The Kindergarten readers have grown in different ways, from hearing words that begin with the same sound to pointing and reading our daily schedule with independence. Through our experiences we have noticed different strategies, or tools, readers use. Those tools are like powers, helping a super reader grow.
The more you practice a power, the stronger your power will be.
This week we practiced two powers; reread power and pointer power. We practiced rereading and pointing in many different ways.
Our growth as super readers is not limited to one workshop.
The Morning Message
Following work with the patterned text Brown Bear, Brown Bear, we practiced pointing to and reading a sentence connected to what we see on the trail everyday; leaves!
We introduced the sentence during morning meeting and talked about what we notice. How many words? Do you recognize a word within our sentence? These conversations introduced the words I and a as letters we know and words. Through ongoing opportunities to study a word or study a sentence, we can support students in their understanding of words as being made of parts, letters, and sounds.
We continued our practice of pointing to and rereading our leaf sentence during Fundations, changing the color word and rereading again! This helped us to ensure the word we pointed to was the word we read.
Reader's Workshop
To reinforce one-to-one pointing and the importance of rereading, the children each got their own sentence strip; I see a red leaf .
They pointed and reread the sentence. Then they cut out each word (How many words will we cut out? Five!) and put the words back in order, rereading their sentence to check their work. Rereading makes your reading stronger and helps readers to check that the word they read is the word they point to.
The children drew a picture of one red leaf and their colorful leaf sentences now decorate our classroom.
Leaves
We have loved the opportunity to share our pointing and rereading with our community. We introduced a poem and the children noticed familiar words; I see. We talked about the different color words, similar to the changing color words in our leaf sentence. We noticed rhyme; town and brown, yellow, hello.
The children eagerly reread (again and again) our poem, their audience snapping their fingers as if we were at a poetry reading. They then added their own detail to their poem and spent time rereading their poem with their reading partner.
Listen to readers in action; We Are Super Readers
Academic Choice
To further support pointer power and reread power, "leaf sentences" will be available during academic choice. Children will be able to make their own little book of leaf sentences using sentence strips with different color words, leaf stamps, and ink!
No comments:
Post a Comment