PLC+for+Oct.+4-8

Oct. 4-8 All Kindergarten teachers have been able to participate in some portion of our collaborative planning for reading this week. We had lots of sharing and great ideas! Here is a compilation of notes:

Student Engagement strategies that have been tried:
 * turn and talk, with question of the day, but also with comprehension
 * radio reading
 * using sign language to signal letter sounds (m, s, r)
 * body language (turn your back to teacher if the sound is at the end of the word; turn your face to teacher if you hear it at the beginning)
 * using letter tiles to signal sound heard in word
 * clapping syllables
 * showing # of fingers for # of syllables inside a word

Problem Solving: What to do when they aren't "getting" # of syllables or # of words in sentence Planning for Instruction: //**Next steps:**// Continue to practice student engagement strategy that you committed to. Be ready to select a new one next month.
 * Syllables - counting with fingers
 * Words in sentence - writing blanks for each word you hear, writing sentence on a strip and cutting it into words
 * Planning for small group explicit phonics lessons (Nn, Pp)
 * Planning for high end readers - Enrolled a few in Read Naturally
 * Looked at brain research - discussed importance of not switching pointer "hand" during reading. That involves more mental coordination than our strugglers have

Do you mind if we move these notes to the PLC page so that we can keep a running list of notes?--Holly