Today students got a first taste of what literacy will be like. There are 6 components to our literacy block.
- With the teacher
- Read to Self
- Buddy Reading
- Listen to Reading
- Word Work
- Writing
Students need to be taught all 6 of these parts. This can be the not-so-fun part, as students do have to listen and we practice multiple times. Today students practiced Read to Self. We talked about what Read to Self Time looks like and also two ways to read a book -- Read the Words and Read the Pictures. We are working on building our stamina (doing something for a long period of time without getting tired and giving up). We are graphing our reading stamina as a whole-class and today we made it to 2 min 30 seconds....as you can see, we have a ways to go. I also continued to administer reading tests today.
During math students were taught how to do Rocket Math. A few students even passed 2 levels today!!
The students worked so hard today that they were rewarded during the end of the day with some choice time. Although I told them that this is not going to happen very often!
Some other happenings: we had our first library class and we worked on a memory book during writing.