If you haven't been on this site, please go and take a look.
The homepage has quick links. But if you look at the top, y ou have hot buttons to "high school", "middle school", 'pre-school", "home school", "k-5 Math", etc. You get the idea. Each hot button takes you to a list of links for that particular area. It's a good site to just cruise around.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
phonics and Sunday School
I teach kindergarten through 2nd grade in Sunday School. This past Sunday, there was a fill in the blank activity on their lesson sheets. It gave a sentence, the first letter of the word for the sentence, then the word at the end scrambled. It looked sort of like: I can s____ a song. NIGS
I found myself sounding the letters for them so they could write the fill-in words correctly( I remembered to stretch out the sounds and link them together like you've been doing in class). I even remembered to tell them that WRITE had a vowel-consonent-vowel pattern so the I said it's name.
Just another way to put into practice what we've been doing in class! I just thought I'd share.
I found myself sounding the letters for them so they could write the fill-in words correctly( I remembered to stretch out the sounds and link them together like you've been doing in class). I even remembered to tell them that WRITE had a vowel-consonent-vowel pattern so the I said it's name.
Just another way to put into practice what we've been doing in class! I just thought I'd share.
What happened to the post?
I was so happy I finally got my comments to post. Now the last update about the read-alouds put in the headig without the actual comment. Sigh! I jsut can't win!
Round two!
Round two!
In reading the article on “Revisiting Read-Aloud”, the phrase “preaching to the choir” came to mind.
A few years ago I took a class with Toni Macglasker (don’t think I spelled it right!) who was an assistant principal at Allatoona Elementary at the time. We examined test data, did running records, compiled data notebooks for reading and writing, did student goal setting, and how to do read-alouds.
I have used “making connections” , but not the “alpha-boxes”. Wednesday, after we got back from the library, I had the students review the first four chapters of The Outsiders and complete the organizer for characters, settings, and major events.
Results: They are really getting in to it. It’s more like a puzzle instead of a review sheet to them. I'm doing the organizer with them to let them have a model for how theirs should look. They got a kick out of giving an answer I didn't have and seeing me write it on mine.
I sent the template out to the rest of the school so others can use it in their subject areas. I can see definite subject area possibilities. In fact, I'll more than likely use it to review religions in the Middle East in my Social Studies class.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
reading screening online
http://www.readingscreening.org/index.aspx
This site is open to parents and teachers for kids 5-12 years of age. the cost is $5 to register, then $20 per child to test. I'm not sure schools will want to do this, but a parent might if they suspect there is some difficulty the child is having. According to what I could access, there are several tests the child will be given, and the testing can be paused to give the child a break.It takes 45 minutes to test and the results are available immediately.
THEY DO TEST FOR DYSLEXIA:
This site is open to parents and teachers for kids 5-12 years of age. the cost is $5 to register, then $20 per child to test. I'm not sure schools will want to do this, but a parent might if they suspect there is some difficulty the child is having. According to what I could access, there are several tests the child will be given, and the testing can be paused to give the child a break.It takes 45 minutes to test and the results are available immediately.
THEY DO TEST FOR DYSLEXIA:
Dyslexia is defined as a learning disability marked by an inability to read well. Dyslexia essentially means difficulty reading words. Researchers have now furthered the definition to include not only reading difficulties, but impairment in areas of language development that is observed when the individual begins learning to read. These skills are measured in the Reading Screening assessment.
The testing is apparently administered by CARRD - Center for the Assessment and Remediation of Reading Difficulties
I'm not sure how I feel about this...On one hand, it's accessible by parents. On the other hand, I wonder just how good the tests are....
The testing is apparently administered by CARRD - Center for the Assessment and Remediation of Reading Difficulties
I'm not sure how I feel about this...On one hand, it's accessible by parents. On the other hand, I wonder just how good the tests are....
Screening Tests To Identify Children With Reading Problems Are Being Misapplied, Study Shows
Screening Tests To Identify Children With Reading Problems Are Being Misapplied, Study Shows
This is a facinating article. If you go past the headline and get into the depths of the piece, you see they are advocating oral and silent reading along with evaluating how much the child comprehends through re-tellings. they are NOT advocating - as might be implied from the title - getting rid of oral reading tests.
If you look along the right side there are several related articles on reading comprehension and phonics, parents reading to young kids, and the connection between reading and writing.
This is a facinating article. If you go past the headline and get into the depths of the piece, you see they are advocating oral and silent reading along with evaluating how much the child comprehends through re-tellings. they are NOT advocating - as might be implied from the title - getting rid of oral reading tests.
If you look along the right side there are several related articles on reading comprehension and phonics, parents reading to young kids, and the connection between reading and writing.
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