New Learning Resource
If you are not familiar with BrainPop, it is an educational tool to help students learn academic content related to our units of study (and many other topics, too). We use the English versions of BrainPop, BrainPop Jr, and BrainPop ESL often at school. Having access to the Chinese version means that our students who speak Chinese at home can now access the information in both Chinese and English, maximizing their comprehension of key academic concepts. You can access this resource from home at http://www.brainpop.cn/ Your child should know the login and password details, but if not, please email your child's EAL teacher and we will be happy to share it with you directly.
See the '5th Grade Learning Links' for some specific English BrainPop videos related to our academic learning.
Book Clubs
Book clubs are a great way for students to:
- Collaborate with peers
- Read and enjoy books together
- Build a deeper understanding of books that may be at a slightly higher level than they could understand alone
- Practice and develop their thinking and language skills
During book clubs, students are expected to share their thinking, give reasons for their opinions, and provide evidence from the text to support their ideas. The following ‘text talker’ sentence frames are a good resource to help students use academic language to support their thinking with evidence from the text.
Please take a few minutes to look at the ‘text talker’ resource below with your child. Ask your child to tell you about something they read today, using one of these sentence frames to get started.