Reader's Workshop
March
This month students will…
-continue to work on private reading (independent reading) and partner reading.
-learn how to become avid readers (people who love reading so much, they don’t want to stop reading).
-react to their books and identify with characters, imagining what it would be/feel like to be that character.
-think of just-right words to describe how characters in their books are feeling (instead of just saying they were happy, you can use words like… delighted, excited, ecstatic, thrilled, etc.).
-set reading goals for themselves.
-act out their stories in their mind.
-read nonfiction texts.
-teach others what they learned from their nonfiction books.
Phonics
This month students will…
-continue to learn, read, and write snap words (sight words we know in a snap).
-continue to study vowels and the sounds they make: a, e, i, o, u
(and sometimes y).
-use vowels in their writing and check that all of their words have at least one vowel.
-learn how to make new words by changing the vowel.
EX: turn bag into bug or big
-learn that every syllable in a word has at least one vowel.
-practice segmenting bigger words by syllables. EX: the word “potato” has 3 syllables: po-ta-to
-learn that vowels make more than one sound.
EX: u says the short sound /u/ like umbrella and u says the long sound /u/ like unicorn.
-practice digraphs and blends.
- continue to work on recognizing, reading, and writing word families.
EX: /ug/ Word Family: mug, hug, bug, rug, slug
During March, we will work on the following word families: ug, ot, et, en
Letter Round(s)
-Students will continue to learn, recognize, and form upper and lowercase letters Aa-Zz (big line, little line, big curve, little curve).
-We are working on our fourth letter round. For this round, we will continue to stretch out sounds in words and practice forming our letters correctly. Students will think of two things that start with the letter of the day, and they will independently stretch out the sounds they hear in the words.
IN KINDERGARTEN WE USE INVENTIVE SPELLING! Students are encouraged to stretch out words by writing the sounds they hear in words.
Kindergarten Sight Words:
March Words: play, got, will, get, come, too, they, up
Words We Have Learned This Year: names, color words, is, a, I, see, like, to, go, the, am, you, my, can, we, are, no, and, on, it, mom, dad, me, do, went, at, was, in, said, by, he, she, this, so, love, an, look, for, here
| sight words list.pdf |
