THE POWER OF STORIES

Our chosen story for this reading project was I went walking by Sharon Fear. One of the many collections of the big book Reader by Scott Foresman.

The text was an integration of nouns for animals, colors for adjectives, the simple past tense and the past continuous. In order to provide students with enough input for reading comprehension we went on this journey step by step.

We did follow a framework called ECRIF. E for Encounter; kids encountered new words, phrases, ideas, structures, formats, language skills abilities (abilities on speaking skills and reading skills) etc. on the most fun and memorable way. C for Clarification; the kids went over many activities to identify and clarify their learnings. R for Remember; in this stage kids were given activities to identify, clarify and apply their learnings; yet still with guidance by the teacher. I for Internalization. In this stage, kids were able to apply what they learned by themselves. F for Fluency; at this final stage the kids were ready to apply what they learned by creating their own production with fluency.