[MOSAIC] 1st grade struggling readers

[Shari Moore]

For struggling first grade students you need to start with short text, 
with good spaces between the words,  and strong picture support.  Rigby, 
Wright group, and many other publishers make good early readers for 
level 1-5 that I would start with in groups.  
1.  Give a rich introduction to the text (even if it is only 30 words)
2.  Have them point and locate a high frequency word as they do a 
picture walk with you (e.g.  see, to, the, etc).  
3.  Have them point with their pointer finger under the words (they will 
probably not have one to one correspondence figured out and they need to 
point to focus on the words)
4.  Model early stragegies with them (one to one, checking picture 
clues, noticing and naming high frequency words, using initial visual 
information with meaning (the first sound of a word and checking the 
picture)
5. Read it together or have them read it alone the first time.  Then 
re-read it together, always focusing on meaning!!!
6.  Then you can go back and focus on one area of need-letter sounds, 
practicing a high frequency word that was in text, talking aloud about 
re-reading when your figure ran out of words, etc.
You can start the next time with a re-read of the same book or other 
familiar books before you introduce another new book.  THey need masses 
of text at early levels!
KEEP SMALL GROUPS SMALL at this time of the year.  You will be better 
off doing more groups with less kids then more kids and less groups!

I hope this helps!
Shari



Dacia Myhre wrote:

>I am teaching a group of struggling 1st grade students-I want to pull them
>into a guided reading group and do some explicit teaching.I am
>curious...does anyone know what types of lessons in the beginning of the
>year would give me the most bang for my buck? Shared reading? Partner
>reading a wordless book? Any ideas out there?
>Dacia
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