Reading Strategy – Context Clues –- Sebastian was supplied word bank and used these words to complete q context clue activity. Context clues are the words and sentences that surround a word and help explain the word's meaning. Context clues are hugely important because their comprehension and effective usage leads to academic success. They can increase the child's vocabulary, reading comprehension, and make children better readers.
Reading Strategy – STARS workbook pages 75 and 77- Interpreting Figurative Language – This activity was used to reinforce his understanding of figurative language through reading passages, answering questions, and we discussed his answers.
Grammar - Quotation Marks – Sebastian worked on using quotations in a divided two parts quote where it is necessary to put the quotation marks at the beginning and the end of each part and at each part put commas before and after the words that tell who is speaking. Examples were shown and he completed an activity where he had to add these in the required area. This was reviewed on completion.