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Home : 2002 : September : 9
As far as reading goes - do not try to finish your readers
Words like juicy and delicious would be beyond most grade 1 students at this time of year. Another good strategy is to work with word families - have them learn how to make words with the an, am, ap, ip, etc., families. This also helps them with writing in the end. Also do a lot of other type of reading if you can - little books, stories, etc., Your readers should just be one of the resources you use, not the only resource if possible. General in the first month we will only read 2 or 3 stories total out of our first reader. We use the Networks series, Jump In, etc., and I like to focus on the stories and the words (as many of the words are our sight words). I will have them do simple guided writing activities as well. September to November is when I do what I call readiness skills - they are not really readers yet, but by the end of September they should be reading simple patterned sentences using the sight words they have learned. So we made sentences I am a boy. This week we are learning big, little, the, look, jump. I am a big boy.
I hope this helps. http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/csm/
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