Key Concepts to Be Developed
Reading
Writing
Speaking/Listening
Language
Foundational Skills
- Students will use the illustrations to help tell the story.
- Students will compare and contrast familiar characters in stories.
Writing
- Draw, dictate, and/or write to compose informative explanatory text
- Name topic and supply information about topic
- Participate in shared research and writing projects
- Recall information from experiences/gather information from sources to answer questions
- Collaborate with peers to respond to questions and suggestions, adding details
- Explore a variety of digital tools
- With peer collaboration, produce and publish writing
Speaking/Listening
- Students will tell about people, places and things with help
Language
- Students will print 40 uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Students will make complete sentences with their class.
- Students will recognize and name end punctuation ?.
- Students will write a letter or letters for most consonant sounds.
- Students will write a letter or letters for most short vowel sounds
- Students will tell the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning kindergarten words
- Students will use new words they learn
Foundational Skills
- Students will Recognize and Name All Upper- some Lowercase Letters
- Students will count and divide words into syllables
- Students will find and say the initial, middle vowel and last sound in simple
- Students will make the most common sound for each consonant
- Students will match the most common long vowel sounds with the common spellings
- Students will read 19 common high-frequency words
Pedagogical Considerations: Reader's Theater
Classroom Strategies from Reading Rockets
Reader's Theater is a strategy for developing reading fluency. It involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. In using this strategy, students do not need to memorize their part; they need only to reread it several times, thus developing their fluency skills. The best Reader's Theater scripts include lots of dialogue.
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Why use Reader's Theater?
How to use:IndividuallyWith small groupsWhole class setting
How to use Reader's Theater
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This example demonstrates a Reader's Theater of the book Tacky the Penguin.
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Reader's Theater is a strategy for developing reading fluency. It involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. In using this strategy, students do not need to memorize their part; they need only to reread it several times, thus developing their fluency skills. The best Reader's Theater scripts include lots of dialogue.
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Why use Reader's Theater?
- It promotes fluency.
- It helps readers learn to read aloud with expression.
- It helps build reading confidence.
How to use:IndividuallyWith small groupsWhole class setting
How to use Reader's Theater
- Choose a story that can be divided into parts (such as characters)
Note: Click here for tips on choosing appropriate scripts - Assign reading parts to each child.
- Ask students to read their scripts orally for practice.
- Have students read assigned parts to the audience.
Timeless Teacher Stuff >
Reading A-Z >
This example demonstrates a Reader's Theater of the book Tacky the Penguin.
See example >
