Storytelling Prompts Click Here

Thank you so much to Kristine Mraz, for sharing some suggestions for story telling with students!

Sight words are critical to reading not only because they are used so frequently, but also because many of them cannot easily be sounded out or illustrated. … Because they are used so often it is important that readers be able to recognize these words on sight (hence the term “sight words”).https://www.k12reader.com/what-are-sight-words/

Here are a list of sight words.  Click here for sight word list

Here are some sight word games!Click here for sight word activities

Ideally, we are connecting with all students in our classrooms each week.  Have you tried a reading conference with each learner?  This could be done through Teams, or even over the phone.  Attached is a reading conference form you could use to guide the conversation.  I have created it so that the conference shouldn’t take more than fifteen minutes.  The student doesn’t need to read the entire book to you.  Perhaps they could share their favourite part.  We can learn so much about our students’ reading right now, such as:

• Are they able to choose a just right book?
• Do they have access to books at home, and/or books online?
• What kinds of books are they choosing?
• Is there someone at home who can read with them, or talk to them about their reading?
• Are they enjoying reading right now?  (This is our end goal, ALWAYS!)

Click here to view the reading conferences sheet.  I’d love your feedback.  Together we are stronger!

Tanis.Anderson@burnabyschools.ca

Pioneer Valley Books are sharing their leveled book collection for free, in a digital version!

They have created a webinar, so you can learn how to use these books, either in a guided reading format, and/or for independent reading.  Click here to view webinar

These books would be ideal for students who are developing a foundation of reading, and require books with controlled vocabulary, and predictable text, with pictures to support them.

I think there are a lot of kids being told to “sound it out” at home right now.  Unfortunately, that strategy doesn’t work all the time.  Here are some prompts you might want to pass along to parents.   Click here

Now, more then ever, students need to know how to pick a just right book.  This could be something you set up for your students, as they are learning at home.

Perhaps students have access to books at home, or books online.  If they do have access to online reading options, their choices are unlimited!  However, they might need some support in choosing a good fit book.  Thanks to the Daily 5 sisters, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, who have created a great lesson on how to teach kids to pick just right books.  I love the lesson in the Daily 5 book, but attached are two graphics you could provide to your students remotely. Their assignment could be to find a just right book, with the attached criteria, and to write or talk to you about their book choice.

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Thanks to Gravity Goldberg, for creating this document we can send to parents, for how to support their children at home with reading.  Click here to view the document.

Here is a fun activity students can do at home!

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Thank you to Popey for creating these fabulous documents, to support learning at home.

Click hereto view their Home Learning Menu #1

Click hereto view tips for home learning.