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Module 3: Our Nation’s Story

📚Module 3: Our Nation’s Story
We are excited to begin HMH Literacy Module 3! Throughout this unit, students will explore the essential question:
✨ How do historic places, documents, and symbols represent our nation?
Throughout the module, students will read a variety of texts that explore important people, places, documents, and symbols connected to our nation’s history. Students will learn how things like the American flag, the Liberty Bell, historic places, and important documents can represent our country’s history, values, and ideas.
📖 Reading Skills
Students will practice:
  • Identifying the main idea and key details
  • Summarizing what they read
  • Making connections between different texts
  • Using details and evidence from texts to support their thinking
  • Building an understanding of how historical texts communicate information
✏️ Writing Skills
Students will use what they learn from their reading to write about important ideas and information, practice organizing their thoughts, and support their writing with details from texts.
🔤 Phonics & Word Study
Throughout the module, students will continue strengthening their phonics skills and working with spelling patterns, including dge, qu, and ge sounds and patterns.
🗣️ Vocabulary
Students will encounter and practice academic and content-specific vocabulary, including words such as independence, declaring, endowed, and presented. They will learn how to use these words to better understand historical texts and communicate their own ideas.
🇺🇸 Big Idea of the Module
By the end of the unit, students will have a stronger understanding of how historic places, documents, and symbols help tell the story of our nation. They will use their reading, writing, vocabulary, and discussion skills to think critically about the meaning and importance of these pieces of our history.
We’re looking forward to an exciting module filled with reading, discussion, writing, and learning about our nation’s story! 📚⭐
 
 

Module 2- Power of Words

Dear Families,
We are excited to begin our next literacy module! Over the next few weeks, we will be diving into Module 2: The Power of Words.
In this module, students will explore how words can be powerful tools for communicating ideas, sharing experiences, and influencing others. We will read a variety of texts while learning how authors use language, details, and text structure to communicate important messages. Our goal is to help students become thoughtful readers who can understand an author's message and explain their thinking using evidence from the text.
🌟 Our Essential Question
How can words have the power to make a difference?
We will return to this question throughout the module as we explore different texts and discover how people use words to communicate ideas, share their experiences, and make an impact.
💬 What Will We Be Working On?
Understanding Main Ideas: Students will learn how to:
  • Identify the main idea of a text.
  • Find important details that support the main idea.
  • Explain what they learned from a text.
  • Summarize important information.
  • Identify the most important information in a passage.
🔍 Reading Like a Detective: Good readers don't just read the words on the page—they look for clues!
Students will practice:
  • Asking and answering questions about what they read.
  • Making inferences using clues from the text and what they already know.
  • Finding evidence in the text to support their thinking.
  • Determining the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Paying attention to an author's word choices and how they affect the meaning of a text.
📝 Writing About Reading
Students will continue practicing how to write about what they read. They will work on:
  • Answering questions in complete sentences.
  • Writing clear responses about a text.
  • Identifying important information and details.
  • Using text evidence to support their ideas.
  • Organizing their thoughts into a clear response.
  • Explaining how and why their evidence supports their thinking.
🗣️ Vocabulary & Word Work
As we read, students will encounter new and interesting words. We will practice:
  • Using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
  • Using prefixes, suffixes, and roots to help understand new words.
  • Exploring multiple-meaning words.
  • Using new vocabulary when speaking and writing.
  • Paying attention to how an author's word choices help communicate an idea or message.
🏠 How Can You Help at Home?
You can easily support these skills during your child's regular reading time!
Try asking:
“What is the main idea of what you read?”
“What details helped you figure that out?”
“What did you learn?”
“What evidence from the text supports your answer?”
“What does this word mean? What clues helped you figure it out?”
“Why do you think the author chose that word?”
“What message do you think the author wants readers to understand?”
Even a few minutes of talking about a book can help your child practice these important reading skills!
❤️ Our Goal
By the end of this module, we want students to understand that words are powerful. Authors carefully choose words and details to communicate ideas, share information, and make an impact on their readers.
Students will continue growing as readers and writers by learning to think deeply, use evidence, and clearly explain their ideas.
We are so excited to continue our reading adventure together! 📚✨
Happy Reading!

Unit One Language Arts

Dear Families,
We are excited to begin our first literacy module of the school year! Over the next few weeks, we will be diving into Unit 1: What Is a Character?
In this module, students will explore different characters and learn how authors help readers understand who characters really are. We will read stories, poems, and other texts while learning how to look closely at what characters say, think, feel, and do. Our goal is to help students become thoughtful readers who can explain what they think and how they know it.
🌟 Our Essential Question
What makes a character interesting and memorable?
We will return to this question throughout the module as we meet different characters and learn about their experiences.
🦸 What Will We Be Working On?
 Understanding Characters: Students will learn how to:
  • Describe a character's traits and personality.
  • Explain what a character thinks, feels, says, and does.
  • Use a character's actions and choices to understand them.
  • Explain how a character responds to problems and challenges.
  • Notice how a character changes or grows throughout a story.
 Reading Like a Detective: Good readers don't just read the words on the page—they look for clues!
Students will practice:
  • Making inferences by using clues from the text and what they already know.
  • Asking and answering questions about what they read.
  • Finding important details that help them understand a story.
  • Using evidence from the text to explain their thinking.
📝 Writing About Reading
Students will also begin practicing how to write about what they read. They will work on:
  • Answering questions in complete sentences.
  • Describing characters using specific details.
  • Explaining their ideas clearly.
  • Using evidence from the story to support their answers.
  • Organizing their thoughts into a clear response.
🗣️ Vocabulary & Word Work
As we read, students will encounter new and interesting words. We will practice:
  • Figuring out what unfamiliar words mean.
  • Using context clues to understand words.
  • Using new vocabulary when speaking and writing.
  • Paying attention to how an author's word choices help us understand a story.
🏠 How Can You Help at Home?
You can easily support these skills during your child's regular reading time!
Try asking:
“What is your character like?”
“How do you know?”
“What did the character do? Why?”
“How do you think the character feels?”
“What clues in the story helped you figure that out?”
“Did the character change? How?”
“Would you have made the same choice? Why or why not?”
Even a few minutes of talking about a book can help your child practice these important reading skills!
❤️ Our Goal
By the end of this module, we want students to understand that characters are more than what they look like. Readers can learn about characters by paying attention to their words, thoughts, feelings, actions, choices, and relationships.
We are so excited to begin our reading adventure together! 📚✨