I am a K-1, Title I reading teacher. For my K-kids that have weak phonemic awareness skills, I use Phonemic Awareness in Young Children (Marilyn Adams). The kids and I enjoy the lessons and I have found it to always work. Here are some other things I use and that my kids and I find engaging: Vocabulary and comprehension: Talkies (Lindamood Bell) Vocabulary issues are bigger than I ever imagined. Talkies involves movement and play. For phonics and sight words, I try to be as congruent as possible with the HM series their classroom teachers are using. I try to make sure at least 1/2 of every session is spent reading real books. I use a lot of things from National Geographic's series, Windows on Literacy. Awesome, real photographs of non-fiction topics. For decodable I use Wright Group Phonics books but only the ones mid-way through the series because they actually have an understandable story line and I can't stand decodable with no meaning or do-able syntax. My best training came from Donna Scanlon, formerly at SUNY Albany. She and Frank Vellutino conducted the "First Grade" studies and came up with something called the Interactive Strategies Approach. It's not available commercially. It involves flexible use of strategies and lots and lots of real reading. cathy In a message dated 11/11/2009 7:12:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Really, I am struggling for fresh, explicit lessons for helping my ELL's and my struggling learners. If you can help, I would appreciate it. kjd -- Kelley Dean _______________________________________________ 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.
