Transcript Big Ideas for Small Group Hours - Intensive Course 2011-12

Big Ideas
for
Small Group Hours
Thanks to Jennifer Spigelman
Gordon STUDENT ETAI November
22nd , 2011
The Power of Words
NON
5 Elements of Reading
for Small Groups
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Phonemic Awareness
Phonics Instruction
Vocabulary
Fluency
Text Comprehension
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Plus Written Expression
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Small Group Instruction will focus
on The five elements of reading
Fluency
Comprehension
Phonemic
Awareness
Written
Expression
Vocabulary
Phonics
What Are The Necessary Elements
Needed In Small Group Lessons?
multisensory
success oriented
short
varied
focused
fun
interesting
repetition
Phonemic Awareness
is the ability to hear, identify, and
manipulate individual sounds
(phonemes) in spoken words
Examples of Phonemic Awareness Tasks
Phoneme deletion: What word would be left if the /k/ sound were
taken away from cat?
Word to word matching: Do pen and pipe begin with the same
sound?
Blending: What word would we have if you put these sounds
together: /s/, /a/, /t/?
Sound isolation: What is the first sound in rose?
Phoneme counting: How many sound do you hear in the word cake?
Deleting phonemes: What sound do you hear in meat that is missing
in eat?
Odd word out: What word starts with a different sound: bag, nine,
beach, bike?
Sound to word matching: Is there a /k/ in bike?
Phonemic awareness is
important because…
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it improves children’s word
reading and reading
comprehension.
• it helps children learn to
spell.
Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
Phonemic Awareness Activities
 Sound
Baskets
 Bowling
 Manipulations
1.
2.
3.
Deletions
Substitutions
Reversals
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Rhyming Words Activities
for Spoken Words
The Task
 Children identify words that rhyme in a
series of activities.
 For example, "Put your thumbs up if these
two words rhyme--pail-tail or cow-pig?" or
"Finish this rhyme, red, bed, blue,
______."
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Rhyming Words Activities
for Spoken Words
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"I say, You say" game:
I say fat.
 You say _____.
 I say red.
 You say _____.
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Rhyming Words Activities
for Spoken Words
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Rhyming Word Sit Down
Children walk around in a big circle taking
one step each time a rhyming word is said
by the teacher.
 When the teacher says a word that
doesn't rhyme, the children sit down:
she tree flea spree key bee sea went
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Syllabication
Syllable Count
 Have children clap for each syllable you
say.
 Begin with two or three syllable words and
build up to longer words with more
syllables:
 airplane table porcupine communication
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Phonemic Segmentation
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Rubber Band Stretch
Teacher models with a large rubber band how to
stretch out a word as the word is said.
/mmmmmmmm-/aaaaaaaaaaaa-/nnnnnnnnn/
 Teacher models with stretched out band how to bring
rubber band back to original length and says the word
fast: /man/.
 Children pretend to stretch rubber bands as they say
the sounds in different words.
 Stretchy Names
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Phonemic Substitutions
Try Old Mac Donald Had a Farm making
substitutions when singing about each new
animal.
 For a cow, sing, "kee-kigh,kee-kigh, koh!"
 For a sheep, sing, "shee-shigh, shee-shigh,
shoh!"
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Phonics
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Phonics instruction teaches children the
relationships between the letters (graphemes)
of written language and the individual sounds
(phonemes) of spoken language.
It teaches children to use these relationships
to read and write words.
Phonics Instruction Activities
 Alphabet
 Egg
Sticks
Carton
 Word
Wheels
 Fishing
Game
Phonics instruction is
important because
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it leads to an understanding of the
alphabetic principle—the systematic and
predictable relationships between written
letters and spoken sounds.
Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
Vocabulary
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There are four kinds of vocabularies:
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speaking (words we use in conversation)
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listening (words we understand through
hearing)
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reading (words we read and comprehend)
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writing (words we can write to convey a
message)
Vocabulary Activities
•Big Dice- Adjective Noun
•Domino
•Board Games
Vocabulary is important
because
 beginning
readers use their oral
vocabulary to make sense of the
words they see in print.
 readers
must know what most of
the words mean before they can
understand what they are reading.
Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
Comprehension
is the ability to follow, process, and
understand spoken and written
language
Comprehension Activities
 The
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Hand
Retelling Glove
 Graphic
Organizers
 Teaching
comprehension is
critical to ensure students
understand what they read.
Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
 Fluency
is the ability to
read a text accurately and
quickly.
Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
Fluency is the combination of
several factors:
rate (speed)
• prosody (phrasing)
• expression
• intonation
• facing-along with
comprehension
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Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
Writing
the act of committing thoughts to
paper according to agreed
conventions
Writing Activities
 Sentence
Parts
 Sentence
Wheels
 Pull-Through
 Sentences
Sentences
In A Bag