At the beginning of each school year I assess my students and put them into levelled groups for reading instruction. Each group receives some form of a ‘guided reading’ program directed at their group’s ability level.\u00a0 This year students in my class will receive instruction in the Read Well program, depending on reading levels.\u00a0 Jolly Phonics will be used for all groups in order to teach or refresh knowledge of the letters of the alphabet – their names and their sounds.<\/p>\n
The Read Well program is small group, explicit instruction in the 5 components of reading \u2013 phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.\u00a0 This becomes their foundation for word building and reading.\u00a0 Weekly units focus on learning the new sound, building words, learning \u2018tricky\u2019 words (ones that are not sounded out), reading text, and writing.\u00a0 Initially the written portion focuses on the correct formation of letters and simple words and develops into the answering of questions for comprehension, in later units.<\/span><\/p>\n Beginning with Unit 2, a pink \u2018homework\u2019 sheet will come home each week.\u00a0 You can help your child with the reading process by going over this pink sheet with them, as well as with their completed weekly units when they are sent home. \u00a0An additional practise sheet (blue) will be sent home with each unit.<\/p>\n Research has shown that children have an easier time learning how to read when they experience being read to on a regular basis.\u00a0 It helps them develop a sense of the parts of a story and how stories develop.\u00a0 This can be in any language that is spoken at your home.<\/p>\n Students are also encouraged to read each evening with an adult.\u00a0 Library books from either the Rosser library or the McGill library are good sources of literature.<\/p>\n Reading together can be such a rewarding and pleasant pastime.<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the beginning of each school year I assess my students and put them into levelled groups for reading instruction. Each group receives some form of a ‘guided reading’ program directed at their group’s ability level.\u00a0 This year students in my class will receive instruction in the Read Well program, depending on reading levels.\u00a0 Jolly … Continue reading Reading Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}