Reading

The following is a summary of the daily reading components:Guided Reading: small group instruction based on student needs.

  1.  Guided Reading: small group reading instruction based on student needs.
  2. Reader’s Workshop: whole group reading instruction with an in-depth focus on how reading works. This includes a mini lesson, time to read independently, and a time for students to share their noticings about what they’ve read.
  3. Read Aloud: the teacher reads literature to the students modeling strategies with a focus on comprehension.
  4. Shared Reading: the teacher and students participate in reading an enlarged text.
  5. Independent Reading: students read literature of their choice at their independent levels to practice fluent and phrased reading.
Unit of Study Time Frame of Study
Getting Started 1 week
How to Use Reading Materials 1 week
Kinds of Things Readers Do 3 weeks
Identifying Characters, Setting and Major Events 1 week
Reading Using Punctuation 1 week
Genre Study: Fairy Tales 2 weeks
Retelling Characters, Setting, Major Events 2 weeks
Compare/Contrast Characters 1 week
Getting Meaning From the Illustrations (F) 2 weeks
Getting Meaning From the Illustrations (NF) 2 weeks
Reading Strategies 1 week
Retelling Nonfiction 2 weeks
Compare/Contrast Same Topic (NF) 1 week
Genre Study: Poetry 2 weeks
Visualizing: Creating Mental Images 1 week
How to Ask and Answer Questions Fiction 1 week
How to Ask and Answer Questions(Non-Fiction) 1 week
Making Inferences 1 week
Celebrating Readers 1 week

Order of Letters Taught

In Prekindergarten we believe that letters are best learned within context instead of in isolation, and we talk about all the letters and their sounds throughout the day. However, to make sure we have formally introduced all the letters, we teach them in the following order:

M S A T F B
I P H Z N O
D G L W E J
K Q Y U X R
V C

 Prekindergarten Sight Words

Prekindergarten students will also work throughout the school year to learn how to read and write 15 Prekindergarten Core Words.

by the go it I
is we a in to
like and can play see

 

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