Today we had our first literacy block. Within our Grade 1/2 team, students will be moving classrooms every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We have created reading groups based on students' ability levels. Students will work with the same teacher for the next several weeks to develop specific reading skills at their level.
Each group is working on becoming independent readers. Today we talked about the expectations during our literacy block. We specifically talked about Read to Self, where students will be working independently to read their just right books.
Did you know there are 3 ways to read a book?
You can read the pictures by talking about them.
You can retell a familiar story to yourself.
You can read the words on the page.
We also talked about building our stamina. Students were able to follow the Read to Self expectations for 2-5 minutes, depending on their literacy group! By the end of the month, everyone's goal is to read for 20 minutes.
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