Guided Reading Groups

We have started regular Guided Reading Groups with all first graders. Your child has been bringing home a baggy with books at his/her Guided Reading instructional level of reading. Please have your child read to you each evening, sign the pink booklet and return to school the following day. In first grade we work on all facets of developing reading skills: decoding, decoding strategies, comprehension and reading fluency. You will notice that your child has the same book(s) more than once. Familiar books may come home from past lessons. Thanks for reading and rereading as this helps the child become a more independent reader in all reading skills. Ms. Jensen and Mrs. Walton are also taking some of the students from all first grade classrooms for Guided Reading groups! Ask your child who their Guided Reading teacher is.

First Grade Word Wall Words will be introduced at the beginning of each week: September 26: will, am, can, with, favorite. We will be using these words as a basis of word work activities, phonics lessons and handwritings lesson throughout the week. By the end of the school year your child will have a list of 110 word wall words to be able to read, spell and write. Thanks for reinforcing these words on a regular basis.

Some ideas for home practice include: 1. Make flash cards for each of the words. 2. Have your child practice writing these words on paper, keyboarding them or writing in pudding or on a salt tray. 3. Spell the words with magnetic letters. 4. Look for the words in text such as the guided reading books. 5. Make your own little dictionary and add the weekly words to the appropriate alphabet headings.

Next week's Tuesday Show and Share is: Student Choice. This is our last full class Show and Share as Student of the Week show and share starts soon. You will be informed by a note in the backpack when it is your child's turn for the upcoming week to be Student of the Week!

Have a Great Weekend with your child!