reading workshop

The children have been noticing more and more words in their teaching books. This week, I read a teaching book about Fall and the Kindergarteners were given photocopies of a page to read. They looked at the picture and the words. I invited them to use the pictures and information from the book to point to and read some of the words.

They then used sticky notes to write one word. This was very exciting!

During their private they found and recorded more words! Some of the children found sight words that they have learned and some children used beginning sounds and pictures to read and write a new word or a science word. 

The more you reread a teaching book, the more you think about and learn from the information. One way we can learn more is by adding our own thinking and sharing our thinking with a partner. 

The children practiced finding a page in a teaching book and adding a little of their own thinking. They shared their page with their partner using the words, "I think..."

Nora and Helen modeled how a partnership can share and talk about their thinking, helping one another to learn more!