are being used for comprehension work. 

4th grade math students have focused on supporting classroom topics leading up to their Unit 3 assessments around the break, especially with fractions and decimals. Unit 4 work will be supported in January. Work with i-Ready has continued, and students will take their midyear diagnostic in January. This will adjust the prescribed skills on their learning paths.

5th Grade: Our LA sessions have focused on the first 10 units of the Rewards Reading System, utilizing prefixes, bases, Latin roots, and suffixes as well as all six syllable types.  This will help us to break apart to read as well as spell words utilizing various syllable types.  There is also comprehension work built into our week.  

Our math sessions have focused on unit 3 content, namely fractions, for pre-break assessment.  Our early work in unit 4 will have us investigating decimals. Work with i-Ready has continued, and students will take their midyear diagnostic in January. This will adjust the prescribed skills on their learning paths.