Syllables~ Word Parts

This week we have practiced syllables.  We started by discussing that syllables or word parts are the "chunks" of a word. When we are trying to spell a long word we can "break" it into these part to help us hear each sound.   When we are reading we can use the same strategy to decode the word. We have been counting the syllables is EVERYTHING this week.  

Our Friday graphing lesson was so fun.  We graphed the syllables in our names.  Each student cameup and   clapped the syllables for their name and then the whole class would clap.  We put dots under the word parts and then placed it on our graph! 

We are winners!!

Thank you to everyone who participated in Stevie Bs night.  WE WON!!!!   We will have a pizza party soon! 

  

The Flow of Reading

There is a progression of reading skills.  Students must master each skill before they take on a new one. As adults, we take for granted a lot of these skills. They come so naturally to us that we do not even think the these skills may be diffucult for children.  
Below you will see a flow chart that I have created to show the progression. 

The first 7 skills can be practiced orally.  A ride in the car or a walk around the neighborhood can be used to ask questions such as 

Rhyming 

"Do red and bed rhyme?" 

"What's a word that rhymes with dog?"

Alliteration 

"Does house and pig start with the same sound? "

"What is a word that starts the same as house?"

Syllables

"How many syllables are in your name?

Clap them out".  "

Onset /Rime

"What is the first sound you hear in cat?  (/C/) What's left in the word now?" (/at/)

Blending

"What am I saying (then say one sound at a time for a word) ? /s/ /u/ /n/

Manipulation

"Say pat.  What if the first sound was /s/?" (Sat)

Literacy Stations

It's time to change reading stations.  My reading stations stay the same for 2 weeks and then some are rotated out. 

 

Station 1 - using alphabet beads and pipe cleaners to spell sight words

Station 2- Letter Factory DVD on the computer.  Fantastic video!

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 Station 3 - Number words to 0 -10 and color words spelling on cookie sheets with magnets.

Station 4 - Sight Word Poems

http://thecontrolledchaosclassroom.blogspot.com/2013/09/sight-words.html

 

Station 5 - Alliteration Station - match the beginning sound of each picture to the correct letter.

 

Station 6 -  Rhyming Word puzzle

Station 7 - Writing Station. 

 I purchased Draw and Write Crayola Workbooks for every child.  Each week while at this station, they are able to add to the unfinished picture and then write or label their picture.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Write-Crayola-Basics-Preschool-Workbook/dp/1453070680

 

 Station 8 - Write the room. 

 Students walk around the room writing words they see that start with a, b, c, etc...

 

 Station 9 - beginning sound match

 

Station 10 -  Montessori Crosswords App 

Newsletters

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Newsletter September 3 -13

Newsletter for September 16


Newsletter September 30 - October 11

Newsletter October 14-28

Weekly Homework

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Homework September 9-13


Homework September 16-20

Homework Spet. 30 - Oct. 4

Homework October 7-11

Homework October 14-18

Sight Words

Our school has 61 list (10 words per list).  As students learn  list 1-10, they are tested on phrases.  List 11-61 require on the words to be read.  In my room students move their "football" down the field for a touchdown!  In Kindergarten, their goal is to complete the first 10 list. 
The word wall is color coded for each list.  List 1and 2 are yellow, 3 and 4 are green, 5 and 6 are orange, 7 and 8 are blue, 9 and 10 are read and 11-12 are purple.  This allows the students to be able to find words on their list quickly.  I have stars cut out all the colors and they are slowly added to the room.  When they need to know how to spell one of their words or are reading or writing the room in stations, they know which words are theirs.  I also have sight word poems on anchor charts that they are able to read during reading stations and they are color coded.  This works wonderfully for differentiation. 

Sight Word List 1-61


Sight Word Checklist 1-61


Sight Word Phrases 1-10

 Move your football down the football field!!

 

 

 

 

 Sight words on the word wall.

 

 Sight Words on stars around the room.

 Sight Word Poems. 

 The stars on the color are color coded to let the students know

which poems are the sight words they know. 

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