Language Arts
Reading is one of the most important skills that your child will experience in first grade. Children learn to read by reading and rereading meaningful material. Your child will learn to read this year through the use of a variety of poems, songs, charts and books. Phonics is also an important part of becoming a successful reader and writer. Phonemic instruction occurs daily in our classroom to help children develop sound/symbol relationship awareness. In the beginning of the year, we will focus on consonant review. As the year progresses, our focus will shift to vowels, blends, and diagraphs.
Each day we will meet as a group for a whole group activity and then proceed to a small group, guided reading time. During this time the children will visit one of our literacy areas. We will refer to this as the Daily 5. The choices are read to self, read to someone, word work, writing, and listening center. While the children are working quietly, I will be meeting with small guided reading groups. You can expect me to meet with your child three to five times per week.
Learning to write and spell is a simultaneous part of the reading process. The children will write daily during our Writer’s Workshop. It will begin with a focus lesson and then writing time. As the year progresses, students will use their writing to learn how to plan, write, edit and publish their work
Each day we will meet as a group for a whole group activity and then proceed to a small group, guided reading time. During this time the children will visit one of our literacy areas. We will refer to this as the Daily 5. The choices are read to self, read to someone, word work, writing, and listening center. While the children are working quietly, I will be meeting with small guided reading groups. You can expect me to meet with your child three to five times per week.
Learning to write and spell is a simultaneous part of the reading process. The children will write daily during our Writer’s Workshop. It will begin with a focus lesson and then writing time. As the year progresses, students will use their writing to learn how to plan, write, edit and publish their work
Reading Strategies
1. Look at the picture for a clue
2. Skip the work, read the rest of the sentence, and go
back to the word
3. Think about what would make sense
4. Look for parts of the word that you know
5. Sound it out, all the way through
6. Look at the vowel
7. Get your mouth ready to make the first sound
Ask your child to…
- Retell the story
- Tell what is happening in the text
- Make connections
- Make inferences
- Visualize
- Synthesize
- Read fiction AND non-fiction texts
2. Skip the work, read the rest of the sentence, and go
back to the word
3. Think about what would make sense
4. Look for parts of the word that you know
5. Sound it out, all the way through
6. Look at the vowel
7. Get your mouth ready to make the first sound
Ask your child to…
- Retell the story
- Tell what is happening in the text
- Make connections
- Make inferences
- Visualize
- Synthesize
- Read fiction AND non-fiction texts