Reading
- Our reading program consists of Shared Reading and Guided Reading. Our new resource for reading is Good Habits, Great Readers. During shared reading lessons provide whole-class reading instruction were we model (using think-alouds) the habits, skills, and strategies proficient readers use to understand and enjoy reading. We will cover each of the identified habits of proficient readers, so students learn to:
See themselves as readers
Make sense of text
Use what they know
Understand how stories work
Monitor and organize ideas and information
Think critically about books
- Guided Reading lessons are designed to be used with small groups for 20-30 minutes to address specific reading skills and strategies. Guided Reading allows teachers to instruct small groups of students with similar learning needs, using a text that is carefully matched to their current instructional needs.
Extends experiences with a variety of texts
Promotes reading for enjoyment and information
Develops fluency
Fosters self-confidence by reading familiar and new text
Language Arts/Writing
- Good Habits, Great Readers writing program is organized into seven units. Each unit focuses on a single genre of writing, for example, narrative writing. Throughout the program, students use the writing process to generate ideas or topics to write about, plan their writing, write drafts, revise, edit, and publish their work.
- Students will also practice their grammar, usage, and mechanics skills through practice and review.
Spelling
- Words Their Way: Word Study in Action is our new spelling resource. It is the sort, or the process of grouping sounds, words, and pictures that represent words into specific categories. Word sorting includes teacher-directed instruction as well as independent learning.
- Your child will be given a weekly spelling list that will be appropriate for the level they are at. They will work with the words in a variety of ways throughout the week. They will be tested weekly.
