Reading/Writing

Reading

As skill ability allows, your child should be able to blossom from an early emergent reader stage throughout the course of the school year. In fact, I believe that this is the most impressive area of development that you will see in your child. I will foster the importance of recognizing letters, learning the appropriate letter sounds that match those letters (phonemic awareness), and then apply that knowledge to begin to decode words seen in written print. Guided Reading is included as the school year progresses because the experiences allow for individual analysis and enhancement of literacy skills. Parent involvement is crucial if you expect to see the results that will at times amaze you. An early component of the reading program and its introductory skills are listed below:

* Uppercase and Lowercase Letter identification in random order

* Letter-sound relationships

* Letter formation (printing upper and lower case letters)

* One-to-one correspondence (pointing under words)

* Understand story elements (characters, setting, goal, problem, resolution)

* Retelling stories to check for comprehension

* Recognizing grade appropriate high frequency (‘popcorn’) words

* Making predictions and drawing conclusions

* Activating schema (what you know about a topic) before, during and after listening to a story

Writing

Your child will have an opportunity to use and expand their writing skills on a daily basis. I’m excited to dive in and help your children become even better writers! Several times a week, your child will write in a workshop format that focuses on developing skills and developing individual ideas which turn into well written stories. Journaling experiences vary from child to child. Each child chooses what to write about (or will follow a prompt) and writes at their own ability level. No matter what they write about or how they write it, they are still expressing themselves on paper. Journal work is treasured as a form of expression and as a tool for academic growth. I will “teacher write” and date your child’s writing to chart growth that is being made. When you see your child's writing, accept it and ask him or her to read it to you. Get excited about whatever is on the paper and encourage your child to write more. :)

Sight Word Lists for Practice K-2

Here are some great resources from our Woodside Elementary Reading Specialists. They have worked hard to create documents and presentations to help you with Kindergarten Reading and Writing.

Reading presentation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y5HWUexnbB9nQkQ7zh0xpqJpHgbGGKiE/view

Writing presentation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15MP_WBIe4wP9JDEFDODENU0SeDuQvBmd/view

Handouts:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7NrvKlGAcQcDC8ulDj_wEgJ357UL7QszFdSN2SNev0/edit?usp=sharing

Bookmark:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYkVcvSIYb-IBUE9YTeDFdwO_if1wvdWkdutSh0_W1k/edit?usp=sharing