News from the Reading Room

News from the Reading Room

October 13, 2017

Greetings!

This week in the reading room, all students continued to practicereading site words and using Tucker signing. As always, each skill was addressed at different rates according to grade level and students’ needs. Please continue to ask your student to demonstrate the letters and sounds they practiced this week. Please continue to practice the letters or site words with your student that was sent home last week. Following are the Illinois State Standards and activities each grade worked on throughout the week.

Kindergarten: RF.k.1d Recognize and name all upper-and lowercase letters of the alphabet. RF.K2d Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial, and final sounds in three-phoneme words.RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Students continued to practice identifying letters and associating sounds. Attached are a few of the activities we used to practice isolating and pronouncing beginning sounds. I encourage you to have your students show you the way we practiced the short /a/,/t/, and /m/ sound with the PALS “Lesson 2” sheet. Students also worked on the concept of words. They identified short and long words and counted words using the book Itsy Bitsy Spider and word games.

First Grade:RF.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). RF1.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RF.1.4 Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Students used the Orton-Gillinham based activities to practice reading and applying words using short vowels. Students also practiced using decoding skills, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension usingthe nonfiction article Clouds and Rain and Cats Need Care. I encourage you to reread these articles and share your thoughts about the passages with your student. (over)

Second Grade:RF.2.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.RF.2.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Students used the Orton-Gillingham based activities to work on reading and applying the r-control vowel teams ‘ar’ and ‘or’. Students created, wrote, and read words using ‘ar’. The nonfiction passage, The Bald Eagle, was read, analyzed, and discussed to promote students’ vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Students are also recognizing words with prefixes and suffixes in their reading passages. The meaning of the word is then discussed and displayed on our reading wall. (Be sure to ask your student about our dog dishes.) 

Thank you for another productive and successful week with your student! Have a wonderful weekend!! 

Mrs. Eimen

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