Reading
I have many different components to my reading curriculum. Below are the different types of reading activities that we do daily.
 | Poetry Poetry helps to build fluency and confidence. Each week we will focus on a new poem. We will read the poems together and become illustrators and illustrate the poem. |
 | Read Aloud I will read picture books and chapter books to the students throughout the day. Children need to hear a fluent reader read to them many times a day. I also model many different reading strategies so the students can see and hear a model of how to use each reading strategy. |
 | Shared Reading Each week we will read different stories in many different ways including using the Smart Board, iPads, reading with buddies and listening to the story on CD. We discuss and practice major story elements and we practice a particular reading strategy that was modeled during Read Aloud. |
Silent Reading, Reading Conferences and Guided Reading Every day we have a designated time for either Guided Reading or Reading Conferences. I meet with groups based on the student's needs and goals. In the groups I focus on comprehension skills, accuracy skills, fluency skills and vocabulary skills based on what each childs goal is. Groups will change frequently during the year based on if goals are met and what other areas need to be met. I also meet with each student individually. We have a conference discussing the students strengths and goals. We talk together about how we want to meet the goal. I model certain strategies to help reach those goals and I encourage the student to then practice that strategy while they independently read. |  When I am not meeting with a student, then they are doing their silent reading time. They are reading books that they choose from the library or my library of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, magazines or comics. They may also be reading with a buddy, listening to a book on tape, reading our Jill Eggelton poems, or reading the Big Books. After silent reading time the students will have time to share with the class something they read or a reading strategy that they used. I love this part of the day because the students are getting each other excited to read and it becomes a way for them to share and talk about things that they encountered while reading. |
