Three activities for authentic imbedded work on sight words.

1. Word Work in
Kdg
Authentic use of high frequency words
Belton
September 2014
Amanda Arens, amanda@arensconsulting.com

2. Morning Message
Dear class,
September 9,
2014
Today is Thursday.
We are going on a walking field trip.
Love,
Mrs. Arens

3. Writing For: Morning Message
The teacher, with or without students, makes decisions about content
The teacher talks implicitly about the writing
During the modeling, the teacher:
 Spells words aloud while writing
 Explains use of punctuation
 Describes formation of letters
 Rereads as he or she writes
 Uses one-to-one pointing as he or she reads
Teacher counts the sentences
Teacher counts the words in each sentence
Teacher counts the letters in each sentence

5. Writing For: Morning Message
Later: Wrap around the sentences

6. Writing For: Morning Message
Teacher asks “What do you notice?”
accepts the children’s responses
helps children find words that begin alike
helps children find words that rhyme
Teacher asks children to find words they know
Lesson lasts as long as the childr

7. Writing With: Morning Message
• As children become more proficient,
morning message becomes
Interactive writing

8. Writing With: Interactive Writing
• Teacher and student share the pen.
• Message is decided by the class and teacher together.
• Students write portions of the message – anything they are
capable of writing
• Can be used for labeling, reviewing, or summarizing learning
• Interactive writing can be used throughout the day
• Revisit the written text for instruction
letter identification
number of letters in words, words in sentences, etc
capital vs. lower case

9. Writing With: Predictable Charts
• Day 1 &2: Dictation of the sentences
• Day 3: Touch reading their sentences then build
individual sentences
• Day 4: Sentence builders as a class
• Day 5: Making a class book

10. Writing With: Predictable
Charts Day 1 & 2: Dictation of Sentences

11. Writing With: Predictable Charts
• Day 3 –
• Touch Read the class chart
• Do individual cut up sentences
• Day 4 –
• Class wide sentence builders

12. Writing With: Predictable
Charts Day 5: Making a Class Book

13. Writing With: Predictable Charts
Vary the way the pages are illustrated

14. Writing With: Predictable Charts

15. Sentence starters
• I can
• I will
• We saw
• It is
• That is
• There is
• I want

16. Interactive Charts
• Shared Reading for Kindergarten
• Write a song, poem, etc on sentence strips – one sentence per
strip
• Place strips in a pocket chart
• Choose a part of the sentence to manipulate
• Read the sentences to children, then let them be your echo
• Call on children to manipulate the parts and let students read
sentences by themselves
• Place the chart in the reading center!

17. Oh a Hunting We Will Go
Oh, a-hunting we will go.
A-hunting we will go.
We’ll catch a fox
And put it in a box
And then we’ll let it go.
fox
box
dog
bog
Interactive charts