Weekend Homework Due Monday, February 4

Tonight your child is coming home with the weekend homework due on February 4. The packet is broken up into two sections: Excerpt from Wheels of Change and Excerpt from Wolf Stalker. Your child is responsible for reading Wheels of Change and answering three short response questions. The second passage, Wolf Stalker, was completed in class. The following is a list of strategies the children used in class to help answer the questions:

1. Read the questions first. Underline what the question is asking you to prepare yourself for reading.
2. Chunk and retell while reading. If you find the answer to a question, mark it in the passage and then continue reading.
3. Answer each question using Restate Answer Detail Detail
4. Reread the answer checking for RADD and for correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

When answering short response questions, there are many acceptable variations of answers. Please read your child's answers from the classwork as well as two examples of model answers attached to the packet.

Below please find the rubric that will be used to score the short response answers.