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The Stroud Crowd Newsletter > May 7, 2007 What's New in Room 202? In this newsletter, I want to take the opportunity to share with you SOME of the learning experiences we’ve had in reading over the past couple of weeks, and to give you some specifics on why we do what we do in Room 202. My instruction is driven by the Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALR’s). Why do we have Story Corners every Friday? To develop interests and share reading experiences, and to understand that readers have favorite books. GLE 4.2.1 (grade level expectation) states that students will “select favorite subjects, authors, and / or books to share with others, and self select books at an instructional level and an independent level.” Story corners also gives students the opportunity to apply fluency to enhance comprehension. GLE 1.4.2 specifies that students will read grade-level text aloud fluently and with expression. It is important for students to set goals and evaluate progress to improve reading (GLE 4.1.1), and to understand how to monitor their own reading progress. To meet this expectation, the students in room 202 should be able to explain to you what good readers do. Ask them, “What do good readers do?” We have been working on expanding comprehension by examining cause and effect. Students have been reading passages and picking out the simple cause and effect relationships (GLE 2.3.1) in reading groups for the last two weeks. We have also been working on applying word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently, and applying vocabulary strategies by practicing using context clues to figure out unknown or missing words (GLE 1.22). We read and reread simple poetry packets in order to focus attention on understanding what we read and how we sound when we read aloud (GLE 1.4.1). We have been enjoying read aloud from our chapter book (Lemony Snicket series) a lot lately. I’m going to let them tell you why read aloud time is so important. Ask them to see how many of the following important reading behaviors and skills they remember: to predict, to summarize and retell, to visualize and make mind pictures, to improve vocabulary, to enhance listening skills and comprehension, to hear what fluent readers sound like, to activate prior knowledge and to make connections to the text. What's the Buzz? For Show and Tell for the remainder of the school year, the children can bring in anything that interests them. Story Corners Practice your story. 5/11 3:00 Dylan, Hazel, Kaye, Amy 5/18 3:00 Maci, Colby, Greer, Deena 5/25 3:00 Beck, Paige, Declan, Cecilia Reminders Week of 5/7
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