Literacy
The following comprehension strategies are taught in the Making Meaning program:
- Retelling
- Using schema/making connections
- Visualizing
- Wondering/Questioning
- Making inferences
- determining important ideas
- Understanding text structure
- Summarizing
- Synthesizing
Textual evidence is a skill used frequently this year, and often it is difficult for students to remember how to cite this evidence in written responses. The acronym RACE will help them remember what to include.
R Restate the question.
A Answer the question.
C Cite evidence.
E Explain or Elaborate.
Your child has explanations of each step, as well as sentence starters for citing evidence in the literacy notebook.
