Literacy Learning
Students receive whole group instruction and then are given time to read and write independently while I provide focused instruction to individual and small groups of students.
During the week students engage in many valuable activities: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Word Work and Work on Writing.
Read to Self: Children reading to themselves as this is the foundation for creating independent readers.
Read to Someone: Reading with someone helps readers increase areas of comprehension, accuracy and fluency. It also increases reading involvement, attention and collaboration. This component allows students to have a friend who will listen to them and discuss their reading.
Listen to Reading: This component provides pronunciation and expression models that can only come from hearing fluent and expressive examples.
Word Work: During Work Work, we focus on spelling and vocabulary work with children, creating a richly literate environment. Students experiment with spelling patterns, memorize high frequency words, and develop a genuine curiosity and interest in new and unique words. By playing with words, word patterns, word families, prefixes and suffixes student hone their knowledge of words and increase their writing skills.
Work on Writing: The purpose of Work on Writing is to provide daily writing practice. Students focus on different writing techiniques, specific types of writing as well as sustained writing of any form they like.
Read to Self: Children reading to themselves as this is the foundation for creating independent readers.
Read to Someone: Reading with someone helps readers increase areas of comprehension, accuracy and fluency. It also increases reading involvement, attention and collaboration. This component allows students to have a friend who will listen to them and discuss their reading.
Listen to Reading: This component provides pronunciation and expression models that can only come from hearing fluent and expressive examples.
Word Work: During Work Work, we focus on spelling and vocabulary work with children, creating a richly literate environment. Students experiment with spelling patterns, memorize high frequency words, and develop a genuine curiosity and interest in new and unique words. By playing with words, word patterns, word families, prefixes and suffixes student hone their knowledge of words and increase their writing skills.
Work on Writing: The purpose of Work on Writing is to provide daily writing practice. Students focus on different writing techiniques, specific types of writing as well as sustained writing of any form they like.
These are four key components of successful reading:
Comprehension: I understand what I read.
Accuracy: I can read the words:
Fluency: I can read with expression.
Expand Vocabulary: I know, find, and use interesting words.
Comprehension: I understand what I read.
Accuracy: I can read the words:
Fluency: I can read with expression.
Expand Vocabulary: I know, find, and use interesting words.