I have gotten much "looser" about SSR time. The true readers love that time of day and we made different nooks in our room for relaxed reading time. I also allowed children to work on reader's theater, poems in two voices, and practicing picture books to read to kindergarteners during this time. I often sat with my ELL students and let them practice the picture book they were going to take on the road. I think it helped to build their fluency and their confidence. SSR, like everything else, is a process. I tried having the children write a response to me once a week, but for my struggling writers I found they were spending more time writing than reading so I stopped requiring a response from anyone. By the end of the year, everyone looked forward to SSR time.
Leslie R.Stewart Grade 3 Teacher [email protected] 203-481-5386, 203-483-0749 FAX To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ~ Gaston Bachelard ~ ________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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.
