Below you will find a summary of the skills from our first reading theme. All of these skills are taught in the classroom during our reading block! The theme 1 reading test will be on Wednesday, September 6th!

Theme 1: Making Connections
Big Idea- When you make connections, you connect the ideas from a reading to what you already know.

Grammar- Subjects and Predicates
Big Idea: The subject of the sentence it the “who or what” the sentence is about. The predicate of the sentence has the verb and tells “what the subject is doing.”
Example: The boy ran to get the mail.
Subject = The boy
Predicate = ran to get the mail.
Example: She is very happy.
Subject = She
Predicate = is very happy

Target Skill- Hyperbole
Big Idea: A hyperbole is an exaggeration.
Example: The park has more trees than a jungle.

Writing- Story
Big Idea: A story has characters, a setting, a plot, and often a theme (lesson the character/reader learns)!

Theme 1 writing pieces:
Humorous Fiction and Question and Answer
*Normally, your student would write a piece for each of these genres. However, since this is the first theme, the students are only responsible for a question and answer piece. These pieces were written during our writing block and will be turned in after they are published (on September 6th after the theme 1 reading test).