Reading Strategies

The past two days were a refresher course for the students on a couple of important reading strategies.  These are two strategies that they learned in second grade and will continue to use throughout their lifetime.  They are cause/effect and using context clues.  The pictures below show the students using context clues.  The statements below the pictures are cause and effect sentences the students created after reading an article about sea turtles on the National Geographic for Kids website.

Green sea turtles have strong flippers, so they can travel long distances.  Ambrosia & Austin

The green sea turtle is green in color, because it eats seaweed and sea grass.  Danica

Most baby leatherback sea turtles don't make it to the sea, because they are scooped up by birds or confused by house lights.  Zack

Female green sea turtles come up on the beach, so they can lay their eggs.  Julian

People throw plastic in the water, so sea turtles mistake them for jelly fish.  Joel