Readers' Theatre

Today one of our guided reading groups did a Readers' Theatre titled "Why?". I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed doing it!

Visualizing

Today we had company in our classroom. One of our school division's literacy coaches, Mrs. Robertson, came to teach us how to visualize. She brought us visualization tubes, and we used them to look at objects around the room. She also modelled a "think aloud" for us. It was fun, and doing think alouds and visualizing will help us to become better readers.

Making Words

We started a new language arts activity called "Making Words". It helps us learn how to spell lots of words.

Language Arts Pods

Today we worked in pods for language arts. We worked on the Smartboard with word families, we went to Starfall on the computers, we spelled word family words, we sequenced the sounds and letters of the alphabet, we played Go Fish with letters and sounds, and we did rhyming word puzzles.

What Did They Say?

Today in guided reading we brainstormed possible conversations between the knight and the dragons as they sipped their tea in the story. We then used these ideas to act out the last page of the story.

Read the Room

In order to become good readers we need to read, read, read! One of the many things we do to practise is "reading the room". There are many charts and posters on the walls in our room that have words on them that we know how to read. Sometimes we "read the room" with a partner. When we do that we go around the room with a partner and take turns reading all of the words that we know to each other. It is very good practise.

Spelling Bibs

We have learned the alphabet letters p, b, t, d, k, g, f, v, and a. Today we used our spelling bibs to practise our sounds and to blend letters into words.