2. • All students will be part of a morning
meeting that strengthens
listening and speaking
skills.
• Then they listen to a book
read aloud to them, to
build on listening, speaking
and vocabulary.
3. • The major way that students are instructed is
through guided reading.
• In guided reading, the teacher chooses a book
to instruct the student in main idea, details,
summarizing, and other reading strategies.
• The book is at the instructional reading level of
the student (which we find out through
testing). This means that the book is not too
easy, and not too hard, but hard enough to
require guidance by the teacher to read.
• The teacher will also cover thinking skills that
will prepare the student for reading at higher
levels.
4.
5. Students participate in writing each
day.
Under our Writing Workshop system,
students learn a mini-lesson to guide
their writing, then get to write on a
topic of their choice.
Students learn to write to inform, write
to argue, and write to tell a story.
6.
7. Each day, every student meets in a small
group to receive specific, targeted reading
instruction in the area of their need.
These areas could include:
◦ Phonics
◦ Fluency
◦ Comprehension
◦ Vocabulary
◦ Higher Order Thinking
◦ Writing about Reading
8.
9. Thank you for your generous donation to our
schools. Books have been purchased for our
neediest readers – to increase their reading
skills.
If you would like to do more, like becoming
one of our Rockin’ Readers, to read to
students in any of our buildings, please
contact me: Aileen Hower, 632-2500.
