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WHAT DO WE DO IN MRS. KRISTO'S READING GROUP?

My focus while working with your child is to build on basic literacy skills through explicit phonics instruction, reading new words with a focus sound/spelling pattern, spelling, and reading connected texts with the new sound/spelling.

 

Some of the upcoming lessons and skills your child will be learning include:

  • open syllable vowels (long vowel sounds)
  • syllable division
  • 'y' as a vowel
  • silent 'e' syllables
  • vowel teams
  • r-controlled vowels
  • diphthongs
  • prefixes and suffixes
  • spelling rules
  • language concepts

Your child will also:

  • become more active listeners when recognizing sounds and sound patterns in words
  • build on prior phonological knowledge (that letters make sounds and groups of letters can represent new or different sounds or spelling patterns)
  • learn different strategies and rules to decode (or figure out) unknown words
  • expand their knowledge of vocabulary and be able to USE it
  • practice reading out loud with fluency (appropriate phrasing, expression, pace, and accuracy)
  • make personal connections to what was read to become more active readers

As well as developing good reading skills and strategies through multiple ways.  The following is a list of reading skills and strategies students learn and continue to practice:

  • Sequencing (putting story events in correct order)
  • Questioning (Asking questions about our readings and being able to answer higher level thinking questions.)  Good readers ask questions about their reading!
  • Narrative Elements (characters, setting: where, when, & weather; plot: problem, story events, & solution)
  • Genres: fiction, nonfiction/informational text, folktales (fables, fairy tales, tall tales, legends), poetry, drama
  • Identifying Main Ideas & Details
  • Summarizing
  • Author's Purpose: Persuade, Inform, Entertain
  • Compare/Contrast
  • Cause/Effect 
  • Drawing or Making Conclusions
  • Making Inferences
  • Story Structures
  • Parts of Books: table of contents, glossary, index, headings

EXPECTATIONS

Your child will be asked to show their understanding in various ways including: graphic organizers, projects, book reports, oral and written summaries, and progress monitoring.

HOMEWORK
For HOMEWORK, students will be asked to read a new or old story, practicing NEW and old sounds and spellings.  Please listen to your child read!  The excitment your child has when being able to read something new and by themselves, is VERY exciting for them and you.  Please share in the excitement of reading as your child continues to succeed in reading.  Please sign the story when you listen to your child read.  They earn a "purple ticket" for being responsible students by reading and being ready for class.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions regarding your child's achievement or any other concerns.