He has been working hard on easy, smooth speech! Great work, Gabe!
He has been working hard on easy, smooth speech! Great work, Gabe!
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Tyler and J'Kai have been working hard to improve their comprehension. One of the more difficult aspects of comprehension is making inferences. Inferences can be made with text or with pictures. An inference refers to when the child has to come to a conclusion about something that wasn't stated in the text or shown in the picture. They are required to combine their prior knowledge and what they read in order to make an accurate inference. We often talk about the clues in the passage or picture that help us with our inference. These boys are doing a great job!
Our speech and language groups have been working very hard toward their goals! Each day, we work on different activities that will allow each student to work on their individual goals. Below Bailey is working on asking questions by choosing something around the room to ask a question about (i.e. Who made that poster? Why is that chair blue). Donica is working on position words by placing butterflies in various locations around the room (i.e. under the table, between the books, etc.) Tori is working on understanding the difference between questions and comments. When looking at a picture scene, Tori is learning to ask a question about the picture or give a comment regarding the picture based on what she is prompted to do. Keep up the great work ladies! Jadon and Gavin are working together to improve their articulation goals. Specific speech sounds are targeted through the use of flash cards. Both Jadon and Gavin work to put their targeted speech sounds into sentences, and they enjoy making up silly sentences to see how many of their sounds they can fit into one sentence. Keep up the great work boys!
Miss Weyandt's reading groups are off to a great start! The kindergarten students come to work on phonemic awareness skills. Phonemic awareness is a pre-literacy skills that focuses on the sounds in words. Right now, kindergarten students are working on identifying the first sound they hear in words. This does not mean we want them to say the name of the letter, we only want the sound. We practice this skill by saying the first sound, matching the first sound to the letter that represent it, and matching pictures with the same first sound. We incorporate activities at the table, on the iPads, and at the Smart Board. They have been doing a fantastic job!! At this time, the majority of our first grade students are working on decoding and blending 3 sound words with short vowels. For example, "cat, mop, fun." We want to make sure that they know all of their letter sounds and are able to read the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words accurately and fluently. We also call this skill basic code. In group, we often practice reading isolated CVC words, writing CVC words, and reading sentences/stories with basic code. These students are also off to a great start! The second graders are working hard to improve their reading fluency. I like to tell the kids that reading fluently means that your reading sounds the way you talk. We focus on using good rate, accuracy, and expression while reading. Reading fluently will help ensure that they are better able to comprehend stories. During group time, we take cold and hot scores for each passage we read. The first time they read the passage, we graph their cold score. After we practice over and over and over again, our fluency increases and we then graph our hot scores. The students LOVE to see how many more words they were able to read for their hot score.
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