Reading News for November 21-25

We have a short week next week with the Thanksgiving holiday.  So, we are not doing push-in in the first and second grade.

I will have my first and second grade RtI groups. 

We will be starting a new unit in my first grade group.  We will be learning the bonus letters f, l, and s.  Such as fill, miss, and puff.  We will be learning the glued sound all as in ball, call, and fall.

We will also be starting a new unit in my second grade group.  We will be learning how to read and spell multisyllabic words.  We will also be introducing 4 new conconant suffixes and 3 new vowel suffixes.  Lastly, 2 new vowel teams- au and aw.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday week with family and friends!



Reading News for November 14-18

I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend!  Thanks to all our Veterans!

My kindergarten RtI group is making some great improvements in letter recognition and sounds of the letters.  We will continue with more games and puzzles with the letters and sounds.

My first grade RtI group has worked hard on all the new digraphs the past week.  We will continue with those next week and take a test.  We have also been reading a story together, Cod Fish, and working on comprehension with the story.

My second grade RtI group has had a busy couple weeks working on lots of new concepts.  They have learned some new vowel and consonant suffixes as well as new vowel teams, ow, oe, and oa.  We will continue with these concepts next week and add a few more examples of each before we take a test to see how well they can remember all the new concepts.



Reading News for November 7-11

Can you believe it is already November?  October went by so quick!

I started with my full RtI kindergarten group last week and am slowly getting to know the students.  Next week we will continue with the K-Pals and Core Reinforcement in reading and math.

My first grade push-in guided reading groups are continuing to progress in the right direction.  We keep moving students around in the groups because they are all starting to take off on their reading journey.  Very neat to see how much improvement they can make each week in learning how to read new words!
My first grade RtI group has been working hard this week on the digraphs.  They are starting to get real good at tapping out words to learn to read them.  We will get into writing and reading whole sentences next week.

My second grade push-in guided reading group is doing well.  We are busy reading about all sorts of new non-fiction books like pirate ships, inside our body, beekeepers, and firefighters.
My second grade RtI group has been busy this week learning all about ending vowel and consonant suffixes.  We will continue with this next week because there was so much to cover we couldn't get through it all this week.  We also had many new trick words added to our list to learn. 

Have a great weekend and remember to turn your clocks back on Saturday night for that extra hour of sleep!