As we grow as readers and develop additional reading skills, the opportunities to put those skills to use also grows. For the past 6 weeks we have practiced independent reading and partner reading daily and worked to build stamina during those times. We will continue to do that, but now we are in a place where we are ready to an an element of choice into our reading block a few days a week. Students will be also to choose from listening stations, iPad phonics/phonemic awareness games, word work, or additional independent reading. We will be slowly introducing these option during our reading block over the next few weeks. Yesterday students explored new apps on the iPads with a partner. Here are a few new ones that we added that the students love: Hairy Letters, Aplhabetics, Endless ABC, and Starfall ABCs. I know many of you are always looking for additional educational supports at home, these are great and also work on iPods and iPhones.
Stay tuned for new activities to choose from during choice time.
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| Exploring sounds on the Ipad |
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| Practicing letter formation |
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| Working with Mrs. Ankerson on a sticker book for 1:1 practice |
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| Reading groups |
