Thursday, January 25

On a very cold morning in January we unpacked our "just right" Reading Buddies books from our individual bags. We all chose a place of our own to sit and read aloud.  We practiced a "book walk" and studied the pictures in our books for clues about our books. We practiced matching spoken word to printed word by following with our "reading finger."  When we found a word we didn't know, we practiced using the illustration as a clue.  Teacher Ann explained ta couple of things that great readers do: we can look at the first sound in a word to figure it out, we can say all the sounds of the letters of the word and blend the sounds together until we "hear" the word,  and we can try and figure out the unknown word by the context of the entire sentence.

 

Teacher Ben conferred with several children today during Reading Buddies.  Kindergartners are learning that during a Reading Buddies conference, sharing your books with a teacher can be fun. You can also have help with words you don't know. You can also talk about how the book connects to other books you read, to your life, or to other things you know about in the world all around you. You can laugh together about what's funny or be surprised together when something unexpected happens on the last page!\

Three cheers for our young readers!