Reading with Mrs. Bender

This week we finished up Little House on the Prairie in reading class.  The kids summarized each chapter and then selected their favorite chapter to write about.  They are also making diaramas about their favorite chapter that we will display in the library next week.  Skill work focused on summarizing, selecting the main idea along with supportive details.  Also reviewed suffixes and prefixes this week along with identifying idoms within the story.  We also discussed the correct way to use our inferences as it changes if you are doing a fiction or nonfiction story.