For struggling first grade students you need to start with short text, with good spaces between the words, and strong picture support. Rigby, Wright group, and many other publishers make good early readers for level 1-5 that I would start with in groups. 1. Give a rich introduction to the text (even if it is only 30 words) 2. Have them point and locate a high frequency word as they do a picture walk with you (e.g. see, to, the, etc). 3. Have them point with their pointer finger under the words (they will probably not have one to one correspondence figured out and they need to point to focus on the words) 4. Model early stragegies with them (one to one, checking picture clues, noticing and naming high frequency words, using initial visual information with meaning (the first sound of a word and checking the picture) 5. Read it together or have them read it alone the first time. Then re-read it together, always focusing on meaning!!! 6. Then you can go back and focus on one area of need-letter sounds, practicing a high frequency word that was in text, talking aloud about re-reading when your figure ran out of words, etc. You can start the next time with a re-read of the same book or other familiar books before you introduce another new book. THey need masses of text at early levels! KEEP SMALL GROUPS SMALL at this time of the year. You will be better off doing more groups with less kids then more kids and less groups!
I hope this helps! Shari Dacia Myhre wrote: >I am teaching a group of struggling 1st grade students-I want to pull them >into a guided reading group and do some explicit teaching.I am >curious...does anyone know what types of lessons in the beginning of the >year would give me the most bang for my buck? Shared reading? Partner >reading a wordless book? Any ideas out there? >Dacia > > > >_______________________________________________ >Mosaic mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > >Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
