64: Learning to Read

Thursday small group focus is emergent reading.

The focus today were: directionality and picture cues for my 

beginners, and moving to 1 to 1, sight words, and monitoring

for my emergent readers.

We worked on the sight words I, see, a, and we

and made little readers.

We is a new sight words, 

and when some of the readers got to the word,

they stopped (monitoring!).

In the afternoon,

students have centers they can choose from.

M went to the art and writing center.

Then he came up to me to show me what he had made...

I had some extra sight word sentence frames from small groups,

but M had something else in mind,

so I gave him blank strips.

And he created his own emergent reader...

Today, I am grateful that I get to witness moments

of discovery and learning.

Nothing makes me happier than to watch kids take over their own learning process!