Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Word Study
I am sorry to bring up word study again but a few members of my team came across something today that really upset us. We were looking at the December phonics lessons in the Red F&P book and they want us doing letter matching with First graders in December! We are starting to look at this book and we were shocked to see letter matching in December. That is a skill that 99% of students can do in Spetember! Those of you who have used this book or are first grade teachers, how do you feel about this? Did you skip the lesson? What are you doing to give your students a strong phonics background? I am always looking for help and suggestions!! We just feel like this can't be the first time someone has brought this up!
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I'm finding the same thing in Kindergarten to some extent. This week, the lessons that we are working on include name writing, recognizing strokes in letters, and using the name chart to recognize names that start the same way. In my mind, these are things we did in Spetember. I am increasing my expectations a bit when I feel the need, but I'm also finding that the review is helpful for some of my kids. I'm just trying to use my best judgment. If it seems to easy, I'm trying to make it more challenging. If you feel like your kids have already mastedred the skills that are coming up, though, I'm not sure why you couldn't skip the lesson and move on.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you brought this up. We were thinking the same thing in first grade at. E.C. We are thinking this summer we may look at organizing the lessons differently because they are good lesson, just in the wrong spot. We also thought it may just be a way to review and be sure everyone is on the right track but at the same time there was that lesson on ell and est word endings that seemed out of the blue and very difficult right before the matching letters. I may also just use it as a center.
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