Reading and Writing 2022-2023

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing

    Correct Use of Capital Letters

    Correct Use of Basic Punctuation

     Parts of Speech

    Silent Letters and Letter Combinations

    How to Write a Letter

Zadok completes a daily writing assignment and a weekly spelling test. He also writes a short book report each week.

Reading

Zadok really took off in reading this year. He loves all kinds of books and now spends as much (or more) time reading as I spend reading to him. 

After reading Pigs, Pizza and Poetry by Jack Prelutsky, he was inspired to write his own short poem.


 

 


 Zadok's (Partial) Reading List:

    Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

    Oh, Sal! by Kevin Henkes

    The Great Brain John D. Fitzgerald

    In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

    The Battle of Britain by Quentin Reynolds

    Mountain of Fire by Paul Tomsen

    Between Worlds: Folk Tales of England and Ireland by Kevin Crossley Holland

    It's Boba Time for Pearl Li! by Nicole Chen

    Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin

    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

    Minna's Patchwork Coat by Lauren A. Mills

The Amulet Series by Kazuo Kibushi

Show Me History Series by James Buckley Jr.

    Sacagawea

    George Washington

    Harriet Tubman

    Abraham Lincoln

    Walt Disney

    Muhammad Ali 


Childhoods of Young Americans by Various Authors

    Helen Keller

    Thomas Edison

    Wilbur and Orville Wright 



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