Reading in my classroom~ All About Monday!
This week I am going to break down reading in my classroom.
Each day I will show you our “routine” for that day of the week.
I like to keep our routine pretty similar each Monday, etc.
Let’s begin!
Monday is all about vocabulary!
The sheets above our are go-to sheets every Monday. If you teach Journeys, you can find them in my Journeys Interactive Units. Some weeks we cut and glue them in right before the bell on Friday so we are ready to go. Other weeks I may pre-cut them so students only have to glue. But other times, I set the good ‘ole timer and make them get busy! Interactive notebooks does not mean time waster!
We hit 4 vocabulary words. To learn all about our words, we use the cards provided by Journeys (sorry, no picture!). We also say the word, clap the word, and determine how many syllables are in each word. Students quickly stick up the correct number of fingers. Great & easy assessment! I also LOVE to discuss some of the phonics skills we see in the words and practice breaking apart multi-syllabic words.
Do I only cover the new phonics skill of the week? NO WAY! Students need to exposed to the skills frequently. Do I sit and plan out exactly what we will talk about for each word? Nope. It’s natural, super quick, yet effective. Today we focused on the sound that a “y” can make at the end of a word {buddy}. We also learned how to break apart the word attention.
After we have learned our vocabulary words of the day,
it is time to get up and move! Our favorite activity to do is from Kagan….
HAND UP, STAND UP, PAIR UP!
Once we have our partners, I ask students to tell their partner what a word means or to act it out.
Then it is time to move on to guided reading!
At 9:45, I begin LLI for my intervention sweethearts. These three students head on over to my reading table and begin re-reading a book from a previous lesson. All other students grab their books, reading item of the month, and get to reading!
Students don’t change items every day or week? No way! I can’t keep up
with rotation boards, it doesn’t matter how hard I try. We switch
about once a month, maybe twice if I get around to it. They never say a
word about it. They know what item is theirs and where their “spot”
is. If a student isn’t reading, talking, or playing around and I
notice, I simply say, “Please go back to your seat and read. You can try
again tomorrow.” This isn’t up for discussion. They should be back to
their seat quickly, quietly, and get to reading.
with rotation boards, it doesn’t matter how hard I try. We switch
about once a month, maybe twice if I get around to it. They never say a
word about it. They know what item is theirs and where their “spot”
is. If a student isn’t reading, talking, or playing around and I
notice, I simply say, “Please go back to your seat and read. You can try
again tomorrow.” This isn’t up for discussion. They should be back to
their seat quickly, quietly, and get to reading.
Yes, students are ALL OVER during this time! I giggle when someone comes in to observe me and attempts to make their way through 15 students all over the floor.
On Mondays, one of our main seat work activities is to dig into our books and figure out what genre our story is, who wrote it, and write a prediction independently!
I am going to end here for today! After starting this post, I decided it would be just too much to cover what I did in guided reading groups, also. So, this week will be all about Whole group and a lil seat work/centers. I’ll tackle guided reading groups on another week!
Thank you! I am struggling with my whole group reading time and we use Wonders ( a basal I am sure is similar to Journeys).
Can't wait to read more! I always love seeing how others conduct their literacy block time 🙂
Paige
Paiges of Learning
Terrific ideas – thank you! I also use LLI (green with 1st and blue with 3rd) with my strugglers. What color system are you using? I can't wait to read more!
I'm so excited to see the rest of the week! We use Journeys also and I mostly like it. (I feel like some of the practice book pages don't help the students much on the skill tested at the end of the week.)
Alisha I love these posts! Please keep them up. I've been curious how you use the interactive notebooks but have been super busy! Now that I've been to the end of PInterest and back I am thinking about changes I'm gonna make in 2015.