pointer power

We Are Super Readers

Two strategies children worked on during reading workshop this week; pointer power and rereading power. Readers point to and read the words on a page, connecting their pointing and reading. Rereading helps readers to know more about a story and recognize and read more words. 

The children practiced these two strategies during their private read. Jill modeled pointing to and reading the words in one of her new books; Marshmallow the Pony.

What do you see?

We practiced rereading a familiar story together, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? We brought the pattern from the book into the woods, taking pictures of what we could see. 

The following day our morning message had one of our pictures from the woods with the sentence;

 I see a red leaf.

The children counted how many words in the sentence and noticed spaces between the words and a dot at the end. A sentence is a group of words with spaces between! We are reading more and more sentences in our books during reading workshop. 

To reinforce one-to-one correspondence and our rereading power, the children reread the sentence on their own sentence strip. They cut out the words and put the sentence back in order, ensuring a finger space between each word. They used the picture from our trail to draw a picture of one red leaf, matching their picture to the sentence. 

We will continue sentence building with pictures from the trail, creating our own patterned book of what we see! The building of a sentence helps children to read and write sentences and supports children in learning and recognizing new sight words.