Word Work Excitement

Kelly put together a great box for Word Work last week with a variety of activities for children to use. The set up is excellent and there are a great range of activities that involve sensory experiences as well. Take a look below.

Can't wait to here how the children use this box Kelly. 

Would love to hear how you are all selecting the words for children to work on. I've heard lots of stories of how people are doing it. Please add them to the blog so we can all learn from each other!

Word Work and Work on Writing

In helping students tune ears-and mouths and eyes, even their fingertips, their nerve endings-to the glorious range of ways they can string words together, we need to encourage them to fool around, to experiment, to break rules even before they know all the rules. Whoever knows all the rules, anyway?
​​​​​​​​Judith Rowe Michaels
These seem to be the rounds that most of us are talking about in terms of appropriate activities. Feel free to add ideas and suggestions here. 


How have you introduced this to your class?
What activities are working best?

Listening to Reading

Children come with varying backgrounds and experiences of being read to. Listening to reading in class helps bolster these home experiences and improve students reading abilities.


Lisa found us the following website for listening to reading:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/

This is also a good website with lots of classics:

http://storynory.com

How have you introduced this?
What resources are you using?

Read to Someone

Reading with someone helps students read independently and grow as readers; it helps them become more self-sufficient and less reliant on teachers for assistance. (pg 60 Daily 5)


How have you introduced Read to someone? 
What responsibilities have the children decided on?
Do you have any resource ideas?

Read to Self

So great see children engrossed in a good book. Whilst they are building their stamina they are also practicing and integrating all those brilliant reading skills they are learning. 


Do you have any ideas for Read to Self?
How many minutes are your class up to?

Off and Running!

Well we are off to a brilliant start with Daily 5 and for some of us CAFE. It has been just amazing to see the children so engrossed in what they are doing and talking strategies for reading and really understanding their responsibilities with the activities. Loved hearing all the talk of how many stamina minutes your students are all up to. 

I'm going to put a post up for each of the rounds for us to add resources to and also for us to discuss and share our ideas as we move through introducing each round. Please contribute to these posts. 

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