I have been a terrible blogger lately! But I've been a very regular Instagrammer, so I thought I'd share some of the photos from our Reading lessons that I've been putting on Instagram.
I bought these fantastic little lights on
Amazon a couple of weeks ago. We've been enjoying using them as pointers during guided reading sessions.
Pop for Letters is one of my students' favourite games. Early in the year they just identify the letter name. Then they begin to identify the letter sound. After that they identify a word that begins with that sound, or end with that sound. Now they have to provide the name, the sound
and a word!
These are some reading groups activities. Top left is making
high frequency words using playdough. Top right was the guided reading group I was working with. Bottom left is an awesome game called
Shark! (my kids love the shark attack cards). Bottom right is
Pop for Letters.
In the last couple of weeks I've had to change reading groups to make five groups because the range of reading is expanding. Now we do two activities, as well as silent reading. The top two are the books that I read with my guided reading groups. Bottom left is
Pop for Rhyming Words (love!). Bottom middle is playing Memory/Concentration with
high frequency word cards. Bottom right is
matching CVC words with the matching pictures.
When we were focussing on rhyming words I would write a nursery rhyme or tongue twister up on the board each morning. We'd read it, identify the rhyming words, and then brainstorm more words that rhymed.
We'd been focussing on these letter combinations for a while, so it was time to check what they could do. Each child had a card and had to look at the picture, say the word, and then identify the letter combination in the word. This was a whole group activity so there was lots of 'helpers' for those who needed it. I used cards from two different photo cards boxes:
Learning Resources Alphabet Photo Cards and
Learning Resources Kindergarten Vocabulary Photo Cards.
I'm a very visual person when it comes to reading/looking at blog posts, so I think this is a format I will try to stick with for a little while. Let's see if I can blog more than once every two months!
