You may have noticed that your child brought home a short paragraph today instead of a reader (the paragraph is at the bottom of this post). This was a shared writing activity and includes a number of high frequency words that we use regularly in our reading and writing.
We are hoping that you will ask your child to read this to you many times over the next few days. The aim of this activity is to serve two purposes:
For our Penguins, Turtles and Frogs we are wanting to cement a number of these regularly used words in their word banks and frequent repetition is a great way to do this. These children will need to point to each word as they read. After reading this sentence they could point to random words and read them.
For our Ants, Starfish and Caterpillars we are wanting to increase the speed at which the children read (fluency) and to read with smoothness and expression. We tell the children that we want to read like we are talking. This involves the children taking in more than one word at a time ), and a great way to develop this skill is to practise a familiar text many times over. We are also hoping that these children take note of punctuation and read the text accordingly.
Perhaps you could put this sheet somewhere that is easily visible (e.g. on the fridge). We are also hoping that the speed at which they read increase each day - when they are succeeding with the text you could time them, or record their reading. This can be a great motivator.
Each week we will send home a new paragraph. This may be shared writing, a passage from a story or a poem. Many thanks in advance for your time on this.
"Today we are in green. We are in green because we like to dress up! We have no sun but we can still have fun. I bet it will still be wet on Monday"
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