Sarah, I just moved from fourth grade to Kindergarten this year. I feel some of your pain! If you have access to big books, I would suggest a shared reading approach. Repeated readings of the text daily, so that the children are echo reading or choral reading with you by the end of the week. Perhaps a retelling that they can act out, sentence strips with words from the text to read as a group. Lots of repeated reading. Perhaps after a fiction text then a non-fiction to compare. Make stories come alive for them and they will love reading! Good luck, AB
On 2/10/07 11:43 AM, "Sarah Jane Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > My Name is Sarah Taylor and I am new to this whole listserv process, > but I am really excited to hear what people have to say about the > different problems and situations we encounter in our classrooms. I > am a graduate student at Syracuse University in the Literacy program > from birth to sixth grade. I have my degree in Elementary Ed from the > University of Scranton and I am currently working in a special > education school mainly for students with severe emotional and > behavioral disorders. Needless to say, work can get pretty stressful > and there are days that I feel no teaching gets done. One problem I > am now facing is that I have been switched from a sixth and seventh > grade level classroom, to a kindergarten level. My strategies for > teaching reading with the older boys was to try and make reading as > authentic for them as possible. As many of them had ADHD, along with > other problems, I used Jack Gantos books(Joey Pigza) to help them > learn to relate to, and understand characters. This worked fairly > well and the majority of them responded quite positively, and > excitedly. However, my new students are at a level I have less > experience with. I am curious if anybody knows of any books(picture, > etc.) that can help my new young ones get interested in reading and > enthusiastic about it? They are at a low reading level, and basic > phonics instruction dictates my curriculum, but I want to be able to > read aloud or have the students use trade books to teach for meaning. > Making reading and learning as authentic as possible is my goal. If > they see a purpose for reading, or gain an appreciation for it, my > hope is that they will be even more successful in our program, and > eventually make it back to their district with gusto! > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
