Here is the newsletter for A Trip to the Firehouse. Please have your students study their spelling words. Our test will be Friday January 10th, 2014. I have posted the words to spellingcity.com so your child can practice.
The IRI is next week. Please have your child practice timed reading. Average second graders read 77 words correct per minute in the winter which is a 3 on the IRI. Students who score between 52-76 score a 2 on the IRI and students who score 51 or below will score a 1 on the IRI. Please practice with your child. I have sent home a weekly homework fluency passage. We are also practicing in class. A fun way to practice is sticky reading. Students have a sticky note and they read for 1 minute, place their sticky note on the last word they read. Then they start back at the beginning and read again this time trying to pass their sticky note.
