Now that students feel more confident that they truly are READERS, we are ramping up their reading and teaching them to draw on multiple sources of information- meaning, syntax, and at the sounds of letters so they can begin to use them to read the beginning of words on their own. "This new unit explicitly invites children to begin conventional reading. This is challenging work, but the part that will make this so powerful for kindergarteners at this stage in the year is to hang onto the joyfulness. The world sometimes feels like it is saying that reading is serious business, hard work, and that there is no time for joy and play with reading. But as we see our young kindergarteners sing and play in their books, their reminding us: Joy matters." ~ Lucy Calkins (author of Readers Workshop units of study" Book Bags!We now have individual book bags that have leveled reading books that we will be looking at and sharing during our private and partner reading time. Most students have A and B books which are pattern books with words that highly correlate with the picture. After an adult has read the first few pages, the student should be able to recognize the pattern and read the rest. Students are practicing pointing to each word and using all the cues from the picture, what the book is about, and the first letter to help them figure out the new word in the pattern. | |
Super reader pointer!
The first super power we learned is POINTER POWER! We got some super reader pointer sticks to keep in our book bags so we could enhance our POINTER POWER and make sure we are pointing under the words we say as we read.