Listen to Reading and Word Work

Over the last two days the children have learned about two more components of the Daily 5, listen to reading and word work.

In listen to reading, the children will have the opportunity to listen to books on CD or on the computers. This will help the children to become better readers and help in developing fluency and vocabulary. Yesterday, we created our I-chart as a class and practiced our listen to reading procedures. 

Today, the children learned about our word work activities. During word work the children will be: experimenting with words for learning and practicing a spelling pattern, memorizing high-frequency words, generalizing spelling patterns, and adding to their knowledge and curiosity of unique and interesting words. 

Each day the children will engage in a different word work activity such as Rainbow Words, Spelling Code, Write Three Times, Word Sorts, and others involving their weekly spelling words and spelling pattern. The children will also have the opportunity to take turns at a hands-on word work station throughout the week. They will work with manipulatives such as magnets, stamps, and wiki sticks to practice their spelling words, word families, and sight words. Today, the children practiced using the hands-on word work materials. 

 

 

Here is our word work I-chart.