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Literacy
This month, focus on reinforcing the Author or VESS reporter plan.
When the students are doing their observations and reports about the experiments or field trips,
make sure they have a structure and a clear action plan.
Reading is so important at this age that we can’t leave it aside!
The students depend less on images
and much more on what you are saying and
how you are saying it. They are gaining a
better comprehension of the keys for
context,

prediction,

retrospective

and

prospective.
An area of their brain that is
developing quickly at this age is the one for
reading comprehension. That is why they
are more interested in the development of
the Reading for comprehension and the search for deeper meaning of the text, and not always the
images.
They like to give an explanation to a part of the book, instead of trusting on the photo to
tell the story. Stop periodically between pages and let the children think what it is that is really
happening there and what is going to happen next.
Let them be the ones to be able to broaden their vocabulary on their own, promoting the
habit of understanding the meaning of unknown words based on the keys of the context supplied
by the story. If they are struggling to make a conceptual map, a web or the routine for thought,
let them make that effort. These methods also teach the children analytical and critical thinking.