Reading and Writing

 In Reading Workshop this week our focus will be reading non-fiction texts as a means for gathering information to use in our writing.
We continue to work on using Ardith Cole's "Better Answers" formula to answer constructed response(short answer) questions.  Student's should be using this formula when answering their Reading Group Work.  

Better Answers

1.  Restate the Question
2.  Construct a Gist Answer-general answer
3.  Use Details to Support Our Answer
4.  Stay on Topic
5.  Use proper Conventions

Writing Workshop