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Teaching Reading
By Susan D.

Traci, I have been teaching for over six years now and am faced with moving out of state for my husband's job. I plan to answer interview questions about my reading lessons too. Here are a few ideas: 1) I begin the year
by taking informal reading assessments on each child, to see at what level they're currently able to comprehend and read aloud. 2) With the reading text and supplementary novel units, I use guided reading techniques to enrich vocabulary, oral reading and integrate writing workshop lessons. The students love units containing stories and novels by one particular author, so I do units called,

"Author of the Month," so that we can write about or to the author as a culminating activity. 3) During the year, I take anecdotal notes during the reading lessons, try a wide variety of activities such as reading with partners, parents, individually and as a whole class. When I feel the children are ready, I will teach them about Literature Circles. We then read in discussion groups and each child has their own job. You can look up info on literature circles, it's the new catch phrase in reading (again)! Good luck to both of us.