There are many ways you can help your child be prepared for the upcoming school year!
Suggestions for All Students
- Read fiction together as a family and then discuss the text:
- What was the problem? What was the solution?
- How did the characters change over the course of the story?
- What connections to yourself, other texts, or the world did you make?
- Did you learn anything from the story?
- Use R.A.C.E. (Restate question, Answer the question, Cite the source, Explain your response) in responses
- Read nonfiction together as a family and then discuss the text:
- What new information did you gain?
- Did any information in this text challenge what you already knew?
- How can you use this information in the future?
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Suggestions By Upcoming Grade Level
- Practice High Frequency Words (Recognize, Say, Understand Definition/Usage)
- Students entering Kindergarten: First 10 Words (the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it)
- Students entering Grade 1: First Hundred
- Students entering Grade 2: First and Second Hundred
- Students entering Grade 3: First, Second, Third, and Fourth Hundred
- Students entering Grade 4: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Hundred
- Students entering Grade 5: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Hundred
- Practice Basic Math Skills (Each grade is cumulative or includes the skills from the previous grades)
- Students entering Kindergarten: Count from 0 to 20
- Students entering Grade 1: Count from 0 to 120, Know addition and subtraction basic facts to 10
- Students entering Grade 2: Know addition and subtraction basic facts to 20, Practice double-digit addition and subtraction problems
- Students entering Grade 3: Practice addition and subtraction problems within 100
- Students entering Grade 4: Know multiplication and division basic facts 0 through 12
- Students entering Grade 5: Practice multi-digit addition and subtraction problems within 100,000
- Practice Writing Skills
- Students entering Kindergarten: Write full first and last name
- Students entering Grade 1: Write at least 5 sentences about a topic
- Students entering Grade 2: Write at least 2 paragraphs about a topic
- Students entering Grade 3: Write at least 2 paragraphs that use details from a text
- Students entering Grade 4: Type at least 1/2 page about a topic in one sitting
- Students entering Grade 5: Type at least a full page about a topic in one sitting
- All Students: Practice keyboarding using a program like Typing.com