Transcript Ready For Reading - Smarty

Ready For Reading
A Deeper Look Into Reading in
Kindergarten
A Typical Day…
• We have a daily 90 minute Reading
block.
• During this reading block your child
participates in whole group and small
group lessons as well as literacy
stations.
Whole Group
• During whole group your child’s
teacher focuses on…
Phonological Awareness
Phonics
High Frequency Words
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Writing
Phonological Awareness
• Is the ability to hear, focus on, and
work with individual sounds.
• During whole group a sample lesson
might be clapping out the sounds in a
word.
• For example: /c/ /a/ /t/
Phonics
• Is the relationship between the sounds
and the letters.
• A sample lesson may be relating the letter
Dd to the sound /d/.
Then having them give a thumbs up to words
beginning with /d/.
For example: dog, mitten, cow, duck, dirt
High Frequency Words
• Are also known as Core Words or Sight
Words.
• These words need to be recognized
instantly without sounding out.
• An example lesson may be holding up the
words like and to. Have children say the
word until they can distinguish between
the two.
Comprehension
• The ability to understand what you are
reading.
• Comprehension skills focus on many
aspects such as generating questions,
using graphic organizers, and summarizing.
• An example lesson would be to create a
story map about The School Bus.
Vocabulary
• These words are chosen because they
normally are not used in everyday
conversation.
• From each story we focus on three words
are chosen. These words are reviewed
every three weeks.
• We help the children to use the words in
everyday situations.
Writing
• During the week we focus on a writing
trait.
• Monday and Tuesday are days that the
teacher models the trait.
• Wednesday the teacher and student share
writing.
• Thursday and Friday the students are
writing independently.
Small Group
• During small group a teacher focuses
on a particular skill with a small group
of students.
• This enables the student more time
with the teacher.
• A teacher is able to work on skills a
student may be struggling to master.
Literacy Stations
• Generally students are partnered or
work with small groups at a center
type activity.
• These can include: word work, letters
and sounds, writing, reading,
listening, computers, big books, Vsmile, and many others.
Theme Test
• After the completion of each Theme
(every 3rd week) students are given a
theme test which assesses each of the
skills taught during this theme.
• These tests help to give progress report
and report card scores.
• This information also aids the teacher in
determining what needs to be revisited.
DIBELS
• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early
Literary Skills
• Given 3 times every school year.
August, January, and May
August
Initial Sound Fluency
Letter Naming Fluency
January
Initial Sound Fluency
Letter Naming Fluency
Phoneme Segmentation
Nonsense Word Fluency
May
Letter Naming Fluency
Phoneme Segmentation
Nonsense Word Fluency
What Can I Do To Help?
• Use any moment as a “Teachable Moment”
• When walking together point out things
around and ask what sound does that begin
with? What letter makes that sound?
• Read to your child. Talk about the
characters and what happened during the
story.
• Take an interest in your child’s school and
participate when possible!