During Read to Self, students read from their book bags and practice the strategies we've discussed during Reader's Workshop. As I mentioned yesterday, these are the skills we've been practicing this week:
One group each day also book shops for new books to put in their reading bags. Students pick five "just right" books at their level and two interest books from the class library. This just started this week and has been a huge hit!
During Read to Someone, buddies practice their reading with each other. We've also been working on talking about our books too!
If a group has Word Work, they are working on one of the following activities to practice reading and writing our five sight words for the week:
When we start our Word Study groups next week, students will also engage in word sort activities with their own sets of word cards to practice spelling patterns and skills.
At the Work on Writing center, students are engaged in different writing activities including writing a letter, making a list, labeling a diagram, or writing sentences about new facts they have learned about our science/social studies topic for the week.
Finally, we have the Listening to Reading center. Right now, I have been using Storyline Online (storylineonline.net) which allows students to listen to popular stories being read aloud. Shortly, we will starting using other reading programs on the computer like Raz-Kids.
Thank you to all of the parents that have come in to help so far! I truly appreciate your help as it gives me the opportunity to stay focused with my guided reading groups. :)
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