Dear first grade reading specialist- I am working with first graders who are falling well below the usual first graders, so I take notes as they read aloud with them each time we meet to get a sense of where the problems lie, and then I target those troublesome areas. For example, the boy I am mostly meeting with right now has real trouble with diagraphs and the major sight words, and I am using letter tiles to create those diagraphs and Patricia Cunningham's advice about using those sight words such as OF and OFF in phrases and short sentences on word cards, to help him learn them in context. I've noticed many kids just cannot learn them in isolation - it doesn't matter how hard they work.
I also have him write; I help him brainstorm, with me writing down the ideas, and then him numbering them and writing his own sentences. He goes back and edits them. Hope this helps. Amy -- Amy Lesemann, Reading Specialist and Independent Learning Center Teacher, St. Thomas the Apostle School _______________________________________________ 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.
