5S Reading

Current Unit: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

This novel will be read in a variety of ways: read aloud by the teacher, independently by student, or whole class by student volunteers. At the end of each chapter, the students will write two sticky notes using these Reading Strategies:

Predictions, Connections, Inferences, Visualize, Identify (main idea,theme), Summarize

Check-In Quiz- every couple chapters and the students will be able to use their books.
Novel Study- every 3-5 chapters and students write down their own answers for a Classwork grade.
End of book Test- students will complete a test on the entire book~ guidance will be given on what to study.

NEXT NOVELS:

Angel Tree

Hidden Figures

Al Capone Does My Shirts

AR (Accelerated Reading)

All students are given an AR goal at the beginning of each quarter and will need to independently read and test in order to meet that goal. It will count towards their quarterly Reading grade. To keep up to date with how your child is doing, you can use the Home Connect website. In order to login, you will use your child's user name and password that they use at school to take AR tests.

Mark Twain Books (MASL Nomination)

MASL (Missouri Association of School Librarians) nominates books each year that they feel are important for students to read.

Holy Infant participates in the voting process to determine which books receive the Show Me, Mark Twain, and Truman Awards. Show Me books are for students in Grades 1-3 and all books are read to those classes in the Library. Grades 4-6 participate in the Mark Twain program. Any student who reads and passes the AR test on at least four of the ten nominees is eligible to vote for a favorite and will receive a Pizza Party reward.

2025-2026 Mark Twain Nominees

1. The Cursed Moon-Angela Cervantes

2. Extra Normal-Kate Alice Marshall

3. Farther Than the Moon-Lindsay Lackey

4. Four Eyes-Rex Ogle and Dave Valeza

5. Hidden Truths-Elly Swartz

6. How to Stay Invisible-Maggie C.Rudd

7. Jawbreaker-Christina Wyman

8. The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle-Taryn Souders

9. Nothing Else but Miracles-Kate Albus

10. When Sea Becomes Sky-Gillian McDunn

11. A Work in Progress-Jarrett Lerner