Early readers without a sense of word also freely invent, neglecting the print without a means of understanding they are doing it. I have used word counting with kddos like this. I always compliment them on their story (afterall, just getting started with reading the stories in our heads generally beat the ones on the printed page) and ask them to help me count their words first. I put down a block for each word as I say back to the reader what they have just 'read'. We count the blocks. Then we count the words on the page. The mismatch helps them start see the need to use the words on the page. With a second grade student who has a sense of one to one but is at this early stage where he or she may be fingerpointing, not realizing that multi-syllable words get one point can leave them muddled. I taught readers like this to slide that finger under the word to help them see that some words are longer than others. Sorting words by syllables works well, too.
Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach and Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 5755 ----- Original message ----- From: Waingort Jimenez, Elisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Response to Intervention question > Hmmm. If I hear a student do this then I say, now put the parts together. > What word is that? I've yet to have a child not be able to do this even if > it's not on the first try. After a couple of times they start doing this on > their own. > Elisa > > Elisa Waingort > Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual > Dalhousie Elementary > Calgary, Canada > > > > Elisa wrote: What does the word counting tell you? > > Hi Elisa, > > Maybe my example can help. One of my students is not recognizing how words > fall into place in a meaningful way. When repeating the sentence, "The bad > dog did not behave" the child counts behave as two words. "Be hayve" does > not have meaning the way that behave does. > > I'm looking forward to other replies so that I can gauge whether I am on the > right track with this. > > Kare > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
