Fabulous First Fabulous First GradeGrade

By: Erica LaHouse

Competency 001: Oral Language

• Partner share

• Ask three before me

• Tattling Turtle

• Practice listening skills

Competency 002: Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

• Segmentation- chopping spelling and sight words• Morning sound songs

Phonological & Phonemic Awareness cont.

• Rhyming read- alouds and interactive activities

Competency 003: Alphabetic Principle

• Wikki stix’s

• ABC order

Competency 004: Literacy Development

• Beginning, middle, end• Exposure to multiple literary genres• Functions of print• Silent reading

Competency 005: Word Analysis & Identification Skills

• Growing sight word vocabulary• Consonant substitution

• Using resources

Competency 006: Reading Fluency

Improve fluency• Repeated reading• Partner reading• Predictable text• Choral reading

Competency 007: Reading Comprehension & Application

• Cause and effect

• Predictions

Competency 007: Reading Comprehension & Application cont.

• Text to text connections

Competency 009: Writing Connections

• English writing conventions

• Morning message

• Spelling sentences

Competency 010: Written Communication

• Many purposes and opportunities to read & write

• Drawing conclusions

Competency 012: Assessment of Developing Literacy

• Wide variety of literature• Analyzes students’ reading and writing

My Observations…• Model of reading: Interactive

Idea’s I loved…•Contraction activities

•Past, present, future tense

My Role…

• Worked with individual students and small groups• Graded and passed out papers

• Organized• Read with students

• Monitored

Implement

• Behavior chart

• Pencil system