Week one of KinderLiteracy your main goals are to get the kids semi-comfortable with turn and talks, establish what a ‘character’ is, have students gain one piece of evidence from the text, and make one personal connection to the story! Most likely they will gain a quick understanding of who the main character is from the text. answer the questions aloud to them by showing your thinking! I mean imagine when they are asked what they want for dinner does mom and dad ask them to turn and talk to a partner about their choice? HA! It’s most likely very foreign to them! Take the needed time to teacher model…. Still… do not feel defeated if you do a fun or academic turn and talk and it’s crickets! It really does take a while for young kids to get used to talking to a partner. Instead of jumping right into literacy based questions…take time for students to become acquainted with their partner and ask fun questions! You can have the students turn and talk about topics like: favorite color, favorite animal, who lives at your house, what pets you have, what you did over the summer, and so on! We want the kiddos to be comfortable enough with their partner and talking about settings and characters probably isn’t the most comfortable HA! This should be two students that are either sitting next to or in front/behind of one another. This first week you will want to have had partners established. I believe all of the fish lived in the ocean… What do you think? What other animals live in the ocean?” “Well boys and girls, I know as we read the book I saw lots of fish! I know that fish have to live in water, but I think I can tell even more about this water. However, we will continue to follow the same routine and just do more teacher modeling when necessary! For example, when posing the question, “Where did the story take place?” you can model this. We will do that knowing that the kids might or might not have a lot to say. This first week you will be mainly modeling the process of the weekly close read. Grab it HERE This week’s book is Rainbow Fish and follows the theme of sharing! Tell me how fitting that is for week 1 of kindergarten? I simply love this book on any given day, but that first week of kindergarten it for sure has a special place in my heart!īelow you can view the ‘spread’ of the first week lesson plans! I like to keep my lesson plans in this two page binder so I can easily see the skills/topics as they progress through the week! However, I generally will remove them from sheet protectors and place them onto my clipboard for easy access!Īlong with printing your plans you will also need to write your essential questions on the board and display the vocabulary words and definitions! It’s completely up to you if you want to write the entire definition beforehand or wait until the kiddos are there with you! Woot! It’s time for week one of KinderLiteracy! Most likely if you used KinderSurvival your first few days you have already kind of introduced your kiddos to the big idea of close reading… yes kiddos we will be using the same book for the week! Again, as you get them to buy into this close read time… also stressing that each day they will have a special job they get to help with! As with each day of the close read you will be giving them a purpose to listen and respond! If you haven’t stumbled upon KinderLiteracy yet then you can download this first week for free be sure to click on the PREVIEW in order to download the free week.
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