After students are able to read consonant-vowel-consonant words easily and accurately, we practice reading decodable text. One of our groups is working on reading basic code (short-vowel words) books. Yesterday we read our books on the iPads! They loved using the pointers to help follow along and the iPads were an automatic way to keep the kids engaged :)
Kindergarten students are expected to be able to read a consonant-vowel-consonant nonsense word by saying each of the letter sounds. According to the DIBELS assessment, they should be able to read 34 sounds in a minute by the middle of kindergarten and 44 sounds in a minute by the end of kindergarten. The assessment uses nonsense words so that is accurately evaluates their ability to decode and sound out words rather than just memorize words. We have been practicing this skill in our intervention groups. We use flashcards, dry erase boards, letter tiles, games, the smartboard, and iPad apps to help learn this skill. It's a new year and there are some new things happening in Miss Weyandt's room. First, Miss Weyandt has made it her resolution to get better about making posts to this blog. Before and after winter break, we had lots and lots of testing here at Herbert Mills and our days were rather crazy! Now it feels like things are finally back to normal and I can get back to doing a better job of keeping everyone informed. Second, I had two new student teachers start working with me last week. Brock Best and Laine Rothgeb are both second year graduate students from The Ohio State University. They are both studying to be speech-language pathologists and will be shadowing me and working with the students here at Herbert Mills. It has only been a week, but I can already tell they are fantastic and the kids are loving working with them! Mr. Best will be with us on Mondays and Wednesdays and Miss Rothgeb will be with us on Thursdays and Fridays. They will be here every week through April. If you see them, please welcome them!
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