[MOSAIC] 1st grade struggling readers

[Dacia Myhre]

On 10/2/06 10:05 AM, "Shari Moore" <smoore at zeeland.k12.mi.us> wrote:

> 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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Thank you-this is great