Paragraph Shrinking by Amanda L.

Paragraph shrinking
The steps for paragraph shrinking are:
1.See if it is a who or a what
2.Read the paragraph and put down what is most important
3. Read it again and then write a complete sentence about the paragraph.
It helps me find the main idea and details faster and easier. When I can use it is when I am reading a book and want to find the main idea in the paragraph. It helps me a lot when I paragraph shrink.

Amanda's Fire Letter

Dear parents,
If I were a firefighter, I would dig a trench and the fire would stop. A fire might rekindle and that means the fire started up again and firefighters don’t like that word. A lot of brigades came from all different places and then the wind came and then it changed. The flames got bigger and we got water from a lake and helicopters came and threw chemicals on it and the billowing flames stopped.
Sincerely, Amanda L

Good Readers by Amanda L.

What readers do best is if they don’t know a word they can sound it out. They can skim and scan which means to look over but not to read. You can make connections by seeing what happens in a story and what happens in your life. If you don’t know what a word is you can reread it .The five finger rule is if you have a book you can read it and if you don’t know a word you put a finger up. If you have all five fingers up that means the book is probably to hard and you need to get an easier book to read.