This week we used all of their powers to work with another mentor text; Not a Box.
Celeste read the book Not a Box on Monday morning, inviting children to listen for the short /o/ sound in the words not and box. The readers listened for and recorded the first, middle, and last sound in short /o/ words. Then they worked in partnerships to play teacher; one Kindergartener was the teacher and their peer practiced writing the words, using the same visuals from their independent practice.
In the pictures you can see powerful mistakes and cross outs as well as children taking initiative by setting up their work space with all of their reading tools!
Playing Teacher with a peer is a favorite way to practice developing knowledge and skills.
Then the readers took on the role of word scientists and problem solvers. They circled and underlined noticings; digraphs, sight words, and words inside of words! Finally they copied one of the repeating sentences and cut and glued the picture (picture power) to match; What are you doing on top of that box?
When writing the sentence they counted the 9 words, ensuring a finger space between each word. They added punctuation, a question mark, at the end. We practiced reading the sentence like a question with lots of expression!
On Wednesday the readers thought of what their not-a-box could be. They practiced drawing their idea during morning meeting and used their practice to help them draw their idea during reader's workshop!
We put our repeating question and response together, building our own Not a Box book. Elena helped to design the front cover.
We continued to make connections to Not a Box by writing words that rhyme with not and working in an -ot family book during Fundations.
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