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I moved from 3rd/4th to 1st this year. I have a relatively high group, but feel like I can hardly do everything every day and work on management a lot. Some activities are just not worth it.

WORD WALL/WORKING WITH WORDS

I tried doing www and on the back, but my lowest girl cried (she isn't reading at all and doesn't know all her letter sounds.) the others did fine. INstead I have had them using white boards and doing activities like singing the ww words, writing them in the air, using them during shared writing or a mini- lesson etc. I am not to the point where we spend 10 minutes a day, maybe 10 minutes 3-4 days a week, and a writing assignment the other 2 days, like doing rainbow words or word scrambles, word searches which I know aren't 4B. However, they do use the ww when writing and I refer to it when I write, so I think it's ok!

We started guess the covered word and the tongue twisters which they like. I am not ready for making words yet. We finished...See More
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JJ I only have 14 kids and we have 30-40 minutes or so for reading, sometimes 45. I don't get to do SSR every day or Guided reading every day. My day is SHORT and I can only fit in 3 of the 4 blocks each day. I also only can do math 4 days a week. I do a read aloud every day, at least once, often twice. I also do phonemic awareness activities during s...See More
Oct 17, 2008
brad The only thing I can say about your schedule, JJ, is priorities. Either you believe in that 45 minutes of choice time or you believe in having more structured time for literacy. I have a deeply held set of beliefs about using a good portion of the instructional day for non-directed instruction that is supported by research, and I don't wish to star...See More
Oct 19, 2008
JJ It is one of my priorities to have the unstructured choice time! I believe it helps the kids focus better during instructional time and allows them to pursue their own interests and talents... so thank you for not questioning that (I know a lot of teachers would be appalled to think that the children have that much unstructured time. Oh well.
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Oct 19, 2008
brad One thing I always had to do was "build" my Self-Selected time. The first week or so of school, SSR was only about 5-10 minutes, until they could build the stamina to stay reading that long. We worked our way up to the full 20-25. I know with one class that took the entire first quarter. (Don't ask).

I also believe in flawless transitions....See More
Oct 19, 2008
brad was not agreeing, he was simply not argueing On 10/19/08, brad wrote: > One thing I always had to do was "build" my Self-Selected time. > The first week or so of school, SSR was only about 5-10 > minutes, until they could build the stamina to stay reading > that long. We worked our way up to the full 20-25. I know with > one class that took the entire first quarter. (Don't ask)...See More
Oct 25, 2008


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